Seppo Gründler / guitars, analogue and digital instruments
Elisabeth Schimana / voice, theremin, analogue and digital instruments
Elisabeth Kopf / graphic design


The project is conceived to extend over five years and eight concerts, 2001 to 2005, and sits in the historical context of electronic music.
The concerts follow a well defined structure − the score − no notes but a temporal and functional structure.

base-structure of the score
gründler / schimana
material creation 1) freezing 2) regulation 3)
computer
data acquisition 1) analysis 2) synthesis 3)

In the first part the material is generated live, parallel a compter records at specific moments the audio data.
In the second part short loops will be worked-over with analogue and digital processes and stacked as body of sound, the computer is analysing the stored material from the first part.
In the third part based on the data from the analysis, the computer synthesizes the sound into a sound stream.

Relevant to the present and corresponding with the first part we act as musicians and improvisers with our instruments − the materials free avalability.
One step back, corresponding with the second part, we act in the context of sampling und looping.
Two steps back, corresponding with the second part; tape music − in the sence of sound regulation, we lean back and regulate, if at all, the volume.
The other way, the way of the machine, is going forward. Most possible intervention by humans − improvisation, some intervention − sampling looping, no intervention − the autonomous machine.

The video projection is simultaneously stage light and score. The temporal structure becomes discernable from the changes.

Networking
In each city the score of the base-structure will be left behind to artists on location for their own interpretation. these interpretations result in the respective performances in a net-concert at real locations and in virtual space.

Development/Local Connection
At each performing location will stay several days (3 - 5) developing further our machine, structure and improvisation part.

Output
Each concert is preceded by a showing of a 21 − minute CD, a condensation of performances to date.

Project History

00
a 21min concert atm VNM festival at Graz May 00
01
a radioprogram ZEITTON ORF 01
first of the eight concerts in Budapest a nagy partitura bud
VIII. PAUSE SIGN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 01
02
CD production a nagy partitura bud at IEM Graz März 02
second concert in Moscow bolschaja partitura mosc
ALTERMEDIUM.02 FESTIVAlL May 02
variation of the second concert in Yekaterinburg
ALTERMEDIUM.02 FESTIVAL Mai 02
projectpresentation at Werkstadt Graz August 02
03
CD production bolschaja partitura mosc at IEM Graz July 03
artist in residence at STEIM (studio for electro-instrumental music) in Amsterdam December 03
04
projectpresentation at Werkstadt Graz Feberuary 04
artist in residence am STEIM in Amsterdam June 04
third concert in Amsterdsam de grote partituur amst
NO BACKUP CONCERTS at STEIM June 04
CD production de grote partituur amst at IEM Graz August 04
public rehersal at K3 in Pischelsdorf supported by KULM August 04
fourth concert in Linz die große partitur lnz
ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 04 September 04
05
CD production die groß partitur lnz at IEM Graz March 05
fifth concert in Vienna die große partitur vien
MAKNITE April 05
sixth concert in Ljubliana
organized by Aksioma and Galerie Kapelica September 05
seventh concert in Graz die große partitur grz
MUSIKPROTOKOLL 05 October 05
06
eighth concert the great score net
netconcert in cooperation withORF Kunstradio January 06


Our partners and sponcors

IEM (institute of electronic music) graz
werkstadt graz
STEIM (studio for electro-instrumental music)
sektion kunst
SKE
ORF musikprotokoll
ORF kunstradio
wien kultur
õsterreichisches kulturforum budapest
õsterreichisches kulturforum moskau
õsterreichisches kulturforum den haag
õsterreichisches kulturforum ljubliana
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