THOUNDS II

Moozak Multichannel Series #05

Fr 13.9. 2024, 18:00 - 22:00
Semmelweisklinik
Hockegasse 37, Haus 4, 1180 Wien

The current Moozak multichannel piece Thounds II is the further development of a series of compositions by Klammer & Gründler, who have been dealing with the spatialization of sounds, binaural or multichannel, since their headphone concert in 1988.

The current focus of the new piece is the combination of structured improvisation with real-time control of the distribution of sounds in space: a transparent, immersive and comprehensible listening experience.

Klammer & Gründler have been working as a duo for more than 40 years on the realization of their “New Improvised Electronic Music”. This has resulted in the world’s first multilateral, telematic midi-concert - Razionalnik, the first Austrian headphone concert for 100 headphones - Im Trockenraum, the data concert synchronized via television images - RGB, as well as numerous stage music, radio productions and sound installations in this context. “Precise hearing. Sound surgery on the open ear. Pulling wires. Find and connect. Leaving gaps. Filling and leaving. Falling in and out. Being able to come in and leave. Klammer & Gründler succeed in creating highly intelligent as well as lively sound-part connectors from the exorcised spirits of good-humoredly stretched forms of electroacoustics and free digital improvisation as well as the ironic control of the controlling gesture of New Music. Their audio is thoughtful, precise, impulsive, small-scale, transgressive and surprising. It has completely left behind all the potential wasteland of pure conceptual acoustics and is constantly reinventing itself in a concentrated and radical way” (Marcus Maida 2006).