Chambres Separees, KOMA, entrop, Zwischenwelten.(Review)

Publication: Computer Music Journal

Publication Date: 22-MAR-01

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Gerhard E. Winkler: Chambres Separees, KOMA, entrop, Zwischenwelten

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A recent release with music by Austrian composer Gerhard Winkler (b. 1959) contains recordings of three pieces for instruments and "interactive live electronics," and an earlier, purely instrumental quintet entitled Zwischenwelten. Mr. Winkler, who has worked extensively in the experimental studio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Foundation in Freiburg, at the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, and at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/ Musique (IRCAM) in Paris, is currently lecturer for Multimedia Art in Salzburg and one of the pioneers of real-time interactive composition in Europe.

The three pieces involving electronics, Les chambres separees (1995), KOMA (1996), and entrop (1998), form a trilogy in which the computer's function is not only to transform sounds live, but...

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