Born 1960 in Vienna. Austrian composer, improviser and performer. He studied composition with Friedrich Cerha and musicology in Vienna. Besides writing experimental instrumental music, he performs on his own electronic instrument m@ze°2, develops software environments for computer-aided composition and creates generative sound and video environments. Since 2007 professor of composition for electro-acoustic and experimental music at the University of Music in Vienna. Karlheinz Essl performs o ...
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Can you hear that? Wind rustling, birds chirping, music playing. Sleep. Sound of Silence takes you on an acoustic journey to dream away, relax and fall asleep. You can also listen to the sounds of nature and music while working or reading. The selected sounds are good for three things: they help to activate your brain so that you can let your thoughts run free, be more attentive and reduce stress.
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JazzCanDance is a festival for improvised music. Located in the middle of nowhere in lower-bavaria, a collective of international and regional musicians creates music for three days. Bands - in a conventional sense - only occur between the free formations of the collective. Stylistically, there are no limits: from hip hop to be bop, house to funk, Brazilian to Indian world music - what counts is the moment and freedom. This is probably unique - the music at the JazzCanDance-Festival arises a ...
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Die Podcastserie »KÖLNER KLUBGESCHICHTEN – 10 JAHRE KLUBKOMM« nimmt AkteurInnen und Akteure des Kölner Nachtlebens ins Interview. Autor Martin Steuer spricht mit DJs, ClubbetreiberInnen, VeranstalterInnen und MacherInnen über Wege, Stationen, Spielstätten und Tanzböden, die in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten die Kölner Clubkultur bestimmt haben. Anlass ist der zehnte Geburtstag der KLUBKOMM, der Verband der Kölner Clubs und VeranstalterInnen. Anhand persönlicher Erzählungen, Geschichten und Anek ...
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Find Calm in the Sound of Thunder and Piano Melodies
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In this episode, relax to the soothing sounds of a distant thunderstorm layered with gentle piano music. Perfect for winding down, setting the mood for relaxation, or drifting into sleep. Take a moment for yourself and let nature and music guide you into a state of peace. 🌧🎼 #NatureSounds #Thunderstorm #PianoMusic #RelaxingSounds #Calm #SleepRoutin…
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In dieser Folge des Podcasts "Warum Klassik?" porträtiert Leonard Eröd den Composer/Performer Karlheinz Essl, der nicht nur die Grenzen zwischen den Kunstdisziplinen, sondern auch die Grenze zwischen Komponist und Interpret aufhebt. Veröffentlicht am 23.10.2024.Der vollständige Beitrag kann hier abgerufen werden: https://sound.orf.at/podcast/oe1/wa…
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Binaural rendering of a 6-channel version from 2017 with REAPER and dearVR (Studio kHz, 18 Oct 2024). Generative sound environment for an art installation by Beat Zoder, written in MaxMSP.In 2006, Swiss artist Beat Zoderer and Austrian composer Karlheinz Essl were commissioned to create a collaborative work for the music festival Stanser Musiktage.…
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A Serene Journey to the Scottish Highlands: Relaxation through Harp Music
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Do you hear that? 🎶 The enchanting sounds of the harp and expansive ambient music transport you to the Scottish Highlands. 🏞️ Here, a gentle stream flows, and the wind whispers through the heather. 🌬️🌿 At one moment, the music opens up—the sky breaks apart, and who knows what images may appear before your inner eye? 🌌✨ Enjoy this relaxing music lay…
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Enchanted Forest Dreams: A Magical Journey into Relaxation and Sleep
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Imagine yourself wandering through an enchanted forest. 🌿 In this mystical woodland, moss crawls up the tree trunks, branches twist like corkscrews, and fog drapes like veils in the crowns of the trees. 🌫️✨ As you stroll, you hear music—melodies that seem to come from afar, yet sometimes feel incredibly close. 🎶 This music invites you to dream, unw…
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Dive into Serenity: Meditative Music for Deep Relaxation and Sleep
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Today, I invite you to immerse yourself in meditative music featuring a soothing water harp. As you listen, imagine yourself diving deeper and deeper—perhaps into the vast ocean, a serene lake, or even into the depths of your inner self. 🌊✨ Who knows what wondrous sights and feelings await you in this tranquil journey? Let the enchanting sounds gui…
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Drift into Dreamland: Enchanted Fairy Forest Sounds for Sleep
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Do you hear that? Quiet bells ring mysteriously, inviting you to accompany me into a fairy forest, leading to a clearing where fairies dance in the rain. These are the fairies of the trees, gathering here for the ritual of the Living Connection. 🌙✨ Let the music transport you into the forest of the fairies, while the gentle wind rustles through the…
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Drift Away with Ocean Waves and Gentle Electronic Droplets: A Journey to Relaxation"
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Immerse Yourself in the Soothing Sounds of Ocean Waves and Electronic Droplets In this episode, I invite you to close your eyes and let the calming ocean waves and gentle electronic droplet sounds transport you into a deep state of relaxation. These delicate droplets, harmoniously blended into atmospheric ambient sounds, create a peaceful soundscap…
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Embrace Peaceful Sleep with Soothing Rain Sounds and Music
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Can you hear that? 🌧️ The gentle rain tapping on the window, combined with calming music composed by Hajo, creates a serene atmosphere perfect for restful sleep. This soundscape helps you fall asleep faster and stay in deep sleep longer. 😴✨ Application: For Sleeping: Let the soothing sounds lull you into slumber and enjoy a deep, restorative night’…
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Deep Bass Trance: The Gateway to Planet Sleep 🌙🌌
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Let the power of deep bass rhythms guide you to a realm of rest and tranquility. This unique trance music is designed to lull your mind into relaxation, using low frequencies that resonate deeply within, creating the perfect atmosphere for falling asleep or achieving a meditative state. Imagine a world where every sound nurtures calmness – the Plan…
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Relaxing Ocean Sounds from the Normandy Coast: Drift into Sleep with Soothing Nature Sound
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Escape to the serene coast of Normandy with this episode, where you can immerse yourself in the calming sound of ocean waves and the distant cries of real seagulls. These natural sounds were recorded on location, providing an authentic experience that is perfect for sleeping, dreaming, or taking a peaceful break during the day. Research shows that …
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Enchanted Forest: Mystical Sounds for Sleep and Relaxation
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Can you hear that? The rustling of leaves in the gentle breeze, the distant birdsong, and the mystical, enchanted music flowing through the trees. Welcome to Sleep. Sounds of Silence, where I invite you to drift into deep relaxation and sleep. Today, imagine yourself in a magical forest. The air is filled with the sound of rustling leaves, soft mel…
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Fall Asleep to the Soothing Sound of Rain: A Relaxing Soundscape for Deep Sleep
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The Calming Power of Rain: How Rain Sounds Help You Relax and Sleep – Scientifically Proven" In this episode, you’ll immerse yourself in the peaceful sound of rain falling gently on leaves and trees. 🌧️ Imagine yourself standing outside under a canopy of lush foliage, listening to the soft rain—or perhaps you're lying in bed, with the fresh, cool a…
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Binaural production - listen with headphones!In tempore belli...Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded in Mantua, Italy between September 10-14, 2024: 1) A walk through the historical center of Mantua 2) A gelataria with the best ice cream in town 3) Inside the Basilica di Sant'Andrea…
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Binaural production - listen with headphones!Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded in Krems, Horn and Gars/Kamp between August 31st and September 1st, 2024. Dedicated to my friend Gerhard Eckel: 1) At the Taffa creek near Horn 2) Gerhard Eckel and Jack Hauser performing under a reson…
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Binaural production - listen with headphones!Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded at various locations of Salzburg in July 2024: 1) Mirabell Garden with church bells ringing at noon 2) On the shore of the lake St. Wolfgang 3) In the pedestrian zone of the city center of Salzburg 4) …
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Sound performance with a MakeNoise MATH function generator controlling the VCO and VCF of a Doepfer DARK ENERGY synthesizer. Performed live at Studio kHz on July 25th, 2024. Have a look at at the video: https://youtu.be/M-QavH4j5xkتوسط Karlheinz Essl
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Binaural production - listen with headphones!Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded in Gars/Kamp between July 5th and 6th, 2024:1) the audience at the opening of the "Temple of Sound" in Gars, the first museum for electroacoustic music2) Karlheinz Essl's "Gesualdo-Fragmente", performe…
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Excerpt of a live performance on Wed 12 June 2024 at the Jesuit Church in Vienna during a rehearsal for the world première of "Verkündigung" on June 26th, 2024. Performed on an 0-COAST modular synth played through a BOSE L1 speaker.https://essl.at/works/verkuendigung.htmlتوسط Karlheinz Essl
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Binaural production - listen with headphones!Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded at the Volkskundemuseum Vienna (the former Schönborn Palace) on June 4, 2024 during the Vienna Festival project "Haus der Republik": 1) in the garden 2) Cider bar in the courtyard 3) Walking through th…
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Binaural production - listen with headphones!Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) on 24 May 2024 before and during a concert of Luigi Nono's last compositions:1) setup in the library2) sound check3) excerpts from "Lontananz…
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Free improvisation on a MakeNoise 0-COAST modular synthesizer controlled by a Doepfer A-174-4 joystick. Performed live at Studio kHz on May 9th, 2024. No edits, no overdubs, no MIDI, no sequencer, no arpeggiator - just manual control in real time!https://www.essl.at/works/coastlines.htmlتوسط Karlheinz Essl
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Rise and Shine: phoenix-music for relaxation and sleep
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With today’s calming piano music, let your imagination soar as you envision birds gliding gracefully in the sky. Perhaps it’s a magnificent phoenix—a mythical bird adorned with iridescent plumage and a long, golden neck. Born from ashes, the phoenix symbolizes renewal and rebirth, rising slowly and deliberately before ascending into the night with …
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Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded in Dresden (Germany) in April 2024:1) People inside the Frauenkirche2) Café Algarotti of the famous Gemäldegalerie3) The main station of Dresden 4) At the Albertinum art museum where refugees meet and kids play table tennis Released: April 24, 20…
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Embrace the Serenity of Spring: Rain and Bird Concert for Relaxation
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Can you hear that? The gentle sound of spring rain mingling with a delightful bird concert. Welcome to Relaxation Works, where I help you unwind and drift off into a peaceful sleep. Today, imagine rain falling softly in the early morning. The world awakens as birds begin their cheerful melodies, celebrating the new day. Raindrops dance on the leave…
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The Maelstrom is a gigantic vortex in the North Sea, described by Edgar Allan Poe in his short story "A Descent into the Maelstrom" (published in 1841). Its power is so great that it can suck in even large ships and crush them to pulp.For my piece, I constructed a kind of Maelstrom mechanism with Granular Synthesis, written in MaxMSP. It pulverizes…
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Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded in Monte (Madeira) on February 20th, 2024: 1) Kids playing Futebol 2) Monte Toboggan sleigh ride 3) Japanese pond in the Monte Palace Tropical Garden 4) Gardener at work in the parkInfo: https://essl.at/works/HEAD.html…
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Free improvisation on a Make Noise 0-coast analog synth, patched as a generative non-linear system. No edits, no overdubs, no MIDI, no sequencer, no arpeggiator - only manual control in real time!Recorded live at Studio kHz on 7 Mar 2024 in preparation to my solo performance at Alte Schmiede the next day.…
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Free improvisation on a MakeNoise 0-COAST. Performed live at Studio kHz on Feb 27, 2024. No MIDI, no sequencer, no overdubs, no edits.Part of the work-in-progress "Coastlines" (2020 ff.):https://essl.at/works/coastlines.htmlتوسط Karlheinz Essl
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Im Gespräch mit der transArt Künstlerin Astrid Rieder - aufgenommen am 11.11.2023 im Kunstraum Ewigkeitsgasse in Wien - spreche ich über einige zentrale Themen in meinem künstlerischen Schaffen:• Wie mich die deutsche Krautrocktruppe CAN zu Karlheinz Stockhausen und zur elektronischen Musik geführt hat. • Über die Dialektik von Ordnung und Zufall. …
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A new addition to my no-input mixer project that I started in 2023. Performed live with a MACKIE 802 mixing desk on Feb 8th, 2024 at Studio kHz. No edits, no overdubs.https://www.essl.at/works/studies-NIM.htmlتوسط Karlheinz Essl
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Composer Karlheinz Essl on his recent experiences and experiments with analog modular synthesizers and no-input mixer after decades of digital music making. Published in January 2024 on the platform SoundingFuture.https://www.soundingfuture.com/en/article/digital-analogتوسط Karlheinz Essl
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Der Komponist Karlheinz Essl über seine Erfahrungen mit analogen Modularsynthesizern und No-Input-Mixern nach Jahrzehnten digitalen Musikmachens mit Computern und selbstgeschriebener Software. Veröffentlicht Januar 2024 auf der Plattform SoundingFuture.https://www.soundingfuture.com/de/artikel/von-digital-nach-analog…
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Free improvisation on a MakeNoise 0-COAST modular synthesizer connected to a Doepfer ring modulator with two MATH function generators and a MakeNoise WobbleBug using frequency, amplitude and ring modulation. Performed live at Studio kHz on Jan 16, 2024.توسط Karlheinz Essl
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Relaxation music Rain *Nature sounds *Piano music *Thunder* Lightning*
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Can you hear that? Rain drumming on a window pane. Accompanied by soft piano music. Welcome to Relaxing Sounds, your podcast for relaxing nature sounds and music, I'm glad you found your way here. Today I invite you to imagine making yourself comfortable on a rainy evening. You're inside, maybe in bed, maybe in the conservatory. It's thundering out…
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Free improvised live performance on a MakeNoise 0-COAST modular synth, two function generators (MATH) and a ring modulator (Doepfer A114). Recorded at Studio kHz on 4 January, 2024. No MIDI, no sequencer, no overdubs, no edits.Part of the work-in-progress "Coastlines" (2020 ff.):https://essl.at/works/coastlines.html…
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Satin Serenade: Soft music and sounds to dream away and fall asleep
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Relaxation works here. I help you to calm down and fall asleep. Satin Serenades invites you on a journey of gentle sounds. Each note a whisper that lets you sink further and further into relaxation. Perhaps you imagine you are in a forest, the sun's rays making their way through the leaves and you are watching a colorful butterfly. Or maybe you're …
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Generative sound environment based on the paradigm of biorhythm: three independent temporal processes in the ratio of 23 : 28 : 33 change the level of three sound files with a recording of the famous Christmas carol "Silent Night" (Stille Nacht), which are time-stretched according to the same proportions.https://essl.at/works/nachtstille.htmlWritte…
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Radiofeature von Jörg Duit über das Improvisationsduo OUT OF THE BLUE mit Agnes Heginger (Stimme) und Karlheinz Essl (Live-Elektronik). Erstsendung am 20.3.2018 im Zeit-Ton auf Ö1.https://www.essl.at/bibliogr/duit-sommerwellen.htmlDie charismatische Sängerin Agnes Heginger und der kongeniale Komponist und Elektroniker Karlheinz Essl nehmen Gedichte…
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A granular de/reconstruction of two late madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613), who murdered his wife and her lover "in flagranti". Soundtrack for a live performance with the actor Markus Hering, premiered at the Basilika Sonntagberg on October 28, 2023. Commissioned by the festival Klangraum Waidhofen.https://essl.at/works/gesualdo-fragmente.htm…
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Binaural production - listen with headphones!Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded in Graz, Austria on October 7, 2023 during the Steirischer Herbst festival: 1) Carillon of the Glockenspielplatz 2) Visitors of the Landhaus 3) Main square in the evening with many trams 4) A tram ride…
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Sequitur XIV was written for the Hamburg-based pianist and performer Jennifer Hymer and sets the thumb piano in focus. This instrument, named ‘Mbira’ in Africa, was discovered in the middle of the 20th Century from the British ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey, who developed out of it a standardized western instrument named ‘kalimba’, and let it be pro…
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On September 15, 1945, Anton Webern was shot by an American occupation soldier in alleged self-defense in Mittersill, where he had taken refuge from the approaching Red Army. Thus ended the life of one of the most influential composers of the modern era in an inconceivable and tragic way.60 years later - on September 15, 2005 - two commemorative ev…
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Concert version of Pandora’s Secret, a sound performance that Karlheinz wrote for Isabel Ettenauer's "Circus Lebasi", a music circus for the festival Linz09, when Linz was the European capital of culture. Scored for punch-tape-controlled music box and live electronics.https://www.essl.at/works/pandoras-secret.html…
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Palindromic-canonic variations of the most famous Christmas carol "Silent Night"; the score was punched into a tape that could be played in different directions on a mechanical musical clock. It has been adapted for toy piano and organ. It contains four parts, the titles of which are anagrams of the name "Silent Night":Tingle Hints - inversionShing…
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In this piece, Essl uses the inside of the toy piano for the first time. A contact microphone is attached to the instrument and connected to a custom-made computer program which acts as a kind of sonic ‘particle accelerator’. During their voyage through the piece, the performer not only scratches and knocks on the sound board, but also has to stamp…
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This composition is a transformation of the original piano piece "Trois Cent Notes", in which the resonances of the sympathetic strings of the grand piano are simulated by electronic means. The toy piano becomes a new instrument with an artificial sustain pedal.https://www.essl.at/works/TCD.htmlتوسط Karlheinz Essl
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Since 2005 I have written a number of solo compositions for the toy piano, some of them together with (live) electronics. In my piece "under wood" I am confronting the toy piano with conventional instruments for the first time. It is used as an exceptional solo instrument but also as some sort of exotic percussion. For this purpose I deconstructed …
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Recorded by Isabel Ettenauer for the CD "whatever shall be - music for toy instruments and electronics" (edition eirelav, 2013)Having written several pieces for the toy piano before, I dedicated Sequitur V to this interesting instrument which — in fact — has not much in common with the piano as we know it. Its sound resembles chimes or maybe parts …
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Karlheinz Essl's first piece for toy piano, composed 2005 for Isabel Ettenauer, became a signature piece for this instrument.The primary aim of this piece is an attempt to break up the restricted sound world of the toy piano - not by superficial means of additional sound processing, but by the sound of the instrument itself. This is achieved by a s…
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