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Weixler Andreas
- Compositions
- General Information
- Education
- Activities
- Performances (Selection)
- Commissions (Selection)
- Awards
- Description of Style
- Press Reviews
- Discography, Projects
- Performer of (Composition)
- Contact Person of (Organisation)
- Contact, Links
Compositions
General Information
Composer and media artist for contemporary music, computer music, jazz-related music, dance performance and contemporary theatre music. Specialised in audio-visual interactivity, virtual reality, algorithmic composition and digital sound processing. Cooperation with other artists and media ...
Cooperation with ensembles: Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble, China Found Music Workshop - Ceiphon Ensemble, ContrastTrio, Klangforum - Wien, szene instrumental, percussion ensemble Dama - Dama, Austrian Art Ensemble, Ensemble For Contemporary Music Zurich, several concerts with musicians of the concert series "die andere saite", various solo performers (Michael Moser, Se-Lien Chuang, Shinobu Ishizuki, Christine Svoboda, Sandra Kraus, Dagmar Hödl, Ruth Straub, Ulrike Stadler-Fromme, etc.) ...
Cooperation with other artists and the media: Mikako Mizuno, Kagusho Kitagawa and Se-Lien Chuang (audio-visual interactivity: The Story of Heike 2001), Se-Lien Chuang (audio-visual interactive installations, music for videos and many more), Kuwayama-Kiyoharu (audio-visual interactive improvisation 2001), Gertrude Moser-Wagner (video "Ouroboros" 2000, "Luftloch", 1997), Hermann Nitsch (Sechstagesymphonie 1999, Orgien-Mysterien Theater 1998), Projekttheater Eva Brenner (several stage compositions) Luise Kloos Denkwerkstatt 1999, tanzbAAr - Eva Brunner (dance theatre 1998), Anna Schrefl Cie (dance 1997: 14. Künstlerbegegnung St. Lambrecht Abbey and ImPuls Tanz Vienna), Elio Gervasie Dance Company (dance theatre 1988), 1986 Dis-Moll (Contact-dance with - Katkarina Klement and Monika Steffen), Flugfluchten - Katharina Klement and Donato Deliano (music, dance and language/text 1987), Nikolaus Leytner (film music 1980) ...
Taking part in international workshops on contemporary composition, computer generated music, object-oriented programming and media art at the Institute of Electronic Music (IEM) Graz, the National Taiwan University of Arts in Taipei, the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig, Germany, and many more. Lectures about contemporary Austrian composition in Aichi and Nagoya, Japan (2000) ...
Education
| Period | Education | Instrument | Teacher | Education Organisation | Location |
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1985 - 1995
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composition | ||||
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1985 - 1995
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composition | ||||
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1985 - 1995
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composition | ||||
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1992
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selected for the seminar for composition and analysis of film music (Ennio Morricone) | ||||
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1995
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diploma in composition | ||||
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1996
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University of Birmingham (GB): studies and production (Jonty Harrison) | ||||
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1996
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University of East Anglia, Norwich (GB): studies and production (Simon Waters) | ||||
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1996
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stage workshop and Ateliers Forum | ||||
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1997
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graduation as M.A. (Dr. Otto Kolleritsch) | ||||
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1999
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University of Sheffield, Sheffield (GB): studies and production (Adrian Moore) | ||||
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2000 - 2001
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Nagoya City University, Japan: research in computer music, audio-visual interactivity and media art (Mikako Mizuno) |
Activities
| Period | Activity | Organisation | Location |
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1981
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foundation of the studio for contemporary composition and computer art | ||
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1981 - 1988
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several musical projects and groups ("Jacques-Prévert-Vertonung", Dementia precox, Eliot Biss & die Unerhörten, Anchrax, etc.) | ||
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1988
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Elio Gervasi Dance Company: cooperation (computer aided music for dance theatre, with Marion Namestnik) | ||
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1992 - 1996
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board member | ||
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1992 - 1999
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teacher at the Institute for Electronic Music | ||
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1992 - 1999
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editor in the publication series "Beiträge zur Elektronischen Musik" (together with Robert Höldrich) | ||
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1993 - 1996
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electronic access: initiator and programme director of the concert series (die andere saite, ISCM, ORF Styria, Vereinigte Bühnen Graz) | ||
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1995
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and 1996: producer and co-producer of d.a.s. CDs with electro-acoustic and contemporary music | ||
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1995 - 1996
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chairman | ||
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1995 - 2005
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board member | ||
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1996 - 1998
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active participation in the composition-project in the field of contemporary composition at Austrian schools | ||
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1997
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ever since teacher for music and media technology (from 2006 on Studio for Advanced Music and Media Technology - SAMT, from 2001 on Department for Jazz, from 2003 on also at the Institute for Composition) | ||
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1998
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Elektrokomplex, European Conference about Electro-Acoustic Music: coordination | ||
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1998
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teacher at the Institute of Musicology | ||
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1999 - 2000
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curator for the Austrian entries for the International Computer Music Festival in Pusan, South-Korea (1999 and 2000), Experimental Intermedia New York (2000), International Weeks of Studies in Lüneburg/BRD (1999) | ||
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2003 - 2004
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National College of the Art - Applied Music Department: guest lecturer | ||
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2004
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ever since teacher at the Institute for Media (time-based media, audio-visual design, interface-subcultures, intermedia and transmedia strategy) | ||
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2006
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Technical College Hagenberg: teacher (media technology and design / digital media for algorithmic art) | ||
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several interactive and contemporary music, video and media projects in cooperation with Se-Lien Chuang | |||
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active member |
Performances (Selection)
| Period | Performance | Composition | Organisation | Location |
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2003
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kryptonale 9, kleiner Wasserspeicher | |||
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2003
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National Theater Concert Hall: portrait concert | |||
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2003
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audio-visual interactive performance on the occasion of a Hermann Nitsch retrospective | |||
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2005
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2005
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2006
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experimental intermedia: media concert on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Atelier Avant and the 10 year cooperation of Weixler-Chuang | |||
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2007
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and many more |
Commissions (Selection)
| Period | Commission | Composition | Commissioner (Organisation) | Commissioner (Person) |
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2000
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AsianCultureLinks | |||
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Projekt-Theater Wien-New York: several commissions for stage music ("Einsamkeit der Lust", "nichts - no thing SUNDER WARUMBE" etc.) |
Awards
| Period | Award | Composition | Awarding Organisation |
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1979
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Austrian youth award, recognition award for the trilogy "Fensterträume" | ||
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1992
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guest composer | ||
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1993
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promotion award for music | ||
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1996
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BEAST - Birmingham Electro Acoustic Theatre, University of Birmingham (GB): composer in residence | ||
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1996
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state scholarship for composition | ||
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1999
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Sound Studio, University of Sheffield (GB): composer in residence | ||
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2000
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Japan Foundation Fellowship Program | ||
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2004
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Electronic Studio: guest composer | ||
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promotional awards for composers by the Province of Styria, the Federal Ministry of Education, the Arts and Culture, the City of Graz, the SKE-Fund etc. |
Description of Style
Coming from compositions for Jazz-rock, Odd and Funk groups, my style developed into audio-visual media art via minimal music, contemporary instrumental compositions and computer music. During the first stages of my career, I would describe myself as being rhythmic.
However, intensive work with Odds (odd number rhythms and their phrasing) in compositions for Jazz-Rock and Funk groups, minimal music and experimental improvisations with different instrumentation, has influenced my musical expression substantially (1981 - 1990). In addition, I have a permanent interest in combining music with other forms of art, particularly film, video, theatre, dance and the performing arts (1980, 1989-1992, 1997-2001).
Getting further in my studies of composition and music theory, I started writing mostly contemporary music for solo performers and chamber music instrumentation (1985-1987). Long-term foci in electronic music, algorithmic music and multi-channel music in space followed, whereas the interweaving and transformation of instrumental sounds from contemporary music with electronic sound creation was at the centre. Thus, purely electronic and also computer generated instrumental compositions in algorithmic technique developed (1990-1997); subsequently, I worked intensively with real-time processing and interactive music for contemporary instruments - continuing to use algorithmic techniques - and with the combination of contemporary Western compositions and traditional Asian instrumental music (1996-2001).
As a logical result, I am now moving towards media art via interactive, audio-visual works (1998-2002). Videos, interactive, audio-visual performances and installations offer me new ways of expression.
Andreas Weixler (2002)
Press Reviews
2005
Andreas Weixler's ambient soundtrack employs an "interactive acoustic modulation" to electronically distend a hypnotic vocalization of the word "ouroboros", lending a surprising, otherworldly pathos to the confused destiny of this universalizable petri dish victim.
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/49/austria.htm
28. March 1999
The third man, Andreas Weixler, managed to create dazzling, fragile sound impressions with his compositions originating from theatre commissions and based on natural instruments.
Kleine Zeitung
Discography, Projects
Discography:
- 2004: Concept & Coincidence (DVD, Edition INDEX)
- 2001: Zerbrochene Schalen 1 - Geborgenheit (Konzertmitschnitte)
- 2000: blue elephant (DVD, edition SIBGRAPI)
- 2000: Hermann Nitsch Orgien Mysterien Theater - Tag 5
- 1997: Elektronischer Frühling (Gesellschaft der Elektronischen Musik/Österreich)
- 1996: electronic access 95 (Konzertmitschnitt, d.a.s. Nrl, GE 015)
- 1996: Dama-Dama II (d.a.s. Nr. 2, WORE 960003-2)
- 1994: Klangschnitte 2 (Live-Mitschnitt, ORF Landesstudio, GE 07)
- 1994: Beyond Noise and Haste (SAZAS CD001)
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