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2010

Etwas harscher (als das Duo Cordula Bösze & Annette Giesriegl), in Richtung Hardcore-Kammermusik gehen Judith Unterpertinger, Katharina Klement und Manon-Liu Winter ans Werk, greifen ins Innere eines Klaviers und zweier Clavichorde, führen so nebenbei den Unsinn weltberühmter Klaviertrios à la Corea/Hancock/Zawinul ad absurdum und entwickeln aus feinst gesponnenen Klängen, durch Hämmern und Schaben und in stellenweise zauberhaften Miniaturen ein musikalisches Ganzes, in dem sich zart auf hart reimt.

freistil (Andreas Fellinger)

28. January 2008

Pianistic world explorations [...] Tinted sounds from the intestines of the grand piano, in addition in the echo chamber of reverberating quarter tone melodies from the trumpet, the finest noise tremolo from the bass: The music of Manon-Liu Winter, Franz Hautzinger and Clayton Thomas showed the strongest level of abstraction. These were sounds inspired by electronic sound microscopy, which transcended, thanks to the richness of overtones and a penchant for poetry. [...]

der Standard (Andreas Felber)

21. March 2007

Formulating Art
Manon-Liu Winter and Klaus Hollinetz desribe their half-hour improvisations in "Soundfishing" as timelessness with a linear sense of time - and are not exaggerating. The piano player and electronics technician prove a dramatic feel for the sound design of time, pause when it is worthwhile, pursue further the spectrum of emotions, before it gets boring. It does not matter, that their idea of the quest "for an extension of the sound possibilities of the interior of a grand piano" is not very new. Computer-based compression, extension, shift of unorthodox piano sounds is hardly ever produced in such a successful way - also regarding the sound, it seems as if a couple of loose, almost eerie tender chord shreds are blowing in the fog of the obligate crackling sound of the computer.

Falter (Carsten Fastner )