Portrait Weixler-Chuang USSS 2019

2019/2020 Season Concerts at The University of Sheffield

Sound Junction

University of Sheffield Concert Series

Portrait Se-Lien Chuang & Andreas Weixler

University of Sheffield
Venue
Firth Hall, Firth Court Western Bank Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
23rd of November 2019, 7 pm

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/usss/soundjunction

fotos

Andreas Weixler @ USSS 2011 ©Foto Se-Lien Chuang

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"Sound Junction is one of the UK's longest-running and most significant concert series dedicated exclusively to acousmatic, electroacoustic music. Over the past 15 years, it has presented a wide range of home-grown, national and international composers to the public, including many of the world's leading electroacoustic figures, such as Francois Bayle, Francis Dhomont, Annette Vande Gorne, Beatriz Ferreyra, Daniel Teruggi, Denis Smalley, Trevor Wishart, Jonty Harrison, Hans Tutschku, and many many more. The Sound Junction series has one central aim: to make acousmatic, electroacoustic music accessible to a listening public, by presenting the most exciting and innovative music from around the globe, live in concert. Using a purpose-built sound diffusion system, and with technical support from the University of Sheffield Sound Studios, these events present acousmatic music in ideal listening conditions (...)"

list of works

	USSS
	Programm

	title	type	studio			by	duration	time
1	Wetterleuchten	electroacoustic	Novars/Atelier Avant Austria	optional Video	16 ch	Weixler	7:23
2	ec-lipse	electroacoustic	SUSS 1999		stereo - distribution	Chuang	5:41
3	for Pi	electroacoustic	TU Studio Berlin	optional Video	8 ch	Weixler	6:04
4	VICC_Variations	electroacoustic	VICC		5 ch	Chuang	6:08
5	for IO	electroacoustic	TU Studio Berlin		8 ch	Chuang	6:25
								32m
6	Die Rache der Normalbegabten	piano & live electronic, 2 mics	LIVE SUSS	optional visuals	8 ch	Weixler/Chuang	12:00
7	Broken Bowls - talk	electroacoustic	SUSS 1999		stereo - distribution	weixler	2:40
8	gula huset	electroacoustic	VICC		5 ch	Chuang	7:24
9	WaterGhosts	electroacoustic	VICC		5 ch	Weixler	7:21
								30m
								1h 2m

about the authors

©Foto Longyou Grotto International Music Festival

Se-Lien Chuang

composer, pianist and media artist, 1965 born in Taiwan, since 1991 residence in Austria. The artistic and compositional emphases range from contemporary instrumental composition/improvisation, computer music to audiovisual interactivity. International productions, research stays and lectures as well as numerous representations of compositions in Europe, Asia, North- and South America: ICMC, SICMF Seoul, NIME, ISEA, IAMAS Japan, Ars Electronica Linz, among others.
2016-2019 lecturer at Computer Music Studio, Institute of Composition, Conducting and Computer Music at the Anton Bruckner Private University for computer notation and contemporary playing techniques. Since 1996 jointly with Andreas Weixler running Atelier Avant Austria, with key aspects in development of audiovisual interactive systems and audio/visual realtime/non-realtime processing, computer music and algorithmic composition.

http://avant.mur.at/chuang/

©Foto Longyou Grotto International Music Festival

Andreas Weixler

born 1963 in Graz, Austria, is a composer for contemporary composition and computer music with a special emphasis in intermedia concerts of improvisation and contemporary composition.
He is teaching currently at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, at InterfaceCulture of the University of Arts in Linz and serves as studio director and associate university professor at the CMS computer music studio at Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz where he initiated the development of the computer music studios and intermedia multichannel computer music concert hall, Sonic Lab. His education starts with contemporary composition at the University of Arts in Graz, Austria with Andrzej Dobrowolski, Younghi Pagh-Paan and diploma by Beat Furrer, and is completed by international projects, study stays and researches. His concepts led to invitations to concerts, performances, presentations and lectures in Europe, Asia, North and South America. Multiple selections for international conferences ICMC, NIME, NYCEMF, SICMF, ISEA among others. Andreas Weixler founded intermedia concert series like Sonic Intermedia (ars electronica center Linz), electronic access and is running Atelier Avant Austria together with Se-Lien Chuang. 2018 Andreas Weixler & Se-Lien Chuang are the ICMA award winner for the best European performance.

http://avant.mur.at

Program

1
Wetterleuchten - virtuoso chances return home (2013)
video with interactive sound file player for instrumental gestures
8 channel audio

Andreas Weixler, composition
Se-Lien Chuang, video

2013 Novars residency, University of Manchester UK
The composition consists of two overlaying parts:
part 1:  multichannel ambience soundfile player  • with FFT filtering & algorithmic multichannel sound distribution
part 2:  multichannel I/O dynamic soundfile player • for instrumental gestures

On the Basis of a recording of an Austrian thunderstorm, recorded in Styria, Austria, an interactive sound file player for instrumental gestures creates sounds which reply to it by recordings of contemporary playing techniques of double bass, violoncello, cembalo and arco piano. The sounds are selected and composed and then spatialized on a multichannel system by virtuoso chances into a multichannel ambience music „Virtuoso Chances - return home“. The interactive sound file player and the music was created an NOVARS Manchester, UK. The video was recorded at Tressenstein in Styria, Austria and edited at Atelier Avant Austria.

2
ec-lipse (1999)
by Se-Lien Chuang
is produced at USSS (University of Sheffield Sound Studios/England) in July/August 1999 during a composers residence.

In this piece I tended to explore the physical ground of sounds; at the same time the soundscape is coming out naturally by means of program music for experiencing the total solar eclipse occurred on August 11, 1999 in Cornwall, England.

3
for Pi  (2005)
(the baby has no heart beat)
8-channel electroacoustic composition
by Andreas Weixler

this piece is about an old theme of music, about expression and arousal of emotion and relief of tension, where words cease. Produced at the Electronic Studio of the Technical University Berlin, 2004/05. First premiere: UltraSchall Berlin, 2005, further international premieres.
All sounds are created from the instrumental sound of percussion instruments (among these a huge plate in c#), a marimba and the sound of the sea at Croma /UK. The used pluggins are GRM and Wave and a dynamic sound file player, a programme routine the composer created in Max msp for the algorithmic movements of the sounds.

4
VICC_variation_4.6 (2015)
by Se-Lien Chuang

was created during a composer in residence at VICC - Visby International Center for Composers af Gotland, Sweden. All transmitted sounds are recordings on the island, the technique of spectral filtering with Izotope Iris was mainly applied for composing this piece.

5
for IO (2005)
by Se-Lien Chaung

based on specified instrumental sounds which are created by the arco-piano technique, a contemporary playing technique on a grand piano in which the strings of the piano are stimulated with bundled bass bow hair / violin bow hair and a magical overtone-rich sound is created.
This piece was realized in 2004/2005 in the electronic studio of the TU Berlin.

with the kind support of Stadt Graz (Austria), Land Steiermark
In collaboration with Atelier Avant Austria

6
Die Rache der Normalbegabten (2019)
by Se-Lien Chuang & Andreas Weixler
piano & live electronic
premiere live at USSS

contempory music improvisation for piano and live electronics. Multichannel realtime processing by granular synthesis, spectral delay, fft resynthesis and ringmodulation interact and reciprocally influence each other in order to blend into a unique, synaesthetic, improvisational work of art.

7
Broken Bowls - talk (1999)
electroacoustic
by Andreas Weixler

the electroacoustic composition has been produced at SUSS - Sheffield University Sound Studio /England UK during a composers residency from July-August 1999.
The Composition is based on an algorithmic score by Andreas Weixler performed by Dagmar Hoedl, mezzo sopran & ContrastTrio:
Christos Polyzoides (vla), François Benda (cl), Janna Polizoides (pno).
Recordings: ContrastTrio live at Kulturzentrum Minoriten, Dagmar Hoedl at IEM Studio, Graz/Austria, 1998 by Andreas Weixler as sound engineer
Hard- & Software: ProTools 4.3.1, TDM plugins TC Mega Reverb 3.0, TC Works EQ Sat 3.0, GRM Tools 1.2 (shuffle, pitch accmulation), Audiosuite plugins vari-fi, sci-fi, EQII, SoundDesigner 2.8.3, Macintosh 9600/350 Computer.

premiers
02.11.1999 Pusan Electronic Music Association - South Corea
12.12.1999 Festival Elektrokomplex 99, Rhiz Vienna/Austria
Center for Contemporary Art, Kiew Rußland, 26.02.2000
Galerie Werkstadt Graz, 18.02. - 12.03.2000.
Experimental Intermedia New York 15.12.2000
Festival Schrattenberg, Austria, 30. 08.2002
National theatre Concert Hall in Taipeh, 27.4.2003
concert am TNCA, Tainan National College of Art, Taiwan, 29.4.2003
and many others world wide.

8
gula huset (2017)
by Se-Lien Chuang
5 channel electroacoustic composition with contemporary instrumental sounds and vocals

composed 2017 at VICC - Visby Internationale Centre for Composers

All electronic sounds are transformed from the recordings of acoustic instruments and voices.
The reminiscence of micro fragments was recalling consistently by the recurrent variations and nuances of the saturations during the episodes. Some strokes can surprisingly pull the listeners out of the state of a trance.

Gula huset is created in the Studio Alpha of VICC during a composer in residence in February 2017. I would like to acknowledge especially and respectively to Jonny Axelsson (Sweden), percussion and Ivo Nilsson (Sweden), trombone, the sounds of them are recorded 2016 at Jonny’s lovely atelier. And others - Jonas Nilsson (Sweden), double bass and [author] (Taiwan/Austria), vocal, the sounds of them are recorded 2017 in Studio Alpha VICC,

9
WaterGhosts (2017)
by Andreas Weixler
5 channel electroacoustic composition based on contemporary instrumental sounds and vocals

composed 2017 at VICC - Visby Internationale Centre for Composers

WaterGhosts was created in the Studio Alpha of VICC during a composer in residence in February 2017. All electronic sounds are based on recordings of acoustic instruments. A multichannel realtime audio processing studio session of voice and double bass gave gestural movements of acoustic as well as generated electronic sounds in a mutual improvisation. Recordings of the acoustic sounds of low drums and a trombone are then altered by the same max msp live processing of granular synthesis and stochastic spatialisation. The compositions is then completed by a Petzold subcontrabass recorder audio processing in the studio to configure a spatial composition in an organic soundscape.

Jonny Axelsson (S), low drums and Ivo Nilsson (S), trombone,recorded 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Matilda Andersson (S), vocal and Jonas Nilsson (S), double bass and Andreas Weixler (A) live electronics are recorded 2017 in Studio Alpha VICC, Visby, Gotland, Sweden.
Julia Russer (GER), Petzold subcontrabass recorder, recorded at the Computer Music Studio in Linz, Austria 2014. All recordings and electronic processing by the composer.

Adrian Moore & Andreas Weixler 2011
Foto: Se-Lien Chuang