| IMPS – the title stands for ‘Impulse Synthesis,’ but also literally means ‘imps’ – was a composition commissioned for the soundmobile of the Salzburg architect Otto Beck: 4 bicycles equipped with speakers, amplifiers and a playing device. The piece is thus conceptualized for a performance in the open, strictly speaking, in the streets of a city, and accordingly crudely wrought. This crudeness is to be understood as sculptural; no technical flaw, but rather as a precondition for an unfolding of the sound in such spatial relationships. (It will eternally remain uncomprehensible to brainwashed hi-fi sound technology). The synchronization of the four components also has a large scope which tolerates the different durations of the sounds of the arbitrarily spatially distant soundmobile. Archaic drumming begins by and by from all four sides, interrupted by long-drawn arcs of sound, which, in contrast to the scattered drum sounds, meld into an entity. They build an almost static cupola of sound in the middle, which, in the end, is again dissolved by the initial drumming. All of the sounds originate from an impulse generator according to the frequential scheme of a rectangular membrane that I developed at the end of the eighties – one of the first modules of my composition software NMS4. |
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IMPS - der Titel steht für 'Impuls-Synthese', bedeutet aber durchaus auch 'Kobolde' - war eine Auftragskomposition für die Klangmobile des Salzburger Architekten Otto Beck: 4 Fahrräder, die mit Lautsprecher, Verstärker und je einer Abspielvorrichtung ausgestattet sind.
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ABSOLUTE MUSIC
GÜNTHER RABL
- AIN'T THERE TV AFTER DEATH
- MITE E-LITE
- BETIRI SUITE
- FOURIER AUF DER REISE NACH PRAG
- ROLLER
- PASSANTEN
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- GROSSE FUGE
- WIND INTERMEZZO
- FUNKENFLUG
- KATHARSIS
- STEINBUTT VARIATIONEN
- 4 SKIZZEN
- KLEINE FUGE
- EVE
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- ODYSSEE
- FAREWELL TEMPERED PIANO
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- DIETER FEICHTNER MEMORIAL 2003
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- AUSTRIAN SOUNDSCAPE 1992
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- Bill Elgart, Günther Rabl
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