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Meine-Welt-Musik - 2. Symphonie
Meine-Welt-Musik - 2. Symphonie
ohrenhoch presents on Sunday 18 and 25 January 2015, 2pm - 9pm:
Meine-Welt-Musik – 2. Symphonie
(Op.148/2013, German Premiere)
by Dieter Kaufmann
Dieter Kaufmann on 'Meine-Welt-Musik' [35:00]:
A sound journey through countries and times with original recordings from France, Sweden, Iceland, Egypt, Algeria, Taiwan and Austria, music from different times and cultures (Schumann, Dufay, Codex Montpellier, muezzin calls, swedish quatrains), languages of men and animals (water birds, hen house, crows, goats), wind and water. The simultaneity of the anachronistic, the simultaneousness of the incompatible, the multiculturality through times and spaces. How modest are Schumann's Scenes from Childhood (Of Foreign Lands and People)! With one single melody the child sets forth to discover the world. Laden with the garbage of history it goes back, grown older. A musical audio play.
Relating to the question "sound activism" ohrenhoch deals with in 2015, Dieter Kaufmann writes:
"foreign – familiar"
The sounds of my world may be foreign for others.
I express this process of alienation with the familiar by means of technical "exaggerations" (detuning, accumulation, sharpening...), time after time.
My wish is to contribute through "meditative" hearing to accepting the foreign, and through critical hearing to distance from the familiar.
[Translation from German: Katharina Moos]
Dieter Kaufmann
1941 born in Vienna, grew up in Carinthia, studied composition and electro-acoustic music in Vienna under Karl Schiske and Gottfried von Einem and in Paris under Olivier Messiaen, René Leibowitz, Pierre Schaeffer and François Bayle. From 1970 to 2006 Kaufmann has taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna two master classes, one in composition (since 1990) and one in electro-acoustic composition (since 1997). Since 2001 he has been president of the Society for Composers’ Mechanical Rights, Austro-Mechana.
In 1975 with his wife Gunda König he founded the „K&K Experimentalstudio“. This musical theater ensemble has made numerous tours in Europe, North and Latin America, Egypt and Taiwan. From 1982 – 87 K&K had its own series on ORF, Austrian state radio: „What shall I do with the sound in my hand?“
Kaufmann has composed works in several fields of music: chamber music, symphonic music, vocal music, musical theatre (six operas and number of multi-media works), electro-acoustic music and live electronic music as well as in the applied arts. He has won numerous national and international prizes, including Ernst Krenek Prize of the City of Vienna, the Prix Magisterium de Bourges/France, the Carinthian Kulturpreis and the Music Award of the Republic of Austria.
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