To hear on Sunday 31 January and 7 February 2016, 2pm - 9pm:
Untitled piece (2016, Premiere)
by Patrik Lechner (Austria)
Loudspeaker installation: Knut Remond / ohrenhoch
Patrik Lechner on his piece:
The piece is a composition of three elements; the main part is formed by a synthesized ambient sound. Here a kind of parametric/synthetic abstract thunderstorm was created, it provides the frame around the two other parts.
The second part came from the attempt to create percussive, rhythmic structures by particle systems. As the result was satisfying intellectually but not aesthetically, it was subsequently processed as vigorously until it met my artistic requirements.
The third part however is a purely aesthetically motivated percussive work.
So this piece forms quasi an engagement with the interplay inherent in art between the intellect and the pure pleasure. All sounds are purely synthetic, i.e. no field recordings, samples or similar were used.
Patrik Lechner started making electronic music at the age of 16, soon discovering environments such as Pure data and Max/MSP. From thereon he developed many tools for his own experimental music and it wasn't long after this, that he started creating generative 3d visualizations of audio material.
Since 2012 he is working for the University of Applied Sciences in St.Pölten (FH St.Pölten). In 2015 he wrote a book about Max/MSP and TouchDesigner.
Patrik Lechner has done many multimedia projects as for example an installation at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden for the Institute for Creative/Media/Technologies FH St.Pölten, or an interactive audio installation in Dubai. As an artist, he did audio/visual performances in Austria, Italy, Germany, Canada, Dubai at MUTEK Mexico and regularly played at the Austrian Pavilion at the world exhibition in Shanghai 2010. He works a lot with classically trained musicians, developed a real-time scoring system/piece for string quartet premiered in 2012 and frequently works with painters and artists from other fields.