Composer: Wolfgang Mitterer
Performer: Wolfgang Mitterer
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Col Legno
Catalogue: COL15008
Release: 2021
Size: 894 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. temp
02. temper
03. tempera
04. temperament
05. temperance
06. temperate
07. temperateness
08. temperature
09. tempest
10. temlar
11. template
12. temple
13. tempo
14. temporal
15. temporariness
16. temporary
17. temporize
18. temporizer
19. tempt
20. temptation
21. tonal
22. tonality
23. tone
24. tone down
25. tone up
26. toneless
27. tonepad
28. tonepoem
29. toner
30. tongs
31. tongue
32. tonguetied
33. tongue twister
34. tonic
35. tonic chord
36. tonicity
37. tonight
Mitterer studied organ, composition and electroacoustics in Vienna and Stockholm. He is not only one of the Austrian specialists for electronics as well as being equally brilliant on the keyboard and on the slide controls, but is also one of the most innovative composers. His work oscillates between composition and open form. Apart from music for organ and orchestra, a piano concerto and an opera he has produced electronic pieces, conceptualized sound installations, and engaged in collective improvisation with diverse groups, developing a language of extremes, tension and complexity. The pleasure he takes in experimenting leads him to combine contrasting elements in the creation of unpredictable musical events. In one major composition, for instance, he juxtaposes musical bands and children’s choirs with specialized instrumentalists and singers, while filling the hall with surround sound created by live electronics. But his work transcends the merely spectacular, precisely because of his musical presence and the high – deeply moving – intensity and complexity of his compositions. Listening intensely to low sounds has its place just as much as the ‘installing’ of exploding sound fragments in the listeners’ minds. Far from being smoothly pleasurable, Mitterer’s music is still uncannily beautiful at times.