timeproject

the timeproject is a gigantic experimental arrangement with the objective of looking beyond the edge of time. Four bands from the north, east, south and west of Europe will come together in the open air to overcome - together with the audience - those fundamental physical and cultural laws governing duration and distance on the quest for new dimensions.
The bands are Snö (SE), Mitsoura (HU), Palyrria (GR) and familha artus (FR).
The world premiere of the timeproject will be on the 13th of June at the Oerol festival in Netherland. More shows will be in Graz, Austria at la strada, beginning of august 08. I hope you'll be there.
This all is possible in cooporation with la strada festival and in-situ, the European network for artistic creation in public areas.
[aug 07]
Snö | mitsoura.net | palyrria.com | familha.artus.free.fr | Oerol | la strada | in-situ

Zykado

Zykado is a duo with my favorite percussionist Tunji Beier [southindian percussion, drums, noise] and me, trying to explore the borders of improvised music. We are both using live looping tools in our performances.
Our new CD with recordings from various places in Austria is finished and now available at www.galileo-mc.de. Thanks to our friends at produccionesefimeras.com.
We have taken part in sloppy seconds, which we think is a funny idea. We admitted a 10th of a second excerpt of each of the 10 numbers on our CD.
[feb 07]
zykado.com | tunji.org | produccionesefimeras.com | galileo-mc.de | sloppy seconds | more...

Ajvar & Sterz

Ajvar & Sterz is a duo program with my favorite singer Nataša Mirković - de Ro. We play songs from the balkans and the alpine countries, which affect us emotionally. In our arrangements for voice and hurdy-gurdy we try to treat the original with care - not to loose the particular character of a song - but also with fun.
The CD "Ajvar & Sterz" was released in summer 2006 and can be ordered at galileo-mc.com.
A CD release concert at Porgy & Bess (Vienna) has been recorded and can be listened to at emap.fm.
produccionesefimeras.com | galileo-mc.de | mirkovic-dero.com | emap.fm <stream> | ikkz.at | more...

lira organizzata

The world premiere recordings with works by J. Haydn for two lire organizzate are finished and finally released at laborie classic.
The album with the works for two vielles organisées, two divertimenti for barytone and another notturno played with flute and oboe has already been awarded the "Choc du Monde de la Musique".
This is the first result of a project together with the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges in order to reconstruct this rare and complex instrument. Two instruments have been made by Wolfgang Weichselbaumer in 2004 and we already had our first concerts in France and Switzerland [with Christophe Coin: director, Thierry Nouat: vielle organisée].
[feb 2007]
new sound samples | weichselbaumer.cc | ebl-laborie.com | naive.fr |

passages

Finally the recordings of "passages" are released as: "Matthias Loibner, Vielle à roue, Autriche" at cinq planètes (cat.no. CP07271) and are available at cdmail.fr.
This album has been choosen for the Austrian Radio 1 (Ö1) Pasticciopreis in september 2006.
The music is a collection of acoustic hurdy-gurdy pieces inspired by traditions and atmospheres I came across on various travels. The recording was done in a renaissance-castle with the beautiful name "Schloss Tausendlust" in Höllberg close to where I live.
[oct 2006]
cdmail.fr | more...

Spinning Wheel

Spinning Wheel is a collective of 7 hurdy-gurdy players from around the world, working on 7 thread-by-thread compositions via internet, each one composing his own individual part.
The musicians are: German Diaz (Spain), Marc Egea (Spain), Till Uhlmann (Germany), Daniel Kahuda (Czech Republic), Matthias Loibner (Austria), Totte Mattsson (Sweden) and Thierry Nouat (France).
[oct 2006]
German Diaz | Marc Egea | Daniel Kahuda | Totte Mattsson | Radiokulturhaus | more...