Fidibus

Fidibus is a new Trio with quartertone-trumpet master Franz Hautzinger and good friend Jörg Mikula on drums dedicated to spontaneous music creation and the joy of playing together. [oct 2009]
franzhautzinger.com | myspace.com/joergmikula | more...

Winterreise

Inspired by "Der Leiermann", the last song of Schubert's "Winterreise", I have arranged all 24 songs of the cycle by Franz Schubert for voice and hurdy-gurdy. At the moment Nataša Mirković - de Ro (voice) and me are busy with the recordings and are happy to perform this program a few times this winter. [oct 2009]
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TIME PROJECT

the TIME PROJECT is a huge live-sound installation with the objective of looking beyond the edge of time. Four bands from the north, east, south and west of Europe 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 and expierences.
The bands are Snö (SE), Mitsoura (HU), Palyrria (GR) and familha artus (FR).
The world premiere of the timeproject took place in june 2008 at the Oerol festival in the Netherlands. Another show took place in Graz, Austria at la strada, 6th to 8th of august 2008. I'm sure there will be a next time.
"timeproject" is a coproduction with IN SITU - the European network for artistic creation in public areas, financed with the support of the European Commission, La Strada in Graz, Austria and the Terschelling‘s Oerol Festival.
[oct 09]
Snö | mitsoura.net | palyrria.com | familha.artus.free.fr | Oerol | la strada | in-situ| 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...

La Noblesse Rustique

La Noblesse Rustique is dedicated to original compositions for hurdy-gurdy in the 18th century in France by composers such as Dupuits, Bouin, Baton or Ravet. The program is performed by two hurdy-gurdies and basso continuo. The other hurdy-gurdy is played by Canadian singer and instrumentalist Tobie Miller.
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passages

"passages" are a collection of solo-hurdy gurdy-pieces originating in atmospheres and traditions I came across on my travels. A CD was released in 2006 as: "Matthias Loibner, Vielle à roue, Autriche" at cinq planètes (cat.no. CP07271) and is available at cdmail.fr.
This album has been choosen for the Austrian Radio 1 (Ö1) Pasticciopreis in september 2006.
The recording was done in a renaissance-castle with the beautiful name "Schloss Tausendlust" in Höllberg close to where I lived.
[oct 2009]
cdmail.fr | more...

lira organizzata

lira organizzata is a project initiated by the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges with the aim of reconstructing the "organized hurdy-gurdy" in order to perform and record the works by Haydn, Pleyel, Orgitano and others for this rare and complex instrument. Two instruments have been successfully made by Wolfgang Weichselbaumer in 2004. A first CD with works by J. Haydn for two lire organizzate is released at laborie classic and alredy awarded with the "Choc du Monde de la Musique".
We have finished the recordings for a second album with only pieces for the lira organizzata (Haydn, Anonymous [the so called Mozart or "concerto di napoli"], Orgitano). They should be released around new year 2010.
[oct 2009]
new sound samples | weichselbaumer.cc | ebl-laborie.com | naive.fr |

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...