Trio Physalis

[jan26] A new Trio is born! Which will be one of my favorites I'm sure. Together with Sarvin Hazin - Kamanche and Sofia Labropoulou - Kanun, we compose music for our rare and distinctive instruments, each one deeply rooted in its own tradition. We aim to make music that is small and unhurried, yet dense and full of love — one that carries the fragility of life itself, and of one's own identity. So much looking forward to each rehearsal and new sound that we discover.

We have already presented a few pieces at Ö1 RadioCafe in january this year. More to follow...

sofialabropoulou.com | sarvinhazin.com

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Das kleine Ich bin ich

[jan24] I've started to compose a vocal/hurdy-gurdy piece for Nataša Mirković and myself based on the famous children book: "Das kleine Ich bin Ich" by Mira Lobe. I know so many people loving this fabulous story who are adults now. My goal is to create a "serious" music version of this beautiful text.

[oct25] Das kleine Ich bin ich is finished! An hommage to one of my favorite children books by Mira Lobe - a contemporary piece for voice & hurdy-gurdy, actually dedicated to grownups, who can't completely give up being a child, like me. I had the pleasure to perform "Das kleine Ich bin ich" together with Nataśa Mirković at Radiokulturhaus, Wien, in may 2025.

www.jungbrunnen.co.at editor | score | trailer [youtube] | more...

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Teaching

I teach at various weekend workshops mostly hurdy-gurdy technique and improvisation.

[oct24] I've started to teach at mdw (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna): 'Neue Spieltechniken - Cross Instrumental' as part of the CAP studies. I expect to learn a lot!

CAP studies | schedule | more...

SOLO works

I always love to share the sound of my hurdy-gurdy, compositions and the stories behind in various ways and contexts.

My first two albums were: Lichtungen (2016), inspired by little daily moments of insight, which found a good home at traumton records, and Vielle à roue, released at cinq planètes in 2006 and got rewarded with Austrian Radio, Ö1 Pasticciopreis.

[jul25] I have accidentally recorded a third acoustic solo album... I've hit the record button in a touching personal moment at a place with an inspiring view and got 10 improvisations called Aussichten, now also published at Traumton records.

Aussichten | Lichtungen | Vielle à roue | traumton.de | listen

Brot & Sterne

Brot & Sterne is a long-term trio with musician friends Franz Hautzinger (quartertone-trumpet) and Peter Rosmanith (Hang, Gubal, Percussion).

We have recorded two music albums and three audiobooks on our way: Tales of Herbst (2017) and Tales of Wanderlust (2019), both released at traumton records.

The audiobooks, two with essays by Austrian author Christine Lavant and one by Christoph Ransmayr were released at mandelbaum.at: Unter einem Zuckerhimmel (voice: Christoph Ransmayr), Das Wechselbälgchen (voice: Sophie Rois) and Aufzeichnungen aus dem Irrenhaus (voice: Gerti Drassl). We are happy to perform those live from time to time.

We produce not too serious video-clips when time allows: Erdberg and Aufbrechen.

[oct24] We are working on a new project by the name of apsu, an interdisciplinary praise of water with lyrics and visuals, to be premiered at Imago Dei Festival, Krems in march 26.

Loibner/Nourani

[feb22] Learning and communicating in a more abstract musical language since some time now. Looking forward to every next step.

[aug23] Together with sound-artist Tahereh Nourani we have created our first composition in the beautiful Onsernone valley about... valleys. It's 7 pieces of noise & music inspired by the 7 valleys of the beautiful story "conference of the birds" by Farid ud-Din Attar.

[aug25] We have recorded 7 Täler in the St. Wolfgangi church in Austria. Looking forward to mixing and finding a good label for this.

[nov25] We are delighted to hear, that the danish Figura Ensemble is playing our piece at their annual Festspiele this year. We wish good luck & fun!

Tahereh Nourani | listen | more...

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Loibner/Niggli

Always a big pleasure to meet Lucas Niggli - on and off stage - for serious vulcano style jamming and some planned and not so planned conversations.

[jan22] We are happy to announce: we've recorded our first duo-album "Still Storm" in the RSI-Studio of Lugano. It will be released later this year at intakt records (Intakt CD 386).

[aug22] NEW CD Still Storm released on 19th of august :-) -> www.intaktrec.ch/386.htm

lucasniggli.ch | intakt records | more...

Vague Rooms

[jan25] Vague Rooms is a new project with outstanding pianist Verena Zeiner, centering on the musical expression of hidden behavioral patterns and personality traits that remain obscure to us. We call these "rooms" – uncharted, vague spaces that must first be gently touched in order to be explored.

We have been performing first results at Porgy & Bess, Vienna, and are aiming to create a collection of written compositions for our two instruments by spring 2026.

verenazeiner.at | listen | more...

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irr/licht

[jul24] Since first playing together I wanted to collaborate with Kamancheh master Sarvin Hazin, and we finally started to work as a duo when we met Manu Mitterhuber with his amazing OTTOsonics sound system. We found a common conceptual ground in novels from Christine Lavant and Sadegh Hedayat, both playing in "madhouses", allowing our own madness to spin around between multiple loudspeakers.

Sarvin Hazin | Manu Mitterhuber | 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 the voice of Nataša Mirković and hurdy-gurdy. We have recorded the complete "Winterreise" in 2010 for the german label Raumklang. Since then we have been performing it in numerous places such as Filhamonia Warszawa, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and many others.

raumklang.de | scores | listen | more...

Ajvar & Sterz

Another program together with Nataša Mirković, that we still love so much to play, especially because it's still changing over the years. We have started to collect songs from the Alps and the Balkans around 2005 and recorded Ajvar & Sterz for the spanish label producciones efimeras.

producciones efimeras | listen | more...

To the muse!

[dec23] A new project in the beginning! Together with Asya Fateyeva (saxes), Emil Kuyumcuyan (vibraphone) and Bo Wiget (cello) we have created and recorded pieces inspired by the repertory of troubadour music in contemporary arrangments by Bo Wiget.

[oct24] The Album To the Muse is out at Berlin Classics. And we had a few great live-performances at Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and some other "classy" places. Nice tour!

Asya Fateyeva | Emil Kuyumcuyan | Bo Wiget | listen | more...

Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes

[feb21] ... is one of my all-time favorite books by Christoph Ransmayr. I'm happy to regularly paint a few sounds to the reading of selected episodes by Karl Markovics.

noqdi

[dec23] Another new collaboration: diving deeply into imaginary ancient sounds together with master drummer/percussionist Kyle Jones. We are doing a "send tracks for- and backwards"-collaboration between our homes alongside sympathic talks about our visions.

listen

River of Light

Out of a trio with Andrea Piccioni on framedrums and of being a guest in Basel Rajoubs Soriana Project, we felt the strong wish to work as a duo, and here we are - saxophone and hurdy-gurdy :-)

[aug19] We have recorded nine compositions by Basel Rajoub for a first album: River of Light in Italy. Now mixing and publishing...

[sep21] River of Light is finally out - as a limited vinyl LP edition including download-codes for digital files and on the usual digital platforms.

Basel Rajoub | bandcamp | linktr.ee | listen | more...

music for film

I've got more into recording my music and sounds for movies during the last years. After recording for various composers such as Florian van Volxem (Die geliebten Schwestern, La Famiglia), Thomas Wander (Anonymous), Peter von Poehl (Korparna, best music at Guldbagge awards), Hubert von Goisern (Schlafes Bruder) and others I had to chance to create my first full filmscore for independant filmmmakers Noemi Amadori & Philipp Ramspeck (Frankenstein, 2018). Also my music was choosen to be in The Rover (AUS, 2014, by David Michôd) and recently in Nobadi (AT, 2019) by Karl Markovics. Also I've recorded some of the sounds for Des Teufels Bad together with soap&skin (Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion, Beste Musik at Österreichischer Filmpreis), for Die schwarze Spinne (music by Christian Zehnder) and for the game For Honor (Ubisoft).

Florian van Volxem | Thomas Wander

and many others

I'm lucky and happy to work and play regularly with lots of great musicians and good friends whenever possible, such as:

Benedicte Maurseth, Bertl Mütter, Caitríona O'Leary, Christof Dienz, Die Strottern, Figura Ensemble, jazzbigbandgraz, Jürg Kienberger, Mahan Mirarab and those who I didn't want to forget.

lira organizzata

lira organizzata is a project initiated by Christophe Coin and 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 built by Wolfgang Weichselbaumer in 2004. A first CD - deLirium - with works by J. Haydn for two lire organizzate was released at laborie classic and already awarded with the "Choc du Monde de la Musique".

[oct09] A second album - La Lira di Napoli - with only pieces for the lira organizzata (Haydn, Anonymous [the so called Mozart or "concerto di napoli"], Orgitano) has been released in 2010.

weichselbaumer.cc | more pictures, sounds ...

TIMEPROJECT

the TIMEPROJECT is a huge live-music 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 experiences.

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.

"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 Terschellings Oerol Festival.

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