[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!
[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 ground on novels from Christine Lavant and Sadegh Hedayat, both playing in "madhouses", trying to allow our own madness to spin around between multiple loudspeakers.
Sarvin Hazin | Manu Mitterhuber | more...
[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 an adult music version of this beautiful text.
www.jungbrunnen.co.at (editor)
[feb20] I always love to share the sound of my hurdy-gurdy, compositions and the stories behind in various ways and contexts.
I have recorded two solo albums on the way: Lichtungen (2016), inspired by little daily moments of insight, has found a good home at traumton records - Vielle à roue was released at cinq planètes in 2006 and got rewarded with Austrian Radio, Ö1 Pasticciopreis.
Vielle à roue (album) | Lichtungen (album) | Lichtungen (info) | traumton.de
[oct24] Our newest project will be called "apsu" and it's a interdisciplinary praise of water...
[oct19] Brot & Sterne is a trio with musician friends Franz Hautzinger (quartertone-trumpet) and Peter Rosmanith (Hang, Gubal, Percussion).
We have recorded two music albums and three audiobooks. Tales of Herbst (2017) and Tales of Wanderlust (2019) were released at traumton records.
Three 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.
brotundsterne.com | franzhautzinger.com | peter-rosmanith.at | traumton.de | mandelbaum.at | more...
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...
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 various places such as Filhamonia Warszawa or Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and many others.
raumklang.de | scores | more...
[sep23] I've enjoyed a lot to compose 12 pieces for hurdy-gurdy this summer. 6 Duos and 6 solo-pieces are released now as a series of 12 postcards with corresponding short poems by Andrea Grill. In addition the music and postcards are available on bandcamp. The printed scores can be ordered by email or as pdf at musicaustria.
kind regards (details) | bandcamp (album, postcards) | musicaustria.at (pdf score)
[dec23] A new project at the beginning! Together with Asya Fateyeva (sax), Emil Kuyumcuyan (vibraphone) and Bo Wiget (cello) we have created and recorded pieces inspired by the repertory of troubadour music. Album and concerts will follow during 2024.
Asya Fateyeva | Emil Kuyumcuyan | Bo Wiget | more...
[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.
[aug23] Together with sound-artist Tahereh Nourani we have recorded our first album in the beautiful Onsernone valley about... valleys. We've created 7 pieces of noise & music around the 7 valleys of the beautiful story "conference of the birds" by Farid ud-Din Attar. Looking forward to mixing/editing this winter.
[feb22] Learning and communicating in a more abstract musicial language since some time now. Looking forward to every next step.
[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.
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. So we do! Saxophone and hurdy-gurdy :-)
[sep21] Our album River of Light is finally out - as a limited vinyl LP edition including download-codes for digital files.
[aug19] We have recorded nine compositions by Basel Rajoub for a first album: River of Light in Italy. Now mixing and publishing...
Basel Rajoub | bandcamp | River of light | more...
Our second 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 | more...
[jan19] After meeting at several occasions (Alpenjazz @Philharmonie Berlin, OLOID together with Gregor Hilbe) I may work with Christian Zehnder in a live-duo and also in various film-music projects...
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), 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 the game For Honor (Ubisoft).
Florian van Volxem | Thomas Wander | Nobadi
I'm lucky and happy to work and play regularly with lots of great musicians and good friends whenever possible, such as:
Benedicte Maurseth, Caitríona O'Leary, Christof Dienz, Die Strottern, Figura Ensemble, jazzbigbandgraz, Jürg Kienberger and those who I didn't want to forget.
maurseth.net | diestrottern.at | caitrionaoleary.com | dienz.at | figura.dk | jazzbigbandgraz
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 made by Wolfgang Weichselbaumer in 2004. A first CD - deLirium - with works by J. Haydn for two lire organizzate is released at laborie classic and already awarded with the "Choc du Monde de la Musique".
[oct09] We have finished the recordings for 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). They should be released around new year 2010.
weichselbaumer.cc | ebl-laborie.com | naive.fr | more (pictures, sounds)...
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 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 Terschellings Oerol Festival.
Snö | Mitsoura | palyrria.com (facebook) | familha.artus.free.fr | Oerol | la strada | in-situ | more...