Piano Forte Brass – The Dancing Gams

Album Artwork by Konrad LangSoon available:

PIANOFORTEBRASS – Chamberjazzquartett [ homepage ]

Anna Lang – Cello, Klavier, Oboe
Mario Rom – Trompete, Flügelhorn
Alois Eberl – Posaune, Akkordeon
Gernot Haslauer – Bass, Euphonium

Recorded in December 2011 at Dorothea Porsche Hall – Odeïon Salzburg.

Recording, Mix and Mastering by Matthias KronlachnerArtwork by Konrad Lang

Triskaideka – for piano and live electronics

part2-excerpt13 studies for piano and live electronic
in equally tempered Bohlen-Pierce tuning

The piece “Triskaideka” for piano tuned in the equal temperament Bohlen-Pierce scale and live electronics was developed during my Erasmus semester at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius.

 

Watch the score!

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pd-kinect-examples

Find some examples about the usage of the externals pix_freenect, pix_openni, pix_threshold_depth, pix_depth2rgba, pix_head_pose_estimation on the Github page http://github.com/kronihias/pd-kinect-examples

In the moment just Mac OSX binaries of the externals are included. Windows binaries coming soon. Linux – please get the source from Github and build them by yourself.
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freiräumen – die politik des do-it-yourself

dokumentarfilm, 16:9 dvcprohd, stereo, 90min

schnitt – mario hengster und andreas kurz
dramaturgische beratung – emily artmann
sounddesign – matthias kronlachner
finishing – robert breber
kamera – mario hengster
regie – andreas kurz

after the premiere of freiräumen on June, 29th the documentary movie can be seen at following locations:

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Live Interfaces

I’ll be presenting my work for the Kinect sensor and Pure Data/Gem at the LIVE INTERFACES: Performance, Art, Music[ref name=”li”]Live Interfaces http://icsrim.org.uk/liveinterfaces/[/ref] conference.

Find the material here:
lipam2012-kronlachner-paper.pdf
lipam2012-kronlachner-poster.pdf

A substantial project report about all Kinect plugins and examples will be available soon.

Pure Data Workshop – Vilnius, Lithuania

A Pure Data workshop series will be held on Wednesdays starting from September, 26th 2012 at 18:00-19:30.

Location: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA), LMTA main building, Gedimino pr. 42, LT-01110 Vilnius, room 306

The course is open for everyone interested and will start from zero. It will cover topics relevant for sound artists, visual artists, composers, engineers, …

Please register per email:  mail (at) matthiaskronlachner.com .

What is Pure Data (Pd)?
Pure Data is a very flexible visual programming environment, developed by Miller Puckette for creating electronic music. It is available for free and many people contribute in extending it’s functionality. Today it is widely used for creating sound, visuals, data, multimedia installations, music composition, signal processing and analysis, … It can be seen as Open-Source alternative to MAX/MSP.
Due to its visual programming nature its usage is very intuitive.
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3mal3 – live recording from vilnius

(C)2012 Laura Lapienyteelectronic music concert

Restoranas Jalta[ref name=”jalta”]Restoranas Jalta[/ref] – Vilnius

Matthias Kronlachner – electronics, sample piano, clarinet
Can Kazaz – electronics, recorder, toys

recording of the concert – binaural stereo version (listen with headphones)

recording of the concert – 4ch quadrophone version (listen with 4 channel speaker setup)

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