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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Goethestraßler Hausmusik and Hermann Filsegger

I was invited to record some time documents of Upper Austrian folk music – a CD for the Goethestraßler Hausmusik and the folk poet Hermann Filsegger both from Attnang-Puchheim.
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Gustl Zemsauer – flute, recorder
Traudi Platzer – violin
Ursula Haab – dulcimer
Christine Büscher – harp
Eva Kurz – guitar, alto flute
Ernst Köttl – Bass
Fritz Kurz – diatonic harmonica, dulcimer

Fritz Kurz – composition, arrangement
Hermann Filsegger – poem writer and speaker
Helmut Gutleder – producer
Matthias Kronlachner – recording, mix, mastering

recorded April 2012 @ Landesmusikschule Attnang-Puchheim

listening examples

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4 room concert @ Rondo Graz

Marian Weger, David Pirró, Matthias Kronlachner, Peter VenusWednesday, November 30th 2011 there will be a music performance with David Pirrò, Marian Weger, Peter Venus and Matthias Kronlachner at the birthday party of the Rondo Ateliers.
For this event we gonna perform in four separated rooms – the listener can choose between listening to one musician solo or enjoy the concert in a separate area where everybody can be heard, but nobody seen.

Trailer of the concert:

(binaural recording – listen with headphones)

4 channel recording:

(listen to this if you have 4 speakers connected to your computer)

roundabout flyer
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pd-external: pix_freenect 0.10

(C)2011 Matthias Kronlachner

Version 0.10 of pix_freenect external for Pure Data/Gem now available.
Sourcecode and binary for OSX and Ubuntu 11.10 available at github: https://github.com/kronihias/pix_freenect

Look at this page if you don’t know how to install a Pd-External.

The pix_freenect external can output rgb and depth simultaneously from multiple Kinect sensors.

Features:

  • open specific Kinect sensor by serial number – useful for multiple Kinect installations
  • output registered depthmap -> rgb and depth image are aligned
  • output depthmap directly as 16 bit [mm] values
  • resolution of rgb image can be set to 1280×1024

To get audio streams you can use http://github.com/kronihias/freenect_audio.
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pd-external: pix_openni 0.10

If you are working with Xbox Kinect Sensor here is another goodie for you – A pure data / Gem external to get Kinect rgb and depth streams as well as skeleton tracking and multiple hand tracking via OpenNI[ref name=”openni”]http://www.openni.org[/ref]

Download the packed Binaries for OSX and Windows pix_openni-0.10.zip .
Latest sourcecode available at github: http://github.com/kronihias/pix_openni

Look at this page if you don’t know how to install a Pd-External.

To control tilt, led and output accelerometer data you can use libfreenect based http://github.com/kronihias/freenect.
To get audio streams you can use libfreenect based http://github.com/kronihias/freenect_audio.
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non-standard scale/tuning playback via midi

In my composition studies at “lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija” in Vilnius I came across using 12 tone techniques from Schoenberg/Hauer in combination with the Bohlen-Pierce[ref name=”bp”]Bohlen-Pierce Site http://www.huygens-fokker.org/bpsite/[/ref] scale discovered independently by Heinz Bohlen in early 1970’s and John Pierce.

This scale is based on mainly odd frequency ratios and divides the duodezime (ratio 3:1) into 13 steps. You can listen to the equally tempered scale here:

If you want to know how to use non-standard tunings and scales in combination with your MIDI keyboard or favourite music notation software read on!
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IEM Computermusic Ensemble Concert Graz and Vilnius

ICE @ Porgy&Bess ViennaOn Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 will be the next concert of ICE – IEM Computermusic Ensemble. This networkconcert will be held in two locations at the same time. Listen to it in Graz – Austria or Vilnius – Lithuania.
LMTA[ref name=”lmta”]Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Gedimino pr. 42, LT-01110 Vilnius, Lithuania[/ref] central building – Room 306, Vilnius
IEM[ref name=”iem”]Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Inffeldgasse 10/3, 8010 Graz, Austria[/ref] Cube – Graz

Announcement in lithuanian language
Announcement in english language

concert starts at
20:00 Graz local time
21:00 Vilnius local time

“extended fields” – ICE (IEM Computermusic Ensemble)

Musicians:
– Jamilla Ballint
– Clara Hollomey
– Wen Liu
– Peter Venus
– Marian Weger
– Matthias Kronlachner (remote from Vilnius)
– Uluğ Can Kazaz (remote from Vilnius)
– guest: Daniel Hojka

Director: Winfried Ritsch
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übersetzen – vertimas | piece for dancer, sound and projection

Greta Grinevičiūtė - dance

For the JAUNA MUZIKA[ref name=”jm”]JAUNA MUZIKA 2012[/ref] 2012 Festival in Vilnius – Lithuania, I’m preparing the piece Übersetzen – vertimas for dancer, sound and projection.

Sunday, April 15th, 2012 – 16.00
LMTA Chamber Hall, Building 2 – Tilto str. 16, Vilnius

Greta Grinevičiūtė – dance
Aira Naginevičiūtė – choreography
Matthias Kronlachner – technology, sound

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