Radio live performance by Karlheinz Essl at ORF Kunstradio, Vienna on 25 Feb 2001, preceded by an interview with Susanna Niedermayr.
http://www.essl.at/works/replay.html
REplay PLAYer is Karlheinz Essl’s contribution to the Kunstradio Series RE-PLAY UPDATE. Karlheinz Essl approached the exemplary selection of sound material presented in in the exhibition "RE-PLAY Beginning of International Media Art in Austria” with reference to their compositional usability. A special characteristic of the software developed for the project REplay PLAYer is that the supplied sound examples will be sampled, fragmented, and newly arranged according to a given score during the live-performance. Karlheinz Essl performance his piece with m@ze°2, a real-time composition and improvisation tool, that is likewise computer-based and that the artist himself developed in 1996.
With his project REplay PLAYer, Karlheinz Essl is following his vision once again of a Music "that is composed, as if from itself (auto-poetic), in the moment of its sounding." The sound material presented in the exhibition will be freed from ist object-ness and newly defined through the performance, which is concieved as an open process.
The REplay PLAYer is not a finished work of art, but a meta-composition, from which endless images of sound can be originated. The software written for this project can be downloaded from http://www.essl.at/works/replay.html
