temps tracks Wolfgang Mitterer

• Wolfgang Mitterer (b. 1958):
• 1 Mitterer: temp 02:13
• 2 Mitterer: temper 01:07
• 3 Mitterer: tempera 01:46
• 4 Mitterer: temperament 01:29
• 5 Mitterer: temperance 01:30
• 6 Mitterer: temperate 01:22
• 7 Mitterer: temperateness 00:39
• 8 Mitterer: temperature 01:01
• 9 Mitterer: tempest 01:07
• 10 Mitterer: templar 00:39
• 11 Mitterer: template 02:00
• 12 Mitterer: temple 04:28
• 13 Mitterer: tempo 01:40
• 14 Mitterer: temporal 00:50
• 15 Mitterer: temporariness 00:31
• 16 Mitterer: temporary 01:35
• 17 Mitterer: temporize 00:48
• 18 Mitterer: temporizer 00:57
• 19 Mitterer: tempt 01:06
• 20 Mitterer: temptation 01:54
• 21 Mitterer: tonal 01:34
• 22 Mitterer: tonality 01:08
• 23 Mitterer: tone 01:53
• 24 Mitterer: tone down 01:12
• 25 Mitterer: tone up 01:12
• 26 Mitterer: toneless 01:26
• 27 Mitterer: tonepad 01:01
• 28 Mitterer: tonepoem 01:41
• 29 Mitterer: toner 01:10
• 30 Mitterer: tongs 01:52
• 31 Mitterer: tongue 01:00
• 32 Mitterer: tonguetied 01:52
• 33 Mitterer: tongue twister 01:24
• 34 Mitterer: tonic 02:30
• 35 Mitterer: tonic chord 01:24
• 36 Mitterer: tonicity 01:11
• 37 Mitterer: tonight 03:12
• Total Runtime 55:24

Info for temps tracks

Wolfgang Mitterer studied organ, composition and electroacoustics in Vienna and Stockholm. He is not only one of the Austrian specialists for electronics as well as being equally brilliant on the keyboard and on the slide controls, but is also one of the most innovative composers. His work oscillates between composition and open form. Apart from music for organ and orchestra, a piano concerto and an opera he has produced electronic pieces, conceptualized sound installations, and engaged in collective improvisation with diverse groups, developing a language of extremes, tension and complexity. The pleasure he takes in experimenting leads him to combine contrasting elements in the creation of unpredictable musical events. In one major composition, for instance, he juxtaposes musical bands and children’s choirs with specialized instrumentalists and singers, while filling the hall with surround sound created by live electronics. But his work transcends the merely spectacular, precisely because of his musical presence and the high – deeply moving – intensity and complexity of his compositions. Listening intensely to low sounds has its place just as much as the ‘installing’ of exploding sound fragments in the listeners’ minds. Far from being smoothly pleasurable, Mitterer’s music is still uncannily beautiful at times.

Wolfgang Mitterer

Wolfgang Mitterer
studied organ, composition and electroacoustics in Vienna and Stockholm. He is not only one of the Austrian specialists for electronics as well as being equally brilliant on the keyboard and on the slide controls, but is also one of the most innovative composers. His work oscillates between composition and open form. Apart from music for organ and orchestra, a piano concerto and an opera he has produced electronic pieces, conceptualized sound installations, and engaged in collective improvisation with diverse groups, developing a language of extremes, tension and complexity. The pleasure he takes in experimenting leads him to combine contrasting elements in the creation of unpredictable musical events. In one major composition, for instance, he juxtaposes musical bands and children’s choirs with specialized instrumentalists and singers, while filling the hall with surround sound created by live electronics. But his work transcends the merely spectacular, precisely because of his musical presence and the high – deeply moving – intensity and complexity of his compositions. Listening intensely to low sounds has its place just as much as the ‘installing’ of exploding sound fragments in the listeners’ minds. Far from being smoothly pleasurable, Mitterer’s music is still uncannily beautiful at times.

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