Serbian microtonal folk songs are contemporary music! zeitkratzer performs its own interpretations of Serbian dirges and war songs from the First World War together with Svetlana Spajić: She is the most outstanding specialist in Serbian vocal tradition with its characteristic hypnotic dissonances. Guest soloists Svetlana Spajić and Dragana Tomić, along with the 82-year-old Obrad Milić.

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Two of zeitkratzer’s most known pieces are released on the LP (45rpm): Zbigniew Karkowski’s Monochromy and the very first version of Reinhold Friedl’s Xenakis[a]live! – both pieces are a real experience in instrumental noise music, far beyond Lachenmann and his scholars.

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Astonishing, that all the great avant-garde Jazz musicians mostly didn’t compose electronic music, bust they simply had no access to the experimental studios. On the other hand, the black community declined electronic music. But there are incredible, mostly unknown hidden pieces to discover: by Muhal Richard Abrams for example or Roland Kirk – and more known ones by Sun Ra…

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Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe with Bernhard Schütz [Volksbühne Berlin, Film, TV], Reinhold Friedl [piano], Guest: Maximilian Brauer [Volksbühne Berlin], Leo Neumann [e-bass], Richie [drums]

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Reinhold Friedl, Thomas Leyendecker [trombone, Berliner Philharmoniker], Martin Heinze [doublebass, Berliner Philharmoniker] play with Bläserklasse 8/21 der Clay-Schule Berlin-Neukölln. Karlheinz Stockhausen: Set Sail for the Sun & MORE

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Welcome concert and party for Reinholf Friedl: with Isabelle Duthoit [voice, clarinet], Franz Hautzinger [trumpet], Reinhold Friedl [piano]  

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Guy Reibel is one of the most enigmatic figures in the post-war electronic music scene. 12 inventions is here released for the first time ever. PERIHEL is a new series of 180g vinyl, curated by Reinhold Friedl, dedicated to outstanding electronic music and real discoveries.

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After some early experiments by Dziga Vertov or Walter Ruttmann, electronic music started it’s film career as acoustic illustration for science fiction movies, but entered soon the world of psycho thriller and horror films, even erotic movies…

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1979 the most known experts left IRCAM, as there was no success showing up. Boulez got more and more in difficulties and with the change of government in 1981, he had to deliver…

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zeitkratzer reinterprets selected pieces of patriotic contemporary world war one concert programs. 
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Reinhold Friedl plays some of the piano avant-garde classics, including works by Witold Szalonek, Mario Bertoncini, Helmut Lachenmann, Phill Glass, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, himself… 
More info: Unerhoerte Musik
CD release: Bocianrecords

P.O.P., Reinhold Friedl’s project with Hannes Strobl (electric bass, electronics) expanded to a quartet: # Eva Reiter (Paetzold contrabass recorder) from Vienna [http://www.evareiter.com/] and 
# Nora Krahl  (violoncello) [http://norakrahl.de/] from Berlin joined the group to perform new material.
Upcoming info at: Klangspuren
p.o.p.: Hannes Strobl

One day Pierre Schaeffer, director of the GRM got a telephone call and was asked to found the IRCAM together with Iannis Xenakis and Pierre Boulez. He refused. A few years later, when the IRCAM was officially founded, it was presented at the press conference by two musicians: Xenakis and Boulez… and more unknown stories…

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After a recording session at La Muse en Circuit in Paris, this will be the first live-appearance of a new duo by Paris based French harp virtuoso Hélène Breschand and Reinhold Friedl (piano, inside-piano).
Purely improvised on an almost uncountable number of strings…
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Finally a concert again of Reinhold Friedl and Michael Vorfeld: they released their first highly regarded CD “au default du silence” in 2000 on the label “trente oiseaux “of Bernhard Guenter: self-contructed stringed instruments (Michael Vorfeld) & inside-piano (Reinhold Friedl), pure sound! The duo then toured worldwide and released different CDs with Bernhard Guenter and worked also with the Australian electronic pioneer Philip Samatzis. And now back on stage as a duo! 
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A preparatory project of zeitkratzer & Svetlana Spajic, including: Svetlana Spajic, voice; Reinhold Friedl, piano; Maurice de Martin, perc; Burkhard Schlothauer, violin; Obrad Milic, voice & gusle; Dragana Tomic, voice; 
 

WDR3 open [point of view]: Studio Elektronische Musik (Cologne based German radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk). Reinhold Friedl visited a.o. the archives of the GRM, Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris, the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York, the Paul-Sacher-Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, interviewed numerous experts about archives, legal questions, digitalization, databases…  and discovered some unknown music in the archives. Part 4 of  4.

Reinhold Friedl Inside-Piano solo
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WDR3 open [point of view]: Studio Elektronische Musik (Cologne based German radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk). Reinhold Friedl visited a.o. the archives of the GRM, Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris, the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York, The Paul-Sacher-Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, interviewed numerous experts about archives, legal questions, digitalization, databases…  and discovered some unknown music in the archives. Part 3 of  4.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Rashad Becker. Friedl plays one of the last surviving Neo-Bechsteins, an electric piano built by Bechstein in cooperation with Siemens and Telefunken in 1929/30. He composed this musicat ZKM Karlsruhe and premiered it at MaerzMusik Berlin some years ago. After touring with the instrument in Europe, Friedl produced this new version at Elektronisches Studio der Technischen Universität Berlin in 2012.
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