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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WDR3 open [point of view]: Studio Elektronische Musik (Cologne based German radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk). Reinhold Friedl visited Pauline Oliveros in here house in Kingston, upstate New York and interviewed her about her music and life.

Reinhold Friedl is invited to record with the well-known outstanding  quartet from Norway: Bjørnar Habbestad, flutes; Hild Sofie Tafjord, french horn; Lene Grenager, cello; Michael Duch, double bass;

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Reinhold Friedl Inside-Piano solo.
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zeitkratzer performs twice the full Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed in Athens. 
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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 2 of  4. 
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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, and interviewed numerous experts about archives, legal questions, digitalization, databases… and discovered some unknown music in the archives. Part 1 of 4. 
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The new concert series KONTRAKLANG launches with fireworks from ensemble Zeitkratzer in Heimathafen Neukölln, with help from the wind instrument class of the Neuköllner Clay-Schule and trombonist Thomas Leyendecker from the Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra. Reinhold Friedl’s Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire-Parodie will sound as true as the original, premieres by Andrea Neumann and Frank Gratkowski will be presented, as well as a selection of Fluxus pieces that play on the borders of theatrical effects, minimalist notation and concentrated audience participation. To end the show, Thomas Leyendecker will lead the wind instrument class in the former ballroom’s balconies, in the collective orgiastic sound event of Stockhausens “Setz die Segel zur Sonne.”
With support of the education program of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Deutscher Musikrat.
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A feature about musical faults, including false digitalisations and other imperfect aspects of musical life.

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WDR3 open [point of view]: Studio Elektronische Musik (Cologne based German radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk). Reinhold Friedl interviewed the former member of Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. Beside his musical activites Francois-Bernard Mâche was a philologist, but he also fought for the acceptance of animal sounds as musical material. Some of his animal sound compositions can be heard in this emission, for example the meeting of a lion with an orchestra…
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WDR3 open [point of view]: Studio Elektronische Musik (Cologne based German radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk). Reinhold Friedl interviewed the longtime member of Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. Evelyn Gayou is a composer, but also wrote probably the most complete book about the GRM. Gayou presents music, that has been important for her.
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