audio / video examples

PANDORA (2023)
concept: Matthias Kranebitter // scenography: Christopher Sturmer // visuals: Patrik Lechner // production: MTTW Musiktheatertage Wien,& Black Page Orchestra // Pandora: Heike Porstein // Prometheus: Georg Bochow // Jupiter: Andreas Jankowitsch // Black Page Orchestra, conductor Vinicius Kattah

60 Auditory Scenes for Investigating Cocktail Party Deafness
Commissioned by Warsaw Autumn Festival and Wien Modern
live recording Warsaw Philharmonics 25.9.2021
Natural auditory environments involve many different concurrent sounds. They all sum together to one mixed signal that enters the ear. How does a human brain extract information from this permanent overwhelming chaos of surrounding sound waves? This problem is commonly known as The Cocktail Party Phenomenon.

Encyclopedia of Pitch and Deviation (2020)
exploring frequencies and their stories

for Ensemble with electronics (fl,ob,hrn,trmb,egit,acc,perc,kyb,vln,vla,vlc,cb)
Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke; Wien Modern 2020

MUSIK IM BILD: UNTERMALUNG- ÜBERMALUNG (Omaggio a Ennio Morricone) (2025)
exploring the relationship between image and sound on space, figure and action, with plenty of references to the great maestro, with texts by P.P.Pasolini.

Black Page Orchestra conducted by Marino Formenti

combative music and its algorithmic demystification (2021)
RELEASED ON BLACK PAGE ORCHESTRA 10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY ALBUM (2024)

The Complete Unfiguranted Egalitarian Aural Realism (2019)
“Which was why, the wraith is continuing, the complete unfiguranted egalitarian aural realism was why party-line entertainment critics always complained that the wraith’s entertainments’ public-area scenes were always incredible dull and self-conscious and irritating, that they could never hear the real meaningful central narrative conversations for all the unfiltered babble of the peripheral crowd, which they assumed the babble was some self-conscious viewer-hostile heavy-art directoral pose, instead of radical realism.” (from David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest)

Nihilistic Study no.7 – For ensemble, electronic and virtual narrator (2013)
Commissioned by Moving Sounds Festival / ACF New York / Ensemble Mise-En

A list of musical events inpired by the french painter Jean Dubuffet and his idea of an Art Brut. „Only nihilism is constructive.”(Jean Dubuffet, Asphyxiating Culture)
Black Page Orchestra @ Artspace Oben / Unsafe+Sounds Festival Vienna 2014

pitch study no.1 / contra violin – for violin and playback (2016)
Video: Eriika Maalismaa, violin (Tristero Piano Trio Helsinki)

Exploring the 4 strings of the violin in a humorous competition between the instrument and a heterogeneous sound mass of pitch sorted samples

Konzert für die unsichtbare Hand (nach Adam Smith)
Commissioned by PHACE / Wiener Konzerthaus
Ensemble Phace (Lars Mlekusch, Saxophone, Yaron Deutsch, E-Guitar, Mathilde Hoursiangou, Piano), Wiener Konzerthaus

The Concerto For The Invisible Hand (Adam Smith) is the sacred music of late capitalism, worshipping the last remaining god – the invisible hand of free market, which transforms the egoism of the individual into the benefit and wealth of the community.

MIDI TRASH TRILOGY (2009 – 2010)

As series of pieces with electronics based entirely on the standardized 128 General Midi Sounds. The compositions are dealing with issues such as democratisation of musical material, a profanation resp. demystification of music in general with the inclusion of everyday life sounds, as well as pointing out social circumstances of short-term mass production, and the relation between human and machine, the machine as extension of human’s capability, eventually becoming his competitor.


1. Concerto for saxophone and midi orchestra in d major – for saxophone and playback

Video: Gordan Tudor, saxophone, Dani Nove Glazbe Split 2009

3. 2nd string quartet – for viola and 3 seated loudspeakers
Jelena Poprzan, viola, Echoraum Wien

the outsourcing of humans by the system, in order to increase the shareholder value and optimize competitiveness, becomes obvious in the completely similar compositional treatment of man and machine.