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Champ D´Action
for computer- controlled ensemble

6 Oct. 1998, 22:15 - 23:20 MET

live on air - on line - on site

Gene Colman (USA): bass clarinet
Radu Malfatti (A): trombone
Burkard Stangl (A): e-guitar
Werner Dafeldecker (A): double bass
Mary Oliver (USA): violin, viola
Elisabeth Flunger (I): percussion
Richard Barrett (GB): sampler
Karlheinz Essl (A): conductor

Live on site: RadioKulturhaus, Argentinierstr.30a, a-1040 Vienna
Live on air: OE1
Live online: http://thing.at/orfkunstradio/1998B/6_10_98.html
	     http://www.essl.at/works/champ.html


About...

Champ d'Action is a meta-composition for an instrumental ensemble of 3 - 7
soloists. The choice of the instruments is free. The premier was played by
an ensemble consisting of bass clarinet, trombone, cello, percussion and
sampler.

The musicians do not reproduce parts of a fixed score. Instead of playing a
pre-fabricated text from note sheets, they are viewing computer monitors
which display playing instructions on the fly. The musicians are
improvising those
structures according to the given parameters.

Instead of being a fixed work, this piece should be viewed as a
meta-composition which unfolds itself in a completely unforeseeable manner
during the performance. It provides a wide, yet demarcated "field of
possibilities" (another meaning of "champ d'action") which is explored by
the musicians during the performance.

Although the piece is composed of independent parts, the aim of the
musicians should be to create relationships by listening and reacting to
the sounds that are produced by the other players which could lead to
dramatic and
extremely intense situations.

The notation which is displayed on the computer screens is generated in
realtime by a computer program written in MAX. Whenever an external
"trigger" is received by the central computer (the "master"), it will
change the notation
only for one musician at a time. These "triggers" can be either given by a
conductor (or two sub-conductors which does not see each other) or by an
external source (f.i. triggers sent by telephone or the Internet).





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