Mitterer: Music for checking e-mails: ... giving the illusion of depth

Wolfgang Mitterer subverts the reason CDs usually exist: the mechanics of recording, now crosswired into Mitterer's compositional strategies, becomes the fabric of his music... Mitterer's knack... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 More…

Release Date: 25th Jan 2010
Catalogue No: COL20289
Label: Col Legno

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All compositions by Wolfgang Mitterer featuring electronic works from the years 1999-2009, samples from the Col legno archive and prepared piano.

Wolfgang Mitterer studied organ, composition and electro acoustics in Vienna and Stockholm. He is not only one of the Austrian specialists for electronics, keyboard and slide controls, but is also one of the most innovative composers. His work oscillates between composition and open form. Get ready to open your e-mails!

Wolfgang Mitterer is the “missing link” between analog and digital music production. Classics like Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, and Beethoven get a special electronic treatment on this fascinating disc.

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Awards Issue 2010

Wolfgang Mitterer subverts the reason CDs usually exist: the mechanics of recording, now crosswired into Mitterer's compositional strategies, becomes the fabric of his music... Mitterer's knack of dissolving what ought to be incompatible sources into a whole is pleasingly counterintuitive

Mitterer: Music for checking e-mails

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