25-02-2001 / 23.00 - 23.55 Ö1
	REPLAYUPDATE #4: REplay PLAYer von Karlheinz Essl http://www.essl.at
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REplay PLAYer is the name of Karlheinz Essls contribution to the Kunstradio Series RE-PLAY UPDATE. Karlheinz Essl approached the exemplary selection of sound material presented in in the exhibition "RE-PLAY Anfänge internationaler Medienkunst in Österreich" (RE-PLAY Beginning of International Media Art in Austria) with reference to their compositional usability. A special characteristic of the software developed for the project REplay PLAYer is that the supplied sound examples will be sampled, fragmented, and newly arranged according to a given score during the live-performance. Karlheinz Essl narrates this process with m@ze, a real-time composition- and improvisation-tool, that is likewise computer-based and that the artist himself developed in 1996.

With his project REplay PLAYer, Karlheinz Essl is following his vision once again of a Music "that is composed, as if from itself (auto-poetic), in the moment of its sounding." The sound material presented in the exhibition will be freed from ist object-ness and newly defined through the performance, which is concieved as an open process.

As a further addition, an interactive web-installation should emerge, that proceduraly generates new sound pieces from the sound material through special composition algorithms. This process, not reproducible and unlimited by time, can be followed in the web via a live RealAudio stream and offers the listener the possibility to change the system parameters, directly influencing the sound output through the web-interface.

The REplay PLAYer is not a finished work of art, but a meta-composition, from which endless images of sound can be originated.

The computer program will be available at a later time in the Internet and on CD and will also be presented as an interactive sound installation.