Peter Wiessenthaner
composer. audio-visuell live-elektronic concertperformances
Germany, Frankfurt/Main

2005 - "Vertikale 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8" - computerpaintings with music. Load Video complett, about 1 minute. For all shows you must have an quick account.
Cityviews: Rom, Frankfurt4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Berlin and
demolition of a complex of buildings in Frankfurt,- internet-media-shows. "Frankfurt4" load complett, than you can see it; about 3 minutes.

2004 - 6 lectures, "Qualtitiy of sound and time in music". He is interested in this problem for about 25 years.
Different compositions with prepared flutes (side-blown flutes), alto flute, percussion and computer - without notation.
Internet-media-shows - "cityview" and "situation".
Magdalena Ising and Peter Wiessenthaner - painting and music.

2003 - "Playing together" - duet with Peter Fjodoroff - prepared althorn, Peter Wiessenthaner - prepared flutes. We work together since 13 years, and we don't play in a temperament system trying to show different qualities of sound in our music. QuickTimeShow with MP3. "One-minute-pieces"; in the future mp3-files.
Multi media performance with prepared flutes, alto flute, percussion, live electronic, computer and video.
Internet-media-shows.

2002 - 5 paintings on woodplates. Duet with Peter Fjodoroff - "Playing together".
Multi media perfomance with prepared flutes, alto flute, pecussion, live-electronic, paintings and video.

2000 - "Playing together" - Duet with Peter Fjodoroff.
Composition with prepared flutes, alto flute, percussion and computer.

1999 - Composition with computer - using two sounds of "Livre d'orgue" by Messiaen. My work included an intense occopation with Messiaen's compositional principials.
"Playing together" - Duet with Peter Fjodoroff.
Overhead-projection: oil-paintings of acryl-plates (21cm x 21cm), prepared flutes.
Using alto flute as accompanying instrument to - "images and music" (composition of Phill Niblock).
Lecture: "Elements and construction of sound".

1998 - "Playing together" - Duet with Peter Fjodoroff.
SKOP-Trio: Peter Wiessenthaner, prepared flutes; Dirk Marwedel, preparad saxophon and Ulrich Phillipp, contrabass.
Live installation: oil-paintings on acry-plates (14,5 cm x 28,5 cm) and oil-paintings on windscreen (ca. 160 cm x 65 cm), overhead-projection, prepared flutes and live-electronic.

1997 - Sounds with prepared flutes, voice and live-tape with to channels.
Lecture: Rooms of possibility and probabilitiy in playing improvised music without notation - a presentation of toughts.
Lecture: "The musical sound and his elements" - part 3.
"Playing together" - Duet with Peter Fjodoroff.
SKOP-Trio with Dirk Marwedel and Ulrich Phillipp.

1996 - Painting/film - installation. Oil-paintings of acryl-plates, overhead-projection, 16mm film.
Lecture: "The musical sound and his elements" - part 2.
Sounds with prepared flutes, voice and live-tape with two channels.
Sounds with prepared flutes, voice and live-tape with 8 channels and four loudspeakers.
"Playing together" - Duet with Peter Fjodoroff.
SKOP-Trio: Peter Wiessenthaner, prepared flutes; Dirk Marwedel, prepared saxophon and Ulrich Phillipp, contrabass.
Using alto flute as accompanying instrument to - "images and music" (composition of Phill Niblock).

1995 - Sounds with prepared flutes, voice and live-tape with to channels.
"Playing together" - Duet with Peter Fjodoroff.
SKOP-Trio with Peter Wiessenthaner, prepared flutes; Dirk Marwedel, prepared saxophon and Ulrich Phillipp, contrabass.
"Projection-reflection": installation with paintings on glas, acrylgals and aluminium.

1994 - Sounds with grand piano and tape.
"The time at the same time": live-installation by Marcel Post and Peter Wiessenthaner; conception: Peter Wiessenthaner.
Live-electronic-music, processing tapes by Joerg Grundhoeffer and Peter Wiessenthaner, conzeption: Peter Wiessenthaner.
"Playing together" - Duet with Peter Fjodoroff.
Lecture: "Music and language" - specific problems with regard to the forming of sounds.

1993 - Live radio-play (Joerg Grundhoeffer, Alexander Heidgen, Robert Harnischmacher, Peter Wiessenthaner), conception Peter Wiessenthaner.
Lecture: "The musical sound an his elements" - part 1.
Grafics with computer.
Electro-acoustic composition with live-electronic.
"Playing together" - Duet with Peter Fjodoroff at first time in concert.
Foundation of SKOP, this organization is deeply interested in arranging events and perfomances in an interdisciplinary connection.

1992 - Playing together with Bernhard Guenter.
Composition with voices, dia-projection, live-tape.

1991 - Composition with voices, dia-projection, live-tape.
Compostion with live-tape, mixing-console, amplifier and loudspeakers.

1990 - "HoerspielHoerspiel" - radio-play for two channels
"Tonbandverarbeitung" - the material on tapes was replayed with live-bandmaschine by using loops (15 m !). We created different sound and different areas of pitch perception.
Live-radio-play - "Empedokles auf dem Aetna" by Friedrich Hoelderlin, for one Speaker and live-tape. The hole text was spoken into two microphones. The different positions in distance to the microphones was used to caracterize the different personalities.

1989 - "Tape-guide" - the material on tapes was replayed with live-bandmaschine, effect of loops and the pitch as noted above 1990.
Live radio-play - "Empedokles auf dem Aetna" of Friedrich Hoelderlin, as noted above 1990.

1988 - "Tape-guide" - the material on tapes was replayed with live-bandmaschine, effect of loops and the pitch as noted above 1990/1989.
Sounds for two and more voices and live-electronic. For many years I worked on this project in Live-radio-play - "Empedokles auf dem Aetna" of Friedrich Hoelderlin, perfomance like noted above 1990/1989.

1987 - Organization of tape-material as noted above 1988.
workshops - experimental music.
Live-radio-play - different kind of forms.
Composition for voices, viola, basson and live-tape.

1986 - Organization of tape-material as noted above 1988/1987.
Improvistion: piano, bassoon, and three flutes.
"Multiphonics and anothers", compositon for bassoon and live-tape. Result of long cooperation with Karl-Heinz Riedelbauch.

1985 - Organization of tape-material as noted above 1988/1987/1986.
Compostion for viola and live-tape.
Improvisation for voice, flute, material, violoncello and live-tape. Variation of perfomances.

1984 - Organization of tape-material as noted above 1988/1987/1986/1985.
Improvisation for four flutes.
Live-radio-play - different kind of arrangements.

1983 - "Thraenen" - composition for voice, flute, and live-electronic after a poem by Friedrich Hoelderlin.
"beckett-studies" - movements, dia-projection and live elektronic.
"Get on the track of" - for grand piano, material, dia-projection and live-electronic.
Concerning the material on tapes work as noted above.

1982 - Composition with live-tape, material on tapes, two microphones, two amplifieres and two loudspeakers.
Concerning the material on tapes I refer to my tatments noted above (i.e. 1988/87/86/85/84/83).
Playing together with Bernhard Guenter.
Beginning of works with Hoelderlin poems. This project will ending in 1991.

I demonstrate my work in: New York, Berlin, Hamburg, Gent, Muenchen, Frankfurt, Kassel, Darmstadt...
Contact please: p e t e r @ w i e s s e n t h a n e r . d e
All this is "work in progress" an will leave ample room for further development.