pianist / performer
I wd leave leaf and dance
Martin Schüttler (composer), Sébastien Vaillancourt (programming),
SWR Symphonieorchester (sampler: Felix Nagl)
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Felix Nagl, Jasmin Schädler, Jonas Hummel
music by: Betsy Jolas, Enno Poppe, Simon Steen-Andersen, Steven Kazuo Takasugi
+ AI-based sounds on NSynth-Super
x-coding is a concert format that deals with the (de-)coding of musical information, drawing on existing piano and keyboard repertoire to fuse specific sound characteristics through artificial intelligence. The first part is a selection of solo pieces for piano keyboard and live electronics. The works are based on the (de-)coding of musical information. This is conveyed, for example, in Steven Takasugi's piano exercise in the transfer of MIDI data sets into a piano score. In Simon Steen-Andersen's Mono the continuum of the human voice is perceived through a coarse grid, and in Enno Poppe's work the task is to redesign an obsolete digital setup. The second part of the program is a synthesizer performance that uses AI-based neural synthesis to isolate and amalgamate characteristic sounds from the repertoire of the first half of the concert. The result will be a sonic sphere that invites reflection on the identity and causality of sound. The performance artist Jasmin Schädler intervenes the performance with texts and digital content.
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Radio-K
Carlos Hernández
Radio-K (2019): For keyboard and orchestra
I. II. Interlude III. Cadenza IV. Coda
SWR Symphonieorchester
conductor: Gregor Mayrhofer
keyboard: Felix Nagl
composition: Carlos Hernández
sounddesign: Felix Nagl and Carlos Hernández
Hochschule für Musik, Stuttgart
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Arbeit I & III
Enno Poppe
for virtual hammond-organ
version for Sampler (samples provided by Sebastian Berweck )
this recording is an excerpt of the “tiny room” live-stream by Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, 31.03.2022
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Vision de la cite interdite (Version for DX7 and tape)
Tristan Murail
excerpt of a live-stream at Club Voltaire, Tübingen
DX7-Patches provided by Sebastian Berweck
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Atlantys
Tristan Murail
Yamaha DX7 synthesizers: Felix Nagl and Thilo Ruck
DX7-Patches provided by Sebastian Berweck
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schöner leben 02
Martin Schüttler
Martin Schüttler in "Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik" #21(2012):
"In meiner Komposition schöner leben 2 (Monument für T.H.) für Klavier und Live-Elektronik treffen heterogene Komponenten aufeinander, ohne dass zwischen ihnen klanglich vermittelt wird. Am Schluss des Stückes stehen elektronisches Rauschen, Oktavpermutationen, einzelne, zum Teil präparierte Klaviertöne, Dur-Akkorde, der leicht bearbeitete Soundtrack eines Hardcore-Pornos und die geglättete Melodie eines Popsongs nebeneinander. Der instrumentale Einzelton ist nur eine Möglichkeit unter vielen. Er ist nicht Normalfall, Ausgangspunkt oder kleinster Baustein für alle musikalischen Entwicklungen innerhalb eines Stücks. Stattdessen werden unterschiedlich stark vorstrukturierte Materialien wie gesetzte, unteilbare Klangobjekte aufeinander bezogen. Ein Verfahren, das ich «Materialvergröberung» nenne. Alle Objekte werden gleichberechtigt behandelt, egal, woher sie stammen und ob es sich im Ursprung um gefundenes oder um konstruiertes Klangmaterial handelt."
recorded at Musikhochschule Stuttgart for "Resonanz-Klavierfacetten 2017"-CD Recording, Mix and Mastering: Arne Morgner
Piano: Felix Nagl
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Mono
Simon Steen-Andersen
Autotune Study
for low male voice, keyboard & electronics
Felix Nagl: keys, autotune-voice, electronics, video
Programm Note:
AUTOTUNE is a much used effect in pop music production, sometimes used in “secret”, rather discretely, but just as often used with quite extreme settings as a characteristic effect. The first (main) part of the piece explores or “hacks” the plug-in, trying out its possibilities, bringing it to its limits and looking for the beauty of its flaws.
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Gloss (selbstportrait #)
Philipp Krebs
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L'Alouette Calandrelle
Olivier Messiaen
recorded at Bauer-Studios Ludwigsburg
Mix and Mastering: Jonas Kieser
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nodes, various
Catherine Lamb
nodes, various (2010) for three ore more oscillators performed on Ableton Push
recorded during "tiny room sessions" by Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg 31.03.2022 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kontakte für elektronische Klänge, Klavier und Schlagzeug
Karlheinz Stockhausen
private Link to Demo-Video on demand
During the rehearsals of „Kontakte", Lucas Gerin and Felix Nagl were driven by Stockhausen's ideal of merging electronic and acoustic sounds. They take the initial idea of the composer to have several instrumentalists improvise to a pre-produced tape as a guideline to an interpretation that also allows for moments of spontaneity within the given time-frames. Gerin and Nagl, who also improvise together with percussion and analogue tape recorders, perceive the electronic and the instrumental layers as a hybrid sound complex, which Uikyung Lee at the mixing console appropriately balances and projects for each room.
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taped
Felix Nagl, Monika Dalach, Enzo Pauchet, Constance Diard, Fan-Yun Yang
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BLUBBer
Felix Nagl (reel-to-reel tape machine)/Lucas Gerin (no-input-mixer)/Leyla Gersbach (installation)
The live improvised noise-collages of found footage and sound-artefacts
melt with the BLUBBer (PET-foil) to create a void that becomes a site-specific playground: between us, the sounds, the walls and the city.
A thought bubble that dynamically limits and expands perceptible space.
daughters of the lonesome isle (snippet)
John Cage
The sound of each prepared note was sampled and can be provided by the performer on demand. ________________________________________________________________________________________________