RUSSIAN

Dmitry SUBOTCHEV/Jana AKSENOVA/Dmitry Tcheglakov - "Concert for mr. Cheglakov and his Shadow"
The musical improvisation between real player and his virtual clone.
The clone representing emotions and actions in a visual form of player's shadow, what animeted by the computer in real time to get the musical dialog between the human and the machine.
Our motto is " The machine is a shadow of the human..."
The general roles acted by:
Dmitri Cheglakov (in role of real mr. Dmitri Cheglakov)
Jana Akseneva (in allready played role of videopainter)
Subochev Dmitriy (in role of voluntary giving his composer's role to the computer)
The Dmtri Cheglakov's shadow (in role of absolutly unreal attempt to play the role of real mr. Dmtri Cheglakov).

Dieter Kaufmann: "HEILIGENLEGENDE" ("Legend of the Saints")
as an electro-acoustic composition was realized in 1981 in the studios of IMEB (Institut International de Musique electro-acoustique de Bourges/France). It is based on "Psalm 129" by Ernesto Cardenal. My incentive was Elfriede Hables suggestion that I write something for her instrument, a piece for "musical saw". This instrument with its celestial sound and its profane appearance, made me think of the torture instruments of saints, who, in iconographical representations, hold the attributes of their suffering in their hands - and quite often these gruesome objects are gilt. While working on the piece I was introduced to the works of Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan priest, who wrote them in the prisons of the military dictatorship.
This composition is dedicated to the victims of the Latin American dictatorships.
The tape is almost exclusively based on purely electronic materials: 12 frequency rows were established, operating at 8 different pitches which take 33 Hertz as their point of departure in the process of gradually retreating from each other (the distance between them being 2 Hertz at first, and then growing, in a geometrical series, to a distance of 4.096 Hertz).
The composition exists in several versions: for tape, for tape and musical saw, for tape with 10 instruments, for tape with recorder and 8 vocal voices, for tape and violin - - always with Ernesto Cardenals text, spoken in different languages relating to the countries of performance (we did it in Odessa as well as in Cairo, Paris or New York).

Dieter Kaufmann: "ADAGIO 2003"
for soprano and electro-acoustic installation (8 channels),
realized 2002 in the studios of IMEB (Institut International de Musique electro-acoustique de Bourges/France) with poems and fragments by Guillaume Apollinaire ("Le Pont Mirabeau"), Guiseppe Ungaretti ("Giorno per giorno") and Friedrich Hoelderlin ("Halfte des Lebens") - the Hoelderlin- citation, recorded with the voice of Gunda Koenig, was taken from Kaufmanns composition "pathetic autumn", realized 1972 in the same studio on the same subject.
Kaufmann wrote about the original tape composition, realized in february 2002, commissioned by IEMB and the French Republic (title: "Adagio autumn 01"):
It starts like a criminal story, gets larger dimensions by the "worlds situation" with it‘s aeroplanes, this other kind of "autumn birds" - suggestion of a catastrophe - sorrow remains: "weh mir!" ("woe is me!")...
but now the bird arise again, covering the sky – transforming their cries: into dead stuff, into sounds of drunken double-bass soloists, into free jazz between 0 and 1, the nonsense-calculated "off" in our www - world (weg-werf-welt / through-away-world) - wo nehm ich, wenn es Winter ist, die Blumen?" (Hoelderlin)-
The crows drift away, navigating into autumnal blue, into the puryfied winter-purgatory of 0 degree.
One year later I developed for the voice of Elisabeth Sykora "Adagio 2003", combining the electroacoustic composition with the elegical poems of Apollinaire and Ungaretti, transferring the concrete sound-story of "Adagio autumn 01" into a more abstract poetic frame: Both poets evoke - as Hoelderlin did - grieve and mourning about the lapse of time, to which the lamenting observer seems to be a powerless vis-a-vis.

Dieter Kaufmann,
1941 born in Vienna, grew up in Carinthia, studied in Vienna and Paris: music education, German philologie, art history, violoncello, composition (with Karl Schiske, Gottfried von Einem, Olivier Messiaen and Rene Leibowitz) and electro-acoustic music (with Pierre Schaeffer and Francois Bayle at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of the French Radio).
Since 1970 Kaufmann is teacher for electro-acoustic music at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna. Today he is head of two master-classes: one for composition (since 1990) and one for electro-acoustic composition (since 1997) and dean of the departement of composition, conducting and sound engeneering.
From 1983 to 88 he was president of the Austrian ISCM-section, from 88 to 90 president of the society for electro-acoustic music in Austria (GEM), since 2001 he is president of the Austrian Composers Union as well as for Authors Right Society Austro Mechana.
In 1975 he founded with his wife, actrice GUNDA KONIG, the K&K EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO. This Musical-Theatre-Ensemble has Made numerous tours in Europe, North- and Latin America, Egypt and Taiwan.
Kaufmann wrote works in several fields of music: chamber- and symphonic-music, vocal-music, musical theatre (4 operas and a lot of multi-media works), electro-acoustic and live-electronic music as well as works in applied art. He has got numerous national and international prizes (as Ernst Krenek Prize of the City of Vienna or Prix Magisterium Bourges/ France).

Elisabeth A.M. Sykora born in Tulln/Austria, studied singing at Vienna Music University with Prof. Franz Lukasovsky, Song and Oratorio with Prof. Walter Berry and Prof. Robert Holl and Opera with Prof. Buelter Marell and Prof. Michael Temme. She finished her studies in 1999 with two diplomes (Song & Oratorio and Opera). She also attended mastercourses with Hanno Blaschke/Munic, Sonja Turcchetta/Milano, Vera Rosza/London, Sena Jurinac and Hilde Zadek/Vienna and with Helena Lazarska/Santiago de Compostella. As a concert- and operasinger she is specialized in Mozart as well as in contemporary music. Her song-repertory goes from Mozart, Schubert and Strauss to Weill, Bernstein and Barber. Some well known Austrian composers have dedicated works to E.S.

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