The new concert series KONTRAKLANG launches with fireworks from ensemble Zeitkratzer in Heimathafen Neukölln, with help from the wind instrument class of the Neuköllner Clay-Schule and trombonist Thomas Leyendecker from the Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra. Reinhold Friedl’s Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire-Parodie will sound as true as the original, premieres by Andrea Neumann and Frank Gratkowski will be presented, as well as a selection of Fluxus pieces that play on the borders of theatrical effects, minimalist notation and concentrated audience participation. To end the show, Thomas Leyendecker will lead the wind instrument class in the former ballroom’s balconies, in the collective orgiastic sound event of Stockhausens “Setz die Segel zur Sonne.”
With support of the education program of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Deutscher Musikrat.
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A feature about musical faults, including false digitalisations and other imperfect aspects of musical life.

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WDR3 open [point of view]: Studio Elektronische Musik (Cologne based German radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk). Reinhold Friedl interviewed the former member of Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. Beside his musical activites Francois-Bernard Mâche was a philologist, but he also fought for the acceptance of animal sounds as musical material. Some of his animal sound compositions can be heard in this emission, for example the meeting of a lion with an orchestra…
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WDR3 open [point of view]: Studio Elektronische Musik (Cologne based German radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk). Reinhold Friedl interviewed the longtime member of Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. Evelyn Gayou is a composer, but also wrote probably the most complete book about the GRM. Gayou presents music, that has been important for her.
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WDR3 open [point of view]: Studio Elektronische Musik (Cologne based German radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk). Reinhold Friedl visited Morton Subotnick in his apartment in Manhattan, New York and spoke with him about his incredible musical career from a clarinet player to the first composer, who got a command to write for a vinyl record!  
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zeitkratzer once again with Keiji Haino (it’s also the record release of their second CD/LP) at the World Music Days of the ISCM plus SONGS with the incredible Serbian singer Svetlana Spajic.
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zeitkratzer once again with Keiji Haino (it’s also the record release of their second CD/LP) at the World Music Days of the ISCM plus SONGS with the incredible Serbian singer Svetlana Spajic.
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Hannes Strobl and Reinhold Friedl once again live after their CD release on monotype! 
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WDR3 open [point of view]: Studio Elektronische Musik (Cologne based German radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk). 
Reinhold Friedl visited George Lewis in Manhattan, New York, where he teaches compostion at Columbia University. Lewis presents various music, that has been important in this astonishing carreer, starting as a trombone player in the Count Basie Band, his education with the AACM, his work at IRCAM in Paris. And he also explains some of his theories about the European avant-garde and the influence of Jazz music on John Cage. 
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Once again Schumann’s Dichterliebe in the rude and true version with Volkbühne actor Bernhard Schütz as the singer. In a down-to-earth performance version, including wodka, punk and meat balls.

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Reinhold Friedl will play some incredible new discoveries also from the history of electronic music. And his Xenakis vinyls for sure, not to forget Guy Reibel and Muhal Richard Abrams!
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3CD-Box with intense duo-soundworks by Dirk Dresselhaus aka TM Schneider and Reinhold Friedl, minimalistic & overwhelming !

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*** Rigid box containing 3 CDs with printed plastic dividers ***
Reinhold Friedl (zeitkratzer Ensemble) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Angel, Schneider TM) smack us sideways with this stunning 3CD boxset for Die Schachtel's promising new sub-label, Blume. Approaching from divergent angles - Friedl uses entirely acoustic instrumentation, Dresselhaus uses electronics - they shape a mass of impurified prepared piano and sheet metal drones driven thru oscillators, spring reverb, modulators and pitch shifters to breathtaking effect. We've become very familiar with Friedl's amazing solo LP, 'Inside Piano' over the last few years, and equally return to Dresselhaus' Angel albums with Pan Sonic's Ilpo Väisänen on a regular basis, and can safely say that this surpasses either project in terms of scale, focus and impact. Honestly, if you trust us or your instincts, this is an unmissable set for followers of heavy avant-garde noise composition. Can't wait to fully immerse in this one...

The chicago based composer Nicolas Collins presents music, that inspired him. And he remembers his time, studying with Alvin Lucier, and discusses how he handled his suffering form the "Cagean desease".. with music by David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, Phil Glass, Terrey Riley, Ravi Shankar and Nic Collins.

Reinhold Friedl opens the 12-hour tribute concert to Erik Satie with the premiere of his homage to Satie’s famous vexations. 
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WDR3 open: Studio Elektronische Musik (Cologne based German radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk). A feature about hte women at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. Where have they been and where have they gone? What did they compose and what was their role inside the GRM? Featuring music by Eliane Radigue, Evelyn Gayou, Beatriz Ferreyra, Monique Rollin, Mireille Chamas, ...

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Ensemble 2e2m plays strinquartets no1 and no 2, Reinhold Friedl solo.
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Reinhold Friedl: Inside-piano solo // string quartet n°2 // string quartet n°1, version for string quartet and piano

"Reinhold Friedl playing inside the piano, literally on the strings, turning the instrument in a kind of orchestra, a symphonic choir, creating complex sounds with strange resonances: a new sound dimension of this old instrument!" La Muse en Circuit

Reinhold Friedl's two string quartets for amplified instruments have been premiered by Apartmenthouse in London and by Diotima Quartet in Marseille. Both compositions feature the physical qualities of playing and create a very complex & sensual sound world. For the second quartet Reinhold Friedl will join the quartet of Ensemble 2e2m on the piano...

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3CD-Box with intense duo-soundworks by Dirk Dresselhaus aka TM Schneider and Reinhold Friedl, minimalistic & overwhelming !

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WDR3 open [portrait]: Studio Elektronische Musik (Cologne based German radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk). Reinhold Friedl portraits the Paris based composer Christine Groult.
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