Klammer&Gründler Duo meets Lang

18h30 26th of July 25 - Hyblerpark Kultursommer Wien:
the Klammer&Gründler Duo meets Alfred Lang

Alfred Lang: Trumpet
Josef Klammer: drums, live electronics
Seppo Gründler: guitar, electronics
image by Josef Klammer

Alfred Lang is a renowned Styrian trumpet player known for his exceptional skill and contribution to jazz and folk music, blending traditional Austrian sounds with contemporary jazz influences. His performances often showcase his mastery of the trumpet, bringing a vibrant and soulful energy to his music, which has earned him recognition both locally and internationally. Lang’s work is characterized by his lyrical playing style and his ability to seamlessly fuse different musical genres, making him a significant figure in Austria’s jazz and folk scenes. (Deep AI)

KLAMMER & GRUENDLER DUO, have been working as a duo for more than 40 years on the realization of their “New Improvised Electronic Music.” This has resulted in, among other things, the world’s first multilateral, telematic MIDI concert - Razionalnik; the first Austrian headphone concert for 100 headphones - Im Trockenraum; the data concert synchronized via television images - RGB; numerous stage music and radio productions; and various sound installations.

Precise listening. Open-ear sound surgery. Pulling wires. Finding and connecting. Leaving gaps. Filling and leaving them. Coming in and out. Being pure and letting be. Klammer & Gründler succeed in creating highly intelligent and vibrant sound component connectors from the exorcised spirits of cheerfully extended forms of electroacoustics and free digital improvisation, as well as the ironic control of the controlling gesture of New Music. Their audio is thoughtful, precise, impulsive, detailed, transcending, and surprising. It has completely left behind all the potential barrenness of pure conceptual acoustics and is constantly reinventing itself with focus and radicalness.

The duo’s current digital live processing is more than ever geared towards constant interaction, modulation, and restructuring. The Klammer-Gründler interface transforms its individual components in real time, boils down the modules, condenses the parameters, and disperses the variables. (Marcus Maida)