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airborne extended
Landschaften |
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Thomas Wally, lup fränzi III |
09:19 |
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Elisabeth Schimana, Landschaften, No. 3: Rosengarten |
03:40 |
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Bruno Strobl, ABE |
10:37 |
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Hannes Kerschbaumer, not.to |
09:06 |
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Elisabeth Schimana, Landschaften, No. 2: Vor dem Haus |
03:19 |
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Anna Arkushyna, tes rêves verts |
08:11 |
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Peter Jakober, im Grunde |
10:30 |
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Elisabeth Schimana, Landschaften, No. 4: Waldzirpen |
03:07 |
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Alexander Kaiser, The difficulty of crossing a field II |
05:13 |
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Bernhard Lang, Monadologie XXIX: London in the rain |
14:10 |
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| About the album |
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airborne extended adopts a sound lab approach to chamber music where flutes, harp, recorders/Paetzold meet objects, electronics and performance. Back in 2013, Caroline Mayrhofer, Sonja Leipold, Elena Gabbrielli and Tina Žerdin got together to invent an ensemble for which there is hardly any repertoire – so they are writing their story themselves.
Their debut album Landschaften, Landscapes, covers a range from acoustic purism to electronics, documenting twelve years’ work of an internationally-oriented ensemble that influences composers as much as it is influenced by them. The works assembled on the album, contributed by eight Austrian-based composers, are tailor-made to suit the ensemble’s original instrumentation.
In Monadologie XXIX, Bernhard Lang sketches nervous loop cells that are cut into pieces by hyper-virtuoso lines. Elisabeth Schimana’s Landschaften uses purely acoustic tools to imitate the rumbling of Mexican trucks and the chirping of Lithuanian forests. Bruno Strobl hides the initials A B E as spectral shadows in the harmonics, Hannes Kerschbaumer brings the internal sounds of the musical instruments to the fore with microscopic precision, and Alexander Kaiser has lines collide until every intrinsic order begins to waver. In lup fränzi III, Thomas Wally plays with repetitions with loop-like ease, while Peter Jakober’s im Grunde consists of layers of tempo-polyphonous textures. In tes rêves verts, Ukrainian composer Anna Arkushyna, now based in Graz, conceives green as the unstable state of becoming.
On this album the 21st century sounds like air that breathes, like strings being plucked, wood being struck – precise, physical, unmistakable. |
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airborne extended is an experimental ensemble for contemporary music featuring the distinctive instrumentation of harp, harpsichord/keyboard, flutes, and recorders/Paetzold. Expanded through electronics, media, objects, and performance, the ensemble explores a broad spectrum of new sounds and timbres. This unusual combination enables airborne extended to develop innovative sonic worlds that inspire composers and audiences alike.
As part of the Austrian New Austrian Sound of Music (NASOM) program in 2018/19, airborne extended served as an official cultural ambassador for contemporary music and has since presented newly commissioned works worldwide. Its constantly growing repertoire encompasses a wide range of styles from the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together compositions by internationally renowned composers and emerging artists. Since 2021, the ensemble has curated its own highly successful concert series, PRISM, in Vienna. In 2025, airborne extended was awarded the Outstanding Artist Award by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
airborne extended performs regularly at leading international festivals and venues across Europe, North America, and beyond, including major platforms for contemporary music. Alongside its concert activity, the ensemble is strongly committed to education. Through workshops and masterclasses at universities and music academies worldwide, airborne extended fosters exchange between composition and performance and supports the development of new artistic ideas.
airborne extended
Elena Gabbrielli, flutes
Caroline Mayrhofer, recorders/paetzold
Sonja Leipold, harpsichord
Tina Žerdin, harp |
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