Peter Ablinger

about

Peter Ablinger is an Austrian composer. Ablinger was born in Schwanenstadt, Austria in 1959. He began studying graphic arts and was enthused by free jazz, but completed his studies in composition with Gösta Neuwirth and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati in Graz and Vienna. Since 1982 he has lived in Berlin, where he has initiated and conducted numerous festivals and concerts. In 1988 he founded the Ensemble Zwischentöne. In 1993 he was a visiting professor at the University of Music, Graz. He has been guest conductor of 'Klangforum Wien', 'United Berlin' and the 'Insel Musik Ensemble’. Since 1990 Peter Ablinger has worked as a freelance musician. Peter Ablinger is one of the few artists today who uses noise without any kind of symbolism - not as a signifier for chaos, energy, entropy, disorder, or uproar; not for opposing something, or being disobedient or destructive; not for everything, for eternity, or for what-have-you. As in all these cases of music deliberately involving noise, noise is the case, but for Ablinger: this alone. Peter Ablinger has also come a long way in questioning the nature of sound, time, and space (the components usually thought central to music), and his findings have jeopardized and made dubious conventions usually thought irrefutable. These insights pertain to repetition and monotony, reduction and redundancy, density and entropy. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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albums

Der Regen, das Glas, das Lachen

Weiß/Weißlich

Peter Ablinger: Against Nature

voices and piano

Ablinger: 33-127

Peter Ablinger: Voices & Piano

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Ablinger: Voices And Piano

Peter Ablinger: Voices and Piano

Augmented Studies

Peter Ablinger: Verkündigung

33-127 for electric guitar and CD

Peter Ablinger: Grisailles (1-100)

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