PRANK (2001) - electronic sound performance

A track from Karlheinz Essl's CD ©RUDE (released 2001) with electronic music, performed live on his computer-based instrument m@ze°2 at Kornhaus Bern (CH). Karlheinz Essl performs on a laptop computer that he has transformed into a live electronic musical instrument. The result is exciting and musical. You just won't hear these sounds anywhere else. He performs solo and in duets and trios, responding with sensitivity to fellow musicians, producing fascinating sound transformations, creating spontaneous surprises, and moving quickly from loops to cacophony to tiny clips of vocal sounds to all kinds of textures and ideas. He does all this with his m@ze°2 (Modular Algorithmic Zound Environment) performance software. His programming skills are impressive and he is also musically talented, all of which makes this CD a pleasure to hear. (Joel Chadabe)