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© Michael & Lorenzo Riessler
Michael and Lorenzo Riessler
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Michael & Lorenzo Riessler 'The Machine'
Michael Riessler is one of the most versatile German composers and musicians, moving between jazz, new music and advanced folklore. He once performed with Siegfried Palm and Aloys Kontarsky as well as with the Cologne Saxophone Mafia and the Orchestre National de Jazz, was a member of the Grubenklangorchester, played in a trio with hurdy-gurdy player Valentin Clastrier and tambourine player Carlo Rizzo, worked with composers of New Music such as Mauricio Kagel, Vinko Globokar, Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Helmut Lachenmann and Dieter Schnebel, composed theater, ballet and film music, produced radio plays, lectured at the Darmstadt Summer Courses and was also appointed Professor of Jazz at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in 2009. He has also been honored with the SWF Jazz Prize and the German Record Critics' Award ...
As a duo with his son, the young percussionist Lorenzo Riessler, who trained at the London College of Music and now lives in Berlin, who also triggers the sampled patterns of a phantom band with piano, cello and noises in this duo project, he has already set silent films to music and accompanied the French barrel organ virtuoso Pierre Charial. Now father and son, both highly virtuosic on their instruments, can be experienced with their current project inspired by the science fiction classic "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells. (Press release)
Program and cast
Michael Riessler: bass clarinet
Lorenzo Riessler: drums, electronics
PORGY and BESS Jazzclub
Porgy & Bess (actually, Jazz and Music Club Porgy & Bess ) is a jazz club in the Riemergasse 11 in the 1st district of Vienna. The club , founded in 1993 is considered " the most important jazz organizer and trendy meeting point " of the Austrian capital .
The program of Porgy & Bess speaks to a very large audience , about 70,000 guests a year ; is accordingly Jazz " understood very pluralistic ," and the program " even in fringe areas , such as electronic music , contemporary music and world music penetrated . " Many international artists , particularly from the U.S. space , see also Austrian musician here an opportunity to perform . The club also offers the stage for events, such as the award of the Austrian World Music Award.
Musicologist Christian Scheib According to the Porgy & Bess " at the same time essential for the development of the musical ( jazz ) reality of a City" and needs and uses ' plain commonplace as urban space music. " It creates itself " through artistic preferences, acoustic quality , capacity and real capacity, the necessary exclusion of other clubs. " Here, the different areas of the jazz clubs allow - the area in front of the stage with tables, upstairs gallery , a lateral area with a bar at counter - different intense concentration on the concert scene . For Jazzthetik Porgy & Bess is even a " traditional club . "
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