the O. theorem - list of works | ||||||
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# | title | genre | year | material | description | premiere |
1. | 13 841 287 201 akkorde in memoriam nicolas obuchow | installation | 1999/2000 | midi sound generator, computer | a maxpatch, generating all possible twelve tone chords within 7 octaves as midi data, driving a suitable sound module | no realisation |
2. | auszeiten | score | 03/2001 | 3 musicians + playback | concept score for 3 improvising musicians and a playback with 13 twelve tone chords | together with duo archeaopteryx, stadtgalerie saarbrücken 06/2001 |
3. | wandbehang | installation | 10/2001 | 8 loudspeakers in a row, 8 cd-players | 8 cds, each with one pitch from an equidstant division of the octave into 8 tones across 8 octaves, playback in shuffle (random) mode. | kunstwerk köln as part of "raummusik und so" 10/2001 |
4. | circle of fifths | installation | 09/2006 | 12 lourdspeakers arranged ona wall in circular shape, computer, audiointerface | analytical spatialisation of mozarts jupiter symphony filtered according to the circle of fifths and played back thru 12 loudspeakers ordered accordingly . | vorkamer, lier as part of the "3 heilige geest" weekend 09/2006 |
5. | present, tense | score | 07/2007 | computergenerated score with one 12tone series for a solo instrument | an automated recording and looping systems layers the single instrumental pitches one after the other to a twelve tone chord. | calarts, valencia/ca, as part of the dog star festival. solist: kathy pisaro. 06/2007 |
6. | alkan graph | score | 03/2008 | chamber ensemble | anlytical deconstruction of a piano piece by charles v. alkan. pitches and durations are assigned to individual instruments. | commissioned for the ensemble apartment house by WDR3 for the series "ensembl[:E:]uropa", köln 03/2008 |
7. | steirerlied zentrifuge | outdoor installation | 07/2008 | 12 horn speakers, computer, audiointerface | analytical spatialisation of styrian folksongs as a 12channel soundinstallation in a park. | commissioned by "DUR - art in public space, styria", gleisdorf 07/2008 |
8. | stele für n.o | score | 03/2010 | orchestera | piece for orchestra based on 2 twelve tone chords from n. obukovs „traité d´hamonie tonale, atonale et totale“. | commissioned by Kunststiftung NRW for MaerzMusik – Festival für aktuelle Musik der Berliner Festspiele, konzerthausorchestra berlin 03/2010 |
9. | e.t. (l.a.) | score + materials | 10/2011 | for a variable number (more than 4) of players with laptops with built-in microphones + loudspeakers and pure-data patch | sound generation is entirely based on filtered feedback between the laptops built-in mics + speakers. the filters are tuned in an equidistant divison of the ocatve, depending on the number of participants. | commissioned by the experimental music yearbook, premiered at the wulf, los angeles 10/2011 |
10. | a curved sunbeam on vintage paper | score | 11/2011 | chamber orchestra | based on permutations of a twelve tone chord entangled with a time series. | commissioned by „Multiple Joy(ce) Orchestra“, stadtgarten köln 12/2011 |
11. | nikolas | app for mobile devices | 05/2012 | Pure Data, RjDj | generative mobile devices app, filtering varying twelve tone chords from environmental sounds. made with the pure-data framework RjDj. | now obsolet, sinces RjDj ceased to exist |
12. | circle of fifths - realtime version | installation | 10/2012 | 12 loudspeakers, outside microphone, computer, audiointerface | evolution of „circle of fifths” to allow the realtime filtering of environmental sounds, captured via an external microphone. | as part of the "visual sounds" program curated by georg dietzler, mauritius kirchgarten, köln 10/2012 |
13. | landscape with laptops | score | 12/2012 | for recorder, cello, electric guitar, piano, each with a laptop, live-electronic and playback | set of intsructions for generating a score based on twelve tone chords. | commissioned by kunststiftung NRW, alte feuerwache köln 12/2012 |
14. | zifferblatt witten | installation | 05/2014 | 12 loudspeakers, outside microphone, computer, audiointerface | evolution of „circle of fifths - realtime version“. the individual loudspeakers are controlled by the position of the 3 clockhands of an invisible clock. | commissioned by the city of witten for the wittener tage für neue kammermusik, witten 05/2014 |
15. | clock of fifths | installation | 10/2014 | 12 loudspeakers, outside microphone, computer, audiointerface, projection clock | further evolution of „zifferblatt witten“ where the loudspeakers are now aligned with the clockface of a projection clock. | commissioned by "on the edge of percepibility", kunsthalle budapest 10/2014 |
16. | clock of fifths | app for mobile devices | 04/2015 | Pure Data, MobMuPlat | mobile devices app made with the MobMuPlat frameworks, porting the installation with the same name to a portable format. the filtered pitches are spread on the stereo panorama | 04/2015 |
17. | keys + knives | score | 11/2015 | for 1 - 11 players of instruments, capable of producing sustained notes and a reed organ | twelve tone chord long duration action, based on a project score for the action „Kosmisches Beispiel Nr. 9 & Nr.10: WOLLEN, TUN & HABEN“ for christian jendreikos series „zwölf kosmische beispiele“, düsseldorf 2014 | premiered by the golden fur ensemble, tectonics festival, tel aviv 2015 |
18.a | the O. theorem | app for mobile devices | 12/2014 | Pure Data, MobMuPlat | mobile devices app made with the MobMuPlat framework, generating chord permutations in equidistant oktave divisions between 1-12 steps | premiered at „sounderbar -experimental drinks & experimental music“ produced as a commission from bbk in cooperation with dbaw e.V. at matjö, köln 12/2014 |
18.b | the O. theorem - alphabet 5/11 | radiophonic piece | 03/2016 | electronic music | electronic chord permutations in equidistant 11 tone temperament, produced with the app of the same name. its the fictious opus 0 of „the O. theorem“ as a radiophonic composition. | commissioned by hr2 kultur, „the artists corner“, 03/2016 |
19. | mengenlehre | installation | 06/2018 | 12 loudspeakers, suspended in the frame of a bilinski dodecahedron, 8h 12channel loop of electronic sound | the sound material is 1048576 non-transposable twelve tone chords within an ambitus of four octaves at a playback speed of 27,3 ms per chord | künstlerhaus des saarlandes, saarbrücken 06/2018 |
20. | clock of fifths [totensonntag] | electronic music | 11/2017 | fieldrecording filtered | electronic music based on a fieldrecording made with the app "clock of fifths" on the sunday in commemoration of the dead 2017 . | released 09/2018 on the LP the O. theorem, edition telemark 785.07, berlin |
21. | the book of decay I - three frontispieces | score | 10/2013 | piano solo | 3 piano pieces based on compositions by bach, satie and webern. for each piece the number of occurences of each pitchclass was used to fix the pitches in ascending order. | premiere of no. 2(satie) künstlerhaus lukas, ahrenshoop 09/2013 |
22. | 14 songs, philosophical | score | 11/2019 | low male voice, french horn, violin, live-electronics and a modified maneki-neko controlling an app on a tablet | the songs are based on kurt goedels "My philosophical viewpoint" (Meine philosophischen Ansichten"), which consists of 14 short statements. they are embedded in an open musical fabric woven from the total of all possible 12tone-chords which are based on all-interval series. | premiered at the exhibition of new music festival, brno 11/2019 |
23. | twelve tone chord of the day | internet sculpture | 04/2020 | html5, p5js | the distance in days since the first public performance of piano pieces in obukhovs "harmonie totale" is transformed into a tewelve tone chord for each day. | the website was launched on april 22, 2020, obukhovs 128. birthday |
24. | catalogue of twelve tone chords for two hands | score | 06/2020 | html | a collection of twelve tone chords playable with two hands on a keyboard + call for contributions. | the website was launched in connection with the publication of an article in MusikTexte 166, 08/2020 |