kraks ad hoc composing

Published on Nov 21, 2013 pianoloft·229 videos

"the new founded duo-project KRAKS combines electronic devices and circuit bent instruments with guitar, voice and piano. the music is improvised, approaching unexpected directions and territories. abstract sound scapes and songsediments are the characteristics of that ad hoc inventions.

the electronic instruments are roland gaia synth, korg ER-1, run through masf possessed glitch delay effect, Korg Em-1, both for groove and percussion elements, experimental devices like random wave synth by panote09, the postcard weevil by bugbrand, the noise brick by dr. moonstien and rota synth by trax. the piano sound is sometimes run through a korg kaos pad 2 for some live sampling or change of sound colours like ring modulation.

wolfgang kschwendt: guitar, voice
martin kratochwil: electronics, piano"

erik leidal and martin kratochwil new old songs

erik leidal and martin kratochwil new old songs 1
Published on May 17, 2013 pianoloft·194 videos

"old music from renaissance and middle-ages, sung by erik leidal, arranged by martin kratochwil, the old melodies are combined with contemporary electronic music."

erik leidal and martin kratochwil new old songs 2
Published on May 17, 2013

"songs from renaissance and middle-ages, sung by erik leidal and arranged for electronics by martin kratochwil. old music, presented in a contemporary acoustic scenary. lyrics by thomas bernhard."

new year session part 3

Published on Jan 4, 2013 pianoloft·170 videos

"mixing electronic devices and acoustic instruments, we shifted into the new year with an impovised session. tuba, trumpet, percussion and a lot of electronics were used: roland gaia synth, alesis micron, suzuki omnichord, modified by folktek, yamaha pss-100, modified by squidfanny, demetia dm1, roland sp 404 sampler, rainbowmachine by earthquaker devices, korg em1, korg kaos pad and a yamaha p-140 stagepiano. recorded at the wabi sabi pavillion ( http://wabi-sabi-pavillion.blogspot.co.at/ ).
martin kratochwil: electronics, piano
max lorenz: electronics, percussion
mario wesecky: trumpet, tuba"

JUST THE MOMENT MATTERS

edith lettner und martin kratochwil improvised 1 - 5

YouTube Published on May 10, 2012 by pianoloft

"free improvised music with sax-player edith lettner and martin kratochwil, useing roland gaia synth and a piano, recorded at the 3raumanatomietheater in vienna."

MELTING PSYCHODELICS

YouTube Uploaded by pianoloft on Feb 13, 2012

"it´s just sound. waves of sound, leaving the ground, dissolving shapes, loosing stability. sound is created with DEMENTIA DM-1 by AUDIBLE DISEASE, connected with RAINBOW MACHINE by EARTHQUAKER and a Delay. Get in the spaceship and take off !"

song on the fly with lilian fritz

YouTube Uploaded by pianoloft on Jan 11, 2012"

lilian fritz: vocals, lyrics,martin kratochwil: electronics,piano"songs on the fly" means creating songs out of the moment, without plan, just improvising. the music is recorded on tape directly. it is, what it is, no overdubs, no editing, that´s it.a celebration of the moment."Instruments: "Roland Gaia, Korg ER1, Omnichord by Folktek, Rota Synth, MAM AFB8, Alesis Philtre, Sherman Filterbank, Line 6 echo park and the electro piano Yamaha P-155."

SHERMAN FILTERBANK AND ROTA-SYNTH IN ACTION

YouTube Uploaded by pianoloft on Jan 20, 2012

"I think, the SHERMAN FILTERBANK is one of the best analog filters ever built. It owns a warm sound with a lot of possibilities of distortion and a great screaming resonance. It allows endless combinations of its components, so you can discover surpriseing results, also if you are very familiar to it. ROTA-SYNTH is a desktop analogue 8-step sequencer, coupled with a monophonic analogue synthesizer. It is very useful because of it´s intuitive handling. I like both instruments because of their unique and individual character. ENJOY!"

pocket concerto for piano and noise

YouTube Uploaded by pianoloft on Nov 29, 2011

"playing abstract, noisy sounds and a piano."

"improvised by martin kratochwil with a korg er1, connected to a WMD-geigercounter, a piano with a kaospad for spontaneous sampling and modified devices."