New Pipa - Intercultural cooperation project

New music for pipa, bamboo flute and string quartet

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From 1 to 5 December 2014 a joint project of the Department for Composition and Electroacoustics with the Chai Found Music Workshop took place at the mdw. The Taiwanese musicians Huikuan Li (pipa), Chung-Hsien Wu and Tsai Pei-Yun (bamboo flute) and Chaoming Tung (composition) presented the traditional Chinese stringed instrument pipa and bamboo flute.

They also had the opportunity to play the instruments and compose for it. The challenge of writing for a mixed ensemble of Eastern and Western instruments promises a surprising and exciting listening experience!

The outcome of the workshop resulted in a small concert series, which will be held from 20 to 22 April 2015 at the mdw and at the Essl Museum Klosterneuburg: Together with the Pacific Quartet Vienna over 20 compositions by students and instructors of the classes "Media Composition" and "Electroacoustic Music" are to be performed.

On our YouTube channel you will find a recording of the workshop - in addition to an insight into the exercises you will also hear examples of traditional Chinese music.

Please find further informationen about the project in the documentation of mdw students Hannah Eisendle and Chenwei Wang (pdf, German 1.84mb)

Concert dates

New music by students of the classes Media Composition and Electroacoustics
20 April 2015, 7 pm
Fanny Hensel Hall
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna

21 April 2015, 7 pm
Festsaal
Seilerstätte 26, 1010 Vienna

New music by Chaoming Tung, Reinhard Karger and Karlheinz Essl as well as traditional Chinese Music for pipa and bamboo flute
22 April 2015, 7.30 pm
Essl Museum Klosterneuburg
An der Donau-Au 1
3400 Klosterneuburg