drank
© Peter Gannushkin
Ingrid Schmoliner - piano
Alexander Kranabetter – trumpet
Ingrid Schmoliner and Alex Kranabetter, two sound artists from the Viennese experimental music scene, have come together and decided to start a joint duo project focussing on the experimental use of their instruments, prepared piano and trumpet.
The special instrumentation and the strong influences from improvised, experimental music, pop, jazz, minimal music, folklore, electronic and contemporary music move and shape their compositions. Dark loops and drones merge with repetitive patterns, church bell-like, meditative sounds with fleeting melodies and beats. The idiosyncratic and multi-layered textures are intended to draw the room into a maelstrom and allow it to breathe at the same time. drank seeks the in-between.
The pianist and singer Ingrid Schmoliner lives and works as a musician, composer, curator and teacher in Vienna. Even before and during her classical studies at the Landeskonservatorium Klagenfurt, where she majored in piano, her music was characterised by an interest in improvised, experimental and contemporary music. Through her precise sound research and diversity on the piano, she has made a name for herself with her unconventional and innovative playing.
Alex Kranabetter leaves the boundaries of conventional trumpet playing behind and creates music between free improvisation and electro-acoustic sound art. What begins as a fragile miniature quickly develops its own organic dynamic and has a mesmerising pull. Fleeting melodies, dark loops, drones and beats that lead through empty echo chambers outline the sound architecture.
debut release early 2025
https://ingridschmoliner.klingt.org/
Alexander Kranabetter – trumpet
Ingrid Schmoliner and Alex Kranabetter, two sound artists from the Viennese experimental music scene, have come together and decided to start a joint duo project focussing on the experimental use of their instruments, prepared piano and trumpet.
The special instrumentation and the strong influences from improvised, experimental music, pop, jazz, minimal music, folklore, electronic and contemporary music move and shape their compositions. Dark loops and drones merge with repetitive patterns, church bell-like, meditative sounds with fleeting melodies and beats. The idiosyncratic and multi-layered textures are intended to draw the room into a maelstrom and allow it to breathe at the same time. drank seeks the in-between.
The pianist and singer Ingrid Schmoliner lives and works as a musician, composer, curator and teacher in Vienna. Even before and during her classical studies at the Landeskonservatorium Klagenfurt, where she majored in piano, her music was characterised by an interest in improvised, experimental and contemporary music. Through her precise sound research and diversity on the piano, she has made a name for herself with her unconventional and innovative playing.
Alex Kranabetter leaves the boundaries of conventional trumpet playing behind and creates music between free improvisation and electro-acoustic sound art. What begins as a fragile miniature quickly develops its own organic dynamic and has a mesmerising pull. Fleeting melodies, dark loops, drones and beats that lead through empty echo chambers outline the sound architecture.
debut release early 2025
LINKS
https://www.alexkranabetter.com/https://ingridschmoliner.klingt.org/
