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  • Poster/Print

    MNEEM is available as a high quality vinyl sized print with download code as well as a digital release.

    The stones for the album were collected by the artist from rivers and coasts near to the sea on her travels. Those are stones that accompany Ingrid Schmoliner with beauty/ haptics/ depth and consciousness. On the prints it is written from which river or coast area these stones were found.

    The photo prints are limited to a total of 30 pieces. Each photo subject exists 2 times. If you would like to have a specific picture, please send us the number you can find next to the image. Otherwise you will receive a randomly selected Fine Art Pigmentprint on Photo Rag Baryta Paper - size 30,7 x 30,7 cm.
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    edition of 30 
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The composer and pianist Ingrid Schmoliner writes and plays music the allure of which cannot be resisted. Her pieces are ecstatic cascades of sound which unite formal strictness and psychoactive effects. Schmoliner plays them with absolute precision. Her perfect technique allows her to create dramatic arcs with subtle variations. This creates hunting rides through tunnels of sound, whose sonic characteristics due to a carefully prepared piano remind one of Gamelan music. Sometimes percussive and noisy, and in the next moment clear and open with shimmering overtones. Schmoliners music is compelling and at the same time aethereal and fleeting. It sounds like soulful mechanics, sprawling organically into boundlessness. Its essence is the process.

Her new work MNEEM is a musical monolith. It is a breathtaking one hour plus tour de force through complex uptempo pattern, played on the prepared grand piano. A unique musical experience that unfolds its magic instantly after a few minutes. For the player MNEEM is a very exhausting piece; it demands full concentration and technical skills of thehighest level. For the audience it is a euphoric trancelike journey of 62 minutes that will leave the listeners thunderstruck.

Ingrid Schmoliner composed MNEEM as a commissioned work for the Wien Modern Festival in 2019. It was premiered at the Wiener Konzerthaus in the same year and recorded there by Alexander Yannilos (sounddesign). It was mixed and mastered by Martin Siewert.

MNEEM will be available as a high quality fine art pigment print on Photo Rag Baryta paper, size 30,7 x 30,7 cm (vinyl sized) with download code as well as a digital release.
There are 15 different prints that are only available twice in this edition.

All the stones were collected by the artist from rivers and the sea on her travels. Those are stones that accompany Ingrid Schmoliner with beauty/haptics/ depth and consciousness. On each print it is written from which water and landscape those stones were found.

The basic information for MNEEM and the poem »mud« by Andrew Choate will be printed on an extra hard panel which comes in addition to secure the print.

»mud«

is stone too

now with footsteps and water
evaporate me back into the clouds
a foreign consciousness

afar remains, distant and graspable


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→ SKE & MA7 Musik
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www.wien.gv.at/kultur/abteilung/foerderungen/#musik

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released March 1, 2024

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Ingrid Schmoliner Vienna, Austria

musician_composer_curator_pedadgogue_activist
based in Vienna.
through her precise sound research and sophisticated - nuanced work on the piano and voice, she has made a name for herself as an innovative creator.
Schmoliner works on internationally renowned stages.
Her lectures and teachings are about yodeling, overtone, singing, improvisation, composing, extended playing techniques on the piano ... more

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