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Wolfgang Mitterer: Radio Fractal/Beat Music Donaueschingen 2002

by Mark Corroto
December 3, 2003

Composer Wolfgang Mitterer declares the end of the jazz remix industry with his Radio Fractal/Beat Music project. His vision combines composition with improvisation like a street demonstration begins with planned activities and thereafter devolves into a brick- and Molotov cocktail-throwing exercise.

Mitterer's combination of live musicians with instruments, others with electronics, and a DJ with turntables was recorded live at the Donaueschinger Festival in October 2002. Later, Mitterer manipulated the music in his studio to become these 115 ...