Prepared

The Music

Captivating, hypnotic, and highly energetic. A free-spirited Munich-based trio in a chamber music line-up that instinctively awakens dance impulses and guides the listener into a trance-like sound space.

Cyclic motifs and intricately layered patterns merge in minimalist yet highly virtuosic compositions, creating a mesmerizing Gesamtkunstwerk. It’s as if Steve Reich, Jonny Greenwood, Nik Bärtsch, and Dawn of Midi had been thrown into a pot.

The Recording

For a 'state-of-the-art‘ immersive music production, the music was tracked ‚live‘ in one room without any overdubs. This album has been recorded using high-class 3D recording and miking techniques for Dolby Atmos and was mixed and mastered by highly acclaimed sound engineers.

Line Up

Chris Gall (piano)
Florian Riedl (bass clarinet)
Christoph Holzhauser (drums)

Prepared: The Munich Trio Making Minimalism Move

by Lawrence Peryer
January 17, 2025

Munich's experimental music scene has yielded Prepared, a trio that merges chamber music, minimalism and dance music through a distinct lineup of prepared piano, bass clarinet and drums. The group brings together three established musicians, Chris Gall, Florian Riedl, and Christoph Holzhauser, whose individual paths through Argentinian tango, folk music, and German hip-hop intersect in musically exciting ways. The band emerged from Munich's tight-knit music community. “We have known each other from the Munich music scene and have ...

Music Industry

Is Pandora Prepared for the Launch of Beats Music?

Source: HypeBot
January 21, 2014

As Beats Music prepares for its big day tomorrow, other services like Spotify and Rdio have been preparing with pre-emptive strikes expanding free listening, a feature Beats Music will not have. Pandora's already free but they've been running a creative commercial campaign, last week added recommendations to ease that awkward “paralysis moment" and keep growing by multiple measures though there are some concerns about growth. With Beats coverage everywhere tomorrow should be a busy day for music industry watchers. Last ...
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Recording

"Canto" A CD of 9 Etudes for Solo Prepared Guitar by Mike Baggetta Now Available

Source: Mike Baggetta
November 16, 2010

A note from Mike Baggetta Greetings Music Lovers,

I'm very pleased to announce the release of Mike Baggetta's new album Canto. It features 9 etudes for solo prepared guitar and has been released on the new MabnotesMusic label. This album is a new edition, funded entirely through Kickstarter, of a slightly older project, recorded in 2003 at the old Artspace Gallery in Greenfield, MA and mastered by Jon Rosenberg a few months ago. Although a bit of a different ...
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Music Industry

Michael Jackson's Doctor Prepared to Surrender

Source: Michael Ricci
February 2, 2010

A lawyer for Michael Jacksons personal physician said Tuesday that the Houston-based doctor is in Los Angeles and prepared to surrender if authorities file charges against him in the pop stars death.

I dont have any specific information that leads me to believe he is going to be charged this week," said lawyer Ed Chernoff, “ but if he is, weve made it clear hes available to turn himself in. The arrival of Dr. Conrad Murray and Chernoff, his lead ...
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Interview

Mixing the Prepared with the Impromptu

Source: Michael Ricci
June 26, 2009

Nearly all jazz balances improvisation against composition, but a band like Floriculture makes you realize how many degrees there are of striking that balance. That’s because it takes each side to extremes, and pulls together some far-apart traditions. In the band’s music, the composition — by the group’s leader, Carl Maguire — is serene and complicated, with discomfiting, big-interval melodies; in opposition to that, the group-improvisation pockets grow torrid. Sometimes the two ways of playing are alternated. Sometimes they’re mashed ...
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Performance / Tour

Kris Tiner/Mike Baggetta: Music for Trumpet and Prepared Guitar

Source: All About Jazz
June 11, 2005

KRIS TINER (trumpet) & MIKE BAGGETTA (prepared acoustic guitar)

East Coast CD Release Tour There, Just As You Look For It (pfMENTUM CD025)

For audio files and reviews: www.pfmentum.com/tinbag.html For more info: www.kristiner.com or www.mikebaggetta.com

June 21: A.P.E. Arts, Northampton, MA (www.apearts.org) June 22: Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA (www.zeitgeist-gallery.org) June 23: Radio Bean Coffeehouse, Burlington, VT (www.radiobean.com) June 24: UBU Studio, Portland, ME June 26: CBGB ...
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