Studio Dan

Referring to Julius Eastman's views and experiments with new and unconventional performance formats for his music, the inclusion of space as a performative material is just as central to the project as the interplay of sound and movement.

Our proram with ritual music to banish the fear of loss, prophecies for the final days of the human race, and the vital news of the day.

Once to the moon and back

ZONK!?!! is a project of the artists' collective Studio Dan, which was carried out for the first time in 2020. The musicians of the ensemble and their guests performed in line-ups ranging from solo performances to small orchestras for ten days on public places of Vienna's 20th district. Now the project continues...

We declare selected public places in Vienna to be cathedrals of the faithful community of the hearing and give ourselves over to the rush of sound

what would the "new normal" be without our completely normal music?

A clearer link between the pieces is their interweaving of electronics, acoustic instruments and improvised elements. But come to think of it, the music doesn’t sound uncomfortable at all…

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Continuing the series that began with Elliott Sharp and George Lewis, we are commissioning a composition by the New York pianist Anthony Coleman.

In 1974 Karlheinz Stockhausen composed twelve melodies. Each melody stands for a sign of the zodiac. The composer explicitly asks musicians to work out the pieces.

From Mo, Sept. 7 to Fr, Sept. 11, 2020, the musicians of Studio Dan invite you to every evening Spa Concerts. Workshops, interventions and surprises included.

From May 12th to June 6th we will get the Viennese station Handelskai to swing.

Studio Dan heads off with a suitcase full of exciting commissioned works as well as contemporary repertoire.

with pieces by George Lewis and Oxana Omelchuk

The two works shown – Die Strase (L. Riegler) and GIF Frenzy (C. Ressi) – pursue a fundamentally different approach to combining film and live music.

It is only recently that the music of New York composer Julius Eastman (1940–1990) has been rediscovered. His pieces are designated part of the Minimalist movement

A highlight of 2018 was the long-awaited premiere of Passaggio Verso Il Rischio by Vinko Globokar.

One, two, three, four . . . compositions, played by one, two, three, four . . . musicians in one, two, three, four . . . minutes. A rigorous formal principle as the basis for expanding the comfort zone.

Way back on our debut double album, “Creatures & Other Stuff,” we started playing with the idea of our musical creations as breathing animals unto themselves. Whether fully-notated, improvised, or a combination of the two, our musical creatures take on a life of their own

Working with graphic scores, improvisation instructions and conceptual pieces comes

Modern classics and contemporary music for string quartet

Studio Dan was founded in 2005 in Vienna. The name of the ensemble was derived from Studio Tan, a Frank Zappa album recorded in 1978.

Creatures & other stuff is the title of our first program and brings together the best pieces of our exciting early years. What you hear are the things that make the ensemble unique: a passionate mixture

Fanfare III is a project together with saxophonist Michel Doneda. Based solely on the sound of his instruments used in his solo improvisations a full-length composition is developed

The word comprovise is built out of ‘composition’ and ‘improvisation,’ to describe music that plays with the border between both of these musical techniques.

Krüger & Pardeller’s audio and room installation HOMO FABER, on display from November 2014 to June 2015 at the 21er Haus in Vienna, focuses on the role of artists as the creators of new artifacts. The installation, its design reminiscent of a stage, juxtaposes historical sound recordings and works by Fritz Wotruba with texts and works from the artists themselves, connected by sound by Daniel Riegler

„You could say, Naples is an ugly, crime-ridden city of proles, with not much to offer to European intellectuals. Naples has much that is ancient, lots of culture, but nothing is snazzed up just for the sake of recalling the past, to show off what once was. This city provokes change, it surges ahead, it has an extremely loud, smelly, chaotic side to it and an incredibly beautiful, amazingly tranquil one.” (C. Wenger)

Elliott Sharp is one of the major players in the New York downtown scene since the late 1980s, and thus a protagonist of one of America’s most important musical directions. This was not only influenced by composers like Steve Reich or

'Music for 11’ is a concert installation developed for the Arnulf Rainer Museum in Baden for a Mario-Merz exhibition. The piece is inspired by visual art and plays with the unusual resonance of the museum building, which originally housed public bath. ‘Music for 11’ is written for 11 musicians standing in 11 different positions in the space, without a conductor, who communicate by listening. The audience is free to move about the room and lose themselves in the sound

“Decadence” was premiered in 2011 and published on CD in 2012. The focus is on the music of Clemens Wenger and Daniel Riegler and the ensemble Studio Dan in his most opulent form. The music tries nothing less but bringing EVERYTHING which inspired the composers and EVERYTHING that the ensemble stands for under one roof. In November 2016 we are going to present the follow-up of the project in Vienna and Zürich (Tage für Neue Musik)

Studio Dan is a band – but not just any band. Studio Dan is a BIG band! At least 16 instruments are here to be seen and heard. Some musicians even play two instruments or more, the stage is jam-packed. Drums, bass, piano, trombone and trumpet, cello and turntable, marimba, oboe

The Molecular Organ, which you can find on the roof of the Technical University in Graz, is a sculpture by Constantin Luser. Through some kind of magic, this wild new instrument connects 14 trumpets, 14 trombones, and 7 tubas together into one joyously loud sculpture

Studio Dan has a new pop song project with composer Caitlin Smith. The EP is up on Soundcloud.

This production is an organic collection of songs developed over two years by composers and arrangers from the ranks of Studio Dan – a band well-known for

Fanfare III is a project together with saxophonist Michel Doneda. Based solely on the sound of his instruments used in his solo improvisations a full-length composition is developed

Three miniatures on CD.

Julia Purgina was involved as a violist in Studio Dan's very first concerts. Back then, in the largely uncultured crowd that we were, Julia, with her dry and direct manner, already radiated the professionalism that would carry her far in her academic career as well as as a composer and player.