I just returned from Copenhagen where i joined the great Trio “The Surface Constructors” at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. They just released a record on the label Brumtone. It’s really good stuff. Click the picture to check it out.
About Ritornell
Ritornell consists of Roman Gerold and Richard Eigner. Together they write spook-inducing ambient tracks that ransack your cranium’s music shelves for boxes marked »Electronica«, »Jazz« and »Minimal Music«. Their hypnotic passages won them Austria’s Elektronikland Award (for experimental electronics) in 2003 and 2005.
Originally founded for creating the soundtrack to the dance piece »Urgent Appetite« by Canadian choreographer Laura Kappel, they continued working together and since then presented their music at the Sónar Barcelona and Ars Electronica Festival, at the Red Bull Music Academy in Melbourne and at countless venues in Austria.
While Roman wrote a few more scores for films, dance pieces and video-games, Richard was also involved in countless other musical endeavors – he played drums on Patrick Wolf’s album »Magic Position«, worked half a year for Patrick Pulsinger, helping on remixes and building a sound library and played drums with the likes of Franz Hautzinger, Flying Lotus, Pamelia Kurstin, Hilary Jeffery and many more. His composition »Concrete Leaves« was selected by Bruce LaBruce for his melancholy gay zombie movie »Otto or up with dead people« alongside tracks by Coco Rosie and Throbbing Gristle.
Ritornell on Myspace.
The Surface Constructors
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Comments (0) / posted by Richard / July 14th, 2008Woeishi Lean / Richard Eigner - Vertigo
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Ladies and gentleman, fasten your seatbelts! Finally a great collaboration between visual artist Woeishi Lean and Richard Eigner is online. Watch the short web-version of Vertigo in the Vimeo-player above. Features some heavy Free-Jazz action by Roman Gerold (piano), Gejza Jurth (viola), Oliver Steger (doublebass) and Richard Eigner (drums/production).
Comments (0) / posted by Hans / March 25th, 2008Bruce LaBruce vs. Richard Eigner!
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We are happy to announce that candian artist and director Bruce LaBruce will use Richard Eigner´s composition “Concrete Leaves” in his new melancholy gay zombie movie “Otto; Or, Up With Dead People”. The film is going to be premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19th. You will also be able to hear “Concrete Leaves” on the upcoming Ritornell album called “Avant Gardening” which is due early next year.
Comments (0) / posted by Hans / December 14th, 2007Richard Eigner Live at Sónar
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Click at the picture to check out my live-set at Sónar, representing the Ritornell project. Also included: unwanted glitches added by my poor overstrained laptop!
Comments (1) / posted by Richard / July 3rd, 2007Smilefaucet!
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Volume 6 of the fantastic seasonal video magazine smilefaucet is out now. It features a lot of interesting animation and motion design works on the subject air. I composed the music for Gregor Hofbauer’s “Tree”. If you want to check it out - the dvd is well recommended and available here.
Comments (0) / posted by Richard / April 24th, 2007
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