Thomas Larcher: spartiti difficile

Larcher's original work for tenor and prepared piano is shaped closely around the text of short poems and fragments collected by the composer. Despite its fragmentary nature a continuum is created, ea...

In a magazine with reports on mental institutions, Thomas Larcher came across interviews with patients: 'These sentences are of a strong inner power, yet do not claim to convey an overall picture of t...

This extremely virtuoso string quartet setting uses its three main sections to describe a way from the imaginative search of melodies and sounds via rhythmic ecstasy to an initially third-heavy epilog...

The title of Thomas Larcher's third string quartet, Madhares, refers to the name of a deserted place on the island of Crete which inspired him to compose this work. Larcher developed the piece from re...

A heartfelt love of sound, of small form becomes perceptible. Mysterious landscapes emerge: full of manic concentration, obsession even in submerging into a note, a sound, a small figure, full of turn...

Thomas Larcher ist vor allem als international gefragter Pianist bekannt, der eine eindrucksvolle Serie von CDs bei dem renommierten Label ECM New Series vorgelegt hat. Doch auch als Komponist verzeic...

Smart Dust' devices are tiny wireless microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) which are able to sense everything from light to vibrations. Thanks to new developments in silicon processing, these 'motes'...

I do not compose my pieces for a certain voice range or orchestration, but for musicians, for people. It is almost impossible for me to produce a piece without having a particular person in mind or to...

Larcher's original work for tenor and prepared piano is shaped closely around the text of short poems and fragments collected by the composer. Despite its fragmentary nature a continuum is created, ea...

Larchers Originalwerk für Tenor und präpariertes Klavier ist eng um den Text der vom Komponisten gesammelten Kurzgedichte und Fragmente herum geformt. Trotz seines fragmentarischen Charakters wird ein...