Karlheinz Essl: Lexikon-Sonate, performed at the NIME 2016 conference

Karlheinz Essl’s legendary realtime composition, performed by the composer himself at the NIME 2016 Conference in Brisbane, Australia on a Yamaha Disklavier. Lexikon-Sonate is an interactive realtime composition environment for musical composition and live performances. It takes advantage of composition algorithms that has been developed by Karlheinz Essl since 1985. With this algorithmic music generator on can easily create fascinating and complex musical structures on the fly. Furthermore, Lexikon-Sonate is an infinite music installation that can run on a computer for years without repeating itself. Finally, Lexikon-Sonate can be used as an instrument for live performance of electronic music. Download the software: