Lukas Koenig – cymbal, synths and voice <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lukas Koenig is an Austrian drummer, percussionist and composer, born in 1988 in St. P\u00f6lten. He currently lives and works in Vienna. He attended the Gustav Mahler conservatory of music, the Anton-Bruckner Univerz and the LinzSwiss Jazz School. Even as a young artist he was often commended end received numerous awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has collaborated with Klangforum Wien, Audrey Chen, Julien Desprez, Sensational, Elvin Brandhi, Peter. Kutin, Chris Pitsiokos, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Briggan Krauss, Shahzad Isamaily, Jorge S\u00e1nchez-Chiong, Elliott Sharp, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Franz Hautzinger, David Murray, Reggie Washington, Malcolm Braff, Steven Bernstein, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Koenigleopold, Kompost3, Bilderbuch, Ensemble f\u00fcr Neue Musik Z\u00fcrich and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00bbMESSING\u00ab (2020,released at Ventil Records) by Lukas K\u0153nig<\/strong> is a courageous statement that rejects straightforward pop and instead shines with artistic freedom and the will for change. The metal, the brass, always reverberates, at times mercilessly pounding on us, driving us forward, resonating. An artistically valuable and independent work by one of the most remarkable drummers of these times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00bbMESSING\u00ab is the German noun for brass, a metal that is a component of percussion cymbals. Messing\/brass is the cheapest metal alloy for cymbals. Therefore it is easily deformable and bendable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00bbMESSING\u00ab as an English verb which describes a chaotic handling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not chaotic at all is Lukas K\u00f6nig\u2019s impressive sound study presented here. The internationally acclaimed drummer concentrated only on a single cymbal (brass plate) as a sound source, messed around with it and therefore discovered new possibilities for sound developments. According to K\u0153nig, this reduction in means can be attributed to the loss of his rehearsal room and additionally to an acute lack of space, which is also connected to his constant commuting between New York and Vienna. The warehouse was converted into a quiet rehearsal room, where he explored his dexterity on the cymbal and its tonal characteristics using contact microphones and headphones, and perfected his technique to this end. And this reduction of means bore fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2492,"template":"","sajeta_edition":[63],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n