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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
4/2007
Gerhard Rohde
« Schnellers "Resonant Space" ist brilliant komponiert. »
« Schneller's "Resonant Space" is brilliantly composed. »
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
4/2007
Alfred Zimmerlin
« In Oliver Schnellers "Resonant Space" konnte man erleben wie gekonnte Satztechnik den Klang der Instrumente verändert. »
« In Oliver Schneller's "Resonant Space" one could witness how skilfull scoring can change instrumental sounds. »
Moderne Klangkunst, Wuppertal
Ausgabe 11 (9/2005)
Falke Lenn
« Five Imaginary Spaces ist ein fulminantes Wechselspiel zwischen Klavier und Elektronik, spannungsgeladen und von bizarrer Intensität. »
« Five Imaginary Spaces is an energetic exchange between the piano and the electronics, charged with suspense and a bizarre intensity. »
Die Zeit, Hamburg
3/2004
Volker Hagedorn
« Oliver Schneller gelangt in seiner Musik zu dem Punkt,
an dem diese sich selbst schräg betrachten darf, mit sich spielt,
sogar witzig sein kann. Per Elektronik setzt er dem live-Instrumentalklang
einen Fundus an Vierteltonmusik entgegen, der die « Leichtigkeit »
vermittelt, die jemand wie Charles Ives sich fürs mikrotonale Musikmachen
erträumt hätte. »
« Oliver Schneller reaches a point in his music where it
can reflect upon itself from an oblique perspective in a playful, often
humorous way. By way of the electronics he complements live-instrumental
sound with a repository of quartertones that transmitts the gracefullness
that a composer like Charles Ives must have dreamed of when thinking about
ways of microtonal music making. »
Berliner Zeitung
10/2003
Peter Uehling
« . . .[dieses Stück] war einer der fesselndsten
Momente des Tages. Das gilt noch mehr für das 1998/99 entstandene
« Trio » Oliver Schnellers für die aparte Besetzung
Akkordeon, Violoncello und Klavier. Die Erforschung der Klangbeziehungen
zwischen verschiedenen Instrumenten erfolgte in diesem Stück mit
harmonischer Sensibilität. Die Instrumente agierten dabei zuweilen
wie ein einziges Superinstrument und erzeugten ganz neue Klänge. »
« . . .[this piece] was one of the most captivating moments
of the day. That was even more the case for the Trio of Oliver Schneller
(1998/99) for accordeon, cello, and piano. In this piece, the exploration
of sound relationships between different instruments succeeded with a
harmonic sensibility. The instruments functioned sometimes as a single
super-instrument and produced completely new sounds. »
Le Monde, Paris
12/2002
Pierre Gervasoni
« Une révélation. Une personnalité
susceptible de transcender dans une séduisante expression musicale
la relation encore souvent basique entre instruments traditionnels et
dispositif informatique. »
« A revelation. A personality capable of transcending with
seductive musical expression the often still underdeveloped relationship
between traditional instruments and computer music. »
Computer Music Journal, M.I.T Press
2002 Vol. 27, issue 2
Paul Rudy
Another acoustic work, by Oliver Schneller, followed; this one with
it's genesis in the audible pitch clusters of the 'trickling of water
running through an enclosed space.' The sonic richness of water is no
secret to electroacoustic composers, and Schneller successfully translates
this richness into a highly engaging acoustic work through ebb and flow.
Fantastic orchestration, timbral transformation and temporal distinction
(rhythm and gesture) marked by cadences, create streams separating slow
moving 'pools' of water from rapidly cascading streams. The significance
of this work lies in the juxtaposition of pitch-motivated listening (moving
streams) with timbre-motivated listening (pools, or as Schneller states,
'the thin line of the ocean horizon') giving a highly directional, unified
structure that leads me from beginning to end. Schneller used the computer
for spectral analysis of a forest brook to determine pitch and time intervals.
I find myself much less concerned with how the computer was used in his
compositional process because the music itself is so engaging.
Focus Magazin, Berlin
5/2001
Marion Ammicht
« Strahlend, irisierend, schön. . .aufregend und bizarr.
Musik, wie man sie noch nicht gehört hat. »
« Radiating, iridescent, beautiful. . .exciting and bizarre.
Music unheard of before. »
Frankfurter Rundschau
5/2001
Bernhard Uske
« Souveräne Metierbeherrschung. »
« Secure control of craft. »
New York Times
8/2000
Allan Kozinn
« Constantly shifting coloration exerting a hypnotic pull. »
Boston Globe
8/2000
Richard Dyer
« Imagination and taste...arriving at persuasive results. »
Vineyard Gazette, Massachusetts
6/2000
Peter Savodnik
« A bold departure...jarring and powerful. There is a riveting
energy here that forces the audience to pay close attention...Mr Schneller
has pulled off a perfectly Joycean coup. »
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