Stefan Fraunberger
Gilgit Czernowici 2009

netrelease:
tim.klingt.org

Stefan Fraunberger Safara 2007

T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!

Heathen Harvest Review, Jan 2008:

A pragmatic and powerful twenty-minute disk from this Vienna-based rather cosmopolitan artist. Fraunberger seems to approach his music from a philosophical standpoint that is rooted in an interest in spirituality and the inherent nature of sounds in regard to their cultural contexts. While I find this intriguing, the language barrier further obscures a clearer interpretation of intent. Not that I feel that there needs to be one, but I sense a purpose to these works that exceeds their existence as merely art-for-arts-sake montages. Given the fact that he has studied and/or travelled in the middle-east, Transylvania, India and Russia which makes for an impressive resume, ultimately we're left with just the music. Which is pretty damn good. It's hard to tell if the sonata referenced in the first track is a live piece or a concrete work as it starts off sounding like a poorly documented room recording. As the noise and intensity of sound builds the question becomes insignificant, and who really cares once such lovely violence takes the stage and sympathetic resonances hum along. Gorgeous drones follow suit and keep the disturbed peace until just before the half-past seven mark. I'm talking pure psycho-acoustic action here that floats and flitters hither and yon based on where you place your head until the goods fade into an unsettling quietude. From this near-silence emerges some wicked noise spearheaded by Stefan's arco-work on the bass which is absolutely brilliant. He manages to coax sounds out of his instrument that range from the sweet to the foreboding to making it sound like a choir of malcontented bagpipes. He really could have stretched out his bass playing here and throughout the disk a bit more to great effect, but there's a time and place for everything I suppose. At times this composition is a little disjointed and lacks focus, but overall it's a great piece straight through to the cow sounds. The use of silence as a compositional construct really contributes to the dramatic contour as well. Great work.

XXXII Concorso Internationale Di Musica Elettroacustica E Rumore / compilation 2010

Monochrome Vision

Yota Kobayashi
Elia Marios Joannou
Valérie Delaney
Sergy Khismatov
Sebastian Peter
Joan Bages Rubi
Erdem Helvacioğlu
Ka-Ho Cheung
Andrea Santini
Jean François Primeau
Damien Depannemaeck
Dohi Moon
Stefan Fraunberger

VELAK GALA Vienna 2007 -2011

Audition Records

velak_rec 2009 /compilation

velak.klingt.org

01 vinzenz schwab & gloria damijan
02 susanna gartmayer & billy roisz
03 stefan fraunberger & manuel knapp
04 bernhard schöberl & bernd klug
05 matthias koch, florian fennes, christian reiner & phillip leitner
06 maja osojnik, daniel lercher, gobi drab & bernhard schoeberl

An Ihren Daten sollt Ihr sie erkennen
Ostblockrecords 2006 Sampler

Andreas Stoiber, Helmut Kleinfercher, Phillip Sollmann, Peter Seher, Stefan Fraunberger, R.H.S.J. Bruzek, Victor Halbnarr, Elektronischer Wildschweinschtutz