Clemens Gadenstaetter

Clemens Gadenstätter is an Austrian composer, born in 1966 in Zell am See. He studied flute and composition in Vienna, composition with Erich Urbanner, and then with Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart. His music deals with how listening, perception and feeling interact, often starting from everyday sounds such as alarms, sirens and ringtones. He has been professor of music theory and analysis at the University of Music in Graz since 2003/04. Gadenstätter was flautist of Klangforum Wien from 1989 to 1992 and in 1990 co-founded ensemble neue musik wien.