Dieter Kaufmann (*1941, Vienna)

studied composition in Vienna and electroacoustic music in Paris. From 1970 he taught at the University of Music in Vienna. From 1990 he also had his own composition class.
In 1975 he founded the K&K experimental studio with his wife, the actress Gunda König, and toured internationally with concerts, music theater productions and multimedia performances.
Kaufmann wrote numerous vocal, instrumental, orchestral works and operas, often with live electronics, but also purely electro-acoustic compositions.

LE VOYAGE AU PARADIS (1987, stereo, 18min)
The journey to paradise
Five images based on fragments by Robert Musil, speaker: Gunda König. composition commissioned by GRM Paris.
Language elements of the text are systematically transformed into musical elements by means of resonance.

source: original material by the composer