Bernhard Lang is an Austrian composer, improvisationalist and programmer of musical patches and applications. His work can be described as modern contemporary music, with roots, however, in various genres such as 20th-century avant-garde, European classical music, jazz, free jazz, rock, punk, techno, EDM, electronica, electronic music and computer-generated music. His works are performed on all relevant festivals of modern music and range from solo pieces and chamber music to large ensemble pieces and works for orchestra and musical theater. Besides music for concert halls, Lang designs sound and music for theater, dance, film and sound installations. Bernhard Lang came to prominence with his work cycle ?Differenz / Wiederholung? in which he illuminated and examined the themes of reproductive and DJ cultures based on the philosophic work of Gilles Deleuze. Socio-cultural and societally critical questions, as in ?Das Theater der Wiederholungen?, 2003, are as closely examined as intrinsic musical and music-cultural problems. Another focus is the ?recycling? of historic music, which Lang performs using self-programmed patches, applying filter and mutation processes. [More at Wikipedia]

February 24th, 1957 in Linz (Age 67)