Josef Novotny

Josef Novotny is an Austrian composer, pianist and electronic musician born in Meggenhofen in 1963. Working between improvised music, jazz and contemporary composition, he combines keyboards, computers and live electronics in projects that investigate how acoustic and electronic sounds interact.

His collaborators have included Katharina Klement, Elisabeth Harnik, Burkhard Stangl, Thomas Lehn and Max Nagl, and he has toured in Europe and the United States. Creative Sources documents his electronic performance on Adschi (CS808), part of a practice that embraces sound design, improvisation and collaborative exploration.