early music bird
DIANBO®
The first
Digital Animated Booklet
A sort of musical Harry Potter Newspaper
“Abracadabra”
says
enchants picture, book & illustrations
and brings musical fairy tales into the digital world
We love books
and
music!
And that is not going to change.
However, many things have changed in the last two years and, above all, have become more digitalised. Even die-hard ‘analogue’ people could no longer escape Zoom or Skype meetings and streaming in the coronavirus era. Most of this had to be shifted to the virtual space.
We want to occupy this space in a new way for our music and art, revitalising it with our musical, visual and aesthetic language.
With our DIANBO® [Digital Animated Booklet] with world premiere recordings of old and new music, enchanting illustrations and screen design by BUREAU F, we want to open up a new, magical space like a window.
Back to the analogue book
and
to the silver disc CD through digital flights of fancy
Faithful to our principle –
to seek the new in the old and the old in the new –
we would like the ‘NEW’ DIGITAL, ANIMATED BOOKLET
not only old & new music, but also a feeling for
traditional, enduring music.
SRF News reports: ‘CD and record shops threatened with extinction – Because the business is no longer profitable, many CD and record shops have closed in recent years.’ Der Standard wrote in October 2020: ‘Streaming instead of CD: The silver disc on the siding. In the USA, vinyl discs have already overtaken CDs. Their sales are also falling drastically in Austria. The traditional music trade is facing the end of its era’ or the Aachner Zeitung, also in 2009: ’Will the printed book soon be obsolete? Hardly any other topic occupied the Frankfurt Book Fair last year as intensively as the e-book.’
Our credo is clear and unambiguous:
Even though we have moved into digital realms, our ambition is to lead people back to books and analogue CDs via the medium of the digital animated booklet, the DIANBO®. Nothing can replace the feel of a book page, a woven ribbon, gold embossing or the higher quality sound of a silver disc compared to streaming services.
DIGITAL BOOKLET
An innovative idea
that lends the ‘early music bird’
another level to discover.
CORNELIUS ALEXANDER BROCK | KULTURASPEKTE
Digital Booklet
as
a kind of musical ‘Harry Potter newspaper’
Have you never imagined a painting in a museum or in a book suddenly moving? That the lady in the painting from 1732 suddenly smiles at you, that the sabre of a ruler rattles, or that the woman in this painting runs to the pavilion?
If it’s digital storytelling:
Then we would like to tell it in our – always fairytale – way.
A passion for beautiful sound
meets fairytale-like digital book love
SEPARATE GERMAN & ENGLISH ONLINE EDITION
English translation by the musicologically specialised translator Paul Richards
WORK TEXTS excitingly narrated by renowned musicologists at the cutting edge of science ACCOMPANIED BY A JOURNEY IN PHOTOGRAPHS and VIDEOS to places of power and enchanted castles in Carinthia
WORK TEXTS AS AUDIO PLAYS IN GERMAN & ENGLISH available inDIANBO® to listen to or download
BIOGRAPHS with STORY-TELLING VIDEOS & PHOTOS
Musicians photographed in castles, musicologists in their favourite libraries or the Butterfly Museum
TWO BREAKFAST RECIPES
A fragrant coffee and breakfast recipe to accompany the aria ‘Ei, wie schmeckt der Coffee süße!’. A recipe to listen to, drink and savour
POWERFUL LOCATIONS IN CARINTHIA in photographs and with TEXTS about the location, the church on Magdalensberg and Pöckstein Castle, scientifically substantiated and excitingly narrated by historian Dr Alexander Bach
ILLUSTRATED MAP OF CARINTHIA
specific geographical reference to the places of power featured in the book
ANIMATED ILLUSTRATIONS
hand-drawn illustrations, sweetly and delicately digitally animated, give DIANBO® a touch of the haptic and analogue in the digital world
„With the animated digital booklet (available in the shop), you can enhance your listening pleasure yet further. With digital aid, you plunge into the world of the music while reading the booklet, hearing the sounds or having the informative texts read to you by a pleasant voice – embedded in a fitting acoustic setting, this makes the booklet into an experience. “
A look inside DIANBO®
browse through ‘Early Music Bird
Fairytale-like digital
With our musical ANIMATED, DIGITAL BOOKLET we would like to enable our listeners to immerse themselves in a musical, visually enchanted world and experience old and new music in a completely new way.
”The work “early music bird” is all about beauty and quality in terms of the musicians’ selection of music, the cover of the CD, the finely produced contents.
Daniela KnallerRADIO Ö1, INTRADA - ÖSTERREICHS MUSIZIERENDE IM PORTRÄT
„exceptional
new release“
(Ines Pasz, SWR – TREFFPUNKT KLASSIK)
Audio plays of the work texts
for 'early music bird'
Speaker German radio plays: Michael Weiss
Sound engineer, recording & recording studio German lyrics: Dr Mike Records
Sound dubbing radio plays: Headroom Verlag
DIANBO® on the road
On digitally animated wings, the CD & booklet from early music bird are travelling to new audiences in museums, libraries and bookshops with music and radio plays in their luggage.
Exhibition & event
with a lecture by Dr Marko Deisinger on 15.01.2025
at the University Library of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
with a lecture by Dr Marko Deisinger on 15.01.2025
at the University Library of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
We would like to thank our sponsor mactrix for providing us with this stylish iMac!
MAC COMPUTER
sponsored by
mactrix apple support
Photos in the gallery and in the header above © Daniel Willinger
Event at the University Library of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Copyright notice & links for this page
- Photo in header, Hochosterwitz Castle, photo © Maria Weiss
Calligraphy ‘early music bird’ © Jeannette Mokosch
Video 1607 ensemble, video preview image, screenshot hand on autograph, video 1607 ensemble in front of Pöckstein Castle, Maria Weiss – drone Park Schloss Pöckstein – screenshots © Carmen & Ingo Photography
Chapter: Destination: cited links:
– SRF News, 29.10.2009, CD and record shops threatened with extinction
– Standard, 05.10.2020: Streaming instead of CD: The silver disc on the siding
– Aachener Zeitung, 06.06.2009, Will the printed book soon be obsolete?
Chapter ‘Passion for beautiful sound meets fabulous digital book love’, photo: 1607 ensemble at Schloss Pöckstein © Theresa Pewal
Screenshot Luca Pianca, lute and Maria Weiss, closing shutters at Pöckstein Castle – Screenshots © Carmen & Ingo Photography
End of page: Photos of the DIANBO® exhibition and event at the University Library of the University of Music and Performing Arts ViennaPhotos in the gallery and in the header above © Daniel Willinger
