Clemens Gadenstätter (*1966) studied composition in Vienna and Stuttgart under Helmut Lachenmann. He teaches at the University of Music in Graz as a professor of Analysis, Music Theory, and Composition. Gadenstätter's musical undertaking explores the compositional resynthesis of perception, sensation and feeling. For him, this should bring together the trinity of listening, comprehension, and composition. His recent work concerns the transformation of acoustically triggered, pre-formed feelings, the notion of the banal, the poly-modality of listening as well as musical iconography. Gadenstätter's work has been commissioned by the Donaueschingen Festival, Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart, Witten Days for New Chamber Music, Wien Modern, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Musikbiennale Berlin, Salzburg Festspiele, Salzburg Biennale, steirischer herbst, Ultima Oslo, and more.