My Master Project: Konstantin Kräutler-Horváth – As We Speak

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Can a car-leasing complaint groove? Can a Monty Python insult become a jazz melody? In Konstantin Kräutler-Horváth’s master project, spoken language becomes fully-fledged musical material. Through detailed pitch and rhythm analysis of spoken phrases, Konstantin transforms real-world speech into harmonized, structured jazz compositions.

Why it stands out

As We Speak demonstrates how deeply musical ordinary speech can be. It merges humor, rhythmic precision, and artistic research into a fresh jazz aesthetic where language itself becomes the score.

Music that speaks. Speech that sings.

The Leasing Contract

A comedic monologue by Gerhard Polt becomes a jazz tune through melodic extraction and harmonic framing.