The name: PERIKATO.
After several months of working in the studio the CD "BLACKBOX I" was released in spring 1994, concerts followed.
In summer 1998 "BLACKBOX" was produced in London in the final version with an enlarged ensemble of 7 musicians and was published new on CD in spring 2000.
One could consider PERIKATO a large-scaled crossover project if one looks at the past of the two exponents - coming from complete different directions and aiming at one point:
Thomas Pernes: " ... the double-concert is a ´hit´, a cluster of sounding energy"(Die Presse) - "One has to count Pernes among the most interesting representatives of really experimental composing" (Neue Zürcher Zeitung).
Karl Ritter: right from the beginning member of the band of ´Kurt Ostbahn´ " ... respected by fans in nearly sacred admiration" (Reinhold Aumaier at the Bavarian Broadcasting Company).
However, PERIKATO goes beyond the simple term "crossover" - not only in the tonal diction: "No more style!"
The formal shape of the music of PERIKATO shows the used classical techniques of composition:
As well in the whole structure of "BLACKBOX", which stretches over all the nine parts and allows a separate view at the respective song - as practised in the popular music -, but defines as an important criterion the separate parts as movements, whose time and ductus form the curve of tension in the given order (and only in this order - a classical strictness), and which enlarges different units of musical thinking to a work.
As in the fine-structure of the separate parts:
Each is put down according to its gestic characteristic, in which the forms of notations cause - even provoke - the structural forms, extending also to the smallest particle of the interpretational realization.
From an extemporized scope, submitted only to a time-limit, through aleatoric, graphic articulated gesture, through exact course-diagrams of permutation-variable structures to accurately and precisely to be performed notations.