OCTOPHONIC EVENTS UK
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LET'S DANCE
LET'S DANCE is the incidental dancing of the underground railway passengers of Barcelona; but it could be everywhere in the world. Isolated or ordinary movements sometimes undetected, almost mperceptible, combine in the swaying motion of the train that runs toward its destinction. The whole forms a choreography that is done without one realizing. Even a passenger standing between two carriages becomes an involuntary spectator of this daily event.
"IRIDE PROJECT" is a performing duo and an exciting research into non-deterministic electro-acoustic music and sound-emphasis poetry by Massimo Davi & Monica Miuccio. As tools of their research they adopt an array of conventional and unconventional instruments, alongside with piezoelectric transducers, field recordings, live electronics and voice.
Massimo holds a Master's Degree in Music and Teaching Certification in Music Education and is a member of Association of Irish Composers, Spatial Music Collective and Irish Sound Science and Technology Association. Monica is the Poet and Performer of the Duo and her works were awarded top prizes at several Literary competition between 1993 and 1998 and were featured in prestigious publications such as the academic psychology magazine “Tecniche Conversazionali” (Milano).
Iride Project's works were performed in Italy, Portugal, Finland, Germany, Mexico, Macedonia and Ireland and are regularly featured on Irish National Radio RTÉ Lyric FM Bernard Clarke's program "Nova"
THE GARDEN OF ADUMBRATIONS
"The Garden of Adumbrations" is an electroacoustic composition made entirely of field recordings from Limerick, Ireland. Some sounds have been subject to musique concrète techniques while others have been presented unaltered. The result is an anecdotal experience that involves the listener in an unfolding sonic ecosystem. It is a "shadowing forth", a sketch, a representation that admits to being nothing more than an imperfect portrayal of its own ongoing process, that is, the act of living in a world of connections, shadows, representations and challenges.
Robin Parmar is an intermedia artist whose practice incorporates electroacoustics, radiophonics, field recording, and experimental film. Works have appeared in Ireland, England, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Slovenia, Canada, and the USA. In 2014 Gruenrekorder released his fifth album "...between...", a collaboration with David Colohan. Currently he is researching the aural phenomenology of place for a doctorate at De Montfort University, Leicester.
ALEXONICS
This octophonic and octovisual piece explores the sound properties of the Round reading room in the Swansea College of Art building on Alexandra road. The work is made for, by and in this room and seeks to bring the space to life in new ways. The composition is Designed to be on fixed loop as an installation in this opulently aesthetic space.
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RADIALI
Radiali consists of six elementary files of different texture undergoing a set of transformations for six times in slightly uneven cycles. Every transformation is a diversion in many directions moving away from the source files. As in light diffusion, the source is visible in the effects: light can be seen far from the light source. In Radiali such as phenomenology of visibility - and of disgregation - is experienced as audibility in space. The spatialisation is an essential part of the work.
Ph.D in Philosophy (Freie Universität Berlin, 2005). He presented papers in Harvard, Cambridge, Paris, Jerusalem, Toronto, Mannheim, Darmstadt, Frankfurt and, with Pierluigi Billone, in Palermo. Diplomas in Electronic Music at the Conservatory of Venice, studying with Alvise Vidolin, and in Composition at the Kunstuniversität Graz studying with Beat Furrer. Master classes with Giacomo Manzoni, Agostino Di Scipio, SWR Experimentalstudio Freiburg. Performances in Novara (Galleria UXA), Venice (Music Biennale, Teatrino Groggia, Odhecaton 2013), Graz (Open Cube IEM, Minoritensaal, Impuls 2011), Rome (EMUFest), Berlin (BKA), Barcelona (Zeppelin Festival), Boston (Csound Conference 2013), University of Kent (Symposium of Acoustic Ecology 2013), Padua (SMUG 2014), Madrid (Espacios Sonoros 2014). He teaches Aesthetics and Sound Design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Foggia, Italy; he lives in Venice.
LA SCATOLA NERA
I wanted to capture to the letter and then put into practice some of the precepts that shaped Cage’s compositional actions regarding its conception of the form as acting (where “acting” is intended in the broadest sense that the American semantics allow to the term). In this sense I decided to electronically process the original samples, each of us independently, without knowing what the others were doing but starting always from the same original samples according to pre-established time-nodes and synchronies: each fragment amalgamated with others according to action-painted relations of synchronous contiguity, with regard to Cage’s idea of creation as an impersonal act.
Roberto Zanata born in Cagliari, Italy where he also graduated in Philosophy. A composer, musician and musicologist in electronic music, he studied and graduated in composition and electronic music at the Conservatory of Cagliari. In the middle of nineties Roberto became active in Italy and abroad. He wrote chamber music, music for theatre, computer music, electroacoustic and acousmatic music as well as multimedia works.
THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE
Goldilocks zone is a minimalist piece drawing inspiration from the works of La Monte Young & Philip Glass. The piece layers multiple time signatures on top of each other in parts that move in sympathy throughout the room. The layers are placed upon a background of shifting chordal drones.
AJ Laveaux is a sonic artist, audio engineer and musician based in Swansea UK. He has over 12 years of music performance experience and has studied both a BSc in Music Technology and an MA in Creative Sound Design at the University of Wales: Trinity Saint David. After completing his MA he was retained by the University as the music department's Artist in Residence as well as lecturing on the BSc degree.
DITHYRAM
Kepler 62e is one of a recently discovered class of earth-like planets. If we were to make landfall on such a planet we know that the laws of physics would be the same and, if we could survive there without extensive technological support, the properties of the atmosphere would have to be similar to those on Earth. So music that we can hear and appreciate might well exist on this distant world - but we have no way to predict details of the technical culture or the aesthetic world in which it would have emerged.
“Dithyramb - Kepler 62e” attempts to conjure up such an alien music using imaginary, yet physically possible, brass and percussion instruments and imaginative extensions of these. The instruments were created using physical modelling software developed by the NESS research project at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the European Research Council.
Trevor Wishart is one of the best known composers of electro-acoustic music in the world today. He has held composer residencies in Australia, Canada, Holland, Berlin and the USA, and is currently on the staff of Durham University. He lives in York and is published by UYMP. (http://www.york.ac.uk/music/staff/honorary/trevorwishart/)
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MUSICALES
This was a piece written some time ago and there are no notes to accompany the piece, however I have been informed by Nikos this piece was composed in Wales! Nikos has composed music for video and dance and his music has been awarded mentions and prizes at international competitions.
Nikos Stavropoulos studied piano, harmony and counterpoint at the National School of Music and Nakas conservatoire in Greece. In 2000 he graduated from the Music Department of the University of Wales, Bangor where he was awarded an MMus in electroacoustic composition studying with Dr Andrew Lewis. In 2005 he completed a PhD at the University of Sheffield Sound Studios with Dr Adrian Moore specializing in tape composition in stereo and multi channel formats, as well as music for video and live electronics.
His work ranges from instrumental to tape and mixed media. He has composed music for video and dance and his music has been awarded mentions and prizes at international competitions. He joined the Music, Sound and Performance Group at our University in 2006 and is a founding member of the Echochroma New Music Research Group. (http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/dr-nikos-stavropoulos/)