Orbits, for piano and fixed media is getting a performance by Valeria Lapsin
Werke von: Luigi Nono, Dimitris Maronidis, Lisa Streich, Johannes Schollhorn, Maximilians A. Soto
22th of February 8pm | Wolfgang Hoffmann Hall | Freiburg | Germany
Valeria Lapsin, Piano | Valeria Vinogradova & Yiannis Giannopoulos elec difussion
Cover photo by Elza Zhrerebchuk
Chaconne for piano trio and electronics is getting a performance at the State Conservatoire of Thessaloniki on 29th of November 2023. Herta Hansena (piano) and Eriks Kirsfelds (Violoncello) who are visiting AUTh with Erasmus are collaborating with Kostas Kampantais (Violin) to present a concert of contemporary music.
The piece was composed during the first half of March 2020 in Thessaloniki after a poem by Gundega Smite and Dimitris Maronidis. The form of the work is a Chaconne in the sense that an imaginary sound of a glass breaking, is repeatedly reflected in all musical gestures, creating a sonic environment where small sonic fragments are generated, cracked, and splintered constantly.
Iannis Xenakis – Paille in the Wind
Maja Einfelde – Four Elegies
Jonathan Harvey – Dialogue and Song
Anton Webern – Three Little Pieces
Eriks Esenvalds – Last Letters
Salvatore Sciarrino – Melencolia I
Gundega Šmite – Cancon de Cuna
Dimitris Maronidis – Chaconne
29th November 2023, 21:00 | State Conservatoire of Thessaloniki | Entrance Free
Orgiastic Compression, for 12 (or more) pianists will be presented, for a second time, at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. The concert will take place on 27th & 28th of April 2023. It will be performed by the Greek Pandemonium as a part of the Thessaloniki Piano Festival 2023. The piece is programmed to be the last piece of the first part of the concert and -as it is asked in the score- it will take the form of a happening, covering all the break and extending till the beginning to the second half of the concert. An extensive set of sound-generating objects (vibrators, electric toothbrushes, etc) will be utilized to create a unique and autonomous soundscape.
Friday 28 & Saturday 29 – Public Performances | 18:00 & 20:30
Thursday 27 & Friday 28 – School Performances | 9.30 & 11.00
Concert Duration 60′ Concert Info: Anastasia Ioannou, tel.6981055760 & info@tpf.gr
More info here
Piandaemonium consists of Charalampos Aggelopoulos, Eftyhia Veniota, Evi Giamopoulou, Nikos Zafranas, Stephanos Thomopoulos, Nikos Kyriosoglou, Christos Lenoutsos, Nefeli Mousoura, Maria Mylaraki, Stephanos Nasos, Dionysis Pantis, Antonis Selemidis, Melina Tsinavou & Kostas Chardas
Pater Noster is my first composition. It was composed back in 1999 and got its premiere 24 years later at Megaron Concert Hall of Thessaloniki in 2023. Though the piece is a Christian prayer, I see God in a broader Spinozian way which encompasses everything and everyone. One thing that connects us all, is the need for hope in difficult and despairing times. I hope this prayer will find its path into the hearts of people who are in such need.
Performed by Choir Lab at the School of Music Studies AUTh
Conducted by Erifili Damianou
Choir Members: Athanasopoulos Ermis, Alexandrou Orthodoxia, Vasileiadi Zoi, Gavriilidou Antonia, Gkekas Anastasis, Gkountelaki Katerina, Glykokokalou Eleni, Grampsas Apostolis, Darkoudis Zacharias, Domvrou Nikoleta, Theocharous Kostas, Thoma Alkistis, Ioannou Lydia, Zazopoulou Ioanna, Kalaitzidou Kyriaki (solo), Kalou Christina, Karapinidi Anthi, Katsiou Vasiliki, Katsonis Grigoris, Kyrtsoudis Nektarios, Lagou Evelina, Mallas Vasilis, Manika Dimitra, Meleneklis Stelios, Beza Alexia, Pagoulatos Diamantis, Roumelioti Maria-rafaella (ariella), Semertsidou Efthymia, Soultanis Dimitris, Stafylidis Konstantinos, Syrlantzi Eva, Topaloglou Christina, Trouli Anastasia, Tsougkra Konstantina, Tsougkra Maria, Filippou Evangelos, Fragkalas Christodoulos
Cover Photo: Vitraux from St. Nicholas Chapel at Thessaloniki
Please watch a new video of Tobias Weiß performing 4 (hommage) études. The concert took place at Fanny Hensel-Saal in Vienna on the 6th of February 2019. The piece is an hommage to the following composers I. Hommage à Helmut Lachenmann, II. Hommage à Gyorgy Ligeti, III. Hommage à Steve Reich and IV. Hommage à Gundega Šmite. Various aspects of the piano playing techniques are highlighted in each of these miniature etudes whilst the fundamental aim of the piece is to help the younger students to open up their minds into a poly-stylistic acoustic environment of negative pedaling, minimalism, patterns, clusters, and isorhythmic structures; in an emotional trip that spans from icy austerity to a warm contemplative nirvana! Enjoy!
Two years after the premiere of my piece Mise en abîme in Riga, I have managed to retrieve the audio files of the recording of that performance! Though the recording suffers from some technical issues (live electronics being recorded only from mics on-stage so lacking a bit of the high frequencies), the spirit of the piece is present here. I think this is probably my most meditative piece so enjoy it in serenity and preferably in dark in your bed!
Mise en abîme is a term used in visual arts to describe a formal technique of placing a copy of an image within itself, often in a way that suggests an infinitely recurring sequence. A common way of experiencing this effect is by standing between two mirrors, seeing, as a result, an infinite reproduction of one’s image. In this piece, I try to imitate this phenomenon in the field of sound. Fragments of music are repeated many times, each time slightly distorted, in order to create perceptually the same effect.
Mise en abîme was commissioned by Arena Festivāls at Riga, Latvia, and was composed in Autumn of 2018. The premiere of the piece took place at VEF Cultural House in Riga on the 30th of October 2018 by Trio ART-i-Shock and Altera Veritas Ensemble collaborating for this unique concert.
This is a LIVE recording of the premiere. Please mind using a pair of headphones, or loudspeakers to listen to this music.
(YouTube painting) “Las Meninas” by Diego Velázquez
During the second Covid-19 lockdown here in Thessaloniki, I received an email from my very good friend Mehmet Can Ozer to contribute to his festival digitIZMir with a video improvisation. I thought this would be a nice opportunity to experiment with a Korg littleBits analogue synth kit I bought a few years ago. In my electronic works, I seek usually for high sound fidelity. This time, I wanted to play in the field of lo-fi electronics. I programmed a simple granulation engine in SuperCollider, plugged the analog synth into my audio interface, and recorded everything with my camera’s onboard microphone on the fly. Tinkering the hardware and experimenting in this way always brings to me memories of my childhood, when I was enjoying so much to disassemble my toys in order to understand how they work and finding ways to make completely new use out of them!
You can watch the video on 13.12.2020, 31 (CET) on the festival’s YouTube channel. Enjoy!
Please listen to a live recording of my most recent piece performed in Riga by LNSO Double Bass Orchestra conducted by Jānis Stafeckis. Fantasia & Toccata was composed in 2020 amidst the worldwide Covid19 pandemic and under tremendously stressful conditions in my personal life. It has been a piece of luck that in that particular circumstance such an extraordinary and weird formation of an ensemble was given in my hands. No other medium could express better the turmoil I was going through the months this piece was composed.
Please mind using a pair of speakers or headphones to listen to this music due to its low-frequency content.
Live recording (Radio 3) of the premiere at Great Guild Hall, Riga 08.10.2020
Performers: LNSO double bass orchestra (Oskars Bokanovs, Toms Timofejevs, Andris Veinbergs, Dāvis Vilks, Alise Broka, Kristaps Pētersons, Jurģis Klotiņš, Gustavs Vilsons, Viktors Stankēvičs, Raivo Ozols, Viktors Veļičko, Haralds Arnis, Undīne Berga, Mārcis Lipskis, Dzintars Sabļins, Raivis Misjuns)
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Please find on youTube a live recording of my new Concerto for Clarinet, String Orchestra, and Electronics, conducted and performed by Guntis Kozma and Sinfonia Concertante at Riga, Latvia on 12th of March 2020.
The piece was commissioned by Mūzikas Festivāls deciBels at Riga, Latvia, and was composed in January of 2020. Please use a pair of headphones, or loudspeakers to listen to this music.
A new video just released! An amazing performance of 5 Movements for solo piano by the Canadian pianist Jana Luksts at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York! This piece was composed back in 2017, in a period when my young son was obsessed with the music of George Gershwin. Listening to the music of Gershwin on a daily basis has influenced my own composition one way or another. Isn’t a composer supposed to be a filter on reality?
Dedicated to my son Iason Maronidis, for being a startling light of hope.
Jana Luksts, piano
Mariano Wainsztein, director
Daniel Baruch, sound
George Katehis, editing, production
On the occasion of the celebration of the European Music Day on 21st of June, a large scale happening is going to take place at Megaron Concert Hall of Thessaloniki at 23:00.
DeFence is an open performance for 4 orchestra conductors, 88 performers with hammers, hand wrenches, motors, sheet metal, cables, and other hardware tools used as sound actuators. The ultimate target of the performance is the disintegration of the wire mesh that surrounds the building M2.
The visual borderline, the boundaries of an image, the physical barriers, are not able to set also a sound limit. Although the conversation with any kind of restriction or borderline is in many cases challenging, in this case, for artistic reasons, such an artistic debate can be initiated only if by the end of the event the physical barrier will disintegrate. The border will be deconstructed and abolished through and within the artistic act itself.
D. Maronidis | Concept | Composition | Electronics | Sound Design | SuperConducting
M. Sionas | Direction
C. Gousios | Audio Engineering
D. Fotiadis, P. Metaxas, T.Sourgounis, Z. Seglias | Conductors
After many years, Froura epi Frouras, my first tape piece, composed at the studios of IPSA (AHEPA Hospital) is getting a performance at Thessaloniki in the festival of electroacoustic music and performing arts OffBorders. The piece was composed after the poem by the Greek surrealist poet Andreas Empeirikos.
Η τρομερή ιστορία δεν τελείωσε. Ακόμη πέφτουν σταλαγματιά-σταλαγματιά (κάθε λεπτό και ένας ερυθρόδερμος που πίπτει) τα διαμάντια των παγκοσμίων λουτροπόλεων μέσα στον όλεθρο του φορέματος της νεαρής ψυχοπαραδαρμενοπούλας κ’ έτσι την εντολή της πρωραίας ψυχής του καταρτιού δεν θα την μαλάξη κανείς άλλος παρά ο μαλακός μάγιστρος της μεροβηγκιανής κλεψύδρας. Τα γυναικόπαιδα που θα παρίστανται μεσ’ στην ψυχή μου θα λυπηθούν που δεν κατάγονται σαφώς από την προχθεσινή μεταπώλησι του δικέφαλου βάζου στην ερημιά των πλαγιαύλων
Place — A4M Centre for Performing Arts Thessaloniki.
Date — Saturday 21 April 2018 20:00
OFF BORDERS
FESTIVAL OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC, VIDEO & PERFORMING ARTS
21 & 22 April 2018, Thessaloniki
