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DeFence at Τhessaloniki Concert Hall

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

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Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schönberg | Athens

Arnold Schoenberg’s most famous work and a touchstone of musical modernism, “Pierrot Lunaire” has been turned into a music theatre production by the combined forces of the dissonArt ensemble, composer Dimitris Maronidis (electronics), and director Alexandros Efklidis.

“Pierrot Lunaire” (1912), the first atonal masterpiece from the father of the twelve-tone technique, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), is transformed here into a piece of music theatre. The vocally demanding role of Pierrot is performed by Frauke Aulbert, a singer the international Press has dubbed the “Queen of avant-garde”.

On a set inspired by Man’s efforts to commune with the universe, musicians and stage performers execute minor rituals that they hope will bring them closer to the unknown to which they aspire. Making use of the innate theatricality of the 21 poems by Albert Giraud which Schoenberg set to music, the production brings together Schoenberg’s historic avant-garde, contemporary psychoacoustics, the moon-dreams of the post-Romantic Pierrot, and the bleakness of the world after the conquest of the Moon.

Athens | Stegi | 2&3 April 2016

https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/pierrot-lunaire-by-arnold-sch%C3%B6nberg

Transient Beauty released on CD by Luc Ferrari Competition | France

Transient Beauty for Tape is now released on a CD in a limited edition by the organizers of the International Electronic Music Competition “Luc Ferrari – Presque Rien”. 

Info about the CD Here

The work “Transient Beauty” was composed at ICST ZHdK Zurich during a two weeks residency in August of 2015 and it reflects all the dramatic conditions I was going through, in the previous month, during a very unstable (politically and economically) period in Greece. The form of the piece consists in reality a transition from a very dense, noisy, harsh, and chaotic sound world to the beauty and tranquility of a calm woman’s voice reflecting the alteration between feelings of immense anxiety and hope.

[…]Turning shadow into transient beauty (T.S. Eliot)

Hi-Hat at Ars Electronica Forum Wallis | Switzerland

Hi-Hat for tape is getting a performance at the festival Ars Electronica, Forum Wallis in Switzerland on 22 May 23h30m, 2015. Hi-hat is an acousmatic composition solely based on recorded sounds from a hi-hat. You can find more info about the fiestival at the link below. Enjoy!

https://www.forumwallis.ch/programm-2015ecpnmelectronica.htm

SoundWalk Revolution & Metamorphosis | Lisabon | Portugal

SoundWalk 2014 Revolution and Metamorphosis

Ispahan for tape will be presented at Lisbon as a part of Sound Walk 2014 – Revolution and Metamorphosis, Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution.

From among around 100 works received from 26 different countries, Miso Music Portugal has selected 12 works. The Sound Walk 2014 – Revolution and Metamorphosis will be presented in the form of a sound installation during the Música Viva 2014 Festival, on November 23 and 24, from 6h00 p.m. to 11h00 p.m., at O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon. 

Premiere of Sculpture by Chimera String Orchestra York | UK

Sculpture for String Orchestra scattered within the audience got its first performance on the 20th of June 2008. The Chimera Ensemble played the piece under the direction of Maria Leach at the concert hall Jack Lyons in the University of York, UK. The piece is dedicated to my daughter Sophie who was born just the day before the concert! A recording of the piece here

Matinée for voice and ensemble at Jack Lyons York | UK

Matinée got its premiere on 29 February 2008 at sir Jack Lyons concert Hall at the University of York by Chimera Ensemble. The piece is based on a Markovian reconstruction of a poem by Kiki Dimoula. The music is scored for voice (soprano) and ensemble.