Orbits, an electroacoustic piece for piano and fixed media is getting a new exciting performance by Valeria Lapsin at the Concert Particles #10 in Freiburg. Electronics will be diffused by Valeria Vinogradova on a 10-channel audio setup.
6th of June 7:30 pm | Wolfgang Hoffmann Hall | Freiburg | Germany
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Korda SouncScapes is an in-situ sound installation/performance that creates an extensive and unpredictable soundscape through the use of the mobile devices of the participating audience. This sound walk will take place as a part of a broader performance at the military camp Kodra of Kalamaria in Thessaloniki. An experienced guide will navigate you through the buildings and wrecks of this dystopic place. Participants are encouraged to remain silent but hear very actively. The journey involves many stops where, dance, theatrical actions, monologues, and video projections will occur in a strongly interactive environment
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
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
Pater Noster for mixed choir is getting its premiere a quarter of a century after it was composed at Thessaloniki Megaron-Concert Hall. The premiere comes at a devastating period as my hometown, Thessaloniki, mourns the victims of a horrifying rail accident that cost the lives of many people, many of whom were students at the university where I teach. I dedicate the performance of this prayer to the memory of the victims.
The concert will take place on the 6th of April 2023 as a part of the 10th Children’s – youth choir festival: THE A CAPELLA TIME
Choir Lab AUTh | Conductor Erifili Damianou April 6th, 2023 | Thessaloniki Concert Hall
Nexus I for Accordion and fixed media is getting its world premiere by Peter Katina. The concert will take place at Divadlo Viola Centre on 7th of December 2022. The piece is dedicated to Peter who has commissioned it. In this piece, the Accordion is in an open dialogue and connection (nexus) with an imaginary part of itself (electronics). The musical material consists of very small, fragmented gestures closely examined and observed from multiple perspectives. The electronic part has at times symbiotic character, at other times an anti-biotic one. The sonic image of the piece can be seen as unpredictable star reflections on mirrors placed into the darkness of the abyss.
Orbits for piano and tape is getting a performance in Korea by Jongin Moon. The piece will be played as a part of this year’s Arts Incubator festival “Borderless Point”. October 22, 17pm at Oil Tank Culture Park T1, T2. More information about the festival and the program can be found here https://audio-trading-manual.kr/index.html
Atkal got a new transcription (Bass Flute and Alto) and was premiered on the 23rd of September 2022 by Helēna Sorokina (Alto) and Elena Gabbrielli (Flutes) at Leechkirche, Graz. The piece was performed as a part of the project Singing Flute along with pieces by Gundega Smite, Liva Bluma, Sarah Grace Graves, Elisabeth Harnik, Rebecca Saunders, and Salvatore Sciarrino.
On April 6th, Fani Karagianni is presenting a new CD release with Contemporary Greek works for solo piano. The album includes 18 works for solo piano by 13 Greek composers of the 20th and 21st century: Nikos Skalkotas, Giannis A. Papaioannou, Argyris Kounadis, Costas Nikitas, Christos Samaras, Costas Tsougras, Maronidis, Dimitris Oikonomou, Stella Dalampira, Glykeria Koutoula, Orestis Papaioannou. The 4th etude from 4 (Hommage) Etudes is included in the CD.
There will be a round-table discussion with Costas Tsougras, Fani Karagianni, Georgios-Ioulios Papadopoulos, George Sakallieros, Petros Vouvaris. The presentation/concert will take place at the concert hall “Melina Mercouri” of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki (15 Frangon, Thessaloniki) on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at 20:00.
Multiplexing is now exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art MOMus at Thessaloniki as part of the exhibition “Public Domain”. The exhibition takes place from 11th of March 2022 till 25th of September 2022. The opening on 11.3 is free for the public.
In telecommunications and computer networks, multiplexing (MUX) is a method in which multiple analog or digital signals are combined into one over a shared medium. The aim is usually to share a scarce resource. For example, in telecommunications, several telephone calls may be carried using one wire. Multiplexing originated in telegraphy in the 1870s, and is now widely applied in communications. In this particular work, the idea of MUX is transferred into the sound domain. A series of logically performed processes are channeled and distributed through a transistor array, activating a matrix of micro-sound sources thus building a large, mechanically generated, sound-cloud. Each cell of the system is becoming a part of a larger sound body. Each voice, no matter how infinitesimal, matters in order to build a collective sound-set. The work symbolically refers to the unity that we all need -in these dark days- in our world.
7 Consecutive INVENTions are getting a performance by the Greek pianist Fani Karagianni at
AI and Music S+T+ARTS Festival: Synergies of musical creation with Artificial Intelligence Thursday 28 15:20 – 15:35 | Streaming Channel 1
In this exclusive audiovisual streaming, presented by the AI research and communication platform Artificia, we go behind the scenes of Thessaloniki Universities AI Chameleon, a GAN capable of generating musical harmonies that can be used by composers. In a 15 minute capsule, a chamber quartet of musicians from Barcelona’s OBC and the Greek pianist Fanny Karagianni will play pieces whose harmonic content was based on human-machine interaction.
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!
