Paolo Pastorino (1983) is an italian guitarist, composer. UAM-X(sound installation with 3 bass loudspeakers and very Since 2006 he starts to work as sound engineer for some low frequency waves) and HF 114 (electronic composition Rock, Industrial and Nu-Metal bands. He studied and for 7 transmitters) more and more means from the graduated in computer music and sound technology at area of the electronic music, the sound design, the high- the Conservatory of Sassari (2015). frequency engineering and the internet are included in his artistic conception. In his works he use not only electronic instruments e electronic composition NEARNESS was published and algorithms realized by so ware but also tradiional on the “Sonic Circuit” festival CD 2001. instruments electronically elaborated and others concrete e 3rd string quartet (1998/99) was played by the Nevsky elements existents in nature. His experience doesn´t string of Quartet St. Petersburg for the rst time. regards only traditional and electronic composing, but CD production for „Ich schulde der Welt einen Toten“ also the implementation of control systems, developed (theatre play 1997). on MAX MSP, for live electronics and for assisted He got the composition price of the city of Stuttgart (1982) and the composition price “Luis de Narvàez” Granada (1993) for the 1st and 2nd string quartet. Recordings made by WDR, ORF, Deutschlandradio, radio Koper, Ljubljana-TV and BR. Compositions for chamber ensemble, orchestra, Christoph eiler electronics, theatre and radio play. (1959/BRD) Concerts and performances in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Paolo Pastorino “Raumloser Ort“ means Room-less place, a place with France, no dimensions. is composition was made in 2016. e South America, the USA and Russia. composition is a acustically description of a place with no Together with Renate Pittro he foundes the label is track was made with samples recorded from a dimensions (similar to a place in jail). Dramatucally it “wechselstrom”. Based in Vienna, they run an o space, shortwaves radio. I tried to recreate an abstracted goes from situation in jail to freedom. which is a room for exhibitions, media activism and all ambience di erent from what makes a simple radio into art forms on the fringe of culture. a room. t is divided in four scenes, four moments that Studies in Nuernberg, Stuttgart and Vienna. describe di erent moods that accompanied me while Christoph eiler (1959/BRD) Composition prices and awards: City of Stuttgart, composing. Altering a real ambience is what i do in all lives in Vienna since 1982. Working as freelance composer Muenster, Composers Competition - Florida, “piano in my compositions. rough the elaboration of concrete and media artist. Concert” composition competition Berlin, “Floriana” -- sounds i’m searching for new timbres that lead me to His last works are established in the area multimedia and Linz, “Luis de Narvàez” - Granada, I.C.O.N.S. - Turin, choose a di erent compositional strategies and solutions sound installation. GATE II+III are the works, in “Ivan Spassov – Foundation” – Bulgaria, “Weimarer so as to make each new composition. which new forms of interactive sound design were Frühjahrstage für Zeitgenoessische Musik” – Weimar, developed. As in the case of MEMBRAN II (for e-guitar, Human Interface Award Wolfsburg. rough the elaboration of concrete sounds i’m searching sax for new timbres that lead me to choose a di erent and medium wave transmitters), M.O. - HERZ + MUND compositional strategies and solutions so as to make each new composition di erent from the others. Fabio De Snctis [Last update: 13th of UAM-XApril, 2016] He has taken up the half-yearly courses of Harmony and Fabio De Sanctis De Benedictis was born in Pisa in 1963. Counterpoint Elements in Cinema Music and eatre “Vibrazione su blu” is inspired to a picture by Turcato. He graduated in Violin, Choir Music and Department, Faculty of Letters, University of Pisa, from e picture has been assumed as graphic score of Conducting, Composition, the latter cum laude. 2001 to 2009. He holds a course of Composition Techniques the electronic piece, so that background has been in Genoa Conservatory for the course of Electronic Music. divided into four quadrants and a central zone, then He triennially attended the composition courses kept transformed in granular sound by an equivalence by Giacomo Manzoni at the Fiesole Music School. At present he is ordinary professor of Complementary pixel = sound grain, edited and stretched in time. Winner in various national and international Harmony, Fundamentals of Composition and Musical e foreground elements have generated metal and Composition competitions, his scores are published Analysis in Superior Musical Studies Institute “P. membrane sounds recurring to transformation by and/or recorded on CD by fonè, SAM and Ars Publica. Mascagni”, attends to Composition and Musical algorithmic composition so ware and resonators. His works have been performed in Italy, Belgium, Analysis, mainly working on Open Source and Ircam e choice of metal sounds is dued to the Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, Croatia. so ware, Linux and OsX platform in the ambit of fact that Turcato has produced jewels, too. His Musical Analyses, Music Didactics, Electronic Music Electronic Music and Algorithmic Composition. He Lastly everything has been mixed into papers have been published on specialized journals in keeps a Composition Laboratory in Pontedera (PI). three streams, freely edited by hand with a Italy and abroad, such: Sonus, Aulos, Tibiae (Germany), MIDI controller for volumes and panning. Tetraktys, Civiltà Musicale, Musica Domani, Facoltà di Matematica (Pisa University), Analitica, Musicology Papers (Romania), XX CIM Proceedings (AIMI, Italy), Gli Spazi della Musica, ISSM “P. Mascagni”. A paper of him will be present in third Ircam volume of the series “OM Composer’s Book”. Didactics in several Italian Conservatories, Musical
Analysis in Professional Courses nanced by e He took part as lecturer to meetings and seminars for: European Community, in various seminaries kept in Analitica (Rimini); Domus Galileiana (Pisa University, the Conservatory of Latina, and in the bachelor and Italy); Lemmens Instituut (Leuveen, Belgium); EuroMac master courses in the ISSM “P. Mascagni” in Leghorn. 2011 - VII European Music Analysis Conference in He has kept an Algorithmic Composition Rome, Santa Cecilia Conservatory;Escola Superior Masterclass in Genoa Conservatory. de Artes Aplicadas by Instituto Politécnico de Castelo
Branco (Portugal); Academia de Muzică “Gheorghe He turned out winner, in the contests for titles and exams Dima” in Cluj (Romania); Conservatorio Superior de to chairs in: Complementary Harmony, Harmony and Música “Manuel Castillo” Seville (Spain); Colloqui di Counterpoint, eory, Solfège and Music Dictation, Informatica Musicale by AIMI, Italian Music Informatics Foundations of Musical Composition for the Didactics Association Santa Cecilia Conservatory, Rome; Ircam (Conservatories); Complementary Harmony, eory, Forum Workshop (Paris). Solfège and Music Dictation (Superior Musical
Studies Institute “P. Mascagni”); Solfège (Dance Since 1992 he has taught Harmony and Counterpoint Academy in Rome), obtaining several calls to teach. and Foundations of Musical Composition for the
UAM-X exposed to in the early weeks a er my elements, from graphic design to guest Valentin Becmann arrival in the UK. ‘Shards of Fire’, as it interviews and social media strategy. translates, also represent the extreme It is following the same logic that Composed during a recent stay in rapidity and intensity with which she now focuses more substantially Quebec and with the exceptionnal one’s life may be completely changed on the tradition of performance in presence of a Balinese gamelan with one single travel. at the Univerty of Montréal, Originating from Montréal, Vanessa Kamudhunan Kasukman is an has studied music her entire life. ascetic comtemplation of resonance When she discovered electroacoustic and of it’s internal variations. Slow music in college, she also discovered tempi and wid movements follows a whole new means of expression a time-dilated attention of micro- and went on to pursue composition phenomena and macro ruptures. studies at the Conservatoire de e composition is also and echo of musique de Montréal with Yves Indonesian music that I like so much. Vanessa sorce Daoust and Martin Bédard from 2008 to 2013. During those years, Self-taught multi-instrumentalist Éclats de Feux - 2016 - 10’08 she has refined her already very and composer from France, student Transitional work of my journey rich artistic sensitivity and explored at the Royal Conservatory of Mons in in composition, Éclats de aesthetic inspirations such as the acousmatic composition program and Feux started with many sound forces of nature, travel, ancient texts participing in an exchange program recordings of objects and spaces and the North. In conjunction with in Montreal under the direction of found around Sheffield. As the first mastering the skills of acousmatic Robert Normandeau in fall 2015, piece of my doctoral portfolio, this composition and performance, she his acousmatic music were played one acts as a bridge between the has also lead many collaborative in France, Belgium and Quebec. school of Montréal, where I come interdisciplinary projects, such as His eld of investigation also covers from, and the e ervescence of music for mime, music, for theatre, guitar improvisation accompanied British acousmatic. In this piece, music for dance, video art and by electronic so ware processing he I explored the contrasts between collaboration with a sculptor. She has created around Max/MSP and more powerful masses and up-close solo then received a Prize with Distinction recently audiovisual installation. objects, with a particular sensitivity upon completing her master’s in to the use of space in stereophony, electroacoustic composition in as my research is focused on the 2013. With a strong interest for the interpretation and performance of dissemination of contemporary acousmatic music. e title refers arts and electroacoustic music in to the impressive bonfire nights particular, Vanessa has been in charge and endless fireworks I have been of numerous concert promotion UAM-X individual sound also directly leads Composers Forum/LA Annual the listener and suggests a luminous, City Stages Festival, Festival Miami, to the subtle changes of timbre in the Composer’s Competition (2009), dreamlike culling of various emotive the Czech-American Summer life span of each sound. e piece in Fi h House Ensemble Competition responses. ere are monolithic Music Workshop, CCMIX in Paris, general progresses from darkness to (2009), Seoul International devices employed throughout the SEAMUS Conferences, ArtSounds in extreme brightness toward the end Competition for Composers in Korea work in order to reinforce a notion of Kansas City, Artomatic in Arlington, of the piece, taking the audience (2007), Bourges Competition in unrelenting and inevitable Virginia, Electronic Music Midwest, through a journey in the mystical France (2006, 2001), Look & Listen confrontation. Such technical New Music Forum in San Francisco, land of sound and light. Festival Prize (2002), Pierre Schae er devices as minimal panning and the School for Designing a Society in Mei-Fang Lin received her Ph.D. in Competition in Italy (2002), SCI/ quasi-identical spatial frameworks Urbana, Illinois, Electroacoustic Juke composition from the University ASCAP Student Commission help to con rm these self-contained Joint in Cleveland, Mississippi, and the of California at Berkeley where she Competition (2001), Luigi Russolo syntaxes. Oppressive still is the Spark Festival in Minneapolis. He has studied with Edmund Campion and Competition in Italy (2001), Prix formal suggestion of the anti-climax. also been a participant at the MusicX Edwin Dugger. With the support SCRIME in France (2000), National Methods of tension and release are Festival, the Ernst Bloch Music of a Frank Huntington Beebe Fund Association of Composers, USA paced towards the beginning of the Festival, the Elliott Carter/Oliver from Boston and a George Ladd Paris Competition (2000), 21st Century work where processing of raw sources Knussen Chamber Music Intensive Prize from UC Berkeley, Lin lived in Piano Commission Competition is replete in contrast to the stark, Workshop at Carnegie Hall, and the France from 2002-2005, where she (1999), Music Taipei Composition minimally processed latter sections Oregon Bach Festival. His electro- studied composition with Philippe Competition in Taiwan (1998, 1997). of the work that are prevalent with an acoustic music has been recognized Leroux, orchestration with Marc- Her music has received performances exposed counterpoint of pure vocal in France by Elektrophonie’s sources. NuitBleue Music Festival, the Futura Mei-Fang Lin André Dalbavie, and was selected and broadcasts internationally in by the IRCAM reading panel to over 30 countries in the world. Lin is Philip Schuessler’s Philip Schuessler’s music explores Festival, and the Bourges Residence. Recent awards also include winning participate in the one-year intensive also active as a conductor and pianist, Fairfax is a collage piece that the intricacies of subtle timbres and the 2016 Cello Lo Commission for Entre le son et la lumière computer music course “Cursus de focusing mainly on contemporary interweaves and layers a series of delicate dynamics through extended Cello and Percussion, the 2012 Duo “Entre le son et la lumière” is an Composition” at IRCAM in Paris. repertoires. dramatic narratives. acoustic and electro-acoustic Fujin Composition Competition exploration of the connections Lin got her master’s degree from Approximately 85 –90 percent of the resources. Many worldrenowned and nalist in Random Access between sound and light. Di erent the University of Illinois at Urbana- sounds were derived from raw or artists and ensembles such as Yarn/ Music’s call for scores. He is also types of sounds in terms of their Champaign where she also taught manipulated vocal sources. e work Wire, Timetable, Mantra Percussion the recent recipient of a Composers degree of brightness are used, as Visiting Assistant Professor of is a study in the relaying of a story Ensemble, Dither Guitar Quartet, Assistance Program grant from New ranging from pitched, non-pitched, Composition from 2007-2009. She and how the devices of dramatic Hypercube Ensemble, Pesedjet, Music USA. Schuessler received his to noise-based sounds. ey are was appointed Assistant Professor storytelling can become a story in Iktus Percussion, violinist Graeme Bachelors Degree in composition at meant to evoke di erent sensations of of Composition at the Texas Tech and of themselves. Furthermore, the Jennings, cellist Craig Hultgren, Birmingham-Southern College, his darkness or brightness, which is o en University in 2009, and became work explores the inherent musical and soprano Tony Arnold have Masters Degree from the University controlled through the exclusion or Associate Professor of Composition qualities implied in the inected championed his music. He has had of Miami, and his PhD from the State inclusion of upper partial harmonics there in 2015. human voice. A certain ambiguity to works performed at notable venues University of New York at Stony Brook. of each sound as well as general Lin has received awards for her music the loosely connected narratives such as June in Bu alo, the University dynamic shaping. e evolution from the Musica Domani International invites an unhinged disorientation for of Tennessee at Chattanooga New of the harmonic content of each Competition (2012), American Music Symposium, Birmingham UAM-X mind, I allowed myself to fall deep media, mechatronic art, and permeability is a means of accessing Omahan has performed and into episodes of scattered, timeless interdisciplinary collaboration, and employing the sounds of our engineered at the Marlboro Music memories, although I experienced among others. His work is o en current, technologically saturated Festival. In the 2015 season, 4 them in a linear, narrative way. I informed by the diverse articulations lives. instrument and electronics pieces wanted to compose something based of time and space in various domains by the composer-in-residence, on this experience. such as art, literature, culture, and Kaija Saariaho, were performed. politics, and may be viewed as a Nymphea, for String Quartet and I then wondered: Why have I been process of trans guring these into Born in Battle Creek, Michigan, Electronics, featured performers so obsessed with achieving a sense music, providing the audience with a Tessa Lark (violin), Lucy Chapman of coherence in my music? I could contemplative medium. United States of America and raised in Gambier, Ohio, United (violin), John Stulz (viola), and Sarah not answer the question for sure, Currently a Dean’s Fellow in GSAS Rommel (violoncello). Over thirty but maybe it is my desire to obtain at Columbia University, Shih-Wei States of America, Matt Omahan has been composing electronic and hours of intense rehearsal under the control and supremacy in order is pursuing a DMA in Composition careful guidance of Saariaho and to react to how life is — a er all, under the tutelage of George Lewis. acoustic music for almost a decade. His main focuses are acousmatic Jean-Baptiste Barrière were put into life is unpredictable. I wanted to He earned his MM in Composition these performances. Outside of these do something di erent this time... from the University of Washington, composition, modular synthesizers, and acoustic composition. is Fall, performances, Omahan is also the there would be some moments where he worked with Huck Hodge Assistant Recording Engineer, where when one would dri , meditate, and and Juan Pampin, and also taught Matt Omahan he will be continuing his studies Shih-Wei Lo On e Fringe at the University of Manchester, he aided in recording and producing dissolve within the timeless streams at the Center for Digital Arts and We are constantly surrounded by recordings that see play on National of sound. S/he would come back Experimental Media (DXARTS). pursuing a Master’s Degree in little bits of designed sound. From a Electroacoustic Composition. Public Radio. He will be returning to reality eventually, but that does Prior to the graduate studies in cell phone’s keyboard clicks on touch for his third season in the summer of not prevent diving back into the the United States, he studied with Omahan is an alumnus of the During evening walks while living in screens to synthesized engine noises 2016. streams of reminiscence whenever Ching-Wen Chao and Kris Falk at Oberlin Conservatory of Music’s Seattle, I would ruminate and so ly in electric vehicles, synthesized the opportunity presents itself. e National Taiwan Normal University, Technology in Music and the Related recite phrases I had read in a book or sounds have reached a new contrast between the past and the receiving his BFA in Music eory Arts program with an Acoustic observed in my surroundings (o en commonality and—in cases such as present is embedded in the context and Composition. Composition minor, most recently during a break, sitting in a co ee these—replaced real world sounds. constructed through the reciting studying under Peter Swendsen and shop). I keep this habit in New York If a synthesized sound reaches the voices and the nonhuman sounds/ Aaron Helgeson. Other primary City (except that it is harder to nd ubiquity and recognizability of that vocal noises, shaping how narration instructors included Tom Lopez, a seat in a co ee shop), but a er of a real world sound, does it, in turn, and interruption are perceived in the Josh Levine, Lyn Goeringer, and the rst several days I moved in, I become a “real world sound”? In e piece. I tried to settle the unsettling. Ross Feller. Additionally, Omahan realized I could not help but recall the Scattering, I employ this combination Or, did I actually forge the unsettling? has taken lessons and participated experience in Seattle while wandering of real-world sounds and synthesized in masterclasses with composers the streets in Morningside Heights. sound. Field recordings of forest wind, such as Kaija Saariaho, Fred Lerdahl, I felt as if I had been standing on a ocean waves, and urban soundscapes Taiwanese composer Shih-Wei George Lewis, Elizabeth Ho man, fringe; a high wire. Whenever the are freely mixed with analog and Lo creates music that involves Marcos Balter, and David Lang. shadow of Seattle ashed through my digital synthesis. Navigating this acoustic instruments, voice, digital UAM-X metaphors.Le eris Papadimitriou in Psychology at the University of / Intensität / Es (K. Stockhausen) Padua and the professional license at (Milan). the University of Milan Bicocca. His Le eris Papadimitriou is a Greek works were selected in composition composer and performer. He holds competitions and calls as «Today’s a PhD in composition from the music» (Teatro in Scatola, Rome), University of Hudders eld with the «Mauricio Kagel» (3rd edition; Istitut support of a scholarship from the Ludwig van Beethoven, Universität Hudders eld contemporary music für Musik und darstellende Kunst; festival and the Centre of Research in Wien), «Crisis and Rebirth» (Eutopia New Music. Compositional interests Hans Martin Ensemble, Genoa), «Feeding the include the exploration of the notion music» (Expo, Milan), «Concerti di of ”hybridity” between instrumental Poïèse was realized in 2016 at the Mezzogiorno» (Orta S. Giulio), «XX and acousmatic media, psychological studios of the Montréal music Festival Internacional de Música mapping of aural signals on conservatory. It was premiered on May Electroacústica» («Synchresis»; conceptual and physical musical 12, 2016, as part of the concert series Valencia e Granada), «Sergio OMAR DODARO spaces, employment of surrealistic “Électrochoc,” organized by Akousma Dragoni» (Società del Quartetto; Le eris Papadimitriou and visual techniques, information (réseaux des arts médiatiques) in Milan), «Pierre Schae er» (AMP; L’Union libre is a piece based networks and montage. In 2006 he won Montréal (Canada). Pescara), «Punti di ascolto nr. 6» on Andre Breton’s poem with the international Gaudeamus Prize is piece is an attempt to reunite Verso is an acousmatic composition (CEMAT; Rome), «Vuotociclo IV the same title. I wanted L’Union with his composition for piano and abstract articulated sounds with about musical phrase as container of – Sankta Sango» (Università Suor libre to be a chaotic eld of aural orchestra, titled “Black and White”. an underlying expressivity of tensions and idea of “unity”. e latter Orsola Benincasa; Palazzo delle Arti information that would overwhelm He has written many compositions for micro-tonal harmonies. is re ned into its opposite, the extreme in Naples), «Apocalypse project» the listener by continuously acoustic instruments and electronic Hans Martin étudie la composition fragmentation and subsequent (Centro San Fedele; Milano). Some challenging perceptional modes. media and also performs live au conservatoire de musique reuni cation through chains of not of his audio-video installations e extremely fragmented texture electronic and improvised music. His de Montréal dans les classes de causal events (Markov’s chains). By have been chosen by numerous art may be experienced di erently by works have been performed around Serge Provost, Louis Dufort et relating created objects, it could be galleries between Italy, Switzerland each listener who may dive into the the world with ensembles such as Jimmie Leblanc. Composant à la drawn trend lines. Verso is an oriented and Greece. He composed the original information eld and nd di erent London Sinfonietta, Asko ensemble, fois des œuvres instrumentales et movement, a representation of one soundtrack of movie e Merchant things buried inside, such as ‘’hair Elision ensemble and others. He has électroacoustiques, il s’intéresse à la of the quality of space (uni-verse: of Dreams, which was awarded at of burning splinters’’ or ‘’the back studied composition with Iannis matériologie du son, la catharsis et movement towards the whole). «Moving Picture Film Contest» and of the bird in vertical ight’’. e Ioannidis and he is a graduate of the l’écriture algorithmique. selected at «River’s Edge International piece is freely inspired by Breton’s Omar Dodaro is graduated in music Film Festival» (USA). He took part at music department of the University theory and composition, music technique of arranging a large variety of Athens. some live audiovisual comments and of disparate words into a continuous technology, music pedagogy at the realized sound direction for Fontana series of simple but highly imaginative Conservatories of music of Milan Mix (J. Cage) and for Aus den sieben and Como. He got Master’s degree Tagen plan, Setz die Segel zur Sonne La edición 2016 se llevara acabo en 9 diferentes ciudades de México, Argentina, Brasil Inglaterra y Francia hemos recibido 326 composiciones provenientes de 46 países, reuniendo lo mejor de la música electroacústica del mundo; este proyecto se hace en colaboración con 32 instituciones de los cinco países. planeamos programar mas de 150 compositores este año, abriendo un espacio de difusión para la música electroacústica en Latinoamérica. Las piezas a exhibirse, fueron seleccionadas mediante una convocatoria internacional con artistas del más alto nivel, con el propósito de intervenir espacios que se transformen virtualmente y provoquen sensaciones al público. UAM-X are processed with SPAN processing North America, South America, All through the work, there are a composition, with an emphasis on system, which is based on a feedback and Asia. Among these are Venice sort of choir, synthetic, imaginary, frequential harmony and global network made of eight nodes. A Biennale, Institute of Contemporary imagined, unreal ( the “ancestrality”, soundsacpes. His attraction, since his performer controls the gain levels Arts (London), Centre de Cultura the voices of dead? of those aren’t childhood, for everything that deals in order to feed the audio network. Contemporània de Barcelona, Prague born? of the angels? of humanity? with cosmos and a shape of quest en the system reacts to the input Quadrennial of Performance Design of the univers?). A cosmic sanctuary for absolute. He works regularly with by changing its behavior. and Space, Instituto Cervantes (Rio de in vibration, violent, ecstatic, so . video artists in France and abroad. Janeiro), EMUfest (Rome), Re-New Di erents sparkles comes one His work has been played and Digital Arts Festival (Copenhagen), a er another by self-fertilization, broadcast in various festivals, shows JULIAN SCORDATO studied Gaudeamus Music Week (Utrecht), shows di erent points of view. e and radios, including Electromania, Composition (BA) and Electronic Deep Wireless Festival (Montreal), ambivalence harmony/tone and Electrain de nuit (France Musique), Music (MA) at the Venice Festival de Música Electroacústica the dréation of spectral we in an Akousma (GRM, Paris), Banc d’essai Conservatory of Music. He completed Punto de Encuentro (Valencia), acousmatic context are among the (GRM, Paris), Multimédia exhibition a Master’s Degree in Sound Art at the Sonorities Festival (Belfast), Seoul main technical fundation used in (Modena, Italia), Festival Futura University of Barcelona with a thesis International Computer Music this work, which represent a new (Crest, France), Festival Tourneson on IanniX so ware documentation. Festival, Art & Science Days milestone in this research. (Le Havre, France), Edinbugh (Bourges), Center for Computer JULIAN SCORDATO Co-founding member of the Arazzi François Bu et was born in 1980, Internationnal Film Festival Research in Music and Acoustics François Bu et Laptop Ensemble, he has worked as lives and works in Rouen (France). He (Edingurgh, Scotlands) and 106 (Stanford), Muestra de Música a Research Assistant for the Sound studied musicology at the University expérience (Rouen, France). In 2013, Electroacústica MUSLAB (Mexico Axon is pulse and transmission. and Music Processing Lab at the Sanctuaire Vibrant [2016] 10’54” of Rouen and at the University of he was laureate of the international City), Contemporary Music Research Synchrony and diachrony. Dissidence Padua Conservatory of Music. As Composer : François Bu et Its consists Paris-Sorbonne where he completed acousmatic composing competition Center (Athens), Electronic Language and paradox. No more soni cation an author and speaker, Scordato has in open sanctuary… without paticular a degree in electroacoustic music “Banc d’essai” organised by the GRM International Festival (São Paulo), and no more spatialization. Game participated in conferences including religion, linked to sacred in general, between 2000 and 2006. He also in Paris. In 2014 he was commissioned and New York City Electroacoustic and irony. e labyrinth machine the recent 21st International a sancuary which is everywhere and attended composition classes with by the GRM to create En to pan. Music Festival. His music has been automatically produces movement Symposium on Electronic Art, the 1st nowhere at once, which don’t have Jacques Petit at the Conservatory of broadcast by RAI Radio3, NAISA that de es the will of the maker. No Conference of the European Sound geographic place, but a place of the Rouen. He has given workshops in Webcast, RadioCemat, Radio genealogy in Fibonacci’s automata Studies Association, the 8th Sound spirit, an inner territory, without computer music at the University Papesse, Radio UNAM, RadioCona, rabbits. No interpreter at the and Music Computing Conference, edge, without border, infinite. is of Rouen and Le Havre Art school. Radiophrenia, Ràdio Gràcia, and Disklavier: the logos without the and the 19th Colloquium on Music vibrating sanctuary is an unity, but A er a course at the GRM (Groupe Radio Círculo. His scores have been pathos. A computer generates MIDI Informatics, presenting results related also a multiplicity, a totality, (our de Recherches Musicales, Paris) published by Ars Publica and Taukay data to control the Disklavier by to interactive performance systems, previous work is called En to pan, he took part in the development Edizioni Musicali. following a score in which three generative art, and feedback audio meaning “One the all” ), one sound, of the “Acousmographe” so ware, types of events are indicated: clusters, networks. His electroacoustic music but a multiple sound… ere is a and carried out projects for the scales, and random sequences. Such and audiovisual works have been passage of contemplation, of inner education ministry. He co-authored a process is automatic, without the performed/exhibited in prestigious self, of mystical introspection, the book with François Bayle. His work intervention of a performer. Sounds festivals and institutions in Europe, introduction is also in the same style. focuses essentially on acousmatic UAM-X is interested in how we think about Zhaoyu Zhang (b. 1988) is a composer worked and built to achieve self- trying to incorporate experimental elements improvement. these concepts, how we deal with into his compositions by using simple and them. How do we deal with that need creative way that produce high quality Sarah Procissi for catharsis? Lucas’ collection I’m in sounds. Based in Mainland of China, he Born in Bastia (Corsica) in 1991, Your Head (of which ‘Words to You’ grew up in Inner Mongolia, where the rich Sarah is currently a student in is part) experiments with catharsis cultural heritage of the Han-Mongolian border region inuences much of his music. electroacoustic music, keyboard and and communication of feelings, using classical harmony at the Conservatory Awarded fellowships at universities, Zhaoyu voice as the basic material for each has studied composition with Chen Danbu, of Nice. She began music by practising composition. Ye Xiaogang, Erik Lund and Sever Tipei. various instruments : violin, then Lucas’ latest work, Steal is Art He has participated in composition master guitar and keyboard. She spent her , is driven by the sociological classes with Chen Yi, Robert Beaser, Fred Lerdhal, and in workshops with Vinko teenage years playing in several live and philosophical consequences bands with as main influences rock, Globokar. Zhaoyu’s music has been played of musical classi cation and the throughout China as well as United States, new wave and electronic music. In institutionalization (or canonization) including performances at Beijing Concert 2009, while living in Paris, she made of schools of musical thought. is Hall (2012), and Krannert Center of her first experiences in composition project involved four audiovisual Performing Arts, Illinois, (2014). Zhaoyu by making music for three dance is the nalist of the 2nd Antonin Dvorak installations placed in speci c Composition Competition. His composition, shows : Rêve ou Réalité (Festival O areas of the Herb Alpert School of Boxing (2016) - Sarah Procissi Future Vision, was commissioned by Central Avignon 2010), Legend of Erebia Lucas Morin Music at the California Institute of Zhaoyu Zhang Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra, Electroacoustic - 8’37 (Paris 2011), Le jeune homme et la premiered in May of 2012 and was chosen the Arts. e music incorporated British artist San Jury is best known Mort (Paris 2011). is musical and numerous schools of thought, styles, as nalist in 2014 ASCAP competition. His My intention with Boxing Lucas is in the beginning stages of for her excellent photography- composition, Erguna Fantasy (2008), for human experience, gave her a deep and genres, in order to blur generic was to send you in the middle desire to continue working in this musical self-discovery, still learning, based work in which the painting violin and piano, was awarded rst prize in boundaries and question individual 2008 Palatino Composition Competition. of a boxing club. rough artistic way. en, she felt the need questioning, and breaking rules. were created through composite and institutional generic hierarchies. photographs that are digitally White Crane (2011), for piano solo, was this closed space, the listener to experiment, to open her musical He recently received his Bachelor’s prized in 2nd place in Golden Key Music performs the experience of a language, to meet new soundscapes. Degree in Music Composition from layered on top of each other. In one Festival Competition. He has also won « sonic » sport training. In the She began to record sounds that California Institute of the Arts, of her painting, “ ousands pities”, ISCM the 7th Sun River Prize (Chengdu), same way, the composition is intrigued, interested her ; and drew where he spent a majority of his time a female’s face has shown such the 5th Shanghai TMSK Traditional Chinese Composition Competition, and 2nd ASEAN built in three parts : warm-up, inspiration by the constant discovery testing the boundaries of various techniques that bring up a multi- meaning image. e music piece competition (Nanning, China). Power workout, relaxation. During of new cultures, concepts, and musical schools of thought in music. of the script (Trombone and x media), the di erent steps, the listener processes. From that day until today, Lucas believes rst and foremost is incorporating elements that are was selected in WOCMAT conference at goes through various sound Sarah creates and experiments in a in the cathartic power of music. spreading out while being obscured Taiwan, IcM at San Diego and SCI Chapter conditions. So polyrhythm real purpose of expression, always He nds life in broken hearts and in locations. e sense of contrast New Music Symposium at Iowa City. In 2016, his work Night Snow was selected which gradually turns into working to improve her musical disappointment. e interesting between real and illusion is important and reected, in which nothing is in National Student Electroacoustic a powerful tension ; Boxing, language by including multiple part is not the act of breaking Music Event at Oklahoma City. little by little, leaves no influences. something or being broken, the lost but all interpreted di erently. respite. e work is thought, feelings of disappointment. Lucas UAM-X (also the poem is called “New Moon has written music ca 20 years for sido luego obtenidas frecuencias de de Latina (Italia) y “Producción Morning”, and I´ve used the English di erent instrumentations, including resonancias modi cadas en modo Artística y Discográ ca y de version of that poem). Generally, the electroacoustic works. Recently she de lograr materiales mas estables Estudio” y “MIDI avanzado” en el flutists are whispering that poem into started the duo Unejõgi together (permanentes) como puntos de Conservatorio Estatal “N. Sala” de flutes (and also part of the words, with Estonian folk singer Meelika partida hacia nuevas pero a su vez Benevento (Italia) like consonants etc). Whispering Hainsoo. e duo performs Estonian ligadas formas sonoras. is combined with melodylines, runic songs with electroacoustic some certain contemporary elements, inuenced by minimalism, flute-techniques (tongue-rams, drone, glitch and experimental pop overblowing) and electronics. All music. electronic material is created using Omnisphere.” Mirjam Tally is Estonian/Swedish composer living on Gotland island Gustavo Adolfo Delgado since 2006. Mirjam Tally graduated Buenos Aires (1976) Diploma from the Estonian Academy of de Especialización en “Música Music in 2000 as a student of Lepo Electroacústica” en el Conservatorio Sumera. In 2009-2010 she was Mirjam Tally de Música “Santa Cecilia” de Roma Composer in Residence at Swedish Gustavo Adolfo Delgado con el máximo de los votos cum Radio´s P2 channel. She has written laude con el M° Giorgio Nottoli. works for many Swedish and La composición desarrolla dos Is originally composed for Licenciatura en “Composición international musicians: Nordic conceptos aparentemente opuestos amplified flute quartet and tape de Música Electroacústica” en la A ect (Iceland), John Storgårds que durante toda la obra llevan a la and commissioned by ensemble Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and Lapland Chamber Orchestra audiencia hacia espacios circundantes 40f. While I was working on that (Buenos Aires, Argentina). (Finland), Kaspars Putninsh de cambiamientos inesperados y de composition, I also made an Compositor de música acusmática, (Latvia), UMS’n JIP (Switzerland), gestos sonoros interconectados de electroacoustic version, where live electronics y diseñador de sonido Marco Blaauw, New European características contrastantes. A través I´ve recorded, edited and mixed con particular interés en el estudio de Ensemble ( e Netherlands), del montaje y la combinación de all flute parts in Studio Alpha at técnicas de mezcla “on the box” y de utist Anna Svensdotter, Swedish diversas técnicas de mezcla y diseño Visby International Centre for registración del repertorio de música Radio Orchestra, Swedish Radio de sonido utilizados a menudo en el Composers. e electroacoustic antigua, clásica y contemporánea. Choir, etc. In 2008, she received cine y video juegos, fueron creados version of that work di ers from Docente de “Composición de Música the Little Christ Johnsson Prize of numerosos materiales de tipo “sonidos the original one, because some Electroacústica” en el Conservatorio Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien de impacto” clasi cados en base a las vocal e ects are more forced with Estatal “A. Vivaldi” de Alessandria (Sweden), for her orchestra work características de sus envolventes volume curves. All recorded sound (Italia). Ha enseñado por varios Turbulence. Her music has been dinámicas y espectrales come material is based on a poem by años “Informática Musical” en el performed in over 20 countries. She “materiales transitorios” De estos han the Estonian poet Kristiina Ehin Conservatorio Estatal “O. Respighi” La edición 2016 se llevara acabo en 9 diferentes ciudades de México, Argentina, Brasil Inglaterra y Francia hemos recibido 326 composiciones provenientes de 46 países, reuniendo lo mejor de la música electroacústica del mundo; este proyecto se hace en colaboración con 32 instituciones de los cinco países. planeamos programar mas de 150 compositores este año, abriendo un espacio de difusión para la música electroacústica en Latinoamérica. Las piezas a exhibirse, fueron seleccionadas mediante una convocatoria internacional con artistas del más alto nivel, con el propósito de intervenir espacios que se transformen virtualmente y provoquen sensaciones al público. UAM-X Flutist, Musical Instrument and studied in France under the guidance Ylva Lund Bergner was born 1981 in Vollen United & Contemporànea, Music Technologies teacher, of Jonathan Prager and Denis Dufour Lund, a town in the south of Sweden among others, and has been played acousmatic composer and also taking part of the equipe of and began to study composition in Iceland, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, interpreter, Danilo Girardi graduated interpreters of Motus for Acousmatic 2001 on Gotland School of Music Italy, Norway, Serbia, Australia, in Flute and “Music and New Music Festival “Futura 2008” in Crest Composition a er some years of Montenegro, China & USA. Technologies” (Electronic Music) (France). In 2013 he was nalist of piano studies. She has been studying She was the chairwoman in the at the Conservatory “N.Piccinni” “San Fedele Multimedia Prize” in composition for four years at the Royal organisation UNM (Young Nordic of Bari (Italy); a er that he has took Milan (Italy), for which in 2014 he College of Music in Stockholm with Music), working for young Nordic the Degree of Level II in “Musical collaborated on the multimedia work the teachers Pär Lindgren, William composers works, for four years, Disciplines – Flute” in 2007. He has “Opticks” based on the principles of Brunson, Jesper Nordin, Fredrik 2006-2010. She was festival director attended the course of “Experimantal light of Newton, in collaboration with Hedelin, Orjan Sandred, Lars-Erik for the festival “I SPEAK MUSIC” in Composition” and the course of the Ensemble InterContemporain of Rosell and Lars Ekström. 2005/06 Gothenburg 2009. Electronic Music in Accademia Paris. she was taking lessons with Fabio Recently she got both a composition Musicale Pescarese. In 2005 he has Cifariello Ciardi at Conservatorio di award and a 3-year work grant from been exhibited in the 1st Festival of Musica in Perugia, Italy. She has been the Danish Arts Council in Denmark. Contemporary Music “URTIcanti” living in Copenhagen studying both She was chosen in 2013 to present in Bari playing the ute. In 2007 the Master education and Soloist the short chamber opera ”Traces” at his composition “Interferenze” has class at the Royal Danish Academy Darmstadt in 2014. DANILO GIRARDI been selected for the nal of the Ylva Lund Bergner of Music. During 2010-11 she did an 6th International Computer Music exchange at Conservatoire National Competition “Pierre Schea er” and “Batla” is a piece in stereo (but can Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Written in 2011, “Flare” explores in 2011 has been played in France also be played in cross stereo). It is Lyon with the teachers Robert Pascal in depth the sonorities of the ute: for Acousmatic Music Festival 5’26 minutes long. and Michele Tadini. from its blows and its inaccuracies to “Futura”. In 2012 his composition “Batla” is an electronic piece. During In April 2012, she had her exam melodic sounds, the piece shows the “Flare - Part 1 (“Hypnosis”), Part 2 my work with the material I found concert in Copenhagen with the various possibilities of timbre of the (“Crushing”)” has been selected and a melody, that sounded almost like ensemble Mimitabu, singers from instrument. e piece is divided into played for the 5th edition of EMUfest a creature singing from inside my the Copenhagen area and several two main sections and in two di erent “Electroacoustic Music International recording of a lamp. I used that as soloists under the direction of the ways of elaboration of sound: the rst Festival” of S.Cecilia Conservatory of the main material in the piece. It conductor Rei Munakata and Martin part (“Hypnosis”) emphasizes the Rome. He has studied in Italy Sound became a tale like story. My little To Nagashima. melodic sounds of the ute with some Projection on the Acousmonium with singing creature and scary growling She has cooperated with many loops that immerses the listener in a Jonathan Prager who selected him unknown monsters trying to kill my renowned ensembles like Klangforum real hypnosis atmosphere; the second between the interpreters for Festivals darling. e title of the piece came Wien, Pëarls Before Swïne, Swedish & part (“Crushing”) exacerbates the of Acousmatic Music “Silence” and so from the shape of the sound le. It Danish Radio Choir, the Sinfonietta elaboration of these sounds bringing since 2004 he is stablily in the group looked like a bat and I just changed SAMI, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, to crushing and crumbling. of interpreters of M.Ar.E. (www. the word ‘bat’ a bit. Curious Chamber Players, Neo, festivalsilence.it). In the 2006 he has Dygong, Lydenskab, Trio Saum, UAM-X contrasts with A Section. Discursively, Label (Russia, Moscow). Also, it was por los cuales circuló el mar y la ! Hace regularmente presentaciones is the part that represents the depth of selected for the “Primer Encuentro arena. Estos movimientos fueron en vivo acompañado de piano, this path, the most hidden of our de Música Contemporánea” at capturados por el hidrófono. ! Luego electrónica y visuales, con trabajos minds, which has a static character. the National University of Arts amarré la botella y desde el teclado estrenados en diferentes lugares de At 5 ‘of the part (A’), there is a kind (Argentina, 2014). During 2015 expandí las posibilidades musicales América y Europa.! Recientemente of recapitulation of the starting she has been commissioned an de este material con una interacción su libro de poesía F.M. fue publicado material (A), overlapped with certain electroacoustic quadraphonic work in situ con procesos electrónicos, por Veer Books en Londres.! ! Ha components and characteristics of B. for the festival Bahía[in]Sonora 2015. teclado y voz.! Esta actividad fue participado en bandas tales como Finally, at 6 ‘51’’, an irregular rhythm e concert was performed at the registrada audiovisualmente, y luego Cuchufleta e Hijos del Cóndor.! at the beginning and a low note on Teatro Municipal of Bahía Blanca en el estudio cree un video que the background which is di use (Argentina). Her work “Pyxis” was representa la experiencia.! Esta obra but steady starts the coda, that is selected in the 2nd International es parte de mi proyecto “Cantorama subsequently answered by a third Congress on Science and Music de la V Región”. Este consiste en una interval (structural interval in the Technology (Argentina, 2015), serie de conciertos/obras multimedia entire piece), which is minor in this Zéppelin Festival 2015 (Spain), in sobre la interacción entre paisajes de case, to end the work. the MUSLAB 2015 (Mexico) and la V Región en Chile y música.! Rocío Cano Valiño (Argentina, 1991). in the Sonosíntesis International Gregorio Fontaine,! músico, poeta Rocío Cano Valiño Composer and sound designer. He Festival 2016 (Mexico). Rocío is CEO Gregorio Fontaine multimedia, artista sonoro.! ! has participated as an assistant on 1st in LINSEN Media Productions since “El Sendero hacia lo Profundo” (2013) Esta obra nace de la interacción Actualmente realiza un doctorado International Congress on Science 2013. is a electroacoustic stereo piece, and Music Technology (2013). con las olas del mar en una playa en Artes Sónicas en Goldsmiths, which transports the spectator into Her work “Catarsis Sinusoidal” de Chile. Un hidrófono (micrófono University of London y una residencia the world of lightness and darkness of was selected in PAS-E to perform para grabaciones acuáticas) fue artística en Fundación Phonos, our minds. Objects that are emerging a concert tribute to Luigi Nono’s introducido al interior de una Barcelona.! ! Su trabajo se centra and disappearing, interlaced paths (Italy, 2014), in the MUSLAB 2014 botella plástica que contenía una en la interacción entre entorno y and doubt that invades us.An (Mexico), in the Electronic Language flauta dulce plástica. Con un cable expresión personal. Para ello trabaja introduction of 20’’ anticipates International Festival (FILE) 2016 de más de diez metros de largo, este con diferentes fuentes sonoras y the statism that will begin in the B (Brazil), in the Phas.e 2016 (Inglaterra) instrumento musical/micrófono, visuales, generando un continuo section, which expresses “the deep” and in the Musinfo “Journées Art & fue utilizado para navegar las olas entre canción y paisaje. Para crear este and intuition on the part. en, Science” 2016 (France). Her work “El que reventaban en la playa. ! Como continuo entre expresar y descubrir, begins a discursive material that Sendero hacia lo Profundo” received encumbrando un volantín, desde la desarrolla un método que denomina is subjected to di erent processes e Audience Award in the Luigi orilla le entregué y quité cable a la Songscape o Cantorama. Este utiliza working throughout this entire Russolo Contest 2014 (France-Spain) botella. De esta manera realicé una diferentes técnicas que van desde rst section (A), up to 2 ‘41’’ where and it was premiere in the auditorium improvisación musical en conjunto la documentación audiovisual, la a climax terminated this section. at the Contemporary Art Museum of con la fuerza de las olas. Los grabación de campo y la interacción Simultaneously with the decay of the Barcelona (2014) and then edited diferentes orificios de la botella y la in situ, hasta la canción popular y el climax, it starts a B section, which in a CD by Monochrome Vision flauta crearon espacios de resonancia desarrollo de instrumentos propios.! UAM-X Cheng’s works range from e Ancient Voice No.2 instrumental and vocal solo pieces for overtone singing and Jew’s harp, characteristics of the sounds, or to large-scale multimedia and chromatic harmonica and violin were creating ambiguous transitional improvisational pieces. He has premiered. Cheng has participated timbres such as condensing gaseous composed for orchestras, symphonic in numerous music festivals and textures or liquid metals. For instance, bands, chamber ensembles and composition master classes by convolution and ltering techniques jazz trios. Cheng is currently a renowned composers such as Aaron were employed to ‘melt’ solid metallic music student in Hong Kong Travers, Johan de Meij, and Oliver sounds, creating some of the uid Baptist University, majoring in Coates. In 2015, his electroacoustic textures heard throughout the piece. composition under the supervisions work, Time of the eternal light, was Phases was recorded and mixed at the of Dr. Christopher Coleman, Prof. selected by the Musinfo Association. composer’s studio between 2013 and Christopher Keyes and Dr. Joyce In 2016, his Fragment for mixed 2015. Tang. Cheng has been highly active ensemble of 20 musicians was in recent years. His works Fragment selected by the Ablaze Records for the and Douceur were played by a mixed inclusion of new SINFONIA Series ensemble of 20 musicians and a CD album. Recently, his Clamor for Steven Tunnicli e is a composer and jazz trio respectively in April 2015. saxophone octet was selected as the CHENG Ching Nam sonic artist from Sta ordshire, UK. Correia de Melo Collegium Musicum Hong Kong 3rd prize by Hong Kong Composers Steven Tunnicli e A er completing his undergraduate premiered his Traces of Silk Road Guild for the ‘New Generation 2016’ studies at Sta ordshire University spectra (2009, for speakers 5.1) in their concert of the same name contest. In addition, his Gather and Phases is a stereo acousmatic in 2003, Steven devoted his e orts spectra is about colours and faces Time and Earth (by Hippocrates in October. e concert also feature Scatter for Chinese orchestra was work by British composer Steven to composing music and designing turning around. Cheng) combines “Time” and “Space” three more Cheng’s compositions, selected by the Hong Kong Chinese Tunnicli e. e development of sound for various media projects. In in a multi-dimensions soundscape. namely Mirage, Long Trek, and Orchestra for the coming ‘Music sound materials was guided by the 2010 Steven was awarded a Master Melo is a Swedish composer, currently Most of the raw materials in the piece Sun Dance. Cheng composed two from the Heart 2016’ concert. Cheng properties of the physical states of Music degree by the Royal Welsh based in Copenhagen. His childhood are eld-recorded from both our improvisational pieces in November also performs actively as a pianist, of matter – solid, liquid, gas, and College of Music and Drama with was very coloured by arts in di erent city site and nature. In the piece, the 2015 for the Hong Kong Baptist overtone singer and violist. He plasma – and their phase transitions a focus in electroacoustic music shapes, such as painting, theatre and future sound of “Earth” is depicted University Contemporary Music has been a member of Hong Kong – evaporation, melting, sublimation, composition and creative music music. Questions he asks himself in with full imagination. We could feel Ensemble. e piece DE Loop is in Baptist University Choir and String and so forth. As such, source technology. Steven is currently music is o en based on refections on the power of our land, the owing open instrumentation, while Fanling Ensemble since 2012. In 2016, he recordings with strong referential developing his doctoral portfolio colour or lines in pictures. He tries to time, the loop of life etc. is a piece for overtone singing (a received a FTCL in piano recital. qualities were selected: gas being at Bangor University under the fnd connections between the visual unique vocal skill originated from released from pressurized cans, the supervision of the esteemed composer arts and sounding art. e music P.s. It is written for surround sound south western Mongolia) with two zz of a carbonated drink, boiling Andrew Lewis. has a fundamental of breathing and (5.1) originally. muted violins. In January 2016, liquids, solid metallic objects, and Aside from music, Steven is activel an aim towards meditation. Filip Gather and Scatter for Chinese vocal articulations. involved in the practice and study of begun studying composition in orchestra was premiered by the DIO Processing was geared towards clinical pharmacy. 2005 at Gotlands school of music Music Group. Recently, his Lion emphasizing the intrinsic physical composition and continued to the ‘Rock’ for open instrumentation and Royal College. UAM-X metamorphosis marked by very sharp composition and production for transform into an eagle and empty a for Electro-Acoustic Music in the musical articulations alternating with shows/performances/readings/ mouthful of the Mead into a jar. e United States) National Conferences moments of smooth tonal transition lm, sound design for events. We third night, Suttung found out that (2015-16), the New York City bordering on the informal. e o er both pre-recorded tracks Odin was smuggling out the Mead. Electroacoustic Music Festival (2015- constant electronic processing of the and live performances, scored and In an attempt to stop Odin, Suttung 16), the 46th Annual Ball State material, in addition to acting as an improvised. also transformed into and eagle and Festival of New Music and the 2016 amalgam, constitutes an abstract chased him, causing some of the RED NOTE New Music Festival. pole of the composition in contrast Mead to drop out of Odin’s mouth Smith has also received premieres and with the concreteness of the sounds and fall to the earth below. Odin commissions from numerous new employed. e structure of “ ree later gave the Mead he collected to music groups including the New York Worlds” thus proceeds by progressive the gods and eventually to men who based ensemble loadbang, the Illinois mutation moments, in which the are gi ed in poetry. Rati (2015) was Modern Ensemble, the Heartland music develops in an evolutionary inspired by this general program. Sings chorale, and ensemble mise-en. path to meaningful spaces that Lucas Marshall Smith (b.1989) is interact dynamically with each other a composer who hails from New Some of Smith’s prominent Lady Q. is Riccardo Culeddu London, Ohio. He holds degrees composition teachers have included Burton Beerman, Carlos Carrillo, Riccardo Culeddu and Davide Sardo’s collaborative from Bowling Green State University project with the aim of producing LUCAS MARSHALL SMITH (B.M. 2012) and the University of Christopher Dietz, Erin Gee, Marilyn Shrude, Stephen Taylor, Reynold “ ree Worlds” is a musical journey electroacoustic music, sound In Norse Mythology, Rati is the Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (M.M. arp, and electroacoustic studies focused on the transformation of design and audio production for name of the drill used by Odin to 2014). Smith is currently pursuing with Elainie Lillios and Scott A. acoustic elements characterized by an art installations, dance, lm and acquire the Mead of Poetry from his Doctorate of Musical Arts at the Wyatt. extreme di erentiation of timbre and documentaries. Riccardo Culeddu is a the giant Suttung. In coordination University of Illinois where he is dynamics. As in Escher’s lithograph classical guitarist and a guitar teacher with Suttung’s brother Baugi, Odin working as the Operations Assistant of the same name, the focus of the graduated at the “Luigi Cherubini” attempted to steal the Mead. Using in the Experimental Music Studios. composition is the presence of Conservatory in Firenze. He writes Rati, Baugi drilled a hole into the During his studies, Smith has also di erent sound layers, each reected electroacoustic music and studied side of the mountain where the Mead served as choirmaster at the Maumee and contained in the previous one. composition at the “Accademia was being guarded by Gunnlod, Valley Unitarian Universalist e rst level is the uidity of the Musicale di Alto Perfezionamento Suttung’s daughter. Taking the form Congregational Church and as a concrete sounds of the water and of Musicale” in Cremona. Davide of a snake, Odin began to slither teaching assistant for Aural Skills bell ringing. e second refers to the Sardo is broadly self taught: he through the drill hole. Before Odin and Music eory courses at the dense and layered “Earthly” element writes music for dance/theatre and was through, however, Baugi double University of Illinois. of the guitar and the harmonium, does sound design for theatre and crossed Odin and attempted to kill while the third is connected to movies. He also is an electronic music him by hitting him with the drill, but Active as a composer of both acoustic the air element of the voice. ese composer and a music producer. failed. Odin, having made it through and electroacoustic music, Smith has three levels are subjected in the Our activities: backing/ambient the hole safely, stayed three nights had his music performed at the 30th course of the piece to a process of tracks for art exhibitions, soundtrack with Gunnlod. Each night he would and 31st Annual SEAMUS (Society UAM-X recent awards include winner of Born 1972 in Copenhagen, art project. As a result, we always the 2014 Indiana University Dean’s Denmark, Kenn Mouritzen has had to surpass the usual taboos of a Prize in Composition, the 2013 lived in Vienna since 2006. He has more conventional method of music. Heckscher Composition Prize, the studied Comparative Literature at Sometimes we were attacked by 31st Republic of Korea Composition universities in Copenhagen, Paris and natural rages while we encountered Prize, the Judith Lang Zaimont Prize Berlin. 2015 he got a Master of Arts new ideas of sounds and music for at the 2013 Competition of e ZFH in electroacoustic composition the project. ese were wonderful International Alliance for Women at Zürich, Switzerland. He studied collisions and impacts for our project. in Music (IAWM), winner of the electroacoustic composition e concept of this piece is reected 2011 Women Composers Festival of with Germán Toro- -Pérez as well from this project “nature and me”. Hartford International Composition as Philippe Kocher and Martin Amazing encounter and farewell, Competition, and second prize at Neukom. Masterclasses w i t h coexistence with wasp, temperature the Sixth International Musical Åke Parmerud and Hans Tutschku. Composition Contest held by the Workshops at IRCAM and with Ayako SATO is a doctoral student Long Island Arts Council at Freeport. G. Rabl, Goldsmiths London. Has in Tokyo University of the Arts. She composes and researches electroacoustic Her compositions have been featured composed and produced sound for music. Her works have been selected in festivals and conferences across the theatre, radio, dance, cinema and Sang Mi Ahn Kenn Mouritzen for performances at international United States as well as in Europe and video art. Selection Price Bourges, Ayako Sato conferences and festivals including Asia— at the 2015 World Saxophone Festival de Synthèse 2006. Supported e joint project with Tokyo FUTURA, WOCMAT, NYCEMF, Congress, the 2015 SEAMUS National by the Danish Ministry of Culture Narval is the name of a French steam Cat-back is based on various University of the Arts and École SMC, ICMC, ISSTC, ISMIR, and so Conference, the 2014 International 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017. on. She was awarded the third prize of and electric submarine built in 1900. treatments of bass clarinet recordings. Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Trumpet Guild Conference, the Concerts include performances at the International Electroacoustic Music In this piece, I wanted to evoke the e syntax goes from single impulses arts de Paris, had a performance 2014 Australasian Computer Music EMU Festival, NYCEMF, Tage neuer Young Composers Awards at WOCMAT image of a primitive submarine to broad, layered articulations. e “nature and me” at Echigo-Tsumari Conference, the 2013 and 2012 Musik Weimar, FEAST Florida, 2012 (Taiwan), the honorary mention at hovering over the ocean oor. As title refers to: Art Triennale on August 2015. is International Computer Music RIME, Monaco, Musicacustica, WOCMAT 2013 (Taiwan), the honorary submarines operate underwater, “Cat-back refers to the portion of the piece “August, blue colored green” is Conference, Symposium on Acoustic Beijing and more. mention of CCMC 2012 (Japan), they adjust their depth by lling exhaust system from the outlet of the an electroacoustic piece that was re- the honorary mention of Destellos Ecology, OLE.01 Festival, and at the themselves with or releasing seawater catalytic converter to the nal vent construction of “nature and me” by Competition 2013 (Argentina), the third 2012 North American Saxophone in the ballast tanks. rough the to open air. is generally includes fragments of music for above project prize of Prix PRESQUE RIEN 2013 Alliance Biennial Conference. Ahn piece, I explore the varying density the pipe from the converter to the and sounds recorded during the (France) and Acanthus Prize at Tokyo completed a Doctor of Music degree of water pressure and the amount of muer, the muer, and the nal project. University of the Arts (Japan). She is a in Composition from Indiana compressed air inside the submarine length of pipe to open air.” e project “nature and me” is board member of Japanese Society for University, where she also earned her Sonic Arts (JSSA), a member of Japanese through its travels under the sea. important root of this piece. In this Master of Music in Composition and Society for Electronic Music (JSEM) Sang Mi Ahn is a composer/sound project we discussed about sounds, served as an Associate Instructor in and International Computer Music artist whose blend of electronic music, arts, space, environment, Music eory. and acoustic works have garnered and nature with musicians and non- numerous international awards. Her musicians to create an integrated UAM-X a quasi-orchestral kind of writing, and co-leads several projects; among used by Yanni’s ancestors) and the combined with a post-industrial, others, he leads the ensemble Okto- unprecedented nostalgia long-term travel metallic atmosphere. In a continuous pus Connection, an octet devoted to brings about. is work was carefully search for a physical, concrete result, improvisation on graphical scores manipulated through a variety of time an electronic sound which resembles based on an original notation sys- and pitch stretching algorithms. Careful consideration was given to mixing and a quasi-organic source, a sound tem. With drummer Riccardo La omnidirectional use of the sonic space. which let you feel as if touching a Foresta he founded the free impro- rugged, alien kind of material, an visation project Sho Shin Duo. His attempt at developing a synesthetic music has been published by El Gallo approach to electronic composition. Rojo Records, Setola di Maiale Label, Yanni Mougos is a music composer, AUT Records. He toured in Italy, sound designer, sound artist and instrumentalist from Melbourne Musician, improvisor, composer, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Australia. Developing an interest audio so ware creator born in Ve- France, Switzerland, Poland, United in nonwestern music from a young rona (Italy) in 1980, currently based States. age, Yanni takes inuence from his in Padua (Italy). He received a BD Croatian and Greek heritage in the summa cum laude in Jazz Music & form of Balkan instrumentation Improvisation by the Conservatory and microtonal tuning systems. “G. Frescobaldi” (Ferrara, Italy) in Marco Ferrazza Combined with a fascination of the 2011, a MD in Electronic Enginee- Yanni Mougo Riccardo Marogna Omen human condition and neo-urban ring by University of Padua (Italy, Stereophonic acousmatic piece. 44100 Hz, 16 society, Yanni works extensively 2005) and then he studied Computer bit Wave; duration: 7’ 50’’ e idea behind WaveScrapers was Melancholia In Jadra is an electro- in sampling found sounds and Music at IRCAM (Paris) with Mi- Year: 2015-2016 to start from very simple, basic, raw e piece Omen shows a composition acoustic piece built o of a eld recording manipulating audio into large khail Malt. From 2005 to 2010 he material, synthesized using only strategy made of anticipations, retakes and captured in late 2015 on a Zoom H4 sweeping soundscapes. A multi- worked as a researcher at the Univer- the Pure Data so ware, and try to reiterations. All timbric solutions involved Handheld Recorder in the city of Zadar, instrumentalist, Yanni specialises in sity of Padua, focusing on Computer will be mentioned in gestures, and then develop that material in a complex Croatia. e piece speci cally captures stringed instruments such as lap-steep Music and Sound Computing. He developed in textures. But every good texture of sonic events which the Zadar Sea Organ, an experimental guitar, bass, bouzouki and mandolin. attended workshops and masterclas- omen that you respect is also repetition of instrument built into the Old Town’s resemble a sort of unexpected the message, so the same organizational Graduating with a Bachelor of ses with John Taylor, Karl Berger, sea front and powered by the oceans form of life. Sounds are composed structure will recur during the piece to Applied Music (specialisation in Ivan Fedele, Michael Jarrell, Scanner, sea currents. e result is an aleatoric as trajectories in the acoustic con rm every time its informational content. Composition) in 2015 under the Yannis Kyriakides, Alessandro Bo- composition dictated by the strength of space, intersecting each other and Composer of acousmatic music and tutelage of esteemed sound artist setti, Mats Gustafsson, Seijiro Mura- the waves on any given day. Melancholia colliding in a continuous attempt audio performer, Marco Ferrazza studied in Jadra is a meditative piece reecting Warren Burt at Boxhill Institute, yama. He is active as an improvising contemporary art and electronic music. His at merging and/or defeating the emotional state of an artist a er a Yanni has since gone on to complete musician in many projects, playing work, performed in several competitions and each other. We have nervous 3 month travel period. A juxtaposition music and sound design for lms, a range of reed instruments (bass festivals, constantly looks into relationships movements, pauses, still frames, between concrete sounds and computer of cultural self-discovery (Jadra is the sound design for otation centres clarinet, clarinet, tenor saxophone) refocusing and furious runs. is music, electronic arts and eld recording, traditional name for the city of Zadar and undertaken composition work combined with electronics. He leads results in a dramatic development, improvisation and new technologies. in the extinct Dalmatian language for several international companies. UAM-X Davide Wang is an Italian-Chinese A er nishing trumpet class in music Olivar Premier designs sound cellist and electroacoustic composer, school (2000 2007), Andrius Šiurys devices which engage the public born in Bari (Italy) in 1997. He (1991) started to create electronic in the music production itself. studied cello with Francesco music. He developed theoretical and For Premier, music is mainly a Montaruli, electroacoustic practical knowledge while studying playful game of decisions, a raw composition with Franco Degrassi, Nicola Monopoli and Alba Battista, music technologies at Kaunas and joyful experience he wants composition with Daniele Bravi. University of Technology (2009 2013, to share with the public and He actually attends the bachelor in bachelor degree). Andrius was trying other musicians. is endavour electronics music at Conservatory to mix sound of digital synthesis and into electroacoustic music is a “Umberto Giordano” in Foggia. acoustic instruments. In 2013, he mean for Premier to explore new He attended masterclasses of started to study music composition possibilities o ered by digital composers among the most important at Lithuanian Academy of Music and technologies and to implement a in the international scene, like Giorgio eatre (prof. Rytis Mažulis class). symmetrical relationship between Nottoli, Michael Oliva, Mauro Lanza, Andrius Šiurys paysalotofattentionto the artist and the audience. Denis Dufour and Alvin Curran. instrument’s extended techniques, it’s His compositions have been performed possibilities of articulation, timbral in Italy, USA, China, France, Brazil peculiarity; musical expression is and UK, and performed in several always in the rst plan. Compositions Olivar Premier concert halls such as: Academy Andrius Siurys are developed usingshort, constantly Davide Wang is particular program is built upon Concert Hall (Conservatory of changing musical gures gestures with Originally there was written an free improvisations made on a set of Lontane reminiscenze (distant Shanghai), Recital Hall of University not many repetitions. His musicwas acoustic piano piece. en it was homemade interfaces : the Oli_Go memories) is an acousmatic music of Alabama, Auditorium Cesare Chiti performed by many great musicians performed and recorded in the studio. and the Star Trk. e Star Trk is piece. e basic sound materials are of Istituto Superiore di Studi musicali from Lithuania, Poland, United Record was edited and prerecorded devoted to electronic sound synthesis mainly percussive sound. is sound in Livorno, Palazzo della Marra of Kingdom (Royal Academy of Music). piano samples weremade. While while the Oli_Go make use of various remind us at the traditional Japanese Barletta, e Drawing Room and While nishing master studies Abrons Art Center in New York City, mixing original recordand sensors to manipulate the sounds music, in particular the No theatre and at Lithuanian Academy of Music Cervantes Institute of Rio de Janeiro. prerecorded samples, audio e ects in real-time. Tiny instruments are his popular counterpart, the Kabuki. have been used to make a nal result e sounds, with electroacoustic He was selected in international also captured live to feed the system festivals: Musinfo 2015, Musinfo 2016, more expressive and solid. Composer with acoustic sounds. Premier own’s proceeding are almost was trying to pull down boundaries unrecognizable from the original Muslab 2015, Shanghai Electroascoustic research in computer programing Music Week 2015, Cicada Consort between “natural” and “electronic” source, but is very strong the allows him now to produce 2016, New York City Electroacoustic sound. bond between the proceedings electroacoustic music live. e Music Festival 2016, Suoni Inauditi sounds and the recording sound. present work is a testimony of what 2016, Concrete Timbre 2016, Climate can be heard when he plays on his e main techniques are based on Change 2016. He published with the stochastics proceeding with Csound. interfaces and his set of loudspeakers, English record label Rmn music. only this time specially prepared for 5.1 listening. UAM-X manera natural. Festival Internacional Cervantino, traveler to follow the hero’s path Conference. La obra trata de mostrar una lectura 3er lugar en la Bienal Internacional on an outward journey of inward distinta del poema citado. Los de Radio, en la categoría de formation. Vernusky’s recorded music is versos a veces son desarticulado, radioarte. Ha incursionado en el published on BBC Audio, MIT distorsionados, o simplemente ámbito de la instalación sonora, Press, e Wire, and Quiet Design. desdoblado en una dimensión live-coding, MusicMaker HackLab, Vernusky co-founded the label Quiet distinta, envueltos en un ambiente y el performance. Ha trabajando Design with sound artist Cory Allen, radiofónico, donde son citados como compositor y diseñador which featured artists working at the paisajes sonoros, música, y sonoro en el Observatorio Ixtli, outer fringes of new music and sound transmisiones radiofónicas. del departamento de Dirección Mike Vernusky’s music has been art. is label, which released over 20 Sobre los versos de Jaina es una General de Computo y Tecnologías heard around the world including albums on various media, became a obra que muestra una particular de Información y Comunicación performances at Festival International full-edged portal of audio art and interpretación de un poema de Jaina (DGTIC/UNAM). Actualmente de Música Experimental São Paulo, information. Mata, joven poeta colaboradora bene ciario del programa Jóvenes MATA, Marrakech Biennale, del proyecto. Los versos de este Creadores por parte del Fondo Madeira Contemporary Music poema son re dimensionados Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes Residency, Autumn Contemporary dentro de un ambiente radiofónico, (FONCA), es miembro fundador del Music Festival of Bucharest, Mise- Rafael Quezada Cruces entrelazados con paisajes colectivo SONOESCÉNIA, proyecto Mike Vernusky’s En Festival NYC, Los Angeles Sonic sonoros, fragmentos musicales que explora diversas relaciones ou is an acousmatic autobiography Odyssey, Visiones Sonoras Mexico y transmisiones radiofónicas. La entre lo sonoro y lo escénico. Desde La obra comienza en un modo that follows the thread of the City & Morelia, Wired for Sound obra intenta representar la acción 2013 trabaja como compositor e evocativo que lentamente se monomyth, also known as the hero- in Cambridge, Le Escucha Errante de cambiar constantemente de una intérprete en la compañía de teatro transforma en una aglomeración path. Harvested from the patterns Bilbao, GMEM Marseille, ICMC estación radiofónica a otra, donde independiente Sensorama. caótica donde distintas of mythological narratives across Barcelona, Art Basel Miami, among comúnmente uno no tiene certeza de interpretaciones del poema luchan global cultures, ou embraces a others. por ser escuchadas. En su intento Nace en la Ciudad de México en fundamental storytelling structure Mike Vernusky is supported by individual ninguna logra ser 1985. Compositor, improvisador, that has survived and developed Music at the Anthology, Meet e entendida; no es sino hasta que programador, artista sonoro. across thousands of years. Its sound Composer/ MetLife, Atlantic Center por medio de la colaboración de Interesado en las expresiones material is derived from a variety for the Arts, June in Bu alo, ASCAP, estas voces el poema es construido interdisciplinarias, intermedia, y el of manipulated sonic impulses in Digital Art Awards of Tokyo, and y entendido. Dicha construcción se uso de nuevas tecnologías. Egresado this world consisting of performers, El Centro Méxicano para la Musica desdobla en un ambiente de paisajes de la Facultad de Música como objects, or environments. is piece y Artes Sonoras. He has presented sonoros, música, e interferencias de compositor, ha compuesto música para was inspired the writings of Joseph at the Shanghai Conservatory of la radio. Finalmente, en la búsqueda diversos ensambles, electroacústica, Campbell as an exploration of public Music, Alte Schmiede Vienna, e de una sintonía determinada, se llega danza y teatro. Ha participado en el dreams and private myths. rough University of London, Goldsmiths, al punto estable e inocente de la obra. Festival Tsonami Argentina, Foro a succession of trials and thresholds, and e University of Notre Dame Es allí donde los versos uyen de de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, the music of ou allows the listener/ for their inaugural Sacred Music UAM-X Estoy envuelto por la presencia de Composer, performer, and sound nothing. is piece was made using la Muerte. Empiezo a sentir una investigator. speci c materials like metal, wood incomprensible y profunda tristeza., Interested in work with sound and and few glasses, trying to create a aunque estoy en paz, en calma. Es spacialization as the main strategy sort of narrative in short well de ned como se siente entender la absoluta to shape the ow of his electro- episodes. certeza de la muerte, donde todo acoustic pieces and installations, Augusto Piccinini is a composer from acaba. using analog modular and digital São Paulo, Brazil. Graduated from Arturo Morfín nació en la Ciudad de technology, eld recordings, Conservatório México en 1989. Estudió composición developing music so wares, Musical Beethoven in the Electric musical en el Centro de Investigación live coding , building electronic Guitar course in 2013. Since 2013 he y Estudios de la Música. Ahí obtuvo instruments, mixing techniques, has been studying musical la licenciatura en Music Literacy everything is related to produce composition in the University of otorgada por el London College of material for new compositions and São Paulo (USP) with Silvio Ferraz, Music. Es graduado del diplomado en possibilities to implement platforms Fernando Iazzetta and composición para cine, teatro y danza for acousmatic presentations or live Ronaldo Miranda. His works del Núcleo Integral de Composición. performances, generating sound and are mainly of eletroacoustic and Participó en el programa Prácticas signal processing in real time for experimental music (with occasional de Vuelo 2013 del Centro Mexicano multi channel expansion, in search Augusto Piccinini attempts on electronic dance music Arturo Morfín Beto Machado para la Música y las Artes Sonoras. of speci c and very unique acoustic and pop in general). Ha cursado talleres de composición responses... ere’s something quite unusual/ is composition explores the impartidos por Ignacio Baca Lobera, Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, studied appealing/disturbing about old Una noche tuve tres sueños. I possibilities to create an imaginary Enrique Mendoza, Hilda Paredes, José Sonology at e Royal Conservatory abandoned warehouses. e dust, the Cuatro muertos caminan en círculos journey through soundscapes, Julio Díaz Infante y Jos Zwaanenburg. in Den Haag – Netherlands. rotten wood, the rusty metal tubes alrededor de una fogata. El fuego no interacting morphing and mixing Su música ha sido interpretada en and plates, the shattered glasses, the brinda calor. Todo es gris. Los muertos di erent ingredients, eld recordings varios estados de México y en Canadá. emptiness... ey all form such a caminan lentamente, con sus cabezas or synthesized odd sounds and noises Ha sido programado dos veces en el interesting scenery, a nostalgic one, colgando, con los brazos tiesos. Un in order to produce an unexpected Festival Internacional Cervantino y when people’s interference had long ser extraño, parecido a un pequeño atmosphere, giving rhythm and una vez en el Foro Internacional de gone. troll, que carga un mazo del doble textures to the narrative that is being Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez. Imagine if these warehouses could de su tamaño, observa desde lejos. transformed, leading the listener to En 2016 Urtext Digital Classics tell us about the nothingness of II Estoy parado en una montaña de an immersive experience surrounded publicó FLUX, disco compacto que their existence away from human huesos y carne putrefacta. Millones by 4 speakers applying random incluye GAAP, una obra de Arturo kind. What sounds would they de cadáveres cubren la tierra, tantos spacialization and granulation Morfín para auta bajo y electrónica, produce? And what meaning would que llegan al horizonte en todas techniques. direcciones. Levanto mi rostro hacia interpretada por Alejandro Escuer. we create from them? Perhaps a el cielo negro y sin sol, y grito con weird soundscape, perhaps a song terror y asco. III Absoluta obscuridad. we cannot really relate to, perhaps UAM-X composition is an arrangement of the are put like entangling, and they in esperanto language, the idiom of resulting transformations. con gure a kinetic sound texture. the peace between people ) . In this e work was originally conceived in opera, the composer uses a technique 6-channels, from which a 2-channel that he calls “conscious atomism”,. version was derived. Ben Sutherland is a composer, Takashi Miyamoto was born in Tokyo music technologist, performer, and in 1992. He graduated in computer Paolo Gatti was born in Rome in educator whose work and interests music with the Arima Award 1982. He took the B.Sc. degree in span a multitude of media and genres, (Premier Prix) from the Sonology environmental engineering and a post including classical, popular, and Department, Kunitachi College of graduate master in sound engineering experimental. His works have been Music. Currently, he is studying at “Tor Vergata” university of Rome. performed by prestigious ensembles, composition and computer music en, he studied computer music at including the Paci ca String Quartet, with Takayuki Rai, Kiyoshi Furukawa the “Santa Cecilia” conservatory of the Contemporary Chamber Players, and Shintaro Imai in the master Rome, taking the B.A. degree under and the Aspen Contemporary course of Kunitachi College of Music. the guidance of G.Nottoli, and the Ensemble. His compositional, His works were selected at the M.A. degree under the guidance research, and performance interests ICMC 2015, at the New York City of M.Lupone and N. Bernardini. nd a nexus in his work with interactive Electroacoustic Music Festival 2016, He was member of the Emufest Takashi Miyamoto computer music systems. He has at Seoul International Computer PAOLO GATTI team from 2010 to 2014 ( Emufest Ben Sutherland presented at SEAMUS (Society for Music Festival 2016 and at Sonorities is the international electroacoustic “Senhalte” is a composition based ElectroAcoustic Music in the United Festival of Contemporary Music music festival of the “Santa Cecilia”, is piece is composed for a tape on the counterpoint and on States), the Symposium of Laptop 2016. He also won the third prize at Conservatory of Rome). He has Rhythm Pulse Modulation is a music. e title “Ubume” is a kind the union of various electronic Ensembles and Orchestras (SLEO), the Shanghai International Electronic worked in collaboration with the study in the ascetic avoidance of of Chinese apparition. Ubume is the materials and acoustic melodies ( and Porto 2016 Musical Gesture as Music Week in 2015. “MASP” section ( musical audio melody, harmony, and gesture, thing that a dead pregnant woman in from some countries in the world Creative Interface. He is one half signal processing ) of the sound which nonetheless seeks through its childbirth was transformed. Ubume ) recorded by the own composer. of the interactive computer music engineering department of the treatment of the sonic materials to turns into a bird when wearing the Eleven musicians recorded di erent duo, “ e Machine is Neither…,” “Tor Vergata” University and with articulate a coherent and compelling fur, and It turns into a woman when folklore melodies and recorded 5 with utist Emma Hospelhorn. Ben the department of “music and new musical form. In its relatively short taking o the fur. And It barks like a spoken words in their own language: holds a B.A. from Oberlin College/ technologies” of the “Santa Cecilia”, form it explores the development infants. is Piece is composed on the “singularity”, “together”,”time”,”non Conservatory and an M.A. and Ph.D. conservatory. He worked as audio and transformation of reduced basis of the imagination of Ubume. linear”,”deformation”. During the from the University of Chicago. He programmer with “N- Track”, a small sonic materials, i.e. periodic clicks In the technical side, all the sound piece, these words are slowly is Associate Professor of Audio Arts company based in Rome. Actually or impulses, using a minimal set of materials in this piece is created by decomposed and reassembled and Acoustics at Columbia College he works as composer, teacher and transformational rhythmic processes Max. e composer create an original forming 5 words in italian language. Chicago. researcher in the eld of the musical that range from simple and highly signal processing system on Max, and Finally, from the single letters of these expressivity and the musical gesture. controlled, such as periodic durational He created many sound materials last 5 words is obtained the title of His works have been performed in uctuations, to stochastic. e nal using the system. A few sound layers the composition, “Senhalte” ( a word important events. UAM-X Kazuya Ishigami, is composer, sounds e-cor ensemble is an electronic music intrinsic meaning , becoming an performer and sounds engineer project founded in 2013 by Francesco added value, amplifying the meaning born in 1972, in Osaka/JAPAN. He Altilio, Cristian Maddalena and of the images and the poetry of the received B.A. of Music Engineering Mirjana Nardelli. eir music artist. Collaboration is one of the from Osaka University Of Arts and aesthetic is inuenced by acousmatic, most important characteristics of M.A. in Master of Urban Informatics cinematic, theatre and literary the project as it allows the fusion of from Osaka City University. arts. e ensemble’s main priority di erent vocabularies in order to He learned electro-acoustic music is electroacoustic improvisation, expand its language towards more composition at INA-GRM in 1997. which includes conductions and complex forms. e interaction His pieces were performed at live electronics, up to radical between electronic instrument and DR(DeutschlandRadio/Germnay) improvisation with the only use of the acoustic instrument is one of the most ,WDR(westdeutscher rundfunk/ laptop: the acoustic source is hidden, well-established practices, but It takes Germany), CCMC(Japan), the musical gesture is not linked with on new and interesting features. ey JSEM(Japan), FUTURA(France), the physical movement, the sense study with Elio Martusciello, Simone MUSLAB(Mexico), SR(Radio of hearing becomes the main one Pappalardo Francesco Antonioni, Saarbruecken/Germany), and the listener is free to wander Luigi Ceccarelli. ey followed HR(Hessischer Rundfunk/Germany), through abstract soundscapes. master classes and seminars held by Sound is destructured, losing all Denis Dufour, Giancarlo Schiani, KAZUYA ISHIGAMI ISCM(Stuttgart/Germany), Spark(USA), NICOGRAPH(Japan), e-cor ensemble pic of its semantic meaning. Each Walter Prati, Keiko Harada, Alvin SILENCE(Italy), VII International performance will be unique since Curran, Roberto Bellatalla, Edison FKL-Symposium(Italy), the composition process happens in Studio. At the end of the year, I hear the bells ICMC(2015_USA/TEXAS) and real time, and all of the forms and on New Year’s Eve. In order to wash so on. He has an independent label structures will be determined by the away all the bad things of the year. “NEUS-318”. He is currently lecturer Terre Deserte New sound spaces are explored, investigated and covered, but creative impulses of the moment. e And, as next year will be a good year, at Osaka University of Arts, Kyoto along the way, it they seem as a will come to a revelation that, like a key, will act of improvising is not dominated I wash out the heart. New Year, I will Seika University and Doshisha open the doors to the sonore objet. “Like a perception proper for listening to by sperimentation, but by a deep pray to the shrine. To be a good year Women’s College. it self” e listening does not refer to the perceived sounds but only to the knowledge of one’s own capabilities this year, I sincerely pray. e time perception. Sound mass are composed by the overlapping of elements, which and limitations; improvisation has go past the early. A year is a blink. feel independent from each other. e sounds evolves, slowly, becoming a macro becomes a ritual, a celebration of the object. An evolution, until arriving to the key point, which is characterized present. Until now they dealt with by few elements, able to wake up the listener from a oneiric dimension. e di erent forms of sonic art, among silence has a decisive impact, it is the awareness. e imperceptible dynamics which sound design, music for theatre become strong dynamics, where the sonore objet undresses of any elegance, plays and silent movies; in these remaining like a raw and poor material. ese elements have short duration, works sound is never subjugated to like a mirage in the desert. It has the perception, but not the perceived object. the on-screen action, o en there is e composition will include a meditation moment, distended and reective, instead a radical di erence between versus the verticality, i.e. the anxiety. the two. e sound generates an UAM-X in Greece, Cyprus, United Kingdom, naming of the „Goethe Platz“, an area for Splendour in the Grass Festival Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, that is now the city’s central bus stop in Byron Bay (2013), Dark Mofo Portugal, Brazil and USA. His Jiyoung Yoon (Chloe Yoon) is an festival (2013+2014), Constance ARI acousmatic composition Erevos won artist, working on the boundaries (2015) and Networked Art Forms: the rst prize ex aequo in the student of electroacoustic composition and Tactical Magick Faerie Circuits at category of acousmatic composition experimental music, production, Contemporary Art Tasmania (2013) competition Metamorphoses 2012 and audiovisual live sets. In 2012, in Hobart. She co-founded the and his composition Balloon eories she founded the electronic music international Radiophonic Creation has been awarded with the public label ‘few sounds’ which has 3 Day (2008>2011) and French prize at the composition competition album releases. As a member of electronic and electroacoustic music Metamorphoses 2014. MONOKORD, an experimental Julia Drouhin Kontact sonoreS festival (2008>2013). music project, whose rst Album was Julia Drouhin Our Gravity 00:04:54 She has been a programming launched in November 2013 followed 2015 eld recordings in Tasmania associate for the rst Dark Mofo by a debut performance hosted as part “Our Gravity” is a radioscape of festival, co-curator of Klapperstein, of ‘unrender’ an audiovisual festival my life in Tasmania with my family 24 hour international sound art at LEHRTER SIEBZEHN Berlin. coming from France. Di erent headphone festival at Mona, Hobart Studied computer music at Korea latitude, open attitude, sometimes and project manager for the rst National University of Arts (MA) lassitude. Voices : Arjan Kok, Sanne Pierre Henry’s acousmonium concert Dimitrios Savva Chloe Yoon with full scholarship, and currently Kok Drouhin, Leandre Kok Drouhin, by distance for Mona Foma festival studies electroacoustic composition Julia Drouhin, Emma Drouhin. 2012 from Paris. She is currently Even almost two centuries a er Julia Drouhin is an artist, curator touring her international radio I was always enjoying squeezing as a student of Robin Minard at his death, Goethe continues to be and academic who explores sociality picnic Sweet Tribology and was the balloons, pressing them with my Hochschule für Musik Franz-Liszt Weimar’s most important icon. His through radioscapes, installations recipient of Next Wave’s Emerging ngers until they pop… It has not Weimar. name appears all over the city. Anyone and collaborative performances. Her Curator Program 2016 with Pip been up until now that I realized who passes through Weimar is site speci c playgrounds reshape Sta ord in partnership with Liquid Dimitrios Savva was born in Cyprus, constantly reminded of his presence. common mythologies using eld Architecture for Sisters Akousmatica. 1987. He received his Bachelor degree My composition refers to the history recordings as well as textiles, edible She was granted of the 6th Giuseppe (distinction) in music composition of Goethe in Weimar. e works or found objects. She questions Englert prize (Switzerland-2014), from the Ionian University of Corfu starts with a rendition of the very transmission arts through haunted air curator residency at LABoral (Spain and his Master degree (distinction) rst poem he wrote a er he moved of ghost towns, out of space phono- 2014+2015), artist residency at GRM in Electroacoustic composition to Weimar in 1775 (in which my memory, edible records or music of / INA (France-2013), Phonurgia from the University of Manchester. own Korean accent is noticeable) colours. Her work had been presented Nova award (France-2012). She has In January 2015 he started his PhD and ends with his famous last words in galleries, art centres and festivals received support from Situate Art in Sheeld University under the „Mehr Licht!“ (more light). e work in Europe, Brazil and Australia, as Lab (2016). supervision of Adrian Moore. His also refers to Goethe’s rebirth in the well as broadcast on airwave and compositions have been performed city: Goethe was immortalized in the online radio. She was guest artist UAM-X and commissions include those second section, which also feature a a piano make a sound? e piano the player being subordinate to the from the American Prize, ASCAP, multitude of animal sounds. e last was considered to be a resonant interface. Association for the Promotion of section incorporates combination of box with strings – hitting, plucking, Rob lives in south west London with New Music, the Charlotte Street sounds from both previous sections. strumming, bowing and dropping the beautiful and talented Mrs D who Foundation, Foundation for Modern objects on strings were all used as fortunately happens to be his wife. He Music, the Hong Kong Composers’ means of generating sounds. No enjoys good food far too much, has a Guild, the MidAmerican Center sound was synthesised but in the yearning to ski at all times of the year for Contemporary Music, the editing process the consideration was and regularly de-stresses by walking Interdisciplinary Festival for Music how why did the piano sound. his neighbour’s dog. and Sound Art - Shut Up and Listen!, Rob Demianiuk is a London-based the Lin Yao Ji Music Foundation musician, composer and music of China, MMTA/MTNA, newEar, educator. He has composed and the New-Music Consortium, the produced music for television, short Soli fan tutti Composition Prize, the lms and library music in addition Virginia Center for the Creative Arts to his own output and working and others. His works are published as musical director on several with the ABLAZE Records, Darling’s productions. Chin Ting Chan Acoustical Delight, Melos Music, Music from SEAMUS, Navona Having completed a MMus in Rob Demianiuk Records/PARMA Recordings, Electroacoustic Composition at the SCI Journal of Music Scores Raised in Hong Kong, composer Kingston University, London, a and Unfolding Music Publishing Chin Ting (Patrick) CHAN is current academic and compositional (ASCAP). He received his D.M.A. Klavierprojekt is an exploration of Assistant Professor of Music eory interest is that of interfacing degree from the University of piano technique and sonority and and Composition at Ball State acoustic instruments with electronic Missouri–Kansas City in 2014. the possibilities o ered to both by University. He previously held intervention in live performance and In Greek Mythology, Oceanus was opportunities o ered by electronic faculty positions at the University of evaluating the resulting demands of portrayed as a Titan. As one of the intervention. Klavierprojekt utilises Missouri–Kansas City and Kansas the interface on individual technique many sons of Uranus and Gaia, both xed and live sections and is City Kansas Community College. He and interrogates the necessity to he was believed to be a river that intended for live performance by has been a fellow and guest composer develop virtuosity to meet those encircles the world. I borrowed the a solo pianist with electronics and at the International Computer demands. is seeks to develop a name Oceanus for this piece to depict comprises of four sections which Music Conference, the International more transparent and less intrusive water in a natural environment. is combine to make a single movement. Rostrum of Composers, IRCAM’s means of the player interfacing with piece is roughly divided into three All sound is sourced from the piano. ManiFeste, the ISCM World Music the electronics so that electronic sections. e rst section consists of e original thinking behind the Days Festival, June in Bu alo, the mise- processing is activated and controlled only sounds of water. e sound of xed media was to consider how en music festival and the Wellesley by the performer’s technique and the rain and a non-processed thunder a piano could be played - apart Composers Conference. Awards serves the purposes of the player, not strike mark the beginning of the from depressing.keys, how does UAM-X while the attenuations and tweaks to, to Heraclitean Dreams, multiple Music (AAWM). He is co-chair of the only a handful are intelligible) in and transformations of, this sound listenings ought to feel rewarded with Analysis of Post-1945 Music Interest a sonic depiction of wandering color give the work its shape. How new ways of engaging the piece, and Group of the Society for Music through an abandoned store. ese Mailman transitions between these so far I have not heard the work the eory. He was recently featured on comprehensible snippets can be transformations fuels the action of the same way twice. ABC News Nightline’s TV segment understood as memory, or possibly an idealization while surrounded piece, and though these transitions Joshua Banks Mailman is a theorist, about “Why Some Songs Make Us (usually) feel subtle throughout, the Sad.” by desolation and decay within the analyst, critic, philosopher, performer, corpse of a former giant. cumulative sound color tweaks and technologist, and composer of music Mailman developed interactive adjustments with which Mailman teaching at University of Alabama, music technologies for the iPhone achieves these transformations move and previously at Columbia presented at the 9th Sound and Born in Lansing, Benjamin Fuhrman my ear to listen so ly...a zoomed-out University, UCSB, and NYU. He holds Music Computing Conference in is a graduate of the doctoral program kind of listening wherein local details A.B. in philosophy from University of Copenhagen 2012 and International in music composition at Michigan occulate into larger musical gures Chicago and Ph.D. in music theory Conference on Music Perception and State University, where his principle and draw my ear to increasingly from the Eastman School of Music. Cognition (ICMPC) and European instructors were Dr. Ricardo Lorenz broad musical gestures and stances. He researches musical form from Society for the Cognitive Sciences and Dr. Mark Sullivan. He also holds a In this way, my ear traces the ow of ux, temporal dynamic form and of Music (ESCOM) in esseloniki, master’s degree in music composition one sound color into the next, and is published in the Music eory Greece. His multimedia Chameleon from Michigan State University, luxuriates surprisingly in the more Spectrum, Journal of Sonic Studies, Jelly sh series appears in Open and a bachelor’s degree in violin Joshua Banks Mailman unabashedly palpable sound color Music Analysis, Psychology of Music, Space Web Magazine and Full-Body performance from Hope College, changes: around the 5-minute mark, Music eory Online, Open Space, Comprovisations Nos.1 and 2 are in Benjamin R. Fuhrman where his principle instructor was Heraclitean Dreams (2008) the ear encounters for the second Leonardo Electronic Almanac, SoundsRite online. Electroacoustic Mihai Craioveanu. e aural delights of Joshua Mailman’s time the opening pluck-and-vocal- TEMPO, and Perspectives of New works include Heraclitean Dreams I’m fascinated by the cycle of urban He has had works commissioned electro-acoustic work Heraclitean fanfare (though re-framed this time Music. His “Improvising Synesthesia: (2008), Licorice Loops 1 and 2 (2012), growth and decay in the American from performers and organizations Dreams emerge di erently upon each around); or the 8:15 mark, where Comprovisation of Generative Lavender Lullaby (2012), Vortex Rust Belt. Growing up in Michigan, such as Grant Gould, Jack Kinsey, hearing. Each time it suggests anew the smooth pro le of earlier sound Graphics and Music” appears in Collosus (Hommage to Ligeti) (2011), I’ve seen quite a number of properties Mark Flegg, Shawn Teichmer, Ty how best to hear it this time. color transitions seems to crystallize Leanardo Electronic Almanac and Murmurs of the Moist (2012). fall into disrepair and neglect, with the Forquer, Je Loe ert, Barton Rotberg, So far, to my ear, the global changes in in a brazen rhythmic gure out tted v.19, no.3, special issue on Live He played hichiriki in a performance larger ones always seeming to become Ryan Janus, Sam Gould, Nathan sound color set the overall pace of this with a successive iteration of higher Visuals. He has written on narrative, of Cage’s Ryoanji at Columbia gigantic scabs on the landscape – a Bogert, Will Cicola, the H2 Quartet, music. e choice of sound colors and and higher frequencies at shorter and embodiment, electroacoustic music, University’s Miller eatre in 2015 silent testament to overreaching, and University Reformed Church, their transformations linger in my ear shorter durations--here the music interactive music technologies, and and performed full-body-controlled a lack of nancial planning. Blacksoil Church, and the Magnolia long a er each audition. Recalling relishes in the unsullied exuberance post-tonal analysis in books and in audio-visual interactive computer So, when I saw the K-Mart ephemera West High School Wind Symphony. the opening pluck-and-vocal-fanfare of the sine wave, and again the eld proceedings of Music Perception music in his trio improvisation collection, “Attention K-Mart His works have been performed at the when arriving at the end of the piece, of listening suddenly sounds broader. and Cognition (ICMPC), Cognitive “Material Soundscapes Collide” in Shoppers,” posted to the Internet IMMARTS TechArts Festival 2007, it occurs to me that the sound color is music suggests many more ways Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Sound the 2016 New York Philharmonic Archive, I knew I had to play with Electro-Acoustic Juke Joint 2008. of the nal pure wave sine tones, to listen, and I do not feel compelled and Music Computing (SMC), and Biennial. it a bit. e resulting piece uses seemingly inspiring the work, lend to privilege any one of them over Analytical Approaches to World store announcements (though this music its aura of cohesion, another...with no single way to listen UAM-X Kong’s culture started to integrate with What happens, then? On the Behalf della musica” (2014). Her music is recent years. Apart from working as the mainland China. Substitution of of KM3NeT Collaboration. published by RadioSpia Publishing, a performer, Hui is also a composer. traditional Chinese with simplified TEM Taukay Edizioni musicali She studied with Dr. Joshua Chan on Chinese, supporting of Mandarin and OBS Label. She works as a research of interactive composition. as medium of instruction at schools Electroacoustic Professor for the Hui’s recent interest in electroacoustic instead of Cantonese, lost of social Bachelor and Master’s Degree in and world music which led to write a welfares as mainlanders immigrate to Alba Francesca Battista (1987) Electroacoustic Composition at “D. piece for the Percussive Arts Society Hong Kong. In this piece of music, the graduated in Musica Elettronica, Cimarosa” Conservatory of Avellino, Hong Kong day of Percussion in daily transportation, MTR (railway) Piano and Physics. Her compositions Italy. July . Moreover, Hui is interested in of every Hong Kong citizens and the and papers are selected for many studying sound arts. She combines situation that we encounter during international contests (NYCEMF electronic music to the acoustic our rides is recorded. It is from my New York Electroacoustic Music recordings from daily life in her first angle as a HongKonger, looking Festival 2016, New York, USA; ICMC compositions. at the integration between us and the 2015 International Computer Music mainlander from China. Whether it Conference, Dallas, USA; ICMC is an integration or an invasion? 2014 International Computer Music Conference, Athens, Greece; EMS14 Hui is a graduate from the University Electroacoustic Music Beyond of Hong Kong, studying percussion Concert Performance, Berlin, and timpani performance with Alba Francesca Battista Germany; KEAMSAC 2014 and Hui Wing Hei Cheryl James Boznos, Principal Timpani 2015 Korean Electro-Acoustic Music of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society’s Annual Conference, Seoul, Orchestra. As an active performer, e loss and the stubborn search for roughout the years, Korea; ICMC 2013 International Hui had performed with ensemble love. Melancholy and sweetness of human civilization is about Computer Music Conference, Perth, such as the SAR Philharmonic life. e recurring question of our integration. Cultural integration, Australia; Vernice Contemporanea Orchestra, Hong Kong New Music being in the world. e desire to industrialisation, globalisation, all – 55ma Biennale d’Arte, Venice, Ensemble, the Medical Association be elsewhere. e need to pretend these are taking places throughout Italy; …). Her electroacoustic work Orchestra as well as the Pro Arte nothing has happened, for distraction human civilisation. In Hong Kong, Nueva Luz won the third prize of Orchestra of Hong Kong, Hui or unconsciousness. ey say integration takes place everyday. the International Competition of had also performed with Trey Lee existentialism distinguishes us from e multicultural background and Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro recently in Trey’s residency in HKU. other living beings. A er a major the influx of population from the Monterrey SONOM 2014 (Mexico). Specialising in contemporary music, decision, on the eve of an examination, mainland China, make us rethink She is the author of “Elementi di Hui has premiered works by di erent on the wedding day, before a concert, about the word, Integration. It is Acustica Fisica e sistemi di di usione composers such as Dr. Anthony waiting for a meeting that could purely integration or invasion? A er sonora” (2012) and “Elettrotecnica Cheng, Dr. Joyce Tang, Dr. Austin change our lives. Knowing that it is in returning to China and the CEPA ed Elettronica. I nuovi strumenti Yip, Mr. Gordon Fung, Mr. Yip Chi the nature of things to have an end. agreement which facilitates the trade Looking to the stars, across the sea. che hanno rivoluzionato l’estetica between Hong Kong and China, Hong Chung and John Luther Adams in UAM-X stochastic elements. Festival, Morely Gallery, New audiovisual installations and sound Marco Marini, Paris, June 2015. design for cinema. His music if Dave Gedosh is a composer York City Electroacoustic Music 20 years in sound, from social Festival, Oklahoma Composers o en characterized by disrupted and sound artist and educator. fluctuations between contemplative sciences, to radio, to on location His works include acousmatic Association, SEAMUS, Sweet sound for lm, to eld recording, under Music Festival, RTVE. scapes and microscopic collapses. and electroacoustic music, and His current research mainly focus on to education, to travel the world to intermedia; electroacoustic music es, and Zeppelin Festival. He has collect voices, to audio art / interaction curated new music concerts and spatialization’s technologies and use with live performance, video, and of space as composition’s parameter. / anthropology and geology, to dance. presented papers and lectures music composition… french sound Many of his compositions reect on sound design, electroacoustic artist, activist and musician Gaël an interest in sound’s role in the music, and spatialization at the OK Segalen aka IhearU has a very diverse dimensioning of the listener’s spatial Electric Music Festival, New Genre experience in sound and is focused and temporal experience. His Music Festival (Living Arts, Tulsa), on polylistening, dissonance and music attempts to elicit an imagistic and the International Jean Gebser new music, as well as create people’s response through the manipulation, International Society Conference encounter in improvisation spaces. processing, re-contextualizing (NYU, Rice Univ.). He has received She believes all the noises she has of sound objects, and the use of awards from ASCAP, Bourges, Fresh collected or manipulated, can coexist spatialization techniques to create Minds Festival, and the Greater in in one inclusive spirit, here and what might be referred to as sound Denton Arts Council. His music has now, and transposes the complexity images. is is most evident in his been released on the SEAMUS label. of the world into soundscapes and Dave Gedosh Armand Lesecq Gaël Segalen acousmatic music. His music takes Dave earned a DMA in music DFR compositions (Danceable Field the listener on an introspective composition with a specialization in Before the animals can create spatial Recording). Guitar Construction #2: Progressive journey through passages of subtle computer music from the University Undulating folds of a troubled surface gures, they must rst reunite e mike o ers an improvisation Fracture is the second piece in a series nuance and ephemeral structure of North Texas, where he studied this is a ready wire to break. Incurved Inspired by clouds or groups of space and is a pretext to create people’s of a project I am currently engaged to passages of sonic intensity and with Jon C Nelson, Phil Windsor, fissures, sinuosities in cascades. e animals and the behaviors that drive encounter. She believes all sounds in titled Guitar Constructions. As a stochastic texture. Andrew May, and Butch Rovan. He di racted area leads in banks of them (“ock”,”boids “), I continue can coexist in new arrangements, collective, these pieces give homage His music has been performed earned a B.M.A. and M.M. in music meander. my research on the multitude and and transposes the complexity of to my early musical roots and composition from the University of Armand Lesecq is a sound artist polylistening. How to listen to throughout North America and in and sound editor for cinema, who the world into one electroacoustic experiences. Each piece represents a Latin America and Europe, at festivals Oklahoma, where he studied with everything at once (at the same time), and polyrhythmic soundscapes, speci c guitar-based genre, possess Christian Asplund. considers these di erent artistic between chaos and organization, and conferences including Bourges experiences as connected and compositions between bruitisme, a di erent character, and utilizes a Festival Synthèse (IMEB), Cape Fear fusion and balanced trajectories, and past and future dance cultures. unique conceptual approach although complementary. A er studying atonality and rhythmic adventures. New Music Festival, Ecuentros de electroacoustic composition at e reconciliation of all the noises an internal consistency exists in that Esquina Musica Electroacoustica, Electroacoustic composition, DEM she has collected from her travels they all make use of the metaphor of Pantin’s Music Conservatory (Paris, (diploma of musical studies) at Florida Electroacoustic Music France), he adopts di erent listening is manipulated in the studio, in one “construction,” contain a metaphoric Festival, Fresh Minds Festival, Experimental electroacoustic studio inclusive spirit, here and now. use of the name of and allusion to each approaches through collaboration of Pantin’s Conservatory, under the Holophon.ca., ICMC, IMMArts, with visuals artists, interactive particular genre, and each contain Last Friday Listening Room, LaTex direction of Christine Groult and UAM-X nula o, casi nula. La cadena hablada patrimonio artístico contiene obras xed media with extracted “parts” (Athens 2014), Cross-Art 2015, sobrevive solo en un nivel acústicas, electroacústicas, mixtas y that he then performs (sometimes MUSLAB 2015 (Buenos Aires), New fonemático es decir, no posee algorítmicas. improvises) on live electronic Music in the Old Town Hall (Gdansk signi cación. Sin embargo, este devices. He consistently challenges 2015), NYCEMF 2016 (New York) trabajo estético dota a la obra de conventional approaches to making and others. He is an active member of cierta electroacoustic music by privileging e Polish Society of Electroacoustic impronta, precisamente de un tipo de the singularity of sounds over Music (PSeME), currently a member impronta que solo puede dar el habla. more traditional formal concerns. of the Executive Board of this Mazurowski’s inventiveness and organization. Es un joven compositor, programador technological expertise has already Mazurowski’s electroacoustic y productor musical argentino. earned him a respected place among compositions have been published on Nacido en Buenos Aires en el año electroacoustic community. numerous CD albums (Pseudaria / 1989, ha comenzado sus estudios Mazurowski is also active as a visual Divertimento, Back in Time, Fallacies musicales a temprana edad tomando artist and a journalist. His professional DVD – to name a few, recent ones), clases de composición y guitarra. En activities include producing various including the newest one, Non la adolescencia tuvo el privilegio de electroacoustic music concerts and Acoustic Symphony, released in the tomar clases de piano con el legendario contribution to several scienti c USA by Neuma Records (in April Antonio De Raco. Paralelamente conferences and workshops. 2015). a sus estudios de piano, Francisco Mazurowski’s music has been Francisco Mastucci estudió sonido y producción musical Dariusz Mazurowski broadcast by various radio stations en la E.M.B.A. Y Licenciatura en all over the world, and he has Es una obra estereofónica compuesta Música en la Universidad Nacional performed at festivals and other entre nales del 2015 y principios del de Tres de Febrero, carrera que Dariusz Mazurowski is a Polish events in Europe, South and North 2016 por el compositor actualmente se encuentra próximo electroacoustic music composer, America, and Asia. His installations, argentino Francisco Mastucci. a terminar. En el marco Universitari producer and performer born and visual works and graphics have been Diacronía es el resultado de una etapa pudo destacarse y conseguir que currently residing in Gdansk. exhibited worldwide in numerous de investigación artística dirigida el Cuarteto de Cuerdas UnTref His works combine traditional galleries. Recent performances / por la problemática que supone la toque alguna de sus composiciones. analog instruments with the sonic exhibitions include : Audio Art relación texto/música. La obra se Asimismo, ha participado como potential of digital technology (Krakow 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015), presenta como una sucesión de intérprete y compositor en el festival and computers, i.e., electronic / MUSICACOUSTICA (Beijing materiales discontinuos organizados Enlaces que se celebra todos los synthesized sounds with processed 2012), Resonance (Krakow 2013), veloz y eclécticamente. Un cuidadoso años en el predio de la Universidad. microphone recordings and samples. ohrenhoch der Geräuschladen (a porcentaje de este material Actualmente se desempeña como His compositional approach is sound gallery in Berlin, 2012 and sonoro está construido a partir intérprete, programador y compositor dynamic in that it involves live 2014), Echouxx14 (Prague 2014), palabras habladas. Como resultado en Kurtha, el ensamble de alumnos electronics and live sound di usion LEMESG (Saint Petersburg 2014), de los procedimientos aplicados, la de la Licenciatura en Música de la across multi-speaker systems. During Music for No Tape / ERARTA (Saint inteligibilidad del texto resulta Universidad de Tres de Febrero. Su solo concerts, he o en combines Petersburg 2014), ICMC / SMC UAM-X Philharmonic Orchestra, his Sabath Composition Competition. In 2014 apariciones, generan diversos niveles 2012 organiza conciertos en el marco of Witches for bassoon, strings He received an honourable mention de tensión y de saturación textural. del Programa de Articulación entre and percussion was premiered. He at the VII Karol Szymanowski Compositores Docentes y Alumnos received the Fryderyk Chopin Society Composition Competition. His works para la ejecución de la Música of Friends’ Prize In Kielce and also have been performed at the following Nació en Julio 15 de 1988, Manizales Contemporánea del Conservatorio the Mayor of Kielce Prize ‘Hope of festivals and places in Poland and (Colombia). Gilardo Gilardi de la ciudad de La Kielce’. In 2007 he received 4th prize abroad: Trondheim Symfoniorkester, En 2006 comenzó la carrera Plata, estrenando varias obras. Desde and PWM Edition Special Prize at Electronic Music Week in Szanghai, Licenciatura en Música con énfasis el 2014 desempeña la función de the 3rd International Composition Noise Floor in Sta ordshire, New York en Guitarra Clásica en la Universidad ayudante adscripto dentro la Cátedra Competition ‘Musica Sacra’. He City Electroacoustic Music Festival, de Caldas (Manizales), donde cursó de Teoría de la Práctica Artística was also awarded with honourable Świętokrzyskie Dni Muzyki in Kielce, estudios con el Maestro a Jorge de la FBA, UNLP. Actualmente es Kamil Kosecki mention at the 3rd International Gaude Mater in Częstochowa, A. Alberto González. En 2007-2008 becario de investigación dentro del Composition Competition ‘Garden Didur’s festival in Sanok, Musica participó de Clases Magistrales de Programa ‘’Becas Estímulo a las In search of the door to another Music’. In 2008 he was the nalist at the Moderna in Łódź, Festival Probaltica Guitarra con Pavel Steidl, Peter y Vocaciones Cientí cas’’ del CIN, world is a piece for 8 channels. ere Z.Herbert All-Polish Composition in Toruń and Warsaw, Leo Festiwal in Zoltán Katona, Ricardo Cobo, Irene Universidad Nacional de La Plata. are recorded sounds of openingand Competition and the I.J.Paderewski Wrocław, Music Festival in Bydgoszcz, Gómez y Andrés Villamil, realizadas closing the door. You can hear also All-Polish Composition Competition. Alkagran in Czechowice Dziedzice. en el marco de la II y III Semana knocking and hitting of the door. It’s Kosecki also received an honourable de la Guitarra organizadas por el an electroacoustic touraround the mention at the C. M. von Weber Banco de la República de Colombia All-Polish Bassoon Competition (Manizales). En 2008 participó del Jazz di erent doors. ere is one purpose, Alejandro Mejía Sánchez nd the right door and enter to and won rst prize at the Didur All- Camp 2008, realizado por el Centro another world. Polish Composition Competition. He Colombo-Americano y el Banco de Kamil Kosecki (polish composer) also won the AllPolish Composition El Templo es una obra compuesta en la República de Colombia, dirigido was born in Kielce on May 11, 1984. Competition for a bugle-call of 2015, inspirada en la obra homónima por Christian Kossack y Jonathan At the age of 14, He started his Warsaw district, Wilanów. In 2009 de H. P. Lovecra , escrita en 1920. La No singer de la Universidad de musical education In the bassoon he won the AllPolish Composition idea sonora surgió al querer recrear Alabama (EE.UU). En 2009 comienza class at the Ludomir Różycki State Competition for the children’s opera. las sonoridades fantásticas que a cursar la Carrera de Licenciatura en Music School In Kielce. He grduated He received the award of the Marshal pudieran existir en el templo al que se Música orientación Composición en in bassoon and composition from the Oce of Kielce and the Scholarship re ere la narración, encontrado por la Universidad Nacional de La Plata Fryderyk Chopin University of Music of the Culture and Science Ministry. Karl Heinrich abordo del submarino (Argentina), tomando clases con los In Warsaw. In 2002 he was honoured In 2010 he won rst prize at the 8th U-29 en las profundidades del compositores Mariano Etkin y Carlos at the All-Polish Auditions of Music Tadeusz Ochlewski Composition océano Atlántico. La continuidad Mastropietro Actualmente realiza School Students In Olsztyn. ere Competition. In 2012 he won que se plantea en la atmósfera sonora la tesis de grado bajo la dirección he performed his rst composition rst prize at the 54 Tadeusz Baird general, se ve interrumpida por del Prof. Jorge Daniel Arias. Varias Sonata for Bassoon and Piano. In the Composition Competition. In 2013 algunos objetos sonoros, que con de sus obras se han estrenado en same year, with the Świętokrzyska He received an honourable mention diferentes grados de transformaciones conciertos realizados en ciudades de at the VIII Krzysztof Komeda tímbricas sufridas en sus diferentes Colombia y Argentina. Desde el año UAM-X e piece want to surprise for his form the piece, as if the end of the journey en el concurso de arte sonoro and percussive attacks, and clarify isn’t Mills but a placid beach. With latinoamericano “Las Soledades”, every implication of tymbrical use of this juxtaposition I aim to reveal how organizado por el Centro Cultural lids by their development throughout much noise pollution we endure daily de España Córdoba (2013), su obra the piece. and what our soundscape should be. “recreación de las Soledades” fue It is spatialize on 4 channels with parte de muchos conciertos en automations and also with the diferentes países de América del IRCAM Spat. Tate Carson es un compositor y Sur y América Central. ). Su obra bajista vertical desde Nueva Orleans, “Naturaleza Deep” fue seleccionado Louisiana. Estudió composición de Damián Gorandi entre los ganadores del segundo Marco Barberis plays the Piano since jazz y el rendimiento, tanto en la concurso internacional organizado “Yermo” he was a child (8 years old), than he Universidad Loyola de Nueva Orleans por CEIArtE “Arte & climático 2014!” y la Universidad de Nueva Orleans Fue trabajada en el laboratorio de música - Untre (Canadá / Argentina), sus begin to play also Guitar and Bass electroacústica del conservatorio “Alberto Guitar at the age of 14. bajo la dirección de James Walsh y Ginastera“ (arg) en el 2014 . En esta obra obras fueron estrenadas en el “Nuevas He plays with a lot of Rock and Edward Petersen. Carson era activo utilizo sonido sintético y sonidos concretos, Músicas por la Memoria” IV Festival Pop bands for years and when he en la escena de improvisación de jazz partiendo desde una profunda exploración y VI edición (Arg, 2014/2015) .En sobre la materia sonora. El nombre de la was 20 he discover Electronic (and de New Orleans a partir de 2009 hasta fue seleccionado el año en curso para 2015 cuando se trasladó a Oakland, pieza surge de considerar ciertos umbrales participar en el festival de Nueva York Electroacoustic) Music and he start entre lo fértil y lo infértil , creando así una studying it at Conservatorio G. F. California. Actualmente cursa una geografía o paisaje sonoro áspero y opaco Música Electroacústica (Nycemf, Marco Barberis Tate Carson Ghedini in Cuneo (Italy). maestría en música electrónica en utilizando diferentes texturas, explorando 2015), siendo declarado sus obras y He has done some concerts with the el Mills College.Carson ha escrito distintas atmosferas y colores. composición como “interés cultural para grandes conjuntos abiertos, It was worked in the laboratory of y artístico” por el Ministerio de Q-verch is a Acousmatic piece based Institution, also at Conservatorio improvisadores, y no improvisadores; electroacoustic music of “Alberto Ginastera” Cultura Argentina. Fue seleccionado on samples of various lids and Viola Agostino Ste ani in Castelfranco (arg) in 2014 It is an acousmatic. In this Shi ing Migration was recording medios estáticos acusmáticas; y el en el concurso VII organizado por sounds. Veneto. work I use synthetic sound and concrete with a set of binaural in-ear cine. Recientemente ha desarrollado el la Fundación Destellos (Argentina, It is a short Electroacoustic study on He made a lot of Acousmatic pieces, sounds, starting from a deep exploration of microphones while biking to and instrumento de rendimiento portátil, the sound eld. e name of the piece arises 2015) y ha seleccionado también the tymbre, envelope and spectral some Live Electronics and also one from Mills College for a week. At the Swarm, para su procesamiento en from considering certain thresholds between a participar del Coloquio sobre la composition and di erences of Interactive Installation (about the end of the piece you’ll also hear waves vivo electroacústica. fertile and infertile, thus creating geography música acusmático organizado por several lids, combined with the most facts of Bataclan [in Paris]). or rough and dull soundscape using di erent recorded in La Jolla, California. la Fundación Destellos (Mar del classical Viola samples (played only He also plays with a Laptop Ensemble textures, exploring di erent atmospheres I wanted to see if I could make a Plata, Arg, 2016). Fue seleccionado with extended techniques). called “Bande Critiche”, based in and colors. piece of soundscape music out of the en la Muslab 2015 (México / Brasil), It begin with a percussive part, that Cuneo, composed by some of the Damián Gorandi nació en Buenos sounds I encounter on my commte. seleccionada en el Festival Zeppelin develops into another more dense students of the Electronic Music Aires el 11 - 11 de 1991, Argentina. During the extended listening to my (España). Seleccionado por “Musinfo” and strong; than returns on low Class; they have played in some Composición de la carrera del environment I started to realize how para participar en el “Arte y Ciencia volumes and resonances, for ending venues near Cuneo and Turin. estudiante del Conservatorio clse the sounds of cars driving to into Días 2015” en Bourges (Francia). with confusion and disturbing noises the distance sounded like waves. I “Alberto Ginastera” de la Provincia de of lids and Viola melted togheter. juxtapose these sounds at the end of Buenos Aires (Arg). Fue galardonado UAM-X material is used in the latter stages of appear to already have clear centre and grain streams that overlap in symbolism in composition and sound this piece. Track forces the listener’s frequencies yet the movement of the space, interact and counter-interact art whereby the architecture of the ears to move from being passive lters causes the listener’s ears to track within a conicting set of relations. work is de ned by and built upon the receivers of spectral information to the extremities of the bandwidths Behaviours are dissipated in the cultural and imaginal information becoming active participants in the rather than conducting more simple nal section with the introduction found in eld recordings. realisation of this work. While much pitch tracking procedures. of the soundscapes that generated He is a PhD candidate in Musical is known regarding the science of them, not in a descriptive manner, Composition at the University of the listening process, a lot remains rather a juxtaposition of the two Aberdeen. to be discovered in relation to the Brian Connolly is a nal year PhD environments recorded. full extent of the non-linear nature student at Maynooth University with By approaching the sonic source of the inner ear and this work seeks research interests in the application as a meta-narrative of noise I was to employ such concepts at the heart of psychoacoustic phenomena able to encode a reality and channel of its creative methodology. As the concerning the non-linearities of the intelligible with the sensible as listener’s ears become instruments the inner ear within composition. a contraction between silence and in the performance of this piece, Brian has composed the music for noise. a bridge is formed between the Keith Barry’s e Dark Side tour as Luca Nasciuti is a composer, curator physicality of the listener and the well as having written and presented and artist based in Scotland and loudspeakers with the sound waves the RTE lyric fm documentary Why London. He trained in electroacoustic now behaving as sonic stimuli which Music Can’t Stay Still. In the past 18 music composition, classical music Brian Connolly place the inner ear of the listener months alone the composer’s ground- Luca Nasciuti performance, visual and performing at the forefront of the work itself. breaking research into the ear as an arts. Synthetic sounds are gradually instrument has been accepted for Swarms is a xed media composition He performs, exhibits, and broadcasts introduced over the duration of this inclusion in programs with Music ‘Track’ (8:11 - Stereo) Track exploits that makes use for two recorded internationally, and most recently piece which present the listener with Current, SMC and ISTCC 2015/16 the non-linear nature of the inner soundwalks in Aberdeen, UK, and at Jerwood Space, London (UK), harmonic material for the rst time (Ireland), Sonorities and NI Science ear in relation to the phenomenon of Parma, Italy. e walks were recorded Royal Festival Hall (UK), Sonic in this work. An added emphasis Festival (Northern Ireland), TIES pitch perception within complex non respectively on 1st January 2015 and Arts Waterford (IE), Villa Romana, is placed here on the listener’s 2015/16 (Canada), SSC, INTIME and periodic sounds. is work involves 19th August 2013. Florence (IT), and Deutsche Bank ability to track peak frequencies BEAST FEaST (England), ASA and the generation of formant regions e piece is an exploration of the Kunstalle, Berlin (DE). within inharmonic material as it FEASt Fest (USA), MUSLAB 2015 with speci c centre frequencies and experience of place through the His work spans installation, video, demonstrates a signi cantly reduced (Mexico) and NAA (China). modulating bandwidths which the juxtaposition of two very di erent and performance. It focuses on sound world in relation to timbral listener’s ears will unintentionally sonic environments. the legacy between acoustic and colour. At this point, a heavy use track throughout the duration of the Structured in three sections, the electronic sound and the interplay of of ltered sounds with moveable piece. e recorded source material narrative follows an opening in the sonic and visual practices within site bandwidths is explored, which for this work is comprised of pouring abstracted eld, with a strong presence speci c contexts. presents the inner ear with a new water, dragging metallic pipes, chains on the lower spectrum, followed by a His practice evaluates notions of dilemma as the listener is exposed and glasses, all of which exhibit middles section dominated by erratic phenomenological reduction and inharmonic waveforms. Synthetic to more direct sounds which o en gestures, glitches, bursts of energy UAM-X y por n “acusemantica”.Ha hecho la distancia entre la palabra y la cosa, Compositor y guitarrista nacido en Instrumentación, Composición performances también instalaciones, lo real y lo imaginario. Su poesía, Bogotá (Colombia). Su búsqueda por medios electrónicos, Teoría lms, exposiciones y programas de una experiencia esencialmente “en permanente de diversas fuentes avanzada y Repertorio del s.XX. radio en diferentes lugares de Europa, vivo”, invita a un trance donde la sonoras ha hecho que sus inuencias América del Norte, Centro y Sur. lectura se transforma en vida al musicales se centren especialmente, en Trabaja sobre diferentes soportes buscar los vasos comunicantes entre la música electrónica, electroacústica y produce asociaciones libres con poesía y alucinación. Ha perpetrado y mixta, logrando así que dentro de amigos artistas y cienti cos. Sus junto a otros poetas el movimiento sus obras, además de una búsqueda proyectos abarcan los dominios del “Reévolution Poétique”. Ha animado estilística y conceptual, haya una circo, performance, teatro, cine. durante años en París el “cabaret permanente retroalimentación del Gracias a la puesta en escena de pneumátiko”, el “laboratorio de entorno con sus creaciones. Como nuevas técni-cas de lecto escritura, electropoesía acusmántika” y el guitarrista, su interés se enfoca en puede explorar las fronteras entre el festival “Festina Lente”. Dirige la interpretación y difusión de obras sonido, el sentido, el olfato y la visión. grupos, talle-res, seminarios y escritas en la segunda década del Hace parte de proyectos musicales clases sobre diversos aspectos de la s.XX, para guitarra solista, cámara y y poéticos tales cuales Pyramides, locura y la poesía. Entre sus obras obras mixtas. En el año 2008 obtiene Laboratoire, Disautonomia, Motor es-critas se cuentan: Transparentes, su título de Licenciado en Música Nightingale, Buzos Tacticos, Terapoética, Vía Láctea, Pneumatika, con énfasis en interpretación de la Martin Bakero pnEUmAtIkOs, e Synchronizers... Viceversa, Fleuves & Flammes, Voie DANIEL ALBERTO ÁLVAREZ Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Su arte se alimenta también mucho des Voix, Urizen, Philtre, Sintomarte, ACERO (1984) (Colombia), donde estudió guitarra de su experiencia en psiquiatría como Acusmancia, Medium Poetry, Carbon clásica con Jaime Arias Obregón; Es un poeta, artista, investigador, psicoterapeuta. Siempre buscando los 14, Pneutrin@s. Obra para soporte jo en estéreo, en En 2012 obtiene su titulo de y terapeuta , campos íntimamente vasos comunicantes entre la poesía y donde se plantea mediante una am- Magister en Mùsica con mención relacionados en sus varias prácticas. la realidad, elaboró el concepto de bientación sonora sensaciones muy en composición de la Universidad Desde la poesia, la musica, la terapia como un arte. Asi, hizo personales de frustración, soledad, Simón Bolívar (Venezuela), donde la performance, el teatro y la nacer el concepto de “terapoeta” y temor y rabia. La obra hace parte de estudió composición y orquestación psicopatologia, se dedicó a la poesia la asociación del mismo nombre. una serie de tres piezas acusmáticas con Diana Arismendi y música en accion. En sus presentaciones, Experimenta la poetica de la sanación, llamada “Tríptico: visiones sobre el electroacústica con Adina Izarra; conduce un trance donde el soplo tomando en cuenta los síntomas de inconformismo”. Técnicamente, la paralelamente a la maestría continuò poé-tico se transforma en vida. la ciudad. Desarrolla ahora talleres obra fue hecha principalmente utili- sus estudios de guitarra con Rubén Utiliza poemas en movimiento, para Terapoetas. A través del soplo, la zando sonidos de lugares abandona- Riera. Desde el 2012 a la actualidad proyectados sobre su cuerpo y sílaba, el fo-nema, el verso, el aliento, dos que fueron procesados mediante se desempeña como docente de pantallas, así que espacializa su voz crea una nomenclatura entre la alteraciones en su espectro y textura. la carrera de Formación Musical en multifonía, modi cada por ltros imagen acústica y el sínto-ma poema. de la Universidad El Bosque acusmáticos. Ha llamado sus poesias Emplea retruécanos, asonancias, (Bogotá), en donde tiene a cargo “electropneumatica”, “acusmantica” métricas invocatorias, busca abolir las asignaturas de Composición, UAM-X and the creative development, by the manipulation of recorded sounds. manipulation of recorded sounds. While the eletronic synthesis is com- Estudiante de último semestre de While the eletronic synthesis is com- pletely restricted by serial and logari- música con énfasis en composición pletely restricted by serial and logari- thmical structures, the concrete part electroacústica en la Universidad de thmical structures, the concrete part is le to the intuitive and creative los Andes, dentro de la cual ha reci- is le to the intuitive and creative process of the composer, an attempt bido clases de composición con los process of the composer, an attempt to bring back the traditional musical maestros Luis Pulido, Santiago Loza- to bring back the traditional musical gesture in a structural and re ned no y Jorge Garcia. Adicionalmente, gesture in a structural and re ned way. e work is based on the pro- ha asistido a talleres de composición way. e work is based on the pro- cess of transforming semantics into con los maestros Dirk Reith, Adina cess of transforming semantics into musical objects, therefore, the clímax Isarra, Violeta Cruz, Rodrigo Valdez musical objects, therefore, the clímax of the piece is when the human voice y Javier Álvarez. En el verano del of the piece is when the human voice is heard (Reading a poem by Fernan- 2015 realiza un diplomado en ‘Crea- is heard (Reading a poem by Fernan- do Pessoa), this is the principle of ción Sonora con Nuevas Tecnologías’ do Pessoa), this is the principle of rethoric, now being transformed into en el CMMAS, Mexico, y es escogido rethoric, now being transformed into musical object. Unfortunally Tunga como becario para participar en el musical object. Unfortunally Tunga has passed away in June 2016, so this Festival Internacional de Música y has passed away in June 2016, so this is piece is therefore dedicated to his Nuevas Tecnologías “Visiones Sono- is piece is therefore dedicated to his ras XI”. Ao Seio do Palíndromo memory. memory. Martín Andrés Pineda Orduz
Ao Seio do Palíndromo Incesto is Rutinas (2015) Ao Seio do Palíndromo Incesto is an electroacoustic piece composed Creamos una identidad sonora a partir de las referencias auditivas que ge- an electroacoustic piece composed in 2016 for 8 channels speaker setup. neramos en la interacción con nuestro entorno, sin embargo, esta identidad in 2016 for 8 channels speaker setup. is piece is based on the sculpture está completamente cohibida por nuestra locación geográ ca y el contexto is piece is based on the sculpture called “Preliminares do Palíndromo sociocultural en el que nos desarrollamos. Vivimos en una jungla en la que called “Preliminares do Palíndromo Incesto” by the brazilian artist Tunga. impera la dicotomía entre sonidos naturales y arti ciales, que no siempre Incesto” by the brazilian artist Tunga. Ao Seio means, by its ethimology, distinguimos pero que siempre están en constante diálogo. Escuchando es la Ao Seio means, by its ethimology, in the middle or center, and Palín- única manera como podemos ser conscientes de ese diálogo, y es esa cons- in the middle or center, and Palín- dromo Incesto brings the idea of ciencia auditiva la que nos permite participar en la auto-con guración de dromo Incesto brings the idea of Palimpsesto, a medieval paper that nuestra identidad sonora. Palimpsesto, a medieval paper that was washed and then written over it En homenaje a J. de Castro, un breve pero sublime sonido que quedará por was washed and then written over it again. e piece contains two kinds siempre con gurado en mi ser. again. e piece contains two kinds of development, the structural deve- of development, the structural deve- lopment, by the eletronic synthesis, lopment, by the eletronic synthesis, and the creative development, by the UAM-X Maksym Prykhodko is a Ukrai- la ciudad de México, en el Festival Su trabajo se encuentra abocado y radiofónicas han sido presentadas nian-born composer studying at the Internacional “Discantus: Escenarios principalmente a la investigación en Alemania, Austria, España, Fran- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. de la Nueva Música” en sus ediciones y la creación de una «Escucha- cia, Argentina, Cuba, y México. Ha In 2015, Maksym was accepted into 2009 y 2010, y en el Festival “Puebla: Históricamente Situada» como base recibido numerosas comisiones y the National Student Electronic Mu- Cuna de la Revolución”, organizado para una «Ética y Política de la Es- encargos por parte de diversas ins- sic Event (N_SEME 2015) and had por el Instituto Municipal de Arte y cucha», que restablezca y restituya tituciones, tanto públicas como pri- his 8-channel electroacoustic work, Cultura de Puebla. Además «Oídos de el poder político del Escuchar y que vadas, para crear paisajes sonoros y Constants and Variables, showcased. Acero» fue parte de la presentación del tenga como criterio ético material obras de música electroacústica, arte He also engages in the university’s proyecto internacional “Radioartnet” la Voz y el Rostro de un Otro radi- sonoro y arte radiofónico. Como student composer ensemble, MFAY (del cual también es miembro), en cal, real y concreto: esto es parte de creador sonoro y radiofónico ha sido (Music From Almost Yesterday). el programa “Ars Sonora” de Radio un proyecto de investigación iniciado bene ciado, en dos ocasiones, por rough this organization, Maksym Clásica en Radio Nacional de España. en 2010 y dirigido actualmente por el Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y arranges musical materials, works «Oídos de Acero» también conforma el Dr. Enrique Dussel. Es autor, junto las Artes de México (2007 y 2009). with other MFAY ocers, plans el diseño sonoro de un documental, con la antropóloga y socióloga Ana future events such as fundraisers, producido y realizado por el Museo Güemes, de dos principales proyectos and works closely with the university de los Ferrocarrileros de la ciudad radiofónicos: «Aprender a Escuchar» sta . Maksym is interested in con- de México, sobre el rescate de (2014) y «Artes Electroacústicas» trasting ideas and the juxtaposition dos Locomotoras de Vapor que (2000), este último además de ser un of unusual materials within his com- datan de 1901: la LocomotoraFCI- proyecto seminal y pionero en Méxi- positions. He particularly experi- Zael Ortega Maksym Prykhodko 67y laLocomotoraNdeT 507. Por co(ya que surge sólo un año después ments with physical electronics, and otra parte, «Oídos de Acero» de que Radio UNAM conformara su is interested in pulling raw elements fue presentada en vivo en el primera barra de programación para out of circuits. He is fascinated with En 2009, la Fonoteca Nacional Festival Internacional de Música jóvenes y dos años antes del primer Звук (Sound) takes place in eleva- extended techniques and the “misu- le comisionó a Zael Ortega una Electroacústica “Primavera en La festival Radar: EspaciodeExplora- tors, public halls, and kitchens. It se” of traditional instruments. Some organización de sonidos con motivo Habana 2010”, dedicado a celebrar el ciónSonorade2002) y estar dedica- is both an emphasis on the sounds of Maksym’s more notable pieces del Centenario de la Revolución trigésimo aniversario del Laboratorio do a la investigación y creación de of the everyday and the paroxystic include magnavox for Wii remote Mexicana: «Oídos de Acero», la cual Nacional de Música Electroacústica, «Otros Modos de Pensar el Escu- activities of objects. e recorded controlled live processing, a-ra- posteriormente obtuvo el 1er Lugar en y los 45 años del primer concierto char», este proyecto ha sido apoya- material is manipulated through dio-with-guts for three circuit-bent la 8va Bienal Internacional de Radio público de Música Electroacústica do por el FONCA en dos ocasiones, electronic processes and the piece radios, and tea-rings for a ve-hu- (2010). De igual forma, «Oídos de en Cuba, organizado por el Maestro y ha sido avalado por reconocidos is essentially a balance between wet man improvisation ensemble. When Acero» ha sido presentada, a modo Juan Blanco. investigadores y artistas nacionales and dry sound. Overall, the orga- he isn’t composing, he tends to delve de instalación sonora, en la propia e internacionales. Como «organiza- nization of material shi s from an into digital arts, photography, and Fonoteca Nacional, en la Biblioteca dor de sonido» en arte radiofónico open public location to a muted electronics. Pública José Vasconcelos de la ha recibido 4 premios de la Bienal personal one. ciudad de México, en el Museo de los Internacional de Radio (2004, 2008, Ferrocarriles de la ciudad de Puebla, 2010) y de Radio UNAM (2007). Al- en el Museo de los Ferrocarrileros de gunas de sus obras electroacústicas UAM-X section to section. All sounds were tion of concrete sounds produced by created with the k2000. electroacustic instruments (bowed, plucked and strummed) and natural sounds, together with sounds obtai- ned from prepared turntables, tape manipulation, phisical editing (tape looping, montage, melange, audio destroying).
e music of David Q. Nguyen can be described as eclectic, diverse in many idioms, and organically created from non-musical concepts where he translates these ideas into sound representations. He has had his piece Perceptive Fragments for ute and live electronics selected for his rst out-of-state performance at the 2015 June in Bu alo New Music David Q. Nguyen b.1990 Festival where he took master classes Andrea Bui & Vanessa Trippi with Harvey Sollberger, Roger Reynolds, Martin Bresnick, and Brian Memories frequently occur Ferneyhough. in sequences, as chains of impulsive Espace dans l’exterieur is an electroa- recollection. custic piece that reect and bases itself Born in Virginia, David Q. Nguyen is process is involuntary, as external on the contraddiction between acous- holds a BM from Old Dominion events prompt these memories to tics in an external and then internal University (Norfolk, VA). During his occur, either nostalgic or indelible. space. e provocatory idea is the undergraduate studies his primary roughout In Chains, I incorporate counterpoint of wide spaces and dry teachers were Andrey R. Kasparov a sequence of these memories. sounds colliding together, sometimes and Mark Chambers. He has I present gestures with similar coexisting, sometimes exchanging in received his Master and is currently motives moving at di erent rates, their roles. e curves described by a Doctoral student at the University which are then interrupted, building sound try to merge together the two of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where expectancy of what is to come. domain, the one of wide/reverbera- his primary teachers are Reynold In the same principle of these ted/eternal sounds and concrete/di- arp, Sever Tipei, Erik Lund and externally prompted memories, they rect/dry acoustics. e composition Scott A. Wyatt. occur in sequence, moving from is mainly obtained by the manipula- UAM-X www.muslab.org