MA/IN 2018 matera intermedia festival /// INTRODUCTION ||| _CONTENTS_ The LOXOSconcept organization, with the support of Casa Cava Auditorium, “Spaziomusica” oganization of Cagliari, “Keyhole” organization, “Cycling’74” (Max/MSP) and the patronage of “Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation” promotes the third edition of 4_ The organizing committee MA/IN [MAtera INtermedia festival]. 5_ Technical supervisors The MA/IN festival is aimed at the production and promotion of sonic and digital arts at an international level. Its focus is to become an annual meeting point between artists and 6_ Selection panel composers, within a unique and lovely background of the city of Matera. 12_ MA/IN venues Every year A/V performances, live electronics, electroacoustic music events, sound 14_ festival overview / awards installations, workshops and masterclasses will be organized in several evocative venues like the ancient hypogea of Casa Cava. 19_ partners / sponsors Within the MA/IN, an annual call for artists will be announced. It involves an international jury panel consisting of famous international composers and artists in the feld of electronic arts. 20_ MA/IN~spaziomusica commission 2018 The festival is composed by four diferent categories : [A] Acousmatic ~ 21_ program notes [B] Mixed Media ~ 30_ sound art [C] AudioVisual ~ [D] LivePerformance/SoundArt ~ 32_ acousmatic music mixtape With the support of SPAZIOMUSICA organization of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) the MA/IN has issued a special call. The aim was the creation of new works for Flute and Electronics commissioned for ENRICO DI FELICE. 2 3 MA/IN 2018 matera intermedia festival The organizing committee technical supervisors LOXOSconcept organization Giulio Colangelo TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Giulio Colangelo ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Donato Corbo TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR Donato Corbo TECHNICAL DIRECTOR / COMMUNICATION Delio Colangelo PROGRAM MANAGER Delio Colangelo PROJECT MANAGER olindo linguerri SOUND ENGINEER Valerio De Bonis TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Gerardo De Pasquale VIDEO DIRECTON AND EDITING partners Donato Corbo VIDEO PRODUCTION / PHOTOGRAPHY Valerio Polici VIDEO PRODUCTION / PHOTOGRAPHY Keyhole ORGANIZATION WAVESERVICE AUDIO spaziomusica ORGANIZATION LOXOSconcept AUDIO RECORDING BLUECATBLUES ASSOCIATION EDISON STUDIO ASSOCIATION SOUNDS OF SILENCES | ROMAEUROPAFESTIVAL | CINETECA DI BOLOGNA economic support COLLATERAL EVENTS LUCANA FILM COMMISSION IN VITRØ artificial sonification art patronage MUTE silent film mutations Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation SPONSORS CYCLING 74 [ max / msp ] fra i sassi residence osteria malatesta residence san pietro barisano 4 5 MA/IN 2018 matera intermedia festival Belgium and abroad, such as the “Berliner Kunstpreis für Musik” (2016), “ISCM Young # The selection panel »» Composer Award” (2014), “Kranichsteiner Musikpreis für Komposition” (Darmstadt, 2010), a “Staubach Honorarium” (Darmstadt, 2009) and the “International Impuls Composition Award” (Graz, 2009). In 2012 the Union of Belgian Music Journalists elected him “Young Alexander Khubeev was born in 1986 in city Perm Belgian Musician of the Year”. In 2014 he became laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy (Russia). He graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky of Belgium for the Sciences and Arts in the Class of the Arts. Stefan Prins is closely involved Conservatory in 2011 (class of composition of Yuri with the Nadar Ensemble, as a composer and co-director, and was one of the founders of Kasparov, class of electronic composition of Igor the long-standing trio for improvised music “collectief reFLEXible” and the band “Ministry of Kefalidis), he fnished his post-graduate course in Bad Decisions”, together with percussionist Brian Archinal and e-guitarist Yaron Deutsch. Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2014. Since His music has been played by a.o. Klangforum Wien, Nadar Ensemble, Ictus Ensemble, Nikel 2014 he is a coordinator of Young Composers Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Trio Accanto, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Recherche, Academy in Tchaikovsky city. Alexander Khubeev won Athelas Sinfonietta, Ensemble Proton Bern, Zwerm Electric Guitar Quartet, Champ d’Action awards in Argentina, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, USA. In on festivals such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Wittener 2014 he received a scholarship of Darmstadt Summer Tage für Neue Musik, Eclat, Warsaw Autumn, Gaudeamus Festival, Musica Strasbourg, Ars Courses, in 2015 he became Gaudeamus prize winner Musica, Tzlil Meudcan, Impuls Festival, Huddersfeld Contemporary Music Festival & Ultima in Netherlands. His music is played in concerts held in more than 20 countries around Festival. His preferred color is blood-red. Europe, Asia, South and North America on such festivals as “Venice Biennale”, “Darmstadt Ferienkurse”, “Gaudeamus Musicweek”, “MATA”, “Gergiev Festival”, “Quantensprunge”, “Ultima”, “Transit Festival”, “Mixtur”, “SPOR”, “Pharos International Contemporary Music Candas sisman (1985, İzmir-Turkey) studied Festival”, “Moscow Forum”, “Diaghilev Festival”, ”Moscow Autumn” and many others. fne arts in high school and graduated from the Khubeev worked with such conductors as Reinbert de Leeuw, Lucas Vis, Bas Wiegers, Animation department of Eskişehir Anadolu Thomas Moore, his compositions were played by such ensembles as Asko|Schoenberg, University. He spent one year at university in the Nadar, Slagwerk den Haag, Blackpage Orchestra, L’Arsenale, Insomnio, Uusinta, Netherlands, studying multimedia design. In dissonArt, Vortex, Aleph, ExNovo, Vertixe Sonora, IEMA, Gageego, Lemniscate, Moscow 2011 he co-founded Nohlab, a studio producing Contemporary Music Ensemble, The Studio for New Music Ensemble, Percussion interdisciplinary experiences around art, design ensemble of Mark Pekarsky, GAM-ensemble, eNsemble, string quartet “Cantando”. His & technology. He is also a member of NOS music is broadcasted on radio France Musique, Deutschlandradiokultur, Concertzender Visuals, which is a collaborative platform that (Netherlands), RTP (Portugal), ARTxFM (USA), Radio of Russia, Radio “Orpheus” (Russia) creates real-time, sound-reactive audiovisual and others.Composer in residence of GAM-ensemble in 2011. Member of Russian performances. For the last fve years, he gives Composer’s Union. Since 2017 his compositions are published by Donemus. lectures on the interaction between sound and visuals in university. Candaş Şişman has received several awards since 2007, among which is an Honorary Mention from Prix ARS Electronica Computer Animation/Film/VFX and Jury Selection Award in Art Division from Stefan prins After graduating as an engineer, Stefan 18th Japan Media Arts Festival. He participated in many exhibition and festival, such as Prins (Kortrijk, Belgium, 20/5/1979) started to study Venice Architecture Biennale, TED X, ARS Electronica, Todaysart Festival and Japan Media fulltime piano and composition at the Royal Flemish Arts Festival. Candaş Şişman recently exhibited Sonicfeld-01 Sound Installation in Venice Conservatory in Antwerp, Belgium, where he obtained Architecture Biennale and ‘FLUX’ audiovisual installation among İlhan Koman Hulda festival his Masters degree in Composition magna cum laude. in İstanbul. Candaş Şişman aims to manipulate our notion of time, space and motion by his Concurrently, he studied “Technology in Music“ at the work, using digital and mechanical technologies. Taking the natural sciences and universe Royal Conservatory of Brussels,“Sonology“ at the Royal as his reference point, the artist combines physical forms with digitally produced images. Conservatory of The Hague and “Philosophy of Culture” Thus a bridge between the physical world and the digital world becomes visible. The works and “Philosophy of Technology” at the University of of Şişman build on complex bases, but the forms are simple, allowing the audience to Antwerp. In 2017 he obtained a PhD in composition engage in intellectual interaction with the artwork, in which the “process” is the utmost at Harvard University under the guidance of Chaya important structural element. The artist lives and works in İstanbul, and is represented by Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. As a composer he received several important awards in PG Art gallery in Turkey. www.csismn.com www.nohlab.com www.nosvisuals.com 6 7 MA/IN 2018 matera intermedia festival saxophone quartets, cellists Mario Brunello, Francesco Dillon, Henri Demarquette, and Born in Legnica (Poland) in JAGODA SZMYTKA Anton Lukoszevieze, futist Manuel Zurria, saxophonist Marcus Weiss, harpsichordist 1982, she studied art history, philosophy, music Goska Isphording amongst others. Her music has been performed across Europe, theory and composition in Wrocław, Graz, Frankfurt/ the Americas, and Australia, and has featured in some of the world’s leading festivals Main and Karlsruhe. Her music has received including Sydney Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Venice Biennale, RomaEuropa, international recognition through numerous features Holland Festival, Warsaw Autumn, Huddersfeld Contemporary Music Festival, SonicA at festivals and institutions such as Warsaw Autumn, (Glasgow), Maerzmusik (Berlin), Biennale Némo (Gaîté lyrique, Paris), Musica festival Wien Modern, Lucerne Festival, Festival d’Aix-en- (Strasbourg), Musik protokoll im steirischem Herbst (Graz), Musicadhoy (Madrid), Vale Provence, Huddersfeld Contemporary Music Festival, of Glamorgan Festival (Cardiff), Expositions of New Music, Moravian Autumn (Brno), Ultraschall Berlin, ECLAT Stuttgart, Ferienkurse Gaida (Vilnius) to name a few. Justė Janulytė frst