Presentation at Bilgi University Istanbul: “The reconstructive nature of memory as a compositional model”

The Reconstructive Nature of Memory as a Compositional Model | Bilgi University, Istanbul | E2-201 | April 24th, 2019 | 15:00 – 18:00

My music is, among other things, a continuous negotiation of the distinction between the self and the other and the fluidity of their relationship.

The core of my work revolves around specific themes: time, identity/similarity/difference, repetition, memory, and order — the fragility of order in the creative process.

The concept of memory, in particular – the way we consider the or our past – is perceived not as a repetition or nostalgic recollection. Quite on the contrary, memory is regarded for its creative dimension, that is, as a constantly updated reconstruction of the past from the point of view of the present and through a process of constant reformulation.

All musical ideas are imperfect and vulnerable, ephemeral and distorted. They are constantly in a flowing state and are constantly being revised.

Nothing repeats itself!

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Tehran International Electronic Music Festival 2018

 

 

2nd Tehran International Electronic Music Festival, September 2 to 9, 2018

Artistic Directors: Sara Abazari, Mehdi Jalali

Scheduling Group and Art Advisors: Mohsen Mirmehdi, Azin Movahed, Gelareh Soleimani, Dimitri Papageorgiou, Farzia Fallah

Technical Director: Farhad Ilaghi Hosseini

Holding committee: Nazanin Ghiyasi, Sajjad Khodaverdi, Aila Moghimi, Alaleh Daneshmand, Ashkan Rahbarian

My activities at TIEMF entailed among others following:

September 2nd 2018, Hanooz Bookstore

Lecture

Artificial voice. A brief history of speech synthesis: from talking heads to talking machines. 

In this talk, I present an overview of speech synthesis. The idea that a machine can generate speech disappears in the depths of history, but only recently has man been able to construct speaking devices with success. The narration of this history starts from simple hoaxes (antiquity to 17th c.) and moves on to mechanical approaches (18th c. to 19th c.) with more emphasis to electronic and digital approaches of the modern era (20th c. to present).

Sep 5th, Tehran University, School of Music

10:00 – 12:00 “Composing Seminar”: The Reconstructive Nature of Memory as a Compositional Model. Aesthetic Approach and Algorithmic implementations.

Memory and identity. Variance and invariance. Iteration and evolution. The opposition between unity and multiplicity, in terms of the ”dialectic of the repeated and the non- repeated.“ The present seminar outlines my views on compositional process technique in theory and in practice. At rst, I present a framework of a compositional methodology based on the reconstructive nature of memory, as a metaphor for the construction of pitch complexes and their dynamic and evolving elaboration in my music by means of algorithmic manipulations. In the second part, I present an introductory demonstration of some algorithmic routines of my interlocking technique.

12:00 – 15:00 Composing Master Class

With students of the M.A. Program in Composition of the Composition Area of the Tehran University Department of Music Studies

Sep 8th 2018, Tehran University, Avini Hall

Premiere of my work

“… am I hearing voices within the voice?” (2018) for fixed medium

was composed in more voices and vocal manifestations from samples of principally non-verbal vocalizations, reconstructed by fragmenting, overlaying and ltering the vocal timbres, to accommodate my own requirements
During the composition process, I was more interested into the subtleties of spoken sound when speech is deprived of meaning, the subtle pauses, speech cadences, evolving dynamics, the stumbles, the stammers, the um’s, and ah’s, the speeding up and slowing down.

See full program at Bro2018-NEW

The Reconstructive Nature of Memory as a Compositional Model.

Delian Academy for New Music, International Symposium on New Compositional Concepts (2018). The Reconstruction Nature of Memory as a Compositional Model. Grypario Cultural Center, Mykonos, Greece. 10th June, 2018.

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Composition master class at Tehran, Iran

It is a great honor for me to hold a composition master in Tehran, Iran, at the end of August, as part of the 2nd Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition Reza Korourian Award 2017, which is issued by the Yarava Music Group, Contemporary Music Records.

Further composition master classes will be held by other members of the Reza Korourian Composition Competition Jury, Shahrokh Khajenouri and Joachim Heintz, on August 28th and 29th, respectively .

Lectures, panel discussions and concerts will be announced soon!

Delian Academy for New Music

Delian Academy for New Music | 12-19 June 2017 | Grypario Cultural Center, Mykonos, Greece

The first edition of the Delian Academy for New Music took place at the Grypario Cultural Center at the island of Mykonos, Greece.

Honorary President: Georges Aperghis

Composition Faculty: Panayiotis Kokoras, Dimitri Papageorgiou

Artistic Director: Alexandros Spyrou

Ensemble in Residence: Oerknal New Music Collective. Gregory Charette, conductor and artistic director; Susanne Peters, flutes; Daniel Boeke, clarinets; Daniel Walden, piano; Mariana Hutchinson Siemers, violin; René van Munster, cello

Guest Artists: Kanae Mizobuchi, Bera Romairone

Participants (in alphabetic order)

Acoustic and Electronic Composers

Ashkan BEHZADI (Iran)
Alican CAMCI (Turkey)
Stylianos DIMOU (Greece)
Elvira GARIFZYANOVA* (Russia)
Jorge Eduardo GÓMEZ ELIZONDO (Mexico/USA)
Hunjoo JUNG (S. Korea/USA)
Shin MIZUTANI (Japan)
Nemanja RADIVOJEVIC (Serbia/Hungary)
Tolga TUZUN (Turkey)

*The Scholarship in memoriam Iannis Xenakis is awarded to Elvira Garifzyanova.

Composers and Sound Artists

Ivan CHIARELLI (Brazil)
Tyler ENTELISANO (USA)
Pedro FRAGUELA (Argentina)
Marissa HICKMAN (USA)
John Paul LEMPKE (USA)
Emma MARGETSON (United Kingdom)
Bernard SHORT (USA)

Visiting Composers

Hyunjoo KIM (S. Korea)
Nahyun KIM (S. Korea)
Anastasios SAVVOPOULOS (Greece)
Jee SEO (S. Korea)
Mischa SHIMEK (USA)
Jorge Diego VÁSQUEZ SALVAGANO (Argentina)
Jennifer YOO (USA)

You can read the full Delian Academy program

 

Guest Composer @ HMTMH

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HMTMH, Institut Neue Musik

Guest composer, Institut Neue Musik @ University for Music, Drama and Media Hannover, Germany (HMTMH), invited by Joachim Heintz and Gordon Williamson.

Master classes in composition on April 26 – 28 with students coming from diverse backgrounds and countries such as Germany, Korea, Philippines, Iran, Iceland, Esthonia, Greece, etc. Presentations of my music on Thursday 27/4 and Friday 28/4 afternoon.

Schedule

26/04: Composition master classes (morning and afternoon)

27/04: Composition master classes (morning) and guest composer presentation at FOKUS: “Interlocking technique and the reconstructive nature of memory” (afternoon)

28/04: Composition master classes (morning) and presentation in the class for electronic music on the subject “Interlocking technique – algorithmic routines and applications” (afternoon)

Guest composer at UNR – Itenerary

Monday Dec. 5:

20:24 Arrival at RNO on UA296

Tuesday Dec. 6:

•  9:00 – 10:00am Rehearsal in CFA 112
•  noon – 1:00 Lunch
•  1:00 – 1:30pm Masterclass CFA 111 (John Etsall Piano)
•  1:30 – 2:00pm Masterclass CFA 111 (Bette Phillips)
•  2:00 – 2:50pm Masterclass CFA 134 (Kira Meade)
•  6:00 – 7:30pm set up the Rotunda

 7:30 – 8:30 Concert at Rotunda in the IGT Knowledge Cent

Wednesday Dec. 7

•  9:00 – 10:00am Dr. Davis Theory class CFA 134. Presentation of music of the new generation of Greek composers: Stylianos Dimou and Zesses Seglias
•  11:00 – 12:00pm Dr. Perrotte’s Theory class CFA 134. Interlocking and the reconstructive nature of memory. Presentation of my compositional techniques in my works In the Vestige of the Present
• 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
•  2:00 – 4:00pm Dr. Perrotte’s Electronic Music class CFA 206.  Presentation of my algorithmic compositional techniques

Thursday Dec. 8

•  11:30 – 12:20pm Masterclass CFA 111 (Jeff DePaoli)
•  12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
•  1:30 – 2:20pm Masterclass CFA 111 (Brandon Dodge)
•  3:00 – 3:50pm Masterclass CFA 111 (Tim Chatwood)
•  4:00 – 4:50pm Masterclass CFA 134 (Erik Flury) 

Guest composer at alma mater Iowa.

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Center for New Music, David Gompper, University of Iowa

Guest composer at the University of Iowa, School of Music, 29/11/2016 – 04/12/2016

It was a great pleasure and a great honor to have been invited by the School of Music of the campus of the University of Iowa, as guest composer, for a series of events and master classes. During the past week (29/11/2016 – 04/12/2016), I have met for individual lessons with master and doctorate students of the composition program, presented my music at the Composers’ Seminar, rehearsed with the ensemble of the Center for New Music, and met with old and new friends.

I was glad to experience firsthand that the composition program, as well as the level of performance, have grown since the time I was a Ph.D. student here and I am in awe with the brand new, state of the art, Voxman Music Building (photos above), which was delivered in September of this year and is located right in the heart of downtown Iowa City.

Tonight, Sunday, December 4th, my short residency at Iowa is coming to a closure with the concert of the Center for New Music with David Gompper on the podium, featuring two of my compositions, as well as two compositions by Erin Gee, and works by John Berners and David Lang.

Guest composer at the University of Iowa – Itererary

Wednesday, Nov. 30

• 10:30 – 11:30 – Jared Hedges
• 11:30 – 12:30 – Jeremy Maas
• 14:00 – 15:00 – Carlos Cotallo Solares

Thursday, Dec. 1st

• 10:30 – 11:30 – Jinwon Kim
• 11:30 – 12:30 – Joe Norman
• 13:30 – 14:30 – Kris Peysen
• 15:00 – 16:00 – Hongwei Cai

16:00 – 18:00 – rehearsal with CNM in 2400

Friday, Dec. 2nd

• 10:30 – 11:30 – Nima Hamidi
• 11:30 – 12:30  – Jonathan Wilson
• 13:30 – 14:30 –  Carlos Toro

16:00 – 18:00 Composers’ Seminar: Interlocking and the reconstructive nature of memory. Presentation of my compositional techniques in my works In the Vestige of the Present, “…anD…” and Intrascalings

Saturday, Dec. 3rd

• 15:00 – 17:00 – Alexandros Spyrou

Sunday, Dec. 4th

16:00 Dress Rehearsal

19:30 Concert CNM ensemble Iowa performs “In Pulses, in Strokes…” and Iriai no kane

“Coming Home,” Iowa School of Music