outHEAR New Music Week 2019 with the Ensemble Klangforum and PPCM

outHEAR New Music Week 2020 |Symposium and Master Class for Composition | December 6th – December 14th 2019 | Municipal Conservatory of Larissa, Greece

The outHEAR New Music Week 2019 (www.outhearnewmusic.com), an international symposium and master class for composition, featuring Ensemble Klangforum Vienna in collaboration with four members of Performance Practice in Contemporary Music (PPCM) ensemble

Ensembles in residence

Ensemble Klangforum: Mikael Rudolfsson – Trombone, Björn Wilker – Percussion, Joonas Ahonen – Piano, Dimitrios Polisoidis – Viola

​PPCM: Kathrine Kirkeng Oseid – Saxophone, Felix Martl – Clarinet, David Schmidt – Trumpet, Leo Morello – Cello

​Visiting artist

Panagiotis Andreoglou – Accordion

​Faculty

Klaus Lang, University of Music and Drama Graz

Dimitri Papageorgiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Orestis Toufektsis, University of Music and Dram Graz

Fellows 2019 

Category A

Alberto Carretero (Spain)
Analia Lludgar (Argentina/Canada)
Đorđe Markovic (Serbia)
Ioannis Gerhard Paul (Greece/Germany)
Jon Yu (U.S.A.)
Pedro Berardinelli (Portugal)
Santa Bušs (Latvia)
Severin Dornier (Germany)
Shin Mizutani (Japan)
Sinan Samanli (Turkey)
Tian-Üh Zοu (China)
Vasiliki Legaki (Greece)

Category B

Alberto Granados Reguilón (Spain)
Cyril Molesti (France)
Arshia Samsaminia (Ιran)
Arda Yurdusev (Turkey)

Category C – Composition for a soloist

Tom Aitken (Scotland)
Marianna Chalampalaki (Greece)
Ioannis Kesmiris (Greece)
Deniz Nurhat (Turkey)
Andreas Papakostas Smiris (Greece)
Mauro Saleri (Italy)
Matteo Tundo (Italy)

TIEMF 2019 – Composition Master Class … via Skype

Despite the recent denial of entry visa to Iran, that has almost jeopardized the whole Tehran International Electronic Music Festival, all of us — Joachim Heintz, Eva Zöllner, Verena Wuesthoff, Ulrike Brand, and I — were able to do our presentations, seminars, and master classes via skype. It was far from an ideal solution and it was uncomfortable to feel the imposed distance. But it was something …

The photo below is taken at the end of the skype session of my composition master class with the winners and selected composers of the Reza Korourian Composition Competition.

 

 

 

 

 

3rd Delian Academy – Opening concert

 

Delian Academy for New Music, Opening Concert | Claudia Perez Inesta – piano, Dan Weinstein – cello | Grypario Hall, Mykonos, GR | June 7th, 2019 | 19:30

Tonight, at the opening concert of the Delian Academy, guest artists Spanish pianist Claudia Perez Inesta and Israeli cellist Dan Weinstein perform works by this year’s composition faculty, Beat Furrer, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, and Dimitri Papageorgiou.

DELIAN ACADEMY FOR NEW MUSIC

Third Edition

7 June 2019 – 16 June 2019 Grypario Cultural Center Zervoudaki – Inglesi Hall Mykonos, Greece

Honorary President: Georges Aperghis
Composition Faculty: Beat Furrer, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Dimitri Papageorgiou Artistic Director: Alexandros Spyrou
Ensembles in Residence: Klangforum Wien, TAK Ensemble
Guest Artists: Claudia Pérez Iñesta, Dan Weinstein

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

OutHear New Music Week 2018 – CALL for SCORES

outHEAR New Music Week 2018, Symposium and Master Class in Composition

Call for Scores 

​Ensemble in residence: String quartet of the Ensemble Klangforum

Visiting artist: Hannah Walter, violin/viola

Faculty: Clemens Gadenstätter,University of Music and Drama Graz; Dimitri Papageorgiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Orestis Toufektsis, University of Music and Drama  Graz

The OUT HEAR New Music Week 2018 is happy to announce a Call for scores and proposals to participate in a Symposium and Master Class in Composition on December 12th to 16th, 2018, lead by our ensemble-in-residence, String quartet of the Ensemble Klangforum in collaboration with our faculty Clemens Gadenstätter, Dimitri Papageorgiou, and Orestis Toufektsis.

Symposium and Master Class dates: December 12-16, 2018

Location: Conservatory of the City of Larissa, Greece

Application fee: 12 Euros

​Open to all composers

Application deadline: August 24th, 2018, 11:59pm (UTC+2:00 Athens)

Announcement of result: September 1st, 2018

​more info at https://www.outhearnewmusic.com/

Tehran composition presentation and master class – Photo gallery

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Poster of master classes and seminars in Tehran, Iran

The Second year of Electroacoustic Music composition competition
Reza Korourian Awards 2017
Composition Seminars and Master Classes
Shahrokh Khajenouri, Joachim Heintz, Dimitri Papageorgiou

Poster:Ashkan Rahbarian

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!