Upcoming premiers at San Diego: works from ensemble et cetera’s 2013 composition competition

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Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall | University of California, San Diego | Friday, October 10th, 2014 | 7:00 pm 
Free Admission

Upcoming Friday, the ensemble et cetera is performing the premier of my work Intrascalings for clarinet, marimba, and double bass, at the state-of-the-art Music Center at University of California San Diego campus (http://musicweb.ucsd.edu/concerts/). The ensemble will premier works commissioned from three of the five winners of their 2013 Composition Competition.

Joseph Andrew Lake: Vyssan Lull, Timothy McCormack: KILN II, and Dimitri Papageorgiou: Intrascalings

Ensemble et cetera is a trio based in Southern California. Formed by three friends in 2010, et cetera seeks to create a repertoire for their unusual instrumentation through new commissions, electro-acoustic works and realizations of unconventional scores reflecting their myriad interests in the American and European avant-garde.

Ensemble et cetera is Curt Miller – clarinets, Dustin Donahue – percussion, Scott Worthington – double bass. For more information on the ensemble et cetera, please visit http://ens-etc.org  and https://twitter.com/ensemble_etc

For driving directions to the Conrady Prebys Music Center, please see http://musicweb.ucsd.edu/directions/directions-pages.php?i=601

New work: “Translucent Currents,” for chamber ensemble

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commission, Edo Micic, Ensemble Zeitfluss, music

Last night, I put the final brush strokes on a new score. Translucent Currents is a miniature for chamber ensemble, scored for flute, oboe, clarinet, alt sax, bassoon, horn, trumpet, 2 trombones, piano, percussion, and string quintet and has a duration of approximately 3 minutes.

Translucent Currents has been composed within a period from September 5th to September 29th, with a 7-day break, in between, for my trip to Athens for the ICMC/SMC Conference. Above, you can view the first four pages of the score.

The work was commissioned by conductor Edo Micic for the anniversary concert “10 Years Ensemble Zeitfluss,” which will take place on October 27th in Minoritensaal Graz, Austria.

The anniversary concert features commissioned miniatures by prominent composers, such as Gerd Kühr, Klaus Lang, Gerhard Stäbler, Joanna Wozny, Elisabeth Harnik, Denovaire, Krešimir Seletković, Mirela Ivičević, Florian Geßler, Daniel Oliver Moser, Orestis Toufektsis, Gerd Noack, Anselm Schaufler, Klaus Dorfegger, Joachim Jung, and Gerhard Krammer.

Ensemble Zeitfluss and conductor Edo Micic

18/9/2014 Effluénces – Performance at the ICMC | SMC Joint Conference

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ICMC/SMC 2014 Joint Conference | Music for Ensemble II | Onassis Cultural Center, Main Hall | Thursday 18/9/2014 | 19:00-21:00

If you are in Athens this coming Thursday, September 18th, don’t miss the concert Music for Ensemble II at the JOINT ICMC/SMC Conference. The concert takes place at the Main Hall of the Onassis Cultural Center, a state of the art concert hall.

Among various very interesting works in the program, by composers such as Patricia Alessandrini, Judith Shatin, Kyong Mee Choi, Lidia Zielinska, Martin Ritter, and my Greek colleague Leontios Hatzileontiadis, is my wok Effluénces (2011), a very challenging piece for ensemble.

Onassis Cultural Center, 107-109 Syngrou Avenue, 11745 Athens, GR. http://www.sgt.gr/en/programme/event/1738

The full program of the concert entails:

Leontios Hadjileontiadis, Brainswarm for bio-conductor soloist and ensemble, kinect, ΕEG Emotiv, MAX/MSP-Processing live electronics and visuals (2013) 13′

Judith Shatin, Spring Tides for amplified flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and interactive electronics 11’3”

Patricia Alessandrini, Trio d’après Schoenberg for cello, clarinet, piano and electronics 7′

Martin Ritter, Prayer for alto flute, cello and percussion (2013) 13′

Kyong Mee Choi, Tender Spirit I for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion and electronics (2013) 9’20’

Lidia Zielinska, Rust for 5 instruments and CD (2010) 9’24”

Dimitri Papageorgiou, Effluénces (2011)  for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2011) 12′

Performers:

Zacharias Tarpagos (fl), Alexis Pogrevnois (cl), Giorgos Panagiotopoulos (vln), Alexandros Mpotinis (vc), Thodoris Vazakas (perc), Giorgos Konstantinou (pno), Kostas Anastasopoulos (pno)

Effluénces – Program Notes:

I wonder how the warp of living memory can affect a musical narrative, which would record the inscription, over time, of the remembered past — e.g. of a musical event – in memorial form. For that purpose, I tried to focus on the moment of recollection and I have envisaged the form as a ‘tree of memory.’ The branches of this ‘tree’ extend in various directions as reconstructions of the past in the light of present, following the tricks memory plays in every step of the way: some of the facts have been switched, others are omitted or added; in some cases, accurate memories are mixed with inaccurate ones and, in other cases, facts are perhaps retained but their source is forgotten.

The pitch structures of Effluénces have been obtained by using algorithmic routines in Super Collider. The routines have been implemented in the frame of the research project Algorithmic Composition in the Context of New Music (2009-10), which took place at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics of the University of Music and Drama at Graz, Austria. Given a limited material as input—usually two or three different ordered pitch cells—linear arrays of cells are formed which are subsequently braided with one another, constantly regrouping into new formations in order to engender inexhaustible variants at the output.

The score of Effluénces is available by BabelScores at www.babelscores.com/en/catalog/inst…ents/effluences

“…anD…” for solo viola at the Inaugural Ceremony of the ICMC | SMC 2014

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Opening Ceremony ICMC/SMC 2014 | Ceremonial Hall, Athens University | September 14th, 2014 | 19:00-21:00.

It is a great honor that the Greek premiere of my work “…anD…“ (2012) for solo viola will be performed by Ilias Sdoukos at the Opening Ceremony of the joint ICMC | SMC 2014 Conference, which will take place at the Ceremonial Room, University of Athens (see map).

The concert, which includes also works by Chin Ting Chan and Ben Houge, will be followed by a Welcome Reception.

The joint ICMC|SMC|2014 Conference will take place in Athens, Greece, from 14 to 20 September 2014 and, for the first time, it will bring on the cross-road two well established events: the 40th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) joint with the 11th Sound & Music Computing conference (SMC). The main theme of the Conference is “Music Technology meets Philosophy: From Digital Echos to Virtual Ethos“.

The ICMC|SMC|2014 Conference will include lectures, special sessions, indoors & outdoors concerts, installations, demonstrations, studio reports, workshops, exhibition as well as asummer school, given in various places ranging from concert halls and university auditoria to museum lobbies and archaeological sites.

 

Dimitri Papageorgiou, Quasi (ébauche) for string quartet (2014)

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Performed by the string quartet of the Ensemble Klangforum on July 2nd, 2014, at Ligeti Saal, Mumuth, Graz.

Program Notes

The corruptive dimension of the reconstructive nature of memory serves as a formal model for the unraveling of the present work. Recent neuroscience research coraborates early twentieth century views on memory as a dynamic and evolving phenomenon:

remembering is not a simple retrieval of past events. Memory stores only fragments of the past that later serve for the mental reconstruction of past events, which are susceptible to various kinds of biases and distortions, as well as selective and elaborative processes.

In Quasi (ébauche) the original formative ideas are constantly recalled in a series of reconstructions of the past in constantly present contexts, having at times more fidelity—and at times growing less similar—to the original experience. These reconstructions, by means of pitch gene recombinations, leave only memory vestiges of the original by constantly shifting, diffusing, distorting, transforming, omitting or adding events according to a model of retention/corruption.

It is, in other words, like drawing “on the elements and gist of the past, and extract, recombine and reassemble them into imaginary events that never occurred in that exact form,…not to preserve the past but to adapt it so as to enrich and manipulate the present.’’ It is all about what is remembered and how it is remembered…

19/8/2014: Patterns of Intuition (Part 2) on Austrian Radio.

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OE1 | 19/8/2014, 23:03 Central European Time |  Patterns of Intuition concert broadcast | String quartet of the ensemble Klangforum

Tonight, you can listen to the performance of my string quartet Quasi (ébauche) wonderfully mastered by the string players of the ensemble Klangforum. Tune in to the online streaming of the Austrian Radio (OE1), on 19/08/2014 at 23:03 (GMT+2). The broadcast presents also other interesting works for string quartet or piano solo by Peter Lackner, Orestis Toufektsis, and Eva Reiter.

http://oe1.orf.at/programm/379568

Vienna Time Difference

 

The recordings are from the concert of July 2nd at MUMUTH, Graz, in which the Institute for Electronic Music at Graz presented the commissioned works of the arts-research project Patterns of Intuition (Gerhard Nierhaus, project leader).

String quartett of the ensemble Klangforum Wien: Annette Bik – violin, Sophie Schafleitner – violin, Dimitrios Polisoidis – viola, Andreas Lindenbaum – cello.

Janna Polyzoides and Eva Baich – piano.

The link will remain active for streaming for a whole week after the live broadcast.

ICMC | SMC 40th International Computer Music Conference: Music Program Announcement

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As the official website of the Joint ICMC/SMC International Computer Music Conference has announced, my works “…anD…” (2013) for solo viola and Effluénces (2011) for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, are scheduled for performance on September 16th and 19th, respectively.

The complete schedule for the music program of the conference can be found at http://www.icmc14-smc14.net/program/music_program.html

I will post more information as they come.

The joint ICMC|SMC|2014 Conference will take place in Athens, Greece, from 14 to 20 September 2014 and, for the first time, it will bring on the cross-road two well established events: the 40th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) joint with the 11th Sound & Music Computing conference (SMC).

For more information, please visit the conference official page at http://www.icmc14-smc14.net

12/08/2014 and 19/08/2014 the Austrian Radio (OE1) airs the concert Patterns of Intuition

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OE1 | 12/8/2014, 23:03 Central European Time |  Patterns of Intuition concert broadcast (part 1) | String quartet of the ensemble Klangforum

If you would like to listen to the performance of my string quartet Quasi (ébauche) wonderfully mastered by the string players of the ensemble Klangforum, tune in to the online streaming of the Austrian Radio (OE1), on 19/08/2014 at 23:03 (GMT+2). The broadcast presents other interesting works by Peter Lackner, Orestis Toufektsis, and Eva Reiter.

Tomorrow night, 12/08/2014, the show presents premiers by Alexander Stankovski, Djuro Zivkovic, Katherina Clement, and Bart Vanhecke.

The recordings are from the concert of July 2nd at MUMUTH, Graz, in which the Institute for Electronic Music at Graz presented the commissioned works of the arts-research project Patterns of Intuition (Gerhard Nierhaus, project leader).

String quartett of the ensemble Klangforum Wien: Annette Bik – violin, Sophie Schafleitner – violin, Dimitrios Polisoidis – viola, Andreas Lindenbaum – cello.

Janna Polyzoides and Eva Baich – piano.

The link will remain active for streaming for a whole week after the live broadcast.

http://oe1.orf.at/programm/379568

Vienna Time Difference

10/8/2014 at Darmstadt Summer Course. IEM Graz Lecture: Patterns of Intuition

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Sunday, 10 August 2014 | 09:00 | Mornewegschule (Mensa)

Lecture IEM (Graz): Patterns of Intuition

Gerhard Nierhaus, Hanns Holger Rutz and Daniel Mayer: “Patterns of Intuition,” Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at Graz (“Studio-in-Residence” of the Darmstadt Summer Course 2014)

During the past three years, 2012-14, I was among the guest composers of the art-research project Patterns of Intuition (POINT), which was hosted by the Institute of Electronic Music (dr. Gerhard Nierhaus – project leader) at the University of Music and Performing Arts at Graz, Austria, and was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

The project was investigating the creative process of composing by means of Algorithmic Composition in collaboration with 14 European composers and 9 guest artist/researchers.

Composers (in alphabetical order):

Tamara Friebel, Clemens Gadenstätter, Elisabeth Harnik, Sonja Huber, Katherina Klement, Peter Lackner, Clemens Nachtmann, Dimitri Papageorgiou, Eva Reiter, Mattias Sköld, Alexander Stankowski, Orestis Toufektsis, Bart Vanhecke, and Djuro Zivkovic.

Guest artist/researchers (in alphabetical order):

Sandeep Bhagwati, William Brooks, David Cope, Darla Crispin, Nicolas Donin, Thomas Eder, Klemens Fellner, Harald Fripertinger, and Guerino Mazzola.

The commissioned works for the project have been presented on July 2nd in a double concert performed by the string players of the ensemble Klangforum Wien and Janna Polyzoides.

The research findings, including project reports for the work with each composer and research chapters by the guest artists/researchers will be published later this year by Springer, NY.

Tomorrow, the project leader, dr. Gerhard Nierhaus, and his associates, dr. Hanns Holger Rutz and dr. Daniel Mayer, present the project in a lecture at the 47th International Summer Course for New Music at Darmstadt.

For more information, please visit http://www.internationales-musikinstitut.de/en/program2014/265-10-08-2014/1002-lecture-patterns-en.html

The web page of the research project Patterns of Intuition is located at http://point.kug.ac.at/index.php?id=13608

Iriai no kane

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Iriai no kane [9:00] for chamber ensemble (commissioned by Edo Micic and the Ensemble Zeitfluss) | Performed by the Ensemble Zeitfluss, Edo Micic – conductor | Minoritensaal at the Kultur Zentrum Minoriten, Graz, Austria | June 23, 2008.

14/7 – 19/7 French premier of “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” in Avignion

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ACTUAL AVANTGARDE

Theatre Notre-Dame, Avignion | 14-19 July | Monday/Wednesday/Saturday | 12:45.

French premier of “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders.” Three performances by the contemporary music duo UMS n’ JIP (Javier Hagen – tenor/counter tenor, Ulrike Mayer-Spohn – recorders).

The full program

JOAN BAGES (ESP) – meta morphé 2013
REUBEN DE LAUTOUR (NZ) – Piteous Rodents 2013
DIMITRI PAPAGEORGIOU (GR)– Unending are the Mazes it Engenders 2013
KOTOKA SUZUKI (JP) – Reservoir 2014

 http://avignon.umsnjip.ch/program.html

THEATRE NOTRE DAME AVIGNON 
Tickets +33 (0)4 90 85 06 48
http://www.theatrenotredame.com/

2/7/2014: The Klangforum string quartet premiers Quasi (ébauche)

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Tomorrow, July 2nd, the string quartet of the ensemble Klangforum Wien premiers my work Quasi (ébauche) within the frame of two concluding concerts of the research project Patterns of Intuition. 

Patterns of Intuition II

String quartett of the ensemble Klangforum Wien: Annette Bik – violin, Sophie Schafleitner – violin, Dimitrios Polisoidis – viola, Andreas Lindenbaum – cello.

Works by Alexander Stankovski, Djuro Zivkovic, Eva Reiter, and Dimitri Papageorgiou.

Organized by the Gesellschaft der Freunde der KUG Wednesday,
02-07-2014, 19:45
MUMUTH, György-Ligeti-Saal, Lichtenfelsgasse 14, 8010 Graz
Info: Tel: +43 316/389-1330 ; abo(at)kug.ac.at

The concerts Pattern of Intuition I (17:45) and II (Mumuth subscription concert, 19:45) present works for solo piano and string quartet that have been composed during the three year long research project POINT. The research project has been conducted at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustic of the University of Music and Drama at Graz in cooperation with an international team of composers and scientists from various disciplines.

The research project POINT, which has been financed by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) opens a new approach to musical analysis, in that the creative act of composition is investigated with computer-based methods during the creation of new works.

In between the two concerts, project leader dr. Gerhard Nierhaus and his staff will give an introductory speech about the project.