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Artist talk: Arnold Marinissen, Hugo Morales Murguia, Katharina Gross

09.05./17h/ Artist Talk: Arnold Marinissen, Hugo Morales Murguia, Katharina Gross @ &TD caffe(45′)

Artist talk

We are talking to the composers Arnold Marinissen and Hugo Morales Murguia whose pieces we have been listening at this year’s festival as a part of several different concerts. Pieces by Morales Murguia are performed by the violinist Barbara Lüneburg (Friday, May 8 at the MM Centre at 10pm) and the harp player Milana Zarić at the Studio6 Ensemble concert (Saturday, May 9, at the big hall of the Theatre &TD, at 8,30pm). Also, Morales Murguia and Marinissen are taking part in the acoustics experiment of the “&TD” sign at the roof top of the atrium, turning it into an instrument and preparing pieces with the percussionists Kaja Farszky, Ryoko Imai and Josip Konfic for the closing of this year’s Showroom. Marinissen is the author of the project Cello Songbook (Friday, May 8, semicircular hall of the Theatre &TD, at 11pm) and his co-author and performer, cellist Katharina Gross is also taking part in the Talk.

Composer, sonologist and sound artist Hugo Morales Murguia (1979, Mexico City) currently lives in The Hague as a freelance composer. Working the boundaries between traditional instruments, found objects, performance technique and technology, the development of alternative forms of sound generation for music composition is essential in his work. Elements in his ideas are frequently extensions of traditional instruments or instrumental implementations of rudimentary items whereby intricate techniques, multi-parametric notation, physical sound transformations and lo-fi inventions are common agents delimiting a musical vocabulary.

After concluding his studies at the Centre of Research and Musical Studies (CIEM) in Mexico City, he moves to The Netherlands to continue his postgraduate studies. He holds a master’s degree in Music Composition from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, a master’s degree in Sonology (with “Distinction”) from the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, and PhD degree from the Centre of Contemporary Music Practice (CCMP) Brunel University, London. His music has been awarded by many associations and competitions, and performed and commissioned by acclaimed musicians and ensembles.

www.hugomorales.org


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Lecture by Marko Ciciliani

08.05. / 18h/ Lecture by Marko Ciciliani: “Game aesthetics and mechanics in electronic music”

/@ &TD caffe (70′)

Marko Cicililani

 

Although computer games and computer music seem as unrelated fields, they have a number of touch points which are interesting to explore. The rule based structure of games for examples can be compared to the tradition of algorithmic music. Also computer games often demand high skill sets from the players which can at times be compared to the virtuosity of musicians. Another interesting aspect is that the games usually reflect the actions of the player in transparent ways. Even for an audience that is not familiar with the rules of a particular game, the flow of action-reaction can usually easily be followed. This is something that computer music can learn from as in performances of live-electronics it is not always obvious for an audience what the performer’s influence on the sonic result is. In this talk I will present a few works in which I was inspired by games in different ways.

www.markociciliani.de

 

 

 

 

 


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Barbara Luneburg

08.05. /22h/ Barbara Lüneburg: Weapon of Choice – a multimedia event for violin, sound and video @ MM centre (50′)

Barbara Lüneburg,Didier Riva

Barbara Lüneburg – violin, electric violin

Marko Ciciliani – sound

In the course of her carrier, violinist Barbara Lüneburg has often collaborated with composers and visual artists in the creation of new multimedia works for electric or acoustic violin with the goal of exploring artistic relations between the classical instrument violin, mediated sound, and visuals. In this programme the approaches of the individual artists vary greatly, ranging from the martial arts-inspired Weapon of Choice by Alexander Schubert (2014), via the millions of spam of Yannis’ Bayesian Poison to the more sonic art approach in Vega/Flores’ Stream Machines and the Black Arts and the community based participatory arts project what if?

Barbara Lüneburg, Mihai Cucu

Alexander Schubert: Weapon of Choice, for violin, motion sensor, live-electronics and live-video (2009) *CRO premiere

“The Weapon of Choice is the violinists bow. My main idea was to incorporate the gestures of a player directly into a piece, to extend the typical movements of a violinist and use those as part of the music. Barbara Lüneburg and I developed this composition in close collaboration” Alexander Schubert, 2009.

“Through the cunning use of motion detectors and the old MAX/MSP software, composer Alexander Schubert and violinist Barbara Lüneburg create quite the arresting spectacle. Greatly expanding the vocabulary of the lone fiddler to nearly god-like proportions, every gesture of the performer is amplified and extended both visually and sonically. It works.”dangerousminds, 2010.

Henry Vega & Emmanuel Flores: Stream Machines and the Black Arts, for electric violin, soundtrack and video (2010) *CRO premiere

In Vega/Flores’ Stream Machines and the Black Arts sound track, electric violin and video images merge into a single morphing Gestalt. Flores’ gradually transforming geometric visuals interact with linear, pulsating grids in Vega’s electronic soundtrack, while the violin melts into both worlds adding an element of expressiveness through simple sleek lines.

Hugo Morales: Violinized Utensils, for four amplified almost-violins (2014) *CRO premiere

In Four Violinized Utensils (2014) by Hugo Morales the boundaries between traditional instrument, objet trouvé and performance art are blurred. The classical violin is replaced by a vase, a violin with rubber fingerboard and without strings, a portable mini barbecue and a rolling pin, the bow is replaced by a metal rod, a vibrator or a percussion beater. The classical pose and the traditional gestures of the violin remain, whereas the sounds are carefully selected, bizarre and poetic.

Barbara Lüneburg: “They speak in layered…” for electric violin, synthesizer-soundtrack and video (2015)

“They speak in layered..” belongs to the series “Slices of life” that features different identities and ways of life all over the world.

The featured graffiti-wall in Vienna by Dino (?) seemed to me to be the perfect expression of global culture and city life: street art by and for people, freedom of expression and the ever existing aggressions of those that feel urged to comment. I have filmed the wall with an action cam and edited the material to my composition “soundwaves”.  This slice of life has been inspired by the call for entries “What gets your creativity going?” of the participatory arts project what-ifblog.net.

Yannis Kyriakides: Bayesian Poison for violin, soundtrack and text-based video (2009) *CRO premiere

Virtuoso violin playing, both real and faked underpin a video made up of spam mail texts. The piece moves at a fast pace through a myriad of elaborate scams, random spam poetry and ‘phishing’ emails that appeal to our greedier natures in trying to lure us to get something for nothing. There is a deliberate association to the fiddling devil in folklore trying to mesmerize us into an illicit exchange.

Barbara Lüneburg – violin, electric violin

Barbara Lüneburg’s work as a soloist has inspired numerous composers to write for her. Her touring schedule has taken her through Europe, both Americas, the Middle and Far East to major festivals where she has performed solo recitals or with ensembles such as SWR Radiosymphonic Orchestra, Xenakis Ensemble, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag or Asko|Schönberg Ensemble. Barbara Lüneburg has featured on many CDs and radio productions documenting the versatility of her performing abilities. Critics have described her playing as ‘viciously virtuosic, passionate, translucent, of an amazing capacity for purity of sound and integrity of pitch, detailed and nuanced, expressive and gripping’. Her solo-CD The Refined Ear received international acclamation. Reviews speak of her solo DVD Weapon of Choice with multimedia works as a groundbreaking production. BBC music magazine gives her latest CD with Bach and Scelsi five stars and labels it “audacious”.

Barbara latest research project TransCoding | what if? (funded by the Austrian Science Fund) explores social media and their potential to interest and engage a young audience for the new arts. Barbara teaches at UAS Darmstadt (Germany) and St.Pölten (Austria), and has given workshops at European, American and Asian universities.

www.barbara-lueneburg.com

www.alexanderschubert.net

www.henryvega.net

www.emmanuelflores.net

www.hugomorales.org

www.what-ifblog.net

 


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Reinhold Friedl

08.05. /20h / Reinhold Friedl @ &TD semicircular hall  (45′)

reinhold_friedl

Reinhold Friedl, born 1964, lives in Berlin since 1987. He studied piano with Renate Werner, Alan Marks and Alexander von Schlippenbach, mathematics and musicology in Stuttgart and Berlin. As a performer, interpreter and composer, he has received various fellowships – Eurocréation Paris, the Rome Fellowship (Villa Serpentara) of the Berlin Academy of Arts, STEIM Amsterdam, as well as various composition commissions. Reinhold Friedl has published articles in newspapers and professional journals and conducted a seminar on “Music and Mathematics” in the department of Mathematics at the Berlin Free University together with Prof. Behrends. He founded and directs the ensembles Piano-Inside-Out and Zeitkratzer. Friedl has worked as a curator for the Podewil center for contemporary arts Berlin and directed the Off-ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) Berlin 2000. He has been invited to take part in the Jury of the Ars Electronica and Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa. As pianist and composer, he has worked with musicians and composers such as Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Phill Niblock, Helmut Oehring, Nicolas Collins, Lou Reed, MERZBOW a.k.a., Masami Akita, Radu Malfatti, Bernhard Guenter, Mario Bertoncini (nuova consonanza), Keiji Haino, and has made countless radio and CD recordings. Lately he realized the “spazialisation piano-project” at ZKM Karlsruhe and Asphodel Studios in San Francisco. The main focus of Reinhold Friedl’s work is the inside-piano. He played all respective literature using inside-piano techniques and released several articles in this field.

Reinhold Friedl’s concert is realized in collaboration with the Explicit Music Programme of the Multimedia Institute.

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www.reinhold-friedl.de

www.zeitkratzer.de


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Alexander Chernyshkov

08.05./19.30h / Alexander Chernyshkov @  SEK  hall(30′)

 Alexander Chernyshkov

Alexander Chernyshkov (1983) is a composer, performer and improviser. Graduated in composition at the Vienna Conservatory. His compositions are performed in numerous festivals by ensembles such as musikFabrik, Nikel, Phace, MCME (Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble) during festivals such as Wien Modern, Donaueschingen Musiktage – Off-Programme, Platforma (Moscow), Unsafe Sounds (Vienna). Since 2011 he is very active as improviser. Founded the experimental duo O I O. Records the albums “Puinen Neon Itku” and “Songs about trees”. He is a frequent guest at numerous free improvisation festivals like Multiversal (Berlin-Copenhagen), Velak (Vienna), TurnTheCorner (Vienna). Builds instruments of strictly acoustical and mechanical origin using long tubes to transform the wind instruments or using motors, relays and electromagnets as vibrating sources. Works and sleeps in Vienna.

set Chernyshkov

Each moment is by definition extraordinary. It is only our awareness which is less or

more ready to perceive it. And now, while reading these lines and deciding whether

stop here or go until the end, your time and reality’s perception is flowing differently

and you are hoping in an extraordinariness of this text. Please, make an effort and

don’t read further, just listen to the acoustic space arrrrrrrr rrr r oun d

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,

something is

always

resonating

somewhere all the time . Sometimes we hear it,

sometimes we don’t. Everything I do is focus my attention on а phenomenon

that interests me and transfigure it. Everyone could do it.

 soundcloud.com/alexander-chernyshkov


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through & out of space

08.05 / 21h / through & out of space (Kaja Farszky, Josip Konfic, Nenad Sinkauz) @ &TD big hall (50′)

through & out of space

space

time

sound

continuum

through & out of space deals with the time, sound and physical space. It contains sound that comes, goes through and out of it, avoiding the classical positioning of the scene and using the existing material, objects and parts of the halls the percussionists Kaja Farszky and Josip Konfic together with the electronic musician Nenad Sinkauz turn the Theatre &TD hall into a part of the instruments of the project. The instant shaping of the space through the use of the musicians’ bodies that take the performance space with their own outer and inner space, and in their continuum they are using a refined sense for action and reaction to its sounds.

Kaja Farzsky by Zvonimir Ferina

Kaja Farszky (1988) is a percussionist with a wide spectrum of activities. She likes to explore sounds and turn unusual objects and her body into instruments. She sees percussion as the art of sound and movement. Her approach to music performance reflects in excellence of the performance, but also in a clearly defined and thought through dramaturgical concept. She gives the same attention to the visual element of the performence, to the scene, and her performances are marked by an intensive artistic personality, both in classical music performance and in some of the most challenging pieces of contemporary music. Prominent part of her repertoire is dedicated to contemporary music, many of which are rarely performed in Croatia. She works a lot in the field of improvised music and on her own projects. Great deal of her musical life was marked by numerous guest performances in Europe and worldwide.

Josip Konfic ba Zvonimir Ferina

Josip Konfic (1985) graduated percussion at the Music Academy in Zagreb. He took part in a number of state competitions, international percussion festivals and competitions in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, France, China, Korea, Hungary, Poland, Porto Rico, Slovenia, Serbia, Sweden and Uruguay. He occasionaly plays with the Simphony Orchestra of the Croatian Radiotelevision, he collaborated with the Zagreb Soloists, Croatian Baroque Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic, orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, Rijeka and Split. He is a member of the percussion quartet BOOMerang. As a memeber of the biNg bang percussion ensemble, he was awarded Rector’s Award of the University in Zagreb. He teaches percussion at the music school „Albert Štriga“ in Križevci and drums at the Rock Academy in Zagreb, he leads percussion and drummers’ workshops. Some of the pieces he wrote as a composer are The Odissey, a suite for chamber ensemble, choir and a percussionist and the peice for a 4-voices choir and a percussionist That’s the spirit.

Nenad Sinkauz by Zvonimir Ferina

Nenad Sinkauz (1980) received Master’s degree in musicology at the University of Padova. He is a composer and performs in music, dance, theatre and multimedia projects. In 2002 he founded the ensemble East Rodeo, where he collaborates with a number of international jazz and rock musicians, connecting the avant-rock, live electronics, noise, experimental and improvised music. East Rodeo’s third album Morning Cluster, where many renowned musicians took part in the making, like Marc Ribot, Greg Cohen and Warren Ellis, was praised both by the audience and the critics, and the Italian Jazzit listed him among the hundred best releases in 2012. Sinkauz is also the author and performer in the audiovisual project … day of the year that took him to festivals in Greece, Croatia, Japan, USA, Slovenia and Serbia, and through improvisation and live sampling he explores relations of sound and video. As a composer and performer he collaborates with many musicians, choreographers, theatre and film directors in Croatia and abroad: Mala Kline, Dalibor Matanić, Marc Ribot, Warren Ellis, Greg Cohen, Ivana Sajko, Franka Perković, Roberta Milevoj, Francesco Scavetta, Mikiko Kawamura, Matija Ferlin, Petra Hrašćanec, Saša Božić, BADco and others.

www.kajafarszky.com

www.dayoftheyear.org

 


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Paths of Croatian music

08.05./ 11h/ Paths of Croatian Music ( editing and hosting by Iva Lovrec Štefanović)

Iva Lovrec Stefanovic by Damir Zizic

The radio show Paths of Croatian Music was started by Iva Lovrec Štefanović in 2000 at the Third Channel of the Croatian Radio. It is dedicated to Croatian music and musicians, with actualities and main themes from the Croatian music surrounding. In the talk show live she hosts composers, performers and all of the mediators who create the music context of our surrounding. It is occasionally broadcasted outside of the studio or as a documentary show.

Musicologist Iva Lovrec Štefanović, journalist, author, editor and radio host, has been devotedly and continually documenting Croatian contemporary music scene and the Showroom of Contemporary Sound has been a part of her program since the first festival edition. She received the Croatian Composers’ Society’s Josip Andreis Award (2012) and the Croatian Radiotelevision’s Annual Award (2014) for her work. This year’s Showroom hosts the special edition of the Paths of Croatian Music: “Assembly of new sound”, that will be broadcasted live from the &TD café at the Channel 3 of the Croatian Radio on Friday, May 8, from 11am to 1pm. Visitors at the café will be able to follow the show live.


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Eda Rimanic & Bojan Gagic: Circling for flute and other stuff

09.05./ 22h / Eda Rimanić & Bojan Gagić: Circling for flute and other stuff  @ French Pavilion (50′)

Eda Rimanic & Bojan Gagic bv Damir Zizic

These two excellent musicians come from two different musical worlds. Rimanić got her degree of Academic musician, flutist, at the Music Academy in Zagreb, while Gagić got his music education coming from the field of visual arts, multimedia projects and technology, dealing more often with the sound, especially using the new technologies for the purpose of creating new instruments and seeking new sound. Their different music paths have brought them together in the Experimental Ensemble of the Music Showroom that was led by Gordan Tudor (December of 2013), and during this project Rimanić and Gagić quickly recognized common poetic grounds in their approach to music.

Kružiona za flautu i ostalo,  foto by Damir Žižić

Circling for flute and other stuff was a result of their 3-week residency in February and March this year. In its second performance, the first common project by the flute player Eda Rimanić and multimedia artist Bojan Gagić, the artists use a very similar set of instruments like they did for the first performance (acoustic and electronic instruments, computers and ambiental microphones), but this time they will approach the space of the French Pavilion in a different way, not exploring and not accentuating its specific qualities, but attempting to create a sound image that could counterpoise it.

www.bojangagic.com


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