concerts: A1 A2 / B1 B2 B3 / C1 C2 C3 / D1 D2 D3 / E1 E2
Concert C2
Andrew Lewis Two Lakes (2023) 10:03 Prix CIME 2023
Antonio Russek Pandemia (2020) 6.50 AARSOM
Elias Puc Sonor-Kapsule (2009) 6.00 AARSOM
Manuel Rocha Iturbide Radio Estridentista (2017) 7.37 AARSOM
Elizabeth Anderson Les Ailes de l’Augure (2021) 13.59 Musiques & Recherches
Annette Vande Gorne Vox Alia II: Cathedrales (2021) 10.56 Musiques & Recherches
Two Lakes (2023)
Andrew Lewis [Prix CIME 2023]
fixed media: 8 channels
duration: 10:03
“Only he, The Giver of Life … Precious realities make it rain, From you comes your happiness, Giver of life!…” Nezahualcóyotl (1402 –1472)
Lake Nezahualcóyotl is a reservoir in Chiapas, Mexico, created as part of a hydroelectric power scheme. The dam was completed in 1966, and the area around the original lake flooded. Just a year earlier a similar flooding drowned the village of Capel Celyn in Wales, controversially displacing its Welsh-speaking residents to provide water for Liverpool. At both lakes, droughts cause the periodic re-emergence of the drowned buildings, with increasing regularity: a 16th century church at Lake Nezahualcóyotl and the ruins of the Welsh village of Capel Celyn. In Wales, these appearances re-awaken painful memories of past injustices, but they are also a very present reminder of the crisis of climate change, in Mexico, Wales and across the globe.
Two Lakes was composed in the Electroacoustic Music Studios of Bangor University, Wales. It was awarded the 2023 PRIX CIME composition prize. Materials in the piece have been shaped using water level and flow data from both lakes, provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the National River Flow Archive (UK). I am indebted to Dr Iestyn Woolway, of Bangor University’s School of Ocean Sciences, for his assistance in accessing and understanding the data.
Andrew Lewis read music at the University of Birmingham (UK) between 1981 and ’84, and subsequently studied composition there with Jonty Harrison, completing a doctorate in 1991. He was one of the original members of BEAST, and throughout the 1980s and early ’90s worked with them on many electroacoustic concerts and events. His output is predominantly acousmatic music, but he also composes for conventional forces (chamber, vocal, orchestral) with or without electronics. His music has won several prizes, awards and mentions: PRS (UK), Euphonie d’or (Bourges, France), Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Stockholm Electronic Arts Award (Sweden), Hungarian Radio, British Arts Council Bursary, Noroit (France), ARTS XXI (Valencia, Spain), CIMESP (São Paulo, Brazil). He is Professor of Music at Bangor University (Wales, UK), where he heads composition studies and directs the work of the Electroacoustic Music Studios. He also directs Electroacoustic Wales, which acts as a focus for the creation and dissemination of electroacoustic music throughout Wales.
Pandemia (2020)
Antonio Russek [AARSOM – Mexico]
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 6.50
Electroacoustic piece on a fixed support with eight output channels, made from materials obtained with instruments built in my studio during the months of confinement. The composition project was selected for the program “”Resilencia Sonora”” and commissioned for its realization by the General Directorate of Music of the UNAM. The main source is a wooden box salvaged from a winery, the drawer contains a collection of objects and mechanical devices that produce sound, manually activated or struck autonomously by four small motors, plus the intervention of two contact microphones that allow its amplification.
Antonio Russek (1954) work has been connected with theater and dance, and he has participated in many interdisciplinary events, sound environments for gallerys and musums, video art and sound installation, sculpture, sound design for theater, cinema, dance, radioart, etc. He has more than 100 compositions in his cataloge. Russek is a pioner of sound art and electroacoustic music in Mexico. He has recieved important prizes and distinctions in his 40 years of work, lives in Cuernavaca Mexico, where he created the colective Laboratorio Multimedia, and where he is a professor in the Universidad del Estado de Morelos.
Sonor-Kapsule (2009)
Elias Puc [AARSOM – Mexico]
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 6
The piece narrates a sound (flute) that is encapsulated and struggles to free itself, but in its longing to achieve its goal, it transforms on its own without managing to be heard as it was truly conceived. In several sections of the composition, this sound (flute) manages to be clearly displayed, as is the case at the beginning and the end. Currently, he is a member of the Mexican Association of Sound Art (AARSOM). He has been benefited from the “Promotion of Ibero-American Music” program (IBERMÚSICAS). Additionally, he has received a grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) and has been selected for the “Investment Projects in National Visual Arts Production” promoted by the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) and the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA).
Elias Puc‘s work stands out with sound installations, acoustic pieces, mixed compositions, and electroacoustic works. He has presented his work in China, Panama, Belize, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, the United States, Ecuador, Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay, Spain, and other countries.
Radio Estridentista (2017)
Manuel Rocha Iturbide [AARSOM – Mexico]
fixed media: 5 channels
duration: 7.37
This is a work based in the archives of the University of Mexico Radio Station, concerning music and avangard art programs transtimtted between 1963 and 1984, particularily the audios of the estridentista artist Germán List Arzubide, art critic Raquel Tibol and composer Julio Estrada. The work begins as a regular radio program, with slices of different significative progrms of Radio UNAM, and then, dialogs gradually become bits of words growing into swarms of desintegrated language without meaning. Is this the future of the Estridentismo movement? only an impetus to break and demolish old art forms? is this the true way? At least, in this work, the metaphoric deconstruction of meaning might be a possibility to make space for generating a new begining.
Manuel Rocha Iturbide. Born in 1963 in Mexico City, Manuel Rocha Iturbide is a composer and sound artist. He has a PHD in computer music at the University of Paris VIII. He worked as a researcher at IRCAM developing GiST (1994-95). He has received prizes and honorific mentions from different international contests like Bourges, Russolo, Ars Electronica and the Schaeffer Prize. His music has been performed all around the world. His art works have been showed at important galleries and museums as ”Artist Space NY 1997”, “Sydney Biennale 1998”, “ARCO 1999”, “Art or Sound” show at Prada Foundation Italy (2014), etc. He has produced works for important ensembles such as Court Circuit and Arditti String Quartet. He currently lives in Mexico City where he is a full time professor and researcher at UAM University.
Les Ailes de l’Augure (2021)
Elizabeth Anderson [Musiques & Recherches – Belgium]
fixed media: 8 channels
duration: 13.59
The augur’s wings. A warm summer evening under a crescent moon. Years of searching, wandering and questioning come to a sudden halt in the breathlessness of the present moment when gravity is suspended. Now. To express this, Les ailes de l’augure interweaves themes of realism, fantasy and surrealism using different spatial perspectives, often of an avian nature, which vary according to the type of species and their habitat, but which are perceived by and adapted to the human senses. The initial sound material for the work was recorded in Belgian forests, in the Zwin nature reserve, on the North Sea coast and elsewhere. The title is inspired by the French surrealist essayist, poet and writer André Breton. Les ailes de l’augure was commissioned by Musiques & Recherches. The work was produced in 2020-2021 at Musiques & Recherches’ Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio in Ohain (Belgium) and in the composer’s studio. I would like to thank Bonnie Sher, the Takats family and Annette Vande Gorne for their help.
Elizabeth Anderson’s artistic production comprises acousmatic, mixed, and radiophonic works as well as works for multimedia and sound installations. Her music has won international awards and has been performed in international venues for over thirty years. She is currently a professor in the department of electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire royal de Mons. She completed initial degrees in music in the United States before studying composition with Jacqueline Fontyn and electroacoustic composition with Annette Vande Gorne in Belgium. She earned a doctorate in electroacoustic composition with Denis Smalley at City University London in 2011. Underlying her creative and pedagogical approach is her research on the perception of electroacoustic music. In 2022, she was elected as a full member of the Class of Arts at the Royal Academy of Belgium. http://elizabethlanganderson.com
Vox Alia II: Cathedrales (2021)
Annette Vande Gorne [Musiques & Recherches – Belgium]
fixed media: 8 channels
duration: 10.56
To Folkmar Heine. Five short sections: alleluia, sacred dance, requiem, trance, tutelary voices, unify through treatments, mixtures and spatial settings in relation to the theme, voices from all cultures or civilisations of the world, voices that are above all sacred, with the exception of the last section, which is an augmented variation of the last part of VOX ALIA I (parola volante) In these troubled times of division, fear, mourning and the withdrawal of people and nations, I felt the need to express a desire for unity, sacredness and generosity through the most human of media: the voice. VOX ALIA II : Cathedrals was realized in 2021 at the studio of Musiques & Recherches (Ohain, Belgium) and was premiered on October 30, 2021 during DEGEM 30 @ ZKM: Verleihung des Thomas-Seelig-Fixed-Media-Musikpreises, ZKM_Kubus, Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). It was commissioned by DEGEM. Thanks to Folkmar Heine. VOX ALIA II: Cathedrals was awarded the Thomas Seelig Prize (Berlin, Germany, 2021).
Annette Vande Gorne. Studied piano and classical music writing with Jean Absil. Taught piano, History of Music, harmony in music academies for 40 years. Experimental electroacoustic music course with Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel Conservatoire National de Paris (1977-1980). Repertoire of works produced at the GRM between 1948 and 1980. Creation of Musiques & Recherches, to introduce acousmatic music to my country, Belgium (1982). Since 1984, artistic director of the festival “L’Espace du Son” and of the concerts seasons. Professor of spatialization and acousmatic composition in Royal conservatories of Liege, Brussels, Mons (1986-2016). Creation of the electroacoustic section at Mons, with a master’s degree in acousmatic composition. 15 specialized teachers. Founding member of the Belgian federation of electroacoustic music (1994). Since 1980, I have given over 600 spatialized concerts, both as a performer of the repertoire and of my own acousmatic works. SABAM Fuga Prize for musical innovation, SABAM Lifetime Achievement Award, Schaeffer Prize in Italy, DEGEM Thomas Seelig Prize in Germany, Octave prize of contemporary music for the ‘Haïkus’ CD in Belgium. Annette Vande Gorne Foundation to support acousmatic music, young composers and the preservation of my works (2022). More than 50 opus. https://electrocd.com/en/artiste/vandegorne_an/annette-vande-gorne
συναυλίες: A1 A2 / B1 B2 B3 / C1 C2 C3 / D1 D2 D3 / E1 E2
Συναυλία C2
Andrew Lewis Two Lakes (2023) 10:03 Prix CIME 2023
Antonio Russek Pandemia (2020) 6.50 AARSOM
Elias Puc Sonor-Kapsule (2009) 6.00 AARSOM
Manuel Rocha Iturbide Radio Estridentista (2017) 7.37 AARSOM
Elizabeth Anderson Les Ailes de l’Augure (2021) 13.59 Musiques & Recherches
Annette Vande Gorne Vox Alia II: Cathedrales (2021) 10.56 Musiques & Recherches
Two Lakes (2023)
Andrew Lewis [Prix CIME 2023]
fixed media: 8 channels
duration: 10:03
“Only he, The Giver of Life … Precious realities make it rain, From you comes your happiness, Giver of life!…” Nezahualcóyotl (1402 –1472)
Lake Nezahualcóyotl is a reservoir in Chiapas, Mexico, created as part of a hydroelectric power scheme. The dam was completed in 1966, and the area around the original lake flooded. Just a year earlier a similar flooding drowned the village of Capel Celyn in Wales, controversially displacing its Welsh-speaking residents to provide water for Liverpool. At both lakes, droughts cause the periodic re-emergence of the drowned buildings, with increasing regularity: a 16th century church at Lake Nezahualcóyotl and the ruins of the Welsh village of Capel Celyn. In Wales, these appearances re-awaken painful memories of past injustices, but they are also a very present reminder of the crisis of climate change, in Mexico, Wales and across the globe.
Two Lakes was composed in the Electroacoustic Music Studios of Bangor University, Wales. It was awarded the 2023 PRIX CIME composition prize. Materials in the piece have been shaped using water level and flow data from both lakes, provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the National River Flow Archive (UK). I am indebted to Dr Iestyn Woolway, of Bangor University’s School of Ocean Sciences, for his assistance in accessing and understanding the data.
Andrew Lewis read music at the University of Birmingham (UK) between 1981 and ’84, and subsequently studied composition there with Jonty Harrison, completing a doctorate in 1991. He was one of the original members of BEAST, and throughout the 1980s and early ’90s worked with them on many electroacoustic concerts and events. His output is predominantly acousmatic music, but he also composes for conventional forces (chamber, vocal, orchestral) with or without electronics. His music has won several prizes, awards and mentions: PRS (UK), Euphonie d’or (Bourges, France), Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Stockholm Electronic Arts Award (Sweden), Hungarian Radio, British Arts Council Bursary, Noroit (France), ARTS XXI (Valencia, Spain), CIMESP (São Paulo, Brazil). He is Professor of Music at Bangor University (Wales, UK), where he heads composition studies and directs the work of the Electroacoustic Music Studios. He also directs Electroacoustic Wales, which acts as a focus for the creation and dissemination of electroacoustic music throughout Wales.
Pandemia (2020)
Antonio Russek [AARSOM – Mexico]
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 6.50
Electroacoustic piece on a fixed support with eight output channels, made from materials obtained with instruments built in my studio during the months of confinement. The composition project was selected for the program “”Resilencia Sonora”” and commissioned for its realization by the General Directorate of Music of the UNAM. The main source is a wooden box salvaged from a winery, the drawer contains a collection of objects and mechanical devices that produce sound, manually activated or struck autonomously by four small motors, plus the intervention of two contact microphones that allow its amplification.
Antonio Russek (1954) work has been connected with theater and dance, and he has participated in many interdisciplinary events, sound environments for gallerys and musums, video art and sound installation, sculpture, sound design for theater, cinema, dance, radioart, etc. He has more than 100 compositions in his cataloge. Russek is a pioner of sound art and electroacoustic music in Mexico. He has recieved important prizes and distinctions in his 40 years of work, lives in Cuernavaca Mexico, where he created the colective Laboratorio Multimedia, and where he is a professor in the Universidad del Estado de Morelos.
Sonor-Kapsule (2009)
Elias Puc [AARSOM – Mexico]
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 6
The piece narrates a sound (flute) that is encapsulated and struggles to free itself, but in its longing to achieve its goal, it transforms on its own without managing to be heard as it was truly conceived. In several sections of the composition, this sound (flute) manages to be clearly displayed, as is the case at the beginning and the end. Currently, he is a member of the Mexican Association of Sound Art (AARSOM). He has been benefited from the “Promotion of Ibero-American Music” program (IBERMÚSICAS). Additionally, he has received a grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) and has been selected for the “Investment Projects in National Visual Arts Production” promoted by the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) and the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA).
Elias Puc‘s work stands out with sound installations, acoustic pieces, mixed compositions, and electroacoustic works. He has presented his work in China, Panama, Belize, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, the United States, Ecuador, Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay, Spain, and other countries.
Radio Estridentista (2017)
Manuel Rocha Iturbide [AARSOM – Mexico]
fixed media: 5 channels
duration: 7.37
This is a work based in the archives of the University of Mexico Radio Station, concerning music and avangard art programs transtimtted between 1963 and 1984, particularily the audios of the estridentista artist Germán List Arzubide, art critic Raquel Tibol and composer Julio Estrada. The work begins as a regular radio program, with slices of different significative progrms of Radio UNAM, and then, dialogs gradually become bits of words growing into swarms of desintegrated language without meaning. Is this the future of the Estridentismo movement? only an impetus to break and demolish old art forms? is this the true way? At least, in this work, the metaphoric deconstruction of meaning might be a possibility to make space for generating a new begining.
Manuel Rocha Iturbide. Born in 1963 in Mexico City, Manuel Rocha Iturbide is a composer and sound artist. He has a PHD in computer music at the University of Paris VIII. He worked as a researcher at IRCAM developing GiST (1994-95). He has received prizes and honorific mentions from different international contests like Bourges, Russolo, Ars Electronica and the Schaeffer Prize. His music has been performed all around the world. His art works have been showed at important galleries and museums as ”Artist Space NY 1997”, “Sydney Biennale 1998”, “ARCO 1999”, “Art or Sound” show at Prada Foundation Italy (2014), etc. He has produced works for important ensembles such as Court Circuit and Arditti String Quartet. He currently lives in Mexico City where he is a full time professor and researcher at UAM University.
Les Ailes de l’Augure (2021)
Elizabeth Anderson [Musiques & Recherches – Belgium]
fixed media: 8 channels
duration: 13.59
The augur’s wings. A warm summer evening under a crescent moon. Years of searching, wandering and questioning come to a sudden halt in the breathlessness of the present moment when gravity is suspended. Now. To express this, Les ailes de l’augure interweaves themes of realism, fantasy and surrealism using different spatial perspectives, often of an avian nature, which vary according to the type of species and their habitat, but which are perceived by and adapted to the human senses. The initial sound material for the work was recorded in Belgian forests, in the Zwin nature reserve, on the North Sea coast and elsewhere. The title is inspired by the French surrealist essayist, poet and writer André Breton. Les ailes de l’augure was commissioned by Musiques & Recherches. The work was produced in 2020-2021 at Musiques & Recherches’ Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio in Ohain (Belgium) and in the composer’s studio. I would like to thank Bonnie Sher, the Takats family and Annette Vande Gorne for their help.
Elizabeth Anderson’s artistic production comprises acousmatic, mixed, and radiophonic works as well as works for multimedia and sound installations. Her music has won international awards and has been performed in international venues for over thirty years. She is currently a professor in the department of electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire royal de Mons. She completed initial degrees in music in the United States before studying composition with Jacqueline Fontyn and electroacoustic composition with Annette Vande Gorne in Belgium. She earned a doctorate in electroacoustic composition with Denis Smalley at City University London in 2011. Underlying her creative and pedagogical approach is her research on the perception of electroacoustic music. In 2022, she was elected as a full member of the Class of Arts at the Royal Academy of Belgium. http://elizabethlanganderson.com
Vox Alia II: Cathedrales (2021)
Annette Vande Gorne [Musiques & Recherches – Belgium]
fixed media: 8 channels
duration: 10.56
To Folkmar Heine. Five short sections: alleluia, sacred dance, requiem, trance, tutelary voices, unify through treatments, mixtures and spatial settings in relation to the theme, voices from all cultures or civilisations of the world, voices that are above all sacred, with the exception of the last section, which is an augmented variation of the last part of VOX ALIA I (parola volante) In these troubled times of division, fear, mourning and the withdrawal of people and nations, I felt the need to express a desire for unity, sacredness and generosity through the most human of media: the voice. VOX ALIA II : Cathedrals was realized in 2021 at the studio of Musiques & Recherches (Ohain, Belgium) and was premiered on October 30, 2021 during DEGEM 30 @ ZKM: Verleihung des Thomas-Seelig-Fixed-Media-Musikpreises, ZKM_Kubus, Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). It was commissioned by DEGEM. Thanks to Folkmar Heine. VOX ALIA II: Cathedrals was awarded the Thomas Seelig Prize (Berlin, Germany, 2021).
Annette Vande Gorne. Studied piano and classical music writing with Jean Absil. Taught piano, History of Music, harmony in music academies for 40 years. Experimental electroacoustic music course with Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel Conservatoire National de Paris (1977-1980). Repertoire of works produced at the GRM between 1948 and 1980. Creation of Musiques & Recherches, to introduce acousmatic music to my country, Belgium (1982). Since 1984, artistic director of the festival “L’Espace du Son” and of the concerts seasons. Professor of spatialization and acousmatic composition in Royal conservatories of Liege, Brussels, Mons (1986-2016). Creation of the electroacoustic section at Mons, with a master’s degree in acousmatic composition. 15 specialized teachers. Founding member of the Belgian federation of electroacoustic music (1994). Since 1980, I have given over 600 spatialized concerts, both as a performer of the repertoire and of my own acousmatic works. SABAM Fuga Prize for musical innovation, SABAM Lifetime Achievement Award, Schaeffer Prize in Italy, DEGEM Thomas Seelig Prize in Germany, Octave prize of contemporary music for the ‘Haïkus’ CD in Belgium. Annette Vande Gorne Foundation to support acousmatic music, young composers and the preservation of my works (2022). More than 50 opus. https://electrocd.com/en/artiste/vandegorne_an/annette-vande-gorne
International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music
Διεθνής Συνομοσπονδία Ηλεκτροακουστικής Μουσικής
Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association
Eλληνικός Σύνδεσμος Συνθετών Hλεκτροακουστικής Mουσικής
Department of Music Technology & Acoustics (HMU)
Τμήμα Μουσικής Τεχνολογίας & Ακουστικής (ΕΛΜΕΠΑ)
CIME/ICEM 2023 – Electroacoustic Music Days 2023