CIME/ICEM 2023 – Electroacoustic Music Days 2023

concerts: A1 A2 / B1 B2 B3 / C1 C2 C3 / D1 D2 D3 / E1 E2

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Concert C3

Dimitris Savva Tranglitchuilizer_sabe_28523 (2023) 8.42
Stelios Giannoulakis Sharp Edges (2023) 9.59
Nikolas Valsamakis katavasia (2023) 20.00
Nikos Stavropoulos Khemenu (2022) 8.29

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Tranglitchuilizer_sabe_28523 (2023)
Dimitris Savva
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 8.42

Tranquility, tranquilizers, golden sections, Fibonacci sequences, and glitches make up tranglitchuilizer_sabe_28523. It is a work created exclusively from a 10-second extraction from a live-electronics performance co-created with the asabe ensemble. Tranglitchuilizer functions as homeopathic medicine for the constant and persistent process of being and becoming.

Dimitris Savva is an electroacoustic music composer, sound artist, researcher, and educator. He received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD degrees in Electroacoustic music composition with distinction from the Ionian University, the University of Manchester, and the University of Sheffield, respectively. His compositions have been performed at a total of 88 international music festivals, including In Sonic 2017: Immersive Future (ZKM Center for Art and Media), ICMC 2014 (Athens), and New York Electroacoustic Festival 2021. Many of his compositions have won prizes in prestigious competitions such as Metamorphoses 2012-2014-2018, Iannis Xenakis 2018, and SIME 2019. Ten of his works have been published on important collective records, including Metamorphoses 2012, 2014, 2018, and 2020.

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Sharp Edges (2023)
Stelios Giannoulakis
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 9.59

Continuing my creative exploration on the relationships among diametrically opposite sound characters, this work develops an abstract musical narrative by repeatedly cutting and re-instating the continuous in timbral and tonal development.

Stelios Giannoulakis is a composer, sound designer and engineer. Music and sound design for theater, dance, video, cinema, sound diffusion, circuit bending, improvisation, interactivity. Plays solo, with group projects (Schema Musicalis, ElektroBalkana, RSLG quartet) or through various collaborations with musicians and other artists. PhD in Electroacoustic Composition (University of Wales Bangor), MA in Digital Music Technology (Keele University), first degree in Electronic and Biomedical Engineering (NTUA). Teaches Electroacoustic Composition and Creative Music Technology for CMRC at Athens Conservatoire and is a founding member of HELMCA (Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association). https://steliosgiannoulakis.wordpress.com/

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Katavasia (2023)
Nikolas Valsamakis
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 20.00

Katavasia is about a descend to the underworld – a term, similar to nekyia, used in various mythological and religious traditions. In this work, the sounds of a herd’s bells guide through the darkness and advancing the various stages of the journey to the realm of the dead. All audio material comes from a short recording of the bells of a herd of goats that I encountered in Xyloskalos, at the entrance of the Samaria gorge, in Crete. This recording is heard unaltered at the beginning of the work. The only processing applied to the audio material -beyond sound montage- are simple spectral processings for time and pitch transposition.

Nikolas Valsamakis composes and teaches sound synthesis and electroacoustic music. Works in the Department of Music Technology & Acoustics (HMU), in Rethymno, where he co-directs the Studio of Music Interaction and Polyphony. He is a founding member of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA).

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Khemenu (2022)
Nikos Stavropoulos
fixed media: 8 channels
duration: 8.29

The name of the work, Khemenu, is derived from Egyptian mythology and refers to The Ogdoad, a group of eight primordial deities worshipped in ancient Egypt. The group consisted of four male and female couples who are symbolising the balance between the primary elements of the cosmos. The notion of the Ogdoad (group of eight) is also found in early gnostic belief systems and ancient astronomy and cosmology (eight celestial bodies), as well as Chinese mythology (eight immortals). Eight is also the number of channels in a 2nd order Ambisonic recording (A Format), the technique used to capture the raw materials for the work.

Nikos Stavropoulos (Athens, Greece, 1975) is a composer of predominantly acousmatic and mixed music. He read music at the University of Wales (Bangor, Wales, UK), where he studied composition with Andrew Lewis and completed a doctorate at the University of Sheffield (England, UK) under the supervision of Adrian Moore. His music is performed and broadcast regularly around the world and has been awarded internationally on several occasions. His practice is concerned with notions of tangibility and immersivity in acousmatic experiences and the articulation of acoustic space, in the pursuit of probable aural impossibilities. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Music, Sound & Performance Group at Leeds Beckett University (Leeds, England, UK), where he is a Professor in Composition.

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