concerts: A1 A2 / B1 B2 B3 / C1 C2 C3 / D1 D2 D3 / E1 E2
Concert B1
Yana Shliabanska Plumbum (2023) 5.41 UAEM
Andrii Barsov Nature Mort (2023) 6.36
Yevhenii Dubovyk Voices Around Us (2021) 5.19 UAEM
Danylo Pertsov Meissa 10/02/2020 (2020) 4.55 UAEM
Fernando Hester Hush (2023) 7.05 Tempo Reale
Barry Truax What the Waters Told Me (2022) 11.30
Marta Domingues Instantes (2023) 12.17 Project DME
Francis Dhomont Machin de Machine (2012) 8.40
Plumbum (2023)
Yana Shliabanska
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 5.41
The piece plumbum is an electroacoustic work based on the contusion experience of a wounded Ukrainian soldier. I was very impressed when he talked about head injuries, illustrating them with sound. This sound fragment entered the work together with the recorded and processed sounds of vases of water, which were transformed into a dark moving texture. For me, it’s like memories that play out in a head in accelerated, chaotic, and non-linear ways. It is as if we are traveling in a time train, but it moves deep and wide. The title of the work is taken from an interview with the same soldier who says that he felt the movement of a sprawling lead ring and the smell of death.
Yana Shliabanska (1994). Ukrainian composer and sound artist. Studied music composition at the Ukrainian National Academy of Music in Kyiv. Author of contemporary art music, music for theatre, dance and performances, electroacoustic music, and sound installations. She also performs as a live electronics musician. Created music for more than 30 projects which were presented in 15 countries. Was supported by the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, granted by the President of Ukraine for interactive sound installation, and the French Institute for Cité Internationale des Arts Residency.
Nature Mort (2023)
Andrii Barsov
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 6.36
The work includes the Ukrainian folk song “Provedu ya rusallochky,” which is typically sung during Rusalka’s Easter, according to the calendar-ritual cycle. Rusalkas are believed to reside in rivers and represent an impure force that needs to be driven away. However, while dealing with the Rusalkas, the performers of this folklore become victims of another threat – not mythical but real. The work also incorporates recordings of explosions from russian missile strikes in Ukraine, with the permission of the author of the recordings.
Andrii Barsov. I was born on April 16, 1988, in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. In 2005, I completed my 11th grade at Secondary School No. 1 in Chernivtsi. From 2005 to 2009, I studied at the S. Vorobkevych Chernivtsi School of Arts and obtained a diploma as a junior specialist in the field of teaching, concert mastering, and ensemble artistry as pianist. During 2010 to 2013, I pursued studies at the distance learning department of the Faculty of Practical Psychology at Chernivtsi National University, but I discontinued my education during the third year. From 2015 to 2019, I attended the P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, where I graduated with honors, obtaining a bachelor’s degree. My professional qualifications include composer, musical arranger, and teacher at art schools. Between 2021 and 2023, I continued my education at the P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, earning a master’s degree with honors. My professional qualifications expanded to composer, musical arranger, teacher at a higher education institution, and researcher-scientist.
Voices Around Us (2021)
Yevhenii Dubovyk
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 5.19
This composition is my reflection on the wars and disasters all over the world. But the «fun fact» – it was composed a three-month before the Russians have started a full-scale war against Ukraine. So, now I imagine this piece in another way
Yevhenii Dubovyk. Was born in Pryluky, Ukraine. Based in Kyiv now. Composer of the chamber, electroacoustic, jazz music, and pieces for piano. Also, makes jazzy harmonizations of different animal sounds. Few of them were in collaboration with French-German composer Alexander Liebermann. Graduated from Chernihiv Levko Revutsky Music College in 2015 (Variety of Stage department – jazz piano). Graduated from the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in 2021 (music composition department) of Ivan Taranenko’s class. Also, took lessons from Alla Zagaykevych (electroacoustic music composition). Participant of the Masterclasses during the Sounds Around Me Festival (Vienna) 2000.
Meissa 10/02/2020 (2020)
Danylo Pertsov
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 4.55
After participating in the project Pandemic Media Space https://pandemic-media-space.com/works) In 2021, Danylo Pertsov passed away. And we began to collect his works, works, patches… The recording “sound of a star” on February 10, 2020 is one of such works. Danylo started this project in 2017, and called it “Meissa” (2017). The idea of the patch is to try to voice the radiation spectrum of the star from the constellation Orion – Meiss, the name of which comes from the Arabic expression “Al-Meisan”, which means “the one that shines”.
Danylo Pertsov was born on January 10, 1973 in Kyiv and spent his childhood and adolescence among artists. Then he suddenly found himself at the Kyiv Conservatory (composition classes of M. Skoryk and M. Denysenko), graduated in 1998 and spent another three years as a trainee with l. Kolodub. In 2010 he had an internship for six months in Krakow under the Gaude Polonia program (Marek Cholonewski as a supervisor). He works with electronic music since the late 90s, mostly at max / msp / jitter environment.
Hush (2023)
Fernando Hester
fixed media: 5 channels
duration: 7.05
Hush is the outcome of the overlaying and intertwining of synthesized sounds, field recordings, gestures and textures that mimic the natural blurriness between the spaces of reality, play and memories. The lead gesture is in fact an interpretation of the sound of marbles jumping around and triggering mental images. Children’s voices, trains and simple tunes hold further references to childhood and memories, while impulse sounds
bring the listener back to the present in a continuous opening, closing and overlapping of worlds.
Fernando Hester is a composer and sound designer based in Bologna, Italy. After years of experimenting with electronic music outside the academic world, he enrolled into the Electronic music program of the Conservatory of Bologna, where he’s currently studying sound design. His research focuses on computer music and audio-visual composition
What the Waters Told Me (2022)
Barry Truax
fixed media: 8 channels
duration: 11.30
If we listen carefully to flowing water in all of its varied forms, we may begin to hear voices and ascribe human emotions to them. The voices may be argumentative, even angry, as at the start of our journey, but suddenly they become hushed as we enter a large cavern. A mysterious voice seems to give us commands as we await the next stage, while ethereal voices guide us along. The commands become more insistent until the waters burst forth with transcendent song in a celebration of water and life.
Barry Truax is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication (and formerly the School for the Contemporary Arts) at Simon Fraser University where he taught courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music. Truax is best known for his work with the PODX computer music system which he has used for tape solo works, music theatre pieces and those with live performers or computer graphics. In 1991 his 8-channel work, Riverrun (1986-87), was awarded the Magisterium at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France. His multi-channel soundscape compositions are frequently featured in concerts and festivals around the world.
Instantes (2023)
Marta Domingues
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 12.17
Clarice Lispector’s text, taken from “”Água Viva”” (adapted), is read by Tiago Boto, Nuno Veiga, Juliana Campos, Sara Marita and also by myself. The sound material that gives life to the piece comes mostly from these voices, and all the narrative constructed has the purpose of serving the text. This piece is the result of a range of influences from several composers who inspire my work. Particularly Annette Vande Gorne, in the way she composes voice and text, and her research on space as a musical expressive parameter; Jaime Reis, in his search for polyphony of gestures and spatial movements; Elizabeth Anderson whose textures of the pieces “”Les Forges de l’Invisible””, “”Solar Winds”” and “”…and Beyond”” appear in my piece as a support to the narrative.” “Marta Domingues (2000) is currently completing her Master’s Degree in Composition at ESML, with Jaime Reis and Annette Vande Gorne.
Marta Domingues. She is part of the EMSCAN association, DME Project and Lisboa Incomum team. Her music has been presented in contexts such as: DME/Lisboa Incomum, Música Viva, Aveiro Síntese, BoCA, Sonorities Belfast, L’Espace du Son, CIME/ICEM, Monaco Electroacoustique, Young Euro Classic, and Echoes Around Me. She received an honourable mention in the Métamorphoses 2020 and a prize in the Young Lion*ess of Acousmatic Music competition. In 2024, she will be in residency at the Musiques & Recherches studio after winning a call for residencies by the Annette Vande Gorne Foundation. Her music is published by Influx / Musiques & Recherches (Belgium) and DME/Lisboa Incomum.
Machin de Machine (2012)
Francis Dhomont
fixed media: 8 channels
duration: 8.40
To Conlon Nancarrow, this tribute / pastiche for the centenary of his birth. Here, as in many Nancarrow’ works, it is the machine that explores polyrhythmic universe too complex to be controlled by human hand. Honorary Mention, International Electroacoustic Music Competition Musica Nova 2012, Prague. Machin de machine was commissioned by Lucio Garau for the 2nd Festival di Musica Contemporanea Cagliari, and realized in the composer’s studio in Avignon, France.
Francis Dhomont. French and Canadian composer, was born in Paris, 1926. Convinced of the originality of acousmatic art, his production is, since 1960, exclusively made of tape works. Doc Honoris causa at University of Montreal where he was teaching Electroacoustic Composition from 1980 to 1996. During 26 years, he shared his activity between France and Quebec. 1997, a guest of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Berlin. Grand Prix GigaHetz 2013, Qwartz Music Awards 2012. Prix “”Ars electronica 1992″”, “”Magisterium”” Bourges 1988. Many works selected for the “”World Music Days””, and ICMC. He is now living in Avignon, France, and pursues an international career. http://www.electrocd.com/en/bio/dhomont_fr/discog/
συναυλίες: A1 A2 / B1 B2 B3 / C1 C2 C3 / D1 D2 D3 / E1 E2
Συναυλία B1
Yana Shliabanska Plumbum (2023) 5.41 UAEM
Andrii Barsov Nature Mort (2023) 6.36
Yevhenii Dubovyk Voices Around Us (2021) 5.19 UAEM
Danylo Pertsov Meissa 10/02/2020 (2020) 4.55 UAEM
Fernando Hester Hush (2023) 7.05 Tempo Reale
Barry Truax What the Waters Told Me (2022) 11.30
Marta Domingues Instantes (2023) 12.17 Project DME
Francis Dhomont Machin de Machine (2012) 8.40
Plumbum (2023)
Yana Shliabanska
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 5.41
The piece plumbum is an electroacoustic work based on the contusion experience of a wounded Ukrainian soldier. I was very impressed when he talked about head injuries, illustrating them with sound. This sound fragment entered the work together with the recorded and processed sounds of vases of water, which were transformed into a dark moving texture. For me, it’s like memories that play out in a head in accelerated, chaotic, and non-linear ways. It is as if we are traveling in a time train, but it moves deep and wide. The title of the work is taken from an interview with the same soldier who says that he felt the movement of a sprawling lead ring and the smell of death.
Yana Shliabanska (1994). Ukrainian composer and sound artist. Studied music composition at the Ukrainian National Academy of Music in Kyiv. Author of contemporary art music, music for theatre, dance and performances, electroacoustic music, and sound installations. She also performs as a live electronics musician. Created music for more than 30 projects which were presented in 15 countries. Was supported by the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, granted by the President of Ukraine for interactive sound installation, and the French Institute for Cité Internationale des Arts Residency.
Nature Mort (2023)
Andrii Barsov
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 6.36
The work includes the Ukrainian folk song “Provedu ya rusallochky,” which is typically sung during Rusalka’s Easter, according to the calendar-ritual cycle. Rusalkas are believed to reside in rivers and represent an impure force that needs to be driven away. However, while dealing with the Rusalkas, the performers of this folklore become victims of another threat – not mythical but real. The work also incorporates recordings of explosions from russian missile strikes in Ukraine, with the permission of the author of the recordings.
Andrii Barsov. I was born on April 16, 1988, in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. In 2005, I completed my 11th grade at Secondary School No. 1 in Chernivtsi. From 2005 to 2009, I studied at the S. Vorobkevych Chernivtsi School of Arts and obtained a diploma as a junior specialist in the field of teaching, concert mastering, and ensemble artistry as pianist. During 2010 to 2013, I pursued studies at the distance learning department of the Faculty of Practical Psychology at Chernivtsi National University, but I discontinued my education during the third year. From 2015 to 2019, I attended the P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, where I graduated with honors, obtaining a bachelor’s degree. My professional qualifications include composer, musical arranger, and teacher at art schools. Between 2021 and 2023, I continued my education at the P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, earning a master’s degree with honors. My professional qualifications expanded to composer, musical arranger, teacher at a higher education institution, and researcher-scientist.
Voices Around Us (2021)
Yevhenii Dubovyk
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 5.19
This composition is my reflection on the wars and disasters all over the world. But the «fun fact» – it was composed a three-month before the Russians have started a full-scale war against Ukraine. So, now I imagine this piece in another way
Yevhenii Dubovyk. Was born in Pryluky, Ukraine. Based in Kyiv now. Composer of the chamber, electroacoustic, jazz music, and pieces for piano. Also, makes jazzy harmonizations of different animal sounds. Few of them were in collaboration with French-German composer Alexander Liebermann. Graduated from Chernihiv Levko Revutsky Music College in 2015 (Variety of Stage department – jazz piano). Graduated from the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in 2021 (music composition department) of Ivan Taranenko’s class. Also, took lessons from Alla Zagaykevych (electroacoustic music composition). Participant of the Masterclasses during the Sounds Around Me Festival (Vienna) 2000.
Meissa 10/02/2020 (2020)
Danylo Pertsov
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 4.55
After participating in the project Pandemic Media Space https://pandemic-media-space.com/works) In 2021, Danylo Pertsov passed away. And we began to collect his works, works, patches… The recording “sound of a star” on February 10, 2020 is one of such works. Danylo started this project in 2017, and called it “Meissa” (2017). The idea of the patch is to try to voice the radiation spectrum of the star from the constellation Orion – Meiss, the name of which comes from the Arabic expression “Al-Meisan”, which means “the one that shines”.
Danylo Pertsov was born on January 10, 1973 in Kyiv and spent his childhood and adolescence among artists. Then he suddenly found himself at the Kyiv Conservatory (composition classes of M. Skoryk and M. Denysenko), graduated in 1998 and spent another three years as a trainee with l. Kolodub. In 2010 he had an internship for six months in Krakow under the Gaude Polonia program (Marek Cholonewski as a supervisor). He works with electronic music since the late 90s, mostly at max / msp / jitter environment.
Hush (2023)
Fernando Hester
fixed media: 5 channels
duration: 7.05
Hush is the outcome of the overlaying and intertwining of synthesized sounds, field recordings, gestures and textures that mimic the natural blurriness between the spaces of reality, play and memories. The lead gesture is in fact an interpretation of the sound of marbles jumping around and triggering mental images. Children’s voices, trains and simple tunes hold further references to childhood and memories, while impulse sounds
bring the listener back to the present in a continuous opening, closing and overlapping of worlds.
Fernando Hester is a composer and sound designer based in Bologna, Italy. After years of experimenting with electronic music outside the academic world, he enrolled into the Electronic music program of the Conservatory of Bologna, where he’s currently studying sound design. His research focuses on computer music and audio-visual composition
What the Waters Told Me (2022)
Barry Truax
fixed media: 8 channels
duration: 11.30
If we listen carefully to flowing water in all of its varied forms, we may begin to hear voices and ascribe human emotions to them. The voices may be argumentative, even angry, as at the start of our journey, but suddenly they become hushed as we enter a large cavern. A mysterious voice seems to give us commands as we await the next stage, while ethereal voices guide us along. The commands become more insistent until the waters burst forth with transcendent song in a celebration of water and life.
Barry Truax is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication (and formerly the School for the Contemporary Arts) at Simon Fraser University where he taught courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music. Truax is best known for his work with the PODX computer music system which he has used for tape solo works, music theatre pieces and those with live performers or computer graphics. In 1991 his 8-channel work, Riverrun (1986-87), was awarded the Magisterium at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France. His multi-channel soundscape compositions are frequently featured in concerts and festivals around the world.
Instantes (2023)
Marta Domingues
fixed media: 2 channels
duration: 12.17
Clarice Lispector’s text, taken from “”Água Viva”” (adapted), is read by Tiago Boto, Nuno Veiga, Juliana Campos, Sara Marita and also by myself. The sound material that gives life to the piece comes mostly from these voices, and all the narrative constructed has the purpose of serving the text. This piece is the result of a range of influences from several composers who inspire my work. Particularly Annette Vande Gorne, in the way she composes voice and text, and her research on space as a musical expressive parameter; Jaime Reis, in his search for polyphony of gestures and spatial movements; Elizabeth Anderson whose textures of the pieces “”Les Forges de l’Invisible””, “”Solar Winds”” and “”…and Beyond”” appear in my piece as a support to the narrative.” “Marta Domingues (2000) is currently completing her Master’s Degree in Composition at ESML, with Jaime Reis and Annette Vande Gorne.
Marta Domingues. She is part of the EMSCAN association, DME Project and Lisboa Incomum team. Her music has been presented in contexts such as: DME/Lisboa Incomum, Música Viva, Aveiro Síntese, BoCA, Sonorities Belfast, L’Espace du Son, CIME/ICEM, Monaco Electroacoustique, Young Euro Classic, and Echoes Around Me. She received an honourable mention in the Métamorphoses 2020 and a prize in the Young Lion*ess of Acousmatic Music competition. In 2024, she will be in residency at the Musiques & Recherches studio after winning a call for residencies by the Annette Vande Gorne Foundation. Her music is published by Influx / Musiques & Recherches (Belgium) and DME/Lisboa Incomum.
Machin de Machine (2012)
Francis Dhomont
fixed media: 8 channels
duration: 8.40
To Conlon Nancarrow, this tribute / pastiche for the centenary of his birth. Here, as in many Nancarrow’ works, it is the machine that explores polyrhythmic universe too complex to be controlled by human hand. Honorary Mention, International Electroacoustic Music Competition Musica Nova 2012, Prague. Machin de machine was commissioned by Lucio Garau for the 2nd Festival di Musica Contemporanea Cagliari, and realized in the composer’s studio in Avignon, France.
Francis Dhomont. French and Canadian composer, was born in Paris, 1926. Convinced of the originality of acousmatic art, his production is, since 1960, exclusively made of tape works. Doc Honoris causa at University of Montreal where he was teaching Electroacoustic Composition from 1980 to 1996. During 26 years, he shared his activity between France and Quebec. 1997, a guest of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Berlin. Grand Prix GigaHetz 2013, Qwartz Music Awards 2012. Prix “”Ars electronica 1992″”, “”Magisterium”” Bourges 1988. Many works selected for the “”World Music Days””, and ICMC. He is now living in Avignon, France, and pursues an international career. http://www.electrocd.com/en/bio/dhomont_fr/discog/
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