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Contemporary Music Lab presents a lecture by the Canadian composer Gordon Williamson on Verwandlung: inspiration vs. influence in the creative process. Gordon Williamson is a composer and professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Medien und Theater at Hannover, Germany and he is visiting Aristotle University of Thessaloniki under the Learning Mobility Erasmus+ educational program.
November 1st 16.00 Room 10 – A.U.Th – Music Department (Thermi)
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Contemporary Music Lab presents two lectures by Joachim Heintz.
Lecture A
Who is writing — “it” or “me”?
Decisions and Developments in Composition
Composition can be described as an “active passivity”: to listen to the (sounding) material, to discover what is inside it, to develop its potentials. This will be shown on examples of my music, and continued by a discussion about the reasons and consequences of certain decisions in the process of composing.
Tuesday June 6th 15:00 Room 7 – A.U.Th – Music Department (Thermi)
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CML presents a lecture by Panayiotis Kokoras. Panayiotis will present his recent works and will explain his compositional approach. The audience will have the opportunity to listen to some of the composer’s works.
May 31th 12:00-13.30 Room 7 – A.U.Th – Music Department (Thermi)
CML presents a lecture and a composition masterclass by Christian Benvenuti.
Composition Masterclass May 30th 15:00-18.00 Room 7 – A.U.Th – Music Department.
In his masterclass, composer and multimedia artist Christian Benvenuti will introduce the main techniques and methods he used in his works, along with a reflection on his pluralist approach to style. In the second half, Benvenuti will lead an interactive session where the works submitted by participants, in the form of scores, live performances or recordings, will be discussed.
(Please find below an application form for your participation in the composition masterclass)
Lecture May 30th 18:00-20.00 Room 9 – A.U.Th – Music Department.
In the so-called Zettabyte Era in which we currently live, there is a need for new aesthetic responses and approaches from composers, performers and listeners. In this context, it is essential to understand how we communicate through music by looking into the dynamics of music information. In this talk, the phenomenon of expectation will be discussed along methods derived from information theory to measure and describe cognitive aspects of the musical mind. These methods will be presented in light of their contribution to music cognition, music psychology, music composition, theory, and analysis. Continue reading
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We are glad to announce our 2017 Xenakis Festival!
On 1st of April 2017 a series of events will take place at TSSO Concert Hall “Solon Michailides” at Nikis Avenue 73, Paralia Thessaloniki.
Please find below the flow of events
The day starts with a lunchtime concert at 12:00PM. Electronic works by Iannis Xenakis and the Jury of the first international electronic music competition Iannis Xenakis will be diffused.
Iannis Xenakis – Diamorphoses
Panayiotis Kokoras – Magic
Ambrose Field – Frozen Voyage
Denis Smalley – Someil de Rameau
German Toro Perez – Inventario I
Elaine Lillios – Listening Beyond
Iannis Xenakis – Orient-Occident
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Contemporary Music Lab presents two lectures by Svetlana Savic on Contemporary Serbian music. Prof. Savic is visiting Aristotle University of Thessaloniki under the Learning Mobility Erasmus+ educational program and will be introduced by the composer Dimitri Papageorgiou
Lecture A – Contemporary Serbian Music
In her first lecture, scheduled for 31.10.2016 18:00, professor Savic is going to present works by prominent Serbian composers: Entr’acte for orchestra, by Zoran Erić, full time professor at Department for Composition at Faculty of Music, Rector of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Orbits for orchestra, by Aleksandra Vrebalov, currently living in USA, gesualdo dub/raum mit gelöschter figur, for piano and ensemble, by Marko Nikodijevic, living in Germany, and Mirror for mezzo-soprano, violoncello, piano and chamber orchestra, by Srdjan Hofman, professor emeritus at Department for Composition, Faculty of Music in Belgrade. Entr’acte and Orbits are exceptionally interesting in their musical form – employing principles of symmetry and spiral organization of the musical material, and Nikodijevic’s concert for piano and Hofman’s Mirror present intriguing and innovative approach to the role of soloists and ensemble, treatment of musical heritage and poetical text, followed with incredible instrumentation. Continue reading
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Tuesday October 25th 16:00 Room 7 – A.U.Th – Music Department (Thermi)
Contemporary Music Lab is presenting an open lecture by the world-wide renowned pianist Stephanos Thomopoulos on the works for solo piano by Iannis Xenakis. The lecture is preceeding a concert , scheduled for Saturday October 29th at AVGO in which Stephanos Thomopoulos is going to present a Triptych, focused around the piano works of Iannis Xenakis
Stéphanos is the first pianist in France to have completed a Doctorate in performance at the Paris Conservatoire. The title of his thesis was Performance Issues regarding the xenakian piano : from concept to instrumental language. His doctoral work has brought him to participate in concerts and conferences about Xenakis in New York, Montreal, Paris, London, Belgrade, Leipzig, Athens, Monaco, as well as to publish an article in the volume Performing Xenakis, next to personalities such as Milan Kundera, Michel Tabachnik and Irvine Arditti (Pendragon Press 2010). https://
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CML A.U.Th. in colaboration with dissonArt ensemble presents an open rehearsal of Jani Christou’s works Anaparastasis III (The Pianist) and The Strychnine Lady.
Friday June 17th 14:30 – 17:30 Foyer – A.U.Th – Music Department (Thermi)
Jani Christou composed his legendary works Anaparastasis III and The Strychnine Lady between 1967 and 1968. In these works, new and innovative forms of expression are explored. The pieces, scored for ensemble and soloists, transform the roles and functionality of musicians and soloists. Using his own pioneering notation, Christou is extending and at the same time blurring the borders between music and theater.
The event will start with a short talk by the conductor Vladimiros Symeonidis and dissonArt member Theodoros Patsalidis introduced by the composer Zesses Seglias.
After the end of the rehearsal there will be an open discussion.
Anaparastasis III along with The Strychnine Lady will be staged at the GNO Alternative Stage of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in 25 June, under the direction of Alexandros Efklidis. [read more here] Continue reading
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CML A.U.Th. presents a Talk by Raphael Staubli on the music of Helmut Lachenmann
May 26th 12:00-13.30 AM Room 7 – A.U.Th – Music Department (Thermi)
The lecture is examining the compositional thinking of Lachenmann as it is presented in his works Pression for solo Violoncello and Ein Kinderspiel for solo piano. Dr Staubli will perform Ein Kinderspiel as part of his presentation.
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CML A.U.Th. presents a Talk by Steve Savage on “Recording Classical Music”
May 23rd 10:00-11.30 AM Room 7 – A.U.Th – Music Department (Thermi)
This workshop discusses the intersection of classical music recordings with digital audio recording techniques and contemporary studio practices.
Topics will include:
– The “it could have happened” approach to editing
– Creating hyperreal recordings
– Capturing the unintentional performance
Steve Savage is an active record producer and recording engineer. He has had 7 Grammy nomintiCons for CD’s on which he was the primary engineer. These include CD’s for Robert Cray, John Hammond, OCs Rush, Elvin Bishop and The Gospel Hummingbirds.
Steve holds his PhD in musicology from the University of London where he studied with the eminent musicologist Nicholas Cook. Recent books include The Art of Digital Audio Recording and Mixing and Mastering in the Box for Oxford University Press, and Bytes & Backbeats: Repurposing Music in the Digital Age for the University of Michigan Press.
Steve Savage is a visiting scholar of the Fulbright foundation.
Mr. Savage will be introduced by Dimitris Maronidis, PhD
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CML A.U.Th. presents a Talk by Gundega Smite on Baltic Contemporary Music
May 29th 17:00 2014 AM Room 7 – A.U.Th – Music Department (Thermi)
This lecture will focus on contemporary music of Baltic states. Composer and musicologist Gundega Smite (post-doc researcher at A.U.Th.) will present the most representative composers of the 20th century along with the youngest generation of creators in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Continue reading
Ο πιανίστας και μουσικολόγος Παύλος Αντωνιάδης (MA από το UC San Diego, συνεργάτης στο IRCAM, υποψήφιος διδάκτορας στη HfM Dresden) παρουσιάζει τη διάλεξη “Σωματικότητα και Πολυπλοκότητα στη μουσική για πιάνο μετά το 1950”, καθώς κι ένα ρεσιτάλ πιάνου με έργα Ιάννη Ξενάκη, Brian Ferneyhough και Morton Feldman.
Η αναζήτηση ερμηνευτικών λύσεων για μουσικές εγκεφαλικές και δυσπρόσιτες ανοίγει το δρόμο προς μία ριζικά διαφορετική θεώρηση του ρόλου του σώματος του εκτελεστή. Αποτέλεσμα αυτής της αναζήτησης είναι ένα μοντέλο “σωματικής πλοήγησης” της παρτιτούρας που ξεκλειδώνει τις μυθικές δυσκολίες των έργων και αναδεικνύει τη δυνατότητα πολλαπλών ερμηνειών και ακροάσεων. Στο ρεσιτάλ που ακολουθεί κυριαρχεί η σταδιακή αφαίρεση, από το εκρηκτικό μουσικό θέατρο του Ferneyhough (Opus Contra Naturam για ομιλώντα πιανίστα από την όπερα Shadowtime), στo μαθηματικά υπολογισμένο, πλην όμως ούτε ασώματο ούτε ψυχρό, πρώτο έργο του Ξενάκη για σόλο πιάνο (Herma), κι ως το τελευταίο πιανιστικό έργο του Feldman (Palais de Mari), ένα λαβύρινθο φευγαλέων αναμνήσεων και θραυσμάτων.
ΕΙΣΟΔΟΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΗ
ΔΙΑΛΕΞΗ
7:30 μ.μ.
Σωματικότητα και πολυπλοκότητα στη μουσική για πιάνο μετά το 1950.
ΣΥΝΑΥΛΙΑ
9:00 μ.μ.
ΞΕΝΑΚΙΣ HERMA
FERNEYGHOUGH OPUS CONTRA NATURAM
FELDMAN PALAIS DE MARI