INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Acousmonium – Spatial Audio – A Centenary Symposium for Iannis Xenakis
17-19 September 2021

Contemporary Music Lab organizes 4 concerts in collaboration with INFLUX-Acousmonium on Saturday, September 18, 2021, at 12.00 and 20.30 and on Sunday, September 19, 2021, at 18.00 and 20.30 at the Aristotle Museum of Natural History (port of Thessaloniki)

The concerts take place as part of our the third International Iannis Xenakis composition competition and a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth which is starting in a few weeks

The Belgian ensemble INFLUX-Acousmonium specializes in electroacoustic music of the 20th and 21st century, with particular emphasis on modern 3D sound diffusion techniques. In their concerts at Thessaloniki, they will present works by composers who have worked with Acousmonium, an electro-acoustic opera by ANNETTE VANDE GORNE, director of the ensemble and head of the competition committee, as well as the works that got an award out in this year’s competition and of course works of Iannis Xenakis.

Programm

Saturday 18 Sept 2021

Concert 1 (12:00 – 13:00)
Delafontaine Sophie – Trouée
Zellal Jean Baptiste – Fracture
Voisard Noé – Minuit
Espejo Santis Leonardo – De Lumine
Wyckmans Marie-Jeanne – Paysages
Anderson Elizabeth – … and Beyond

Concert 2 (20:30 – 22:00)
Annette Vande Gorne – Yawar Fiesta

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Sunday 19 Sept 2021

Concert 1 (18:00 – 19:00)
Iannis Xenakis – Concrete Ph
Manuela Blackburn – Microplastics
Gilles Gobeil – Dans l’air du soir
Panayiotis Kokoras – AI Phantasy
Damian Gorandi – …Is coming…
Annette Vande Gorne – Haïkus: Automne

Concert 2 (20:30 – 21:30)
Luis Quintana – Junkyard Construction-Why Stop The Swing
Leah Reid – Reverie
Nikos Kanelakis – Spaces and Places
Thibault Madeline – Le murmure de Bombus
Zach Thomas – branch-splinter-moss
Rocio Cano-Valino – Okno
Iannis Xenakis – Diamorphoses