AKOΥSMATA - 20 and 21 May 2017
ATHENS ΜΕGARON - BANQUET

The Audiovisual Arts Festival, that is taking place every May in Corfu for the last ten years as an initiative of the Department of Audio-Visual Arts and the Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Laboratory[EPHMEE] of Ionian University, brings this year a large part of its activities in Athens, at the hospitable at the Athens Megaron. In this Festival, which hosts multifarious events focusing on the creative synthesis between the arts and current electronic/digital technologies, the EPHMEE undertakes the presentation of electroacoustic music projects by means of a custom multichannel audio diffusion system, designed specifically for this series of concerts at Megaron's Banquet Room. The program of this presentation evolves in five thematically organised concerts that will be realised - three - on Saturday 20 and - two - on May 21. It includes works of various types of electroacoustic music such as acousmatic fixed media, electronics and musical instrument and/or visual projections, live electronics et.al.
The 11th Audiovisual Arts Festival hosts two Austrian composers specially invited for the events of this weekend, Volkmar Klien and Thomas Gorbach, who will present their work on Sunday 20/5.
The audio diffusion system is based on the EPHMEE sound projection system and was expanded with the sound system installed in Banquet room as well as additional equipment from various other sources.

This event is organised in collaboration with the e Γεφυρες (Bridges) program of the Athens Megaron with the participation of the Department of Sound Technology and Musical Instruments of the TEI of Ionian Islands.

THE ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS LABORATORY

The EPHMEE  (Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Laboratory of the Music Department of Ionian University) focuses on the study and production of original work within the field of sonic art and technology and its aims include the structuring and support of education on music and technology,  the support of research and innovation in sonic art, the production of music and the dissemination of knowledge and artistic experience. The EPHMEE provides an essential educational contribution to the Music Department’s course program of which an outstanding part has been the graduate program on “the arts and technologies of sound” and its summer courses, taught by internationally distinguished academics.  An equally important function of ERHMEE, within the frame of the Music Department, is documentation and music production, resulting an archive of  many hundreds of hours of archival recordings, many CD publications etc.  In addition to these, the EPHMEE has also a significant impact on the Hellenic electroacoustic music scene not only by maintaining a constant presence of this music through the  organization of concerts and other related events, but also having initiated and supported the foundation of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association.  One of EPHMEE’s important research directions is Acoustic Ecology, an activity that started a decade ago with the realization of the first Hellenic environmental sound research project, which has extended the Labs interdisciplinary character and has led, apart the actual research results, to important initiatives, like the foundation of the Hellenic Association for Acoustic Ecology, the establishment of a biannual conference (including the international WFAE conference in 2011) and the participation to European collaborative projects such as “Listening Cities” (completed in 2013) and currently the ERASMUS+ continuation of it, “ The Soundscape which we are Living In”.