Iannis Zannos Tipsy City
In the summer, in Corfu Town, one of the prevailing sound types comes from the taverna tables outdoors. The various degrees of inebriation of the customers eating and drinking are transmitted indirectly by the sounds of voices, background music, dishes and cutlery clashing, mixed in with all the other sound of the city. In memory, this becomes an indistinct continuous carpet of sound, that almost engenders the sense of slight (or not so slight) tipsiness experienced during the hot days of the summer holiday season. This piece is a recreation of this feeling.

Iannis Zannos has a background in music composition, ethnomusicology and interactive performance. He has worked as Director of the Music Technology and Documentation section at the State Institute for Music Research (S.I.M.) in Berlin, Germany, and Research Director at the Center for Research for Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has taken part at numerous international collaborative Media Arts projects and has realized multimedia performances both alone and in cooperation with other artists. He is teaching audio and interactive media arts at the Department of Audiovisual Arts and at the postgraduate course in Arts and Technologies of Sound of the Music Department at the Ionian University, Corfu. Publications include: "Ichos und Makam" (Comparative Studies on the Modal systems of Greek and Turkish Music, 1994), "Music and Signs" (edited proceedings of the 1997 conference on Music Semiotics and Systematic Musicology), an a number of articles on Music Technology and Media Arts. Participation in artistice collaborations include (2000), with Martin Carlé programming of interactive sound for Eric Sleichim / Bl!ndman Quartet, and Ulrike and David Gabriel, 2005-2006: Cosmos-X - Multimedia installation with multiple audio and video projections based on the work of Iannis Xenakis, with Efi Xirou, and 2004-2005, with Jean-Pierre Hébert real-time sound programming for the installation series on "Sand". Currently Iannis Zannos is focussing on how environmental issues as well as problems of multiculturality are reflected in media-art terms.

 

Minas Emmanuel  Auriphone 
Auriphone is a landscape of contrasting qualities and values.  Passing from vast to small, distant to intimate, and disorganisation to organisation, Auriphone seeks a final way out of dissent.  Consonant and dissonant harmonic relationships and transfers from composure to disturbance seem to enhance the disagreement.  Through all these contrasting values Auriphone represents internal processes of the spirit.  Auriphone is an amplification of the soul.

Andreas Mniestris   Free association: the jungle
The piece is based on the voice of Greek poet Kostas Varnalis reciting his - very famous - poem "the doomed". It is setting out to an uncharted and rather dismal destination, pretty much like the perspective of a European Union. It is the result of the work with a newly developed computer application aimed to teach children the basics of composing with sounds [this is actually the name of this application] developed by 4 European Partners (MTI-ZKM-GRM-NOTAM). Many Thanks to Leigh Landy...

Andreas Mniestris studied Physics at the University of Thessaloniki, Electroacoustic Music and Recording Media at the Universite Paris VIII and Mills College.  Since 1995 he lives in Corfu where he teaches at the Music Department of Ionian University as Associate Professor of Electronic Music Composition and where he directs the Music Department's Electroacoustic Music Research Laboratory (EPHMEE). Mr. Mniestris is a founding member of the Hellenic Association of Electroacoustic Music Composers and the the Hellenic Society of Acoustic Ecology having served on their Board of Directors for many years. 

Konstantinos Karathanasis Trittico Medιterraneo
Trittico Medιterraneo is a three-movement piece inspired by summer themes. The opening movement, Pastorale, is based on sheep and goat bell samples and related environmental recordings collected at a mountainous Greek village. The work is a personal sonic interpretation and response to the Renaissance and Baroque paintings of the same theme. I am fascinated by old, spacious cobblestone squares, surrounded by tall buildings with swallows' nests, outdoor cafes and restaurants, ideal places for people to enjoy the sense of community and for children to play. Most of the sounds used in Constitution Square at Evening are field recordings from a summer evening at the Constitution Square in Nafplion, Greece. The closing movement, Violins of Summer, was inspired by a short poem by Yannis Ritsos (my translation): “Cicadas are thousands of little violins with wings they make wooden sounds for they miss their bow the summer knocks their belly with its finger. These knocks are later translated – little hammers pounding on a soft void.” The piece was made possible with partial support from the Research Council of the University of Oklahoma.

Konstantinos Karathanasis (b. Athens, Greece) is
an electroacoustic composer who draws inspiration from 
modern poetry, artistic cinema,abstract painting,
mysticism, and the depth psychology of Carl Jung. 
His compositions have been performed at such festivals
as ICMC, SEAMUS, SYNTHESE, Wittener Tage für 
neue Kammermusik, BIMESP, and SICMF 
among others. His music has received recognition in 
international competitions, including Bourges, Musica Nova, 
and SEAMUS/ASCAP. Recordings of his music are released
by SEAMUS, ICMA, Ionian University and Musica Nova, 
and broadcast by the Art of the States. 
Konstantinos holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition 
from the University at Buffalo, and is currently 
an Assistant Professor of Composition & 
Music Technology at the University of Oklahoma.


 

 

Apostolos Loufopoulos – Myrto Korkokiou         Sound Spaces
A combination between electronically elaborated sounds and flute sounds creates virtual environments, imaginary spaces to listen to and immerse. Through the musical style of electroacoustic music, elements of the natural sound-world around us are conveyed to human culture as music, sometimes reminding of known sounds and places, sometimes creating new sound spaces and abstract sound shapes. The use of multiple loudspeakers for sound diffusion during the performance emphasizes the idea of sound spaces, creating new sound dimensions, which extend beyond the physical dimensions of the performance room. Myrto Korkokiou and Apostolos Loufopoulos have been collaborating since 2000, and have created and performed widely works for flute and electronic sounds.
1. Ghost-for flute and electronic sounds
Ghost is a continuous and kinetic transition between imaginary sound environments, an intense dialogue between the flute and the surrounding, continuously transforming sound-world of the electronics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xmiNnh9XrM
2. Anatole -for flute and electronic sounds
Anatole is inspired by sounds and images of the East. The electronic part is made by transforming a variety of sounds, including many recordings of the flute. The piece uses the musical style of electroacoustic music, where live flute performance is blended with electronic sounds, pre-arranged and recorded...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nlzKXSLzFg

 

Apostolos Loufopoulos studied music at the Ionian University, Greece (Music Degree) and at City University, London (PhD in Music). His work is mainly focused on the composition of electroacoustic music and the research on the manipulation of sound via electronics, but also in the inter-contextual approach to music and the convergence of musical genres. Over the past decade, his music has been performed internationally in renown festivals of contemporary music (such as ICMC, Synthese, L’Espace Du Son and others) and has received a number of awards at international competitions such as Αrs Electronica (Austria), Bourges (France), Noroit (France), Metamorphoses (Belgium), Space of Sound (Belgium), Franco Evangelisti (Italy), Musica Nova (Czech Republic). Since 2004 he lives in Athens-Greece and works as a freelance composer and producer at his private studio. He also lectures on the creative use of sound technology at the TEI of Ionian Islands, at the Department of Sound Technology and Musical Instruments. He is a founding member of both the HELMCA (Greek Union of Composers of Electroacoustic Music, www.essim.gr) and the Greek Society for Acoustic Ecology. http://apostolosloufopoulos.wordpress.com .

Myrto Korkokiou has a BA in Music (Ionian University) and a Mmus in Performance (LCMM –London). She has also studied the flute with Ian Clarke and Chris-Hyde-Smith. She is currently working on her doctoral research in flute performance with electronics at the Ionian University. She has participated in flute masterclasses by Wil Offermans, Robert Dick, Ian Clarke and Peter Lloyd. She has participated in festivals of electronic and contemporary music in Greece (Corfu, Rethimno, Lixouri, Electromedia). She has also given concerts at Athens Megaron of Music and at Philippos Nakas Hall. She is primarily focused on improvisation and performance with electronics, as well as composition for flute and electronics. She has been collaborating with Apostolos Loufopoulos composing pieces for flute and electronics since 2000. Their piece ‘Behaviours’ (flute and electronics) has been awarded first prize in the Dimitris Dragatakis Competition 2007-2008 (Greece). Their piece ‘59 Winds’ (flute, bass flute and electronics) has been awarded first prize in the Franco Evangelisti Competition 2006 (Italy). Their pieces have been also awarded prizes in the ‘Music Nova 2006, 2004’ (Prague) and in the 32nd Bourges International Competitions (Brussels). She is teaching at the department of Sound Technology and Musical Instruments of the Ionian islands TEI (www.teiion.gr). http://myrtokorkokiou.wordpress.com