Sixth Day
Seminar – Workshop – Talk
Workshop – Lecture – Talk – Concert
12 September 2024
Exploration of The Acousmatic Project: Innovations in Interpretation and Technology
On Presenturalism and the Prohibited Tapes Project
Csound for Beginners
Advanced Csound
Project 20
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Seminar
Exploration of The Acousmatic Project: Innovations in Interpretation and Technology
Sammary
This presentation explores the groundbreaking work of *The Acousmatic Project*, founded by Thomas Gorbach, highlighting his key contributions to acousmatic music. It focuses on the *Vienna Acousmonium*, Austria's first loudspeaker orchestra, which revolutionizes sound spatialization in acousmatic performances. Gorbach's "ephemer dynamic-motion sound sculptures" technique transforms fixed media into spatial experiences, supported by his specialized notation system. The talk concludes with the *Virtual Vienna Acousmonium*, a project merging real and virtual audio diffusion, setting new standards for immersive soundscapes.
Biography
Biography
Seminar
On Presenturalism and the Prohibited Tapes Project
Summary
Prohibited Tapes” is a project that uses the protocol of pre-recorded electronic music with real-time musical performances. The repertoire includes a wide spectrum of styles, as the result of extensive research on the boundaries of musical genres. In the performance, the cultured tradition dialogues with current rhythms, sounds and technologies, which characterize the digital age in which we live. Prohibited Tapes re-examines and transcends the relationship between human virtuosity and digital technology, creating a new form of musical expression born of the third millennium.
Workshop
On Presenturalism and the Prohibited Tapes Project
Location: Cage House
Summary
In the workshop we want to know what csound is and how to start working with it. I will explain what csound provides to our composition. so the topic will be:
- how to install csound and csoundQt
- what is opcode and variable-type
- how to generate a simple sine waves and work on it
- how to read sound files and modify them
- how to get audio signal from a microphone in csound
- and how to start writing our programs and make music
At the end of the workshop participants will be able to write simple music with sine waves and sound files.
participations must have a laptop, it’s best if download the installation files before the workshop.
Biography
Biography
Workshop
Advanced Csound
Location: Cage House
Summary
Csound Advanced
This workshop will start with a simple synthesized sound, and introduce step by step more advanced features:
– how to create timbral properties
– how to create a sequence without using a score
– how to create and play rhythmic patterns
– how to apply random deviations to different parameters
– how to work with panning and spatialization
– how to write own functions in Csound code.
The workshop will include own time for the participants to work on small exercises which hopefully are connected to musical questions and inventions.
We will use the online Csound IDE (= Javascript Csound). No installation of Csound is required, just a browser and an internet connection. The material can be found at https://ide.csound.com/editor/5mrXkbLNBUZ6lXVH8aM5.
The participants should have a basic knowledge of Csound. If you don’t have, but want to participate, go through this basic tutorial, solve the excercises and join us:
Biography
Mehdi Jalali
Composer, conductor and instrumentalist (1980, Tehran)و Jalali is one of the co-founders of Yarava Music Group. He has learned Iranian traditional music since 1996 under the supervision of Hamid-Reza Mohseni, Mohammad Zolnouri, Jalal Zolfonoun, Masoud Shaari, and Taher Yarveysi and has participated in several Hossein Alizadeh masterclasses. He studied music theory, composing, conducting and electronic music under the supervision of Babak Aleheidar, Alireza Mashayekhi, Shahrokh Khajenouri, Manouchehr Sahbai and Joachim Heintz.
He has worked with Walter Nussbaum, Susanne Zapf, Eva Zöllner, Catherine Larsen Maguire, Ulrike Brand, Matthias Bauer, Margrit Kern, ensemble unitedberlin, Sonar Quartet and … as a performer and composer. Jalali is one of the figures of contemporary music in Iran. As a soloist or conductor, he has premiered more than fifty works of Contemporary composers such as Fozie Majd, Helmut Zapf, Mohsen Mirmehdi, Alireza Mashayekhi, Shahrokh Khajenouri, Tobias Klich, Farzia Fallah, Ali Gorji, Kiawasch SahebNassagh, Arsalan Abedian, Ornólfur Elden Pórsson, etc and many works have been written for him.
Jalali is co-founder of Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition “Reza Korourian Awards” and director of “Tehran International Electronic Music Festival” (TIEMF).
He has participated in several festivals in Germany, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and China. Among them, it can mention the performance at the 66th Venice Biennale.
He has also introduced Tanbur in his seminars in different universities such as Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Cologne University of Music and Dance, Basel Academy of Music, Freiburg University of Music, Center for World Music (CWM) of the University of Hildesheim, etc.
More than forty articles and reviews of him have been published in specialized music magazines such as “Art of Music”, “Music Report Journal”, “Zangar” and “Aftabnet Magazine”
A collection of contemporary Iranian music works has been recorded under the conducting of Jalali, a part of which is in the form of two CDs by YMG Records.
Talk
Project 20
Mehdi Jalali & Pegah Taslimi
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Thursday September 12, 2024 | 10:30 PM Tehran Time