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7 September 2024

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Biography

Papageorgiou’s music presents a continuous negotiation of the distinction between the self and the other and the fluidity of their relationship (where does the similarity ends between two different entities and where does the difference start?). The core of his work revolves around specific themes: time, identity/similarity/difference, repetition, memory, and order — the fragility of order in the creative process. Papageorgiou perceives the concept of memory - the way we consider the past - not as faithful reconstitution driven by nostalgia, but from the point of view of its creative dimension, that is, as a constantly updated reconstruction of the past from the point of view of the present and through a process of constant reformulation: the workings of memory as a compositional metaphor. All musical ideas are imperfect and vulnerable, ephemeral and distorted. They are constantly in a state of flux and under constant revision.


Currently an associate professor of composition, he was appointed at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2007. He majored in composition with Hermann Markus Pres sl and Andrej Dobrowolski at the University of Music and Drama at Graz, Austria. From 1998-2002 he held a Presidential Fellowship of the University of Iowa, U.S.A., for a Ph.D. in composition with Donald Martin Jenni, Jeremy Dale Roberts, and David Karl Gompper. 

He is the artistic co-director of the outHEAR New Music Week, a symposium and master class for new music featuring the ensemble Klangforum.

Biography

Was born in 1953 in Tehran. He studied Piano under Emanuel Melik Aslanian. In 1971, he studied harmony and counterpoint at Guildhall Music School and London College of Music. Khajenouri got his Composition Diploma and could reach the degree of F.L.C.M. He learned electronic music under Micheal Grubert at Morley College. After returning to Iran, during two decades, he had been teaching composition and music for film at Iran Broadcasting University, Dramatic Arts Faculty of Tehran and Tehran University of Art. Over the years, he has instructed and nurtured so many students and he has held classes and workshops in which even the very first students of electronic music in Iran participated. His works have been performed in Iran and Europe by so many Ensembles such as Ensemble Integrales, Tufa, Trio Classique de Paris, Fortuna Quartet, Ensemble Mixtura, Ensemble Laboratorium, Ensemble United Berlin and Yarava Modern Orchestra.

Summary

This composition was commissioned by the Yarava Music Group for the inaugural Tehran International Electronic Music Festival and premiered by Pegah Teslimi at the festival’s opening ceremony.

Biography

Rojin Monibi (1993 Tehran, Iran) has a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from University of Tehran, faculty of social sciences (2010-2014) and has continued her studies as a master student of music composition at the same university (2016-2019). She studied music theory and composition under supervision of Amirhossein Allahdadi, Kiavash Sahebnassagh, Sara Abazari, Amin Honarmand and Joachim Heintz. She has had collaborations with the well-known ensembles such as KNM-Berlin, Ensemble Horizonte, University of Tehran Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Zarvan, Allargando Ensemble and Sialan Quartet, Ensemble Recherche and Rogue Duo. She has also succeeded in achieving the second prize of Gilgamesh International Composition Competition 2021

Biography

Reza Korourian was born on November 5, 1971 in Tehran. He graduated from the Faculty of Art and Architecture with a Bachelor’s degree in Music. He was also a flutist, guitarist and pianist. He studied Music Theory, Harmony and basic lessons of Composition with Alireza Mashayekhi and continued studying Music Composition at university with Farid Omran and Kiawasch SahebNassagh. He then pursued his passion for composition more seriously with SahebNassagh. He completed his study of Electronic Music under the instruction of Shahrokh Khajenouri and Arvin Sedaghatkish. Korourian was one of the five participants who attended the first electronic music workshop in Iran which was held by Shahrokh Khajenouri. By 2008, he also participated in Joachim Heintz’s electronic music workshop and received conducting lessons by Manuchehr Sahbai. He presented his thesis in Electronic Music and spent years of his life translating reference books about electronic music and composition. His translation of Tom Holms’ article “The Most Impressive Electronic Music Pieces” was published in the 111th volume of “Art of Music” magazine. Two albums of his works have been published by “Contemporary Music Records” so far. The only official performance of his works was in “IC No.3” held by Yarava Music Group and with Khajenouri and SahebNassagh providing the speech, introducing Iranian and the world electronic music composers and presenting the piece “In Dreams” by Korourian. A year later, “In Dreams” was introduced and performed at Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Reza Korourian departed this life in the morning of March 3, 2015.

Live Events

Seminar

Summary

Through the inclusion of multimedia aspects in contemporary music, new alternatives of storytelling emerge beyond the onomatopoeic programme music as it was already known in the 19th century, but also beyond the usual applied music as it is used in film, theatre or opera. I am interested in a narrative level that negotiates "inner-musical" or "inner-sound" phenomena, in the sense of posing a musical concept that ultimately produces the compositional or overall artistic work form.

Biography

Matthias Kranebitter was born 1980 in Vienna, Austria. He studied electro-acoustic composition with Dieter Kaufmann and German Toro-Perez, film and media composition with Klaus-Peter Sattler and piano with Christiane Karajeva at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He continued his studies with a postgraduate course at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam as well as at the University of Graz with Alexander Stankovski and Beat Furrer. His music is characterized by aspects of our media society, a dense accumulation and mash-up from everyday life’s trash sounds to a fluttering-colourful and hyper-heterogenic sound flood, a comic-like, grotesque distortion of clichéd musical gestures with an ironic ambivalence, aiming for a culture-liberated Art brut in music. His works received awards such as 1st Prize Gustav Mahler Composition Competition 2006, the 1st Prize Project Young Composers Gaudeamus Music Week Amsterdam 2009 or the Impuls Composition Competition Graz 2013, Publicity Prize of the SKE Austro Mechana 2013 and the Förderungspreis of the City of Vienna 2014. Collaborations with ensembles such as Nadar Ensemble Belgium, Decoder Ensemble Hamburg, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Phace, RSO Vienna, Ensemble Mosaik Berlin or Talea Ensemble New York. For 2015 he was awarded a scholarship from the Junge Akademie and invited to Berlin by the Akademie der Künste. He is founder of the ensemble Black Page Orchestra as well as one of the initiators of UNSAFE+SOUNDS FESTIVAL – antidisciplinary Festival / Media Arts Music in Vienna.
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Biography

Rudolf Frisius studied mathematics, philosophy, and musicology with a focus on New Music. Since 1959, he regularly participated in the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, accompanied productions in electro-acoustic studios in Munich, Utrecht, Cologne, Paris, and Bourges, and attended seminars and courses by Stockhausen, Pousseur, Ligeti, Boulez, Hiller, Kagel, Riedl, Brün, Koenig, Xenakis, Wolff, Bayle, Rihm, Henry, and Cage. He taught in Germany, France, Greece, Austria, as well as in India, Korea, and Japan. In addition to numerous radio broadcasts, he published books and articles on music theory (e.g., "Studies on the Concept of Chord," 1969; "Notation and Composition," 1980), on composers of older and contemporary music (e.g., Schubert, Bruckner, Ives, Schönberg, Cage, Webern, Kagel, Schnebel, Riedl, Ligeti, Koenig, Xenakis, Henry, and Stockhausen, including three volumes on the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen), on improvisation, on New Radio Play/Acoustic Art, and on electroacoustic music (e.g., "Music and Technology," 1995, edited with Helga de la Motte-Haber). Since 1998, Rudolf Frisius has been the chairman of the Institute for New Music and Music Education in Darmstadt.

Seminar

Summary

New Approaches to Alternative Sound Production and Sound Composition in the Age of Technical (Re)Production: Sounds of the Audible World Music with Voices Listening and Understanding Sound Characteristics -- Sound Progressions Music in Multimedia: Audible World -- Environment

Biography

Mehdi  Behbudi

Mehdi Behbudi (b. 1982) is a sound artist and performer based in Tehran. He started to work and experiment with computer music in 1999 and from 2007 put more concentration on live performances in different spaces; indoors or outdoors. He studied composition in Tehran conservatory of music and is self educated in physics, electronics, and coding . He made not only performances and installations but also worked on realization and performance of pieces by Alvin Lucier, James Tenney, John Cage, Nader Mashayekhi, Peter Ablinger, and Georg Nussbaumer. In the last ten years he has participated in more than 120 art projects in different cities of Iran and also in Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, and the United States. In 2012 he founded Radical Tehran events and has worked as an artistic director in different events like Sound-Tehran-Music. Since 2019 he is working as a mentor for Sonic Explorers project related to the Beethoven foundation in Bonn.

In his works he’s not only working on sound as an auditory phenomenon with different physical qualities but also works on social and moral aspects of sound as material for artistic creation.

Aref Karimi

He was born in Tehran and began his musical journey at a young age, learning the Tombak at 10, the Daf at 11, and the Setar at 17. Initially pursuing a major in experimental science, he later transitioned to the arts at the pre-university level, reflecting his growing passion for music. He earned his undergraduate degree in composition from the 11th University of Applied Science & Technology in Tehran, where he also began studying composition principles under the guidance of Morteza Shirkohi.

Currently, he is pursuing a master’s degree in composition at Tehran University of Arts. Alongside his formal studies, he is also deepening his knowledge of electronic music under the mentorship of Majid Tahriri and Arslan Abedian.

Talk

Handmade Electronic Music
Talk Mehdi Behbudi & Aref Karimi

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Saturday, September 7, 2024 | 10:30 PM Tehran Time

Concert

Location: Music Museum

Biography

Sohrab Motabar (1984) is a composer from Tehran. With regards to states of suspension and dazzled motion his music resonates like a maze for the listener. He composes with algorithms, chaotic functions, and non-standard synthesized sounds as a way to give rise to obscured dimensions and experimental modes of perceiving and listening. In 2018 he graduated from the Institute of Sonology. Since then, he is teaching, giving workshops, and keeps developing his research further. In addition, he also actively collaborates in selected projects with artists and other musicians.

Summary

Composed at the request of Yarava, this piece was originally intended to feature a live ney performance. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, the piece was reconfigured to center around a renowned recording of Maestro Hassan Kassai. Every sound you hear is a transformation of this iconic sample

Summary

*PASSAGE *

Commissioned by INA grm as part of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives

for Action.

Premiered 10.5.2024 at INA grm/ AKOUSMA concert series Maison de la

Radio et de la Musique – Studio 104

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*There’s a ringing the ears of either depth or height.*

*It’s the pressure from the other side of the wall.*

*It has every fact in suspension*

*And makes the brush steady.*

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*It hurts to go through walls, you get sick from that*

*But it’s necessary.*

*The world is one, but walls…*

*And a wall is a part of yourself—*

*You either know it or don’t, but it’s the same for everyone*

*Except little children. No wall for them. *

*The clear sky has set itself on an incline towards the wall*

*It’s like an appeal to emptiness*

*And emptiness turns its face to us*

*And whispers,*

*“I am not empty, I am open.”*

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*from ”Vermeer” by Tomas Tranströmer*

*Translated by John Cobley*

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http://hannahartman.de

Biography

Hanna Hartman is a composer, sound artist and performer based in Berlin. She has composed works for radio, electroacoustic music, ensembles, sound installations and given numerous performances all over the world. Her many awards and grants includes the Karl-Sczuka-Prize, the Phonurgia Nova Prize, a Villa Aurora grant and the Rome Prize Villa Massimo. During 2007 and 2008 she was Composer-in-Residence at Swedish Radio and in 2019 at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Hanna Hartman is a member of the German Academy of the Arts. Her work has been presented in numerous concerts and festivals. Such as Darmstädter Ferienkurs

Biography

Arshia Samsaminia (*1989 Tehran, Iran) He studied contemporary composition at Sibelius Academy of Music in Finland, University of Gothenburg, in Sweden, UDK University of Arts in Berlin, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and Tbilisi State Music Conservatory under the supervision of Helena Tulve, Malin Bång, Manolis Vlitakis, Tapio Tuomela, Ole Lutzüow Holm, Maka Virsalaze and etc. He is a current Ph.D. candidate at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece under the supervision of Prof. Dimitri Papageorgiou and Prof. Caspar Johannes Walter (University of Sciences and Arts in Basel) in Composition. He was awarded a full scholarship as a trained composer at International Young Composers Academy in Ticino Switzerland under the supervision of Oscar Bianchi and Dimitri Kourldianski. Also was one of the finalists of the Jonathan Harvey Award/Scholarship 2020 at Huddersfield University of UK.

Summary

Beyond The Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response II For Solo Saxophone and Fixed Media

Performer: Fynn Großmann 

Recorded at: HMTM Studio, 2022, Hanover, Germany

ASMR refers to the “tingling, static-like sensation across the scalp, back of the neck, and at times further areas in response to specific triggering audio and visual stimuli.

I tried to implement a part of these auditory feelings in my composition as a compositional material hence, The most challenging part was the homogenization of fixed media and Saxophone timbres so that the sounds become inseparable for the listener.

Summary

Dew (2024) for 4 channel fixed media, is a piece based on an experiment in simplicity, with minimal resources in sound production and material taken to the extreme with the possibilities of precise control that electronic music allows, specifically, how the repetition of patterns at increasingly extreme speeds causes new colours and pitches to appear. Conceptually, it takes inspiration from Issa’s famous Haiku “this dewdrop world / is a dewdrop world / and yet…”. It is meant to be listened to in a meditative state, letting the radical transformations of the simple material present themselves naturally to the listener.

Biography

Tom Bañados Russell started as a pianist, receiving training in Classical, Jazz, and popular music styles, eventually focusing on a personal free improvisational style. Bañados studied a bachelor in composition with Aliocha Solovera from 2016, and in 2022 came to Hannover to pursue a Master’s in Composition, taking classes with Aaron Cassidy, Gordon Williamson and Joachim Heintz. Among other accolades, Bañados has received the 2018 Scholarship for Musical Excellence of the PUC, and were a finalist in the 5th Carlos Riesco Competition. Bañados' artistic interests center around fluidity, technology and personhood.

Biography

Gordon Williamson (b. 1974, Ottawa) is a Canadian composer currently based in Hanover, Germany. His music has been premiered by ensembles such as the RSO Stuttgart, Neue Vocalsolisten, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal+ Sascha Hahn (b. 1979, Neuss) is a german painter and video artist based in Herford and Hannover, Germany. During the last ten years he worked on several art projects which dealing with the relation between musical and visual concepts.

Summary

ODD COUPLES is a catalogue of 24 duos composed by Gordon Williamson in 2021/22. These miniatures explore a unique combination of voice and/or instruments. Each piece is a brief musical exchange or encounter between two instruments that normally would not perform together. ODD COUPLES is an online, interactive composition: one can peruse/surf through various duos in any order they choose. The concept for ODD COUPLES was developed in close collaboration with the visual artist Sascha Hahn. 
A mobile video set was developed for this purpose, with which the musicians documented their part audio-visually.

Summary

Inspired by the style and discourse of the Saz-o Avaz, this work aims to create oneness by mixing and melting electronic sounds and those of the tanbur together. First, the tanbur responds to the song-like sounds in the electronics. This process is repeated so often that this division of roles is dissolved and a complete merging is achieved.

Biography

COMPOSER - PIANIST - MUSICOLOGIST Madjid Tahriri (*1981 Tehran) is an Iranian composer. He holds a Bachelor’s degree of Arts (piano, musicology) from the Azad University, Tehran in 2004 and was pianist in the Iranian „Melal- Orchestra“. From 1995 to 2006 he took lessons in piano, music theory, ear training, counterpoint, harmony, Orchestration and composition with Afshin Rabetian, Peyman Soltani, Chista Gharib, Dr. Hasan Riahi, Mostafa Kamal Pourtorab, Farid Omran, Sharif Lotfi and Farhad Fakhreddini. In 2012 he obtained his diploma in instrumental and electronic composition with Prof. Dirk Reith, Prof.Günter Steinke and Prof. Thomas Neuhaus and in 2018 he completed his PhD in musicology under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Meyer at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. Madjid Tahriri’s music is performed at international festivals in Europe, Asia and America. In 2009 he was selected for the interdisciplinary competition and workshop „operare 09“ in Berlin. In the same year Madjid Tahriri obtained the Folkwang Prize in the category composition. In 2009 he obtained an excellency scholarship from the Folkwang University of the Arts and a DAAD- scholarship.

Concert

Curated by Joachim Heintz

Biography

After studying literature and art history, Joachim Heintz began his composition studies in 1995 with Younghi Pagh-Paan and Guenter Steinke at the Hochschule fuer Kuenste, Bremen. He composes for instruments and electronics, concerts, installations and performances. With his software instrument ALMA he has improvised with many musicians around the world. He is a member of the Theater der Versammlung Bremen and writes texts which are published in journals and in his Schrenz Verlag. In the realm of software development, he is active in the open source projects Csound and CsoundQt. He is the head of FMSBW, the electronic studio in the institute for contemporary music at HMTM Hannover, and of the electronic department of Yarava Music Group in Tehran. A board member of the Hanover Society for Contemporary Music (HGNM), he organises and hosts workshops, discussions and concerts as encounters between traditional Asian instruments and contemporary music

Biography

Dasom Kim is a South Korean composer currently based in Germany. She earned her Bachelor's degree from Keimyung University in 2017, the same year she was selected for the Daegu Contemporary Music Festival's young composers' competition, collaborating with the Schallfeld Ensemble. In 2019, she began her Master's studies at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, learning from Orm Finnendahl and Michael Reudenbach. She has collaborated with professional musicians like Moritz Koch and Trio Radial and continues to work actively with various performers.

Summary

volcano is a documentary about recent events in South Korea.

Summary

With Flute Descending The Staircase

The painting “Nude Descending a Staircase” by Marcel Duchamp from 1912 is the source of inspiration for this audiovisual composition. Not only do the sounds of the solo flute overlap and unite with those of the wooden stairs and floors of the Old Habichtshorst Forsthaus, but also the visual impressions of the video images with the acoustic ones. Image and sound drive and slow down the tempo together and in alternation. Movements seem to generate sounds and vice versa. Peculiar regularities dominate the interplay of the means of expression, which cannot be ascribed to the conventions of either music or film.

Biography

Robin Hoffmann, born 1970, composes for solo instruments, chamber music, ensemble, orchestra and vocal ensembles; also electro-acoustic compositions and experimental improvisation; numerous cooperative projects with related disciplines such as dance, theater, film, visual arts, etc. Many years of teaching composition/music theory at music academies in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Osnabrück, etc. Prizes (selection): 1st prize at the German Study Prize of the Körber Foundation 2002, the Stuttgart Composition Prize 2005, the Kranichsteiner Composition Prize 2006 or the Hans Werner Henze Prize (formerly Westphalian Music Prize) 2019

Biography

After studying literature and art history, Joachim Heintz began his composition studies in 1995 with Younghi Pagh-Paan and Guenter Steinke at the Hochschule fuer Kuenste, Bremen. He composes for instruments and electronics, concerts, installations and performances. With his software instrument ALMA he has improvised with many musicians around the world. He is a member of the Theater der Versammlung Bremen and writes texts which are published in journals and in his Schrenz Verlag. In the realm of software development, he is active in the open source projects Csound and CsoundQt. He is the head of FMSBW, the electronic studio in the institute for contemporary music at HMTM Hannover, and of the electronic department of Yarava Music Group in Tehran. A board member of the Hanover Society for Contemporary Music (HGNM), he organises and hosts workshops, discussions and concerts as encounters between traditional Asian instruments and contemporary music

Summary

Third party property. Foreign materials, in any way media-related realities, have been collected, selected, cut, assembled, composed. Property would emerge as appropriation, as constellation, as creation of a space. These sound images are a reference to Jean-Luc Godard’s “Livre d’image” (“Image Book”).