First Day
Opening – Seminar – Concert – Talk
Opening – Lecture – Talk – Concert
7 September 2024
Narrative Aspects in Contemporary Music
Pierre Henry and the Electroacoustic Music
Handmade Electronic Music
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM | In Person
Curated by Joachim Heintz
Opening
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.
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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.
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Live Events
Seminar
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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.
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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
Live on Instagram
Saturday, September 7, 2024 | 10:30 PM Tehran Time
Concert
Location: Music Museum
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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
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*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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Concert
Curated by Joachim Heintz
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volcano is a documentary about recent events in South Korea.
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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.
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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”).