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Domenico Scarlatti Sonata f minor, K.466

NOUVELLES AVENTURES CICLE – KONZERTHAUS WIEN

Berio-Saal
Wiener Konzerthaus
Friday, April 22, 2022

Schallfeld Ensemble
Leonhard Garms, Conductor

The octet version of "les instances" is projecting an electrified sound world emerging from the musical synergies and the coexistence of an amplified ensemble with a synthesized, electronic soundscape. A continuum of interchangeable drives it, phrasal collages comprised of distinct sonic and rhythmical structures, both in the acoustic and the electronic parts. The structure is formulated by repetitive blocks and timbral constructs that engage horizontally and vertically (harmonically) and eventually forge the behavior and the dramaturgy of the music. At the core of my creative thinking lies the notion of repetitive exhaustion and dissolution of sonic material in frameworks of organic sound complexity. I am deeply interested in the impact of recursion on our perception of details and musical events at a micro and macro time level. The piece is heartily dedicated to George E. Lewis.

Les instances - octet version, for amplified ensemble and diffused, synthesised sounds (2019/20)

Performed at OutHEAR New Music Festival in Larissa, Greece, by Klangforum Wien and PPCM Graz

Clarinet: Elena Arbonies Jaregui
Alto Sax: Grald Preinfalk
Flute: Gregory Chalier
Accordion: Krassimir Sterev

Lichtbrechungen (Clarinet, Alto Sax, Flute, Accordion) 2022 Klangforum Wien & PPCM Graz

Dimitri Papageorgiou, Divagations (2022) For Four Percussionists
Commissioned by Olaf Tzschoppe and the Bremer Schlagzeugensemble. Cordially dedicated to Olaf Tzschoppe.

Performance: December 6th, Unerhörte Musik, BKA Theater, Berlin. 

Bremer Schlagzeugensemble: YI Huang, Moritz Koch, Hsin Lee, Olaf Tzschoppe.

Dimitri Papageorgiou, Divagations (2022) For Four Percussionists

Life repeats what is similar, never the same. The repetition of the same material, slightly altered with each iteration, engenders the feeling of going nowhere, yet simultaneously, progressing. 

Recorded live on December 7, 2024 at MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta

UltraViolet:
Roger Admiral - piano
Chenoa Anderson - flute
Allison Balcetis - saxophone
Mark Segger - percussion

Recording: Nicolas Arnaez

This performance was made possible with support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Slightly Altered Suns (2024) - for mixed quartet, UltraViolet Ensemble

Performed by the Ensemble Experimental and the SWR Experimentalstudio
conductor: Detlef Heusinger

Un/Divided (2015) - for Sextet, Contralto and Live-electronics - SWR Ensemble Experimental

Live-Mittschnitt aus dem Konzert am 7.02.16 beim Festival Éclat  im Theaterhaus Stuttgart.  Elena Revich, Violine, RSO Stuttgart, Emilio Pomàrico. 

cloud ground (2015) for violin and orchestra, Elena Revich, Emilio Pomarico, RSO Stuttgart

Music for the play by Marius Ivaškevičius, staged by Marat Gatsalov, Theatre  Globe, Novosibirsk

Russkiy Roman: Voices

Extract from a reverie on the cosmos, acceleration and the loneliness of space travel

Martin Lau & Kaj Duncan David - Formula For Escaping The Logic Of The Trap [extract]

Sarah Sun, Marcus Weiss, Collegium Novum Zürich, live recording Tonhalle Zürich 30.11.2019

Cansiòn (2019) for Sopran, Saxophone and ensemble after Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ways of Returning (2020) - for string quartet and electronics
Part I (Imitation)
Part II (farbenfuge)
Part III (Monophony)

Performed by: Quatuor Bozzini
Electronics - Anthony Tan

Aesthetically, this work represents the mixing of the Classical String Quartet genre with Noise, and Dark Ambient genre signifiers. Theoretically, the work explores timbre through the historical abstraction of modal and tonal counterpoint. The first movement builds timbre through the imitation of acoustic strings by sampled, and synthetically modelled strings. The second movement is a timbre fugue. The third movement is an Industrial Ritual and explores the micro-synchronicity within a pulsation and its effect on timbral blend.

Ways of Returning (2020) - Part III (Monophony) - Quatuor Bozzini - Live Recording

https://alessandromassobrio.com

Self-taught composer, he completed the studies in theoretical philosophy and hermeneutics at the University of Turin with the philosopher Gianni Vattimo and marine bioacoustics with Gianni Pavan at C.I.B.R.A. – the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioacoustics and Environmental Research of the University of Pavia. Additionally he holds a teaching qualification in philosophy. 

He studied classical guitar in Italy, Turin, and later attended composition master classes and private lessons with Mark Andre, Detlef Heusinger, Claus Steffen-Mahnkopf and Uroš Rojko, as a stipendiat of the Experimentalstudio des SWR in Freiburg and Warsaw, as well as a composition class with Pierluigi Billone at the Dipartimento Fieri-Aglaia at the University of Palermo. Also active in audiovisual art he collaborated to the realization of several video art installations, live cinema performances and avant-garde film projects.

His personal research addresses the topic of temporality in music/sound and the correlation between listening and thinking.

Lichtbrechungen (Clarinet, Alto Sax, Flute, Accordion) 2022 Klangforum Wien & PPCM Graz

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