My Body Is A Conduit For Electricity (2022)
for Theremin & modular synthesizer


Gefördert durch das Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Stipendienprogramm für freischaffende Künstlerinnen und Künstler „Auf geht’s”

My Body Is A Conduit For Electricity (2022)

13 selfportraits (2002) for string quartet

LipsEarsAssNoseBoobs (Gloomy Sunday) by Marko Ciciliani
for voices, electric violin, percussion, keyboards, electronics and video (2014).
Performed by Bakin Zub:
Barbara Lüneburg – electric violin, voice
Jonathan Shapiro – percussion, voice
Marko Ciciliani – keyboards, electronics, voice

LipsEarsAssNoseBoobs (Gloomy Sunday) by Marko Ciciliani

A sinister tale in which Dion McGregor offers his guests snacks on a Lazy Susan – but one of the dishes is poisoned. (As featured on The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor, Torpor Vigil Records)

Food Roulette

". . . d'un archétype métallique" (2017) 
for eight instruments and electronics

Live recording
May 1st
Columbia Composers Concert series 2017
DiMenna Center for Classical Music - NYC

Talea ensemble under the baton of Jeffrey Means. 

The piece addresses the coexistence of multiple acoustic and electronic sonic entities while it explores the relationship between instrumental and sound complexity. The framework of this project takes advantage of the technology and generates an electrified sonic world that counterbalances the acoustic complexities articulated by the ensemble. Metallic sounds, idiomatic frictions, granulated textures and chaotic microtonal clouds are some of the sonic entities interacting within a dramaturgical framework of intricate sonic interconnections and electrified acoustical masses. The generalized standpoint stems from the genesis of an electrified sonic world derived from the electronic processing of acoustic sounds that behave as the sonic extension of the instrumental ensemble in a unified way – the assembly of a “sonic twin”. The emergence of gestural interactivity pointing to an idiomatic stream of sonic behaviors captures the dramaturgical framework of the piece, highlighting a network of distinguishable sonic objects all perceived in a unified sonic fabric.

". . . d'un archétype métallique" (2017), for eight instruments and diffused electronics

Los Órganos (2017)
for prepared trompet and organ

Collaborative music by Vladimir Guicheff Bogacz (tr.) and Jan Esra Kuhl (org.)

Live recording of the performance during the 13. Internationales Festival für Zeitgenössische Orgelmusik, September the 16th, 2017 in Sankt Peter Kunst Station, Cologne, Germany

Los Órganos

"La fine è senza fine" for quintet [2017]
Performed by Schallfeld ensemble:
Flute: Zinajda Kodric
Clarinet: Szilard Benes
Violin: Lorenzo Derinni
Cello: Myriam Garcia Fidalgo
Piano: Maria Flavia Cerrato

Recording by the Estonian Radio.

Lorenzo Troiani_La fine è senza fine_for quintet

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

MOULT (2018–19), for orchestra
commissioned by Westdeutschen Rundfunk and Wien Modern

Live Recording WDR Orchestra, 12 May 2019, Witten

MOULT (2018–19), for orchestra

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

Eclipse Plumage (2019), for amplified ensemble and electronics
Commissioned by Daniel Walden, for Ensemble Oerknal
World Première: 4 September 2019, Gaudeamus Festival (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

Daniel Walden, prepared piano
Chris Swithinbank, objects
Christian Smith, percussions
Jellantsje de Vries, violin
Raphaella Engelsberg, viola,
René van Munster, cello,
Daniel Boeke, bass clarinet, objects
Susanne Peters, flute, objects

Eclipse Plumage (2019), for amplified ensemble and electronics

Für den ONpodcast im Februar fragt Georgia Koumará nach der Verbindung von Körper, Musik und Sprache.

In der ersten Folge trifft sie die Video- und Performancekünstlerin Ale Bachlechner. Wer hat in einer Bühnensituation die Macht? Was beeinflusst die Haltung? Und welche Sprachen lösen sie in uns aus? 

Georgia Koumará ist Komponistin. In ihren Arbeiten, die von zahlreichen namhaften Orchestern und Ensembles aufgeführt wurden, beleuchtet sie konzeptuelle, perzeptuelle und physikalische Dimensionen von Zeit. Als Gründungsmitglied des Ensembles K3:6K arbeitet sie mit kollaborativen, performativen und improvisatorischen Ansätzen.

http://alebachlechner.com 
https://www.georgiakoumara.com/  

Foto: Eirini Fountedaki

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For the ONpodcast in February, Georgia Koumará follows the relationship between body, music, and language.

In her first episode she meets video and performance artist Ale Bachlechner. Who is in charge in a performance situation? How does it affect your posture? And which languages does that activate?

Georgia Koumará is composer. In her works, that have been performed by notable ensembles, she highlights conceptual, perceptual and physical aspects of time. As a founding member of the Ensemble K3:6K she works collaboratively, performative and improvisatory.

Foto: Eirini Fountedaki

ONpodcast #39 Körper und Sprache mit Georgia Koumará (und Ale Bachlechner)

Für den ONpodcast im Februar fragt Georgia Koumará nach der Verbindung von Körper, Musik und Sprache.

In der zweite Folge verkleidet sich die Komponistin für eine Karnevalsausgabe. Im Gespräch mit der Tänzerin und Medienkünstlerin Senem Gökçe Oğultekin geht es um den Dialog der Sinne, die Enge der Gesellschaft und die Stimme des Körpers und den Körper der Stimme.

http://senemgokce.com/

Georgia Koumará ist Komponistin. In ihren Arbeiten, die von zahlreichen namhaften Orchestern und Ensembles aufgeführt wurden, beleuchtet sie konzeptuelle, perzeptuelle und physikalische Dimensionen von Zeit. Als Gründungsmitglied des Ensembles K3:6K arbeitet sie mit kollaborativen, performativen und improvisatorischen Ansätzen.

www.georgiakoumara.com/

Foto: Eirini Fountedaki

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For the ONpodcast in February, Georgia Koumará follows the relationship between body, music, and language.

For the Cologne carnival Georgia dresses up and meets the choreographer and media-artist Senem Gökçe Oğultekin. In her conversation they speak about the relationship of the senses, the tightness of society, the voice of the body and the body of the voice. 

Georgia Koumará is composer. In her works, that have been performed by notable ensembles, she highlights conceptual, perceptual and physical aspects of time. As a founding member of the Ensemble K3:6K she works collaboratively, performative and improvisatory.

Foto: Eirini Fountedaki

ONpodcast #40 Körper und Sprache mit Georgia Koumará (und Senem Gökçe Oğultekin)

www.georgiakoumara.com
gkoumara@gmail.com

Georgia Koumará, born in Thessaloniki in 1991 studied Composition (M.Mus.) in Thessaloniki (A.U.TH) and Cologne (HfMT) with Johannes Schöllhorn, Michael Beil and Michalis Lapidakis.

Master classes with a.o. G. Aperghis, F. Bedrossian, Ph. Manoury,  A. Posadas, O. Neuwirth, W. Rihm, B. Ferneyhough, B. Furrer, R. Cendo, J.S. Chiong, M. Tsangaris, P.Kokkoras, J. Walsche,  J.M. Lopez Lopez. S. Gevarsoni completed her musical education.

Her music has been played worldwide by a. o. WDR Sinfonieorchester, ensemble Musikfabrik, Schlagquartett Köln, Ensemble Mosaik, IEMA Ensemble, hand werk Ensemble, Kollektiv3:6Koeln, ensemble Garage, Ensemble ascolta, Ensemble Inverspace, Kammermusik für Köln Ensemble, Lucerne Academy Alumni Ensemble, Leise Dröhnung, Kluster5, Ensemble S201, Ensemble consord, Ensemble Lemniscate, y-band, Ensemble Platypus, Ensemble Schallfeld, Lucerne Academy Alumni Ensemble, Ergon Ensemble, DissonArt Ensemble, Dirk Rothbrust, Ernst Surberg, Niklas Seidl, Dominik Susteck, Annegret Mayer Lindenberg, Sarah Maria Sun, on festivals such as Acht Brücken Festival-Musik für Köln, Wittener Tage für Kammermusik, ECLAT Festival Stuttgart, Lucerne Festival, Musica Festival Strasbourg, Gaudeamus Musikwiek, Tectonics Athens, Heroines of Sound, IMPULS, Festival NOW! Essen, TCM Festival Berlin, New Talents Biennale Cologne, Bridges Festival, Konzerthaus Wien, ZKM Karlsruhe, WDR KonzertSaal.

In her music she is interested in exploring the relationships that occur between conceptual, perceptual and actual measurable time, as it is formulated through different ontological interpretations, from the process of performance and listening. Thus, by creating, developing and combining different sonic processes, she strives to achieve continuous flux and energy and intricate multi layered textures.  

2010-2014 she was a member of the improvisation ensemble 6daExit which is based in Thessaloniki and as a performer and improviser she has collaborated with many artists based in Greece.   

Since 2017 co-founder and composer of Kollektiv3:6Koeln, a collective ensemble with an unusual consistency of 6 musicians and 4 composers. Kollektiv3:6Koeln specializes in contemporary experimental music co-creations through communicative procedures. Emphasising in exploring alternative concert places and multifarious concert experience for its audience.   
        
In 2021 she was appointed member of the „Junges Kolleg” of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

Her first Portrait CD will be released in 2024 by WERGO- Edition Zeitgenössische Musik.
                                                    
She lives and works in Cologne.

My Body Is A Conduit For Electricity (2022)

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