This track is a fragment of my '20-'21 research around vocal acoustic looping, a preparation for my project LOOPWORK, created in '23 with vocalists Els Mondelaers & François Vaiana and drummer Joâo Lobo. 

Vocalists for this session: Maja Jantar, Lynn Cassiers, Ine Claes
Recorded at Corso, 2021

More info: https://www.ineclaes.com/loopwork

Research around vocal looping

Xenakis’ Polytopes are revisited in Giulia Vismara’s »Sound Gleams from the Deep Darkness,«  a composition that transitions from a contrast between a darkness intricately woven with micro-events embedded within the texture of sound, to a luminous expanse filled with bursts of light that subsequently dissolve, only to reconverge into darkness once again.

Credits

Chronotopia Echoes / Αντηχήσεις took part within a wider project titled Chronotopia, initiated by CTM Festival and Goethe-Institut Athen. Through several events and commissions the initiative  aimed to highlight connections between experimental music, research, and media practice, for instance via re-articulations of pre-modern musical forms and practices, media-archeological research, or archives amongst others. 

Co-produced by CTM Festival, Goethe-Institut Athen, Athens & Epidaurus Festival. In collaboration with KSYME/CMRC.

Mastered by Rashad Becker, Berin.
Artwork by VOJD.

CTM Editions 001
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Chronotopia Echoes / Α​ν​τ​η​χ​ή​σ​ε​ι​ς

Sound Gleams from the Deep Darkness

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Giulia Vismara - Sound Gleams From The Deep Darkness

Aiming to reflect on the emergence of digital objects and a persistence of synthetic environments, with »Iterative Cast« Gaspar Cohen documents a saturated digitality seeking a post-machinic dream, with sounds aimed at a purge of the industrial consciousness, a noisier-than-desirable ambience at the brink of a destructive accumulation.

Credits

Chronotopia Echoes / Αντηχήσεις took part within a wider project titled Chronotopia, initiated by CTM Festival and Goethe-Institut Athen. Through several events and commissions the initiative  aimed to highlight connections between experimental music, research, and media practice, for instance via re-articulations of pre-modern musical forms and practices, media-archeological research, or archives amongst others. 

Co-produced by CTM Festival, Goethe-Institut Athen, Athens & Epidaurus Festival. In collaboration with KSYME/CMRC.

Mastered by Rashad Becker, Berin.
Artwork by VOJD.

CTM Editions 001
All Rights Reserved to the respective owners.

Iterative Cast

Gaspar Cohen - Iterative Cast

Alyssa Moxley’s »City Replica Souvenir,« a composition reflecting on the pioneering composer and KSYME co-founder Iannis Xenakis’ unrealised »Athens Polytope.« Moxley attempts to deconstruct the sound politics and massive coordination inherent in Xenakis’ city-sized proposal to a smaller, souvenir-sized aesthetic abstraction.

Credits

Chronotopia Echoes / Αντηχήσεις took part within a wider project titled Chronotopia, initiated by CTM Festival and Goethe-Institut Athen. Through several events and commissions the initiative  aimed to highlight connections between experimental music, research, and media practice, for instance via re-articulations of pre-modern musical forms and practices, media-archeological research, or archives amongst others. 

Co-produced by CTM Festival, Goethe-Institut Athen, Athens & Epidaurus Festival. In collaboration with KSYME/CMRC.

Mastered by Rashad Becker, Berin.
Artwork by VOJD.

CTM Editions 001
All Rights Reserved to the respective owners.

City Replica Souvenir

Alyssa Moxley - City Replica Souvenir

»MACC« by Savvas Metaxas is an interpretation of the work of Michael Adamis, a composer rooted in both modern Western and older Byzantine music traditions. Referencing several compositions by Adamis and using modular synthesiser, reel to reel tape players, and samplers, Metaxas plays with a delicate balance of tradition and modernity that was also at the core of Adamis’ work.

Credits

Chronotopia Echoes / Αντηχήσεις took part within a wider project titled Chronotopia, initiated by CTM Festival and Goethe-Institut Athen. Through several events and commissions the initiative  aimed to highlight connections between experimental music, research, and media practice, for instance via re-articulations of pre-modern musical forms and practices, media-archeological research, or archives amongst others. 

Co-produced by CTM Festival, Goethe-Institut Athen, Athens & Epidaurus Festival. In collaboration with KSYME/CMRC.

Mastered by Rashad Becker, Berin.
Artwork by VOJD.

CTM Editions 001
All Rights Reserved to the respective owners.

MACC

Savvas Metaxas - MACC

A stereometric drawing by KSYME co-founder John Papaioannou, and the lack of context around it, inspired Max Eilbacher to create »Partial Patterns.« Converting the flat drawing of three-dimensional space into 3-D structures, and applying sieves to create rhythmic and timbral elements that are independent of time, Eilbacher’s piece is an attempt to translate the unclear possibilities represented in the drawing into the sonic realm.

Credits

Chronotopia Echoes / Αντηχήσεις took part within a wider project titled Chronotopia, initiated by CTM Festival and Goethe-Institut Athen. Through several events and commissions the initiative  aimed to highlight connections between experimental music, research, and media practice, for instance via re-articulations of pre-modern musical forms and practices, media-archeological research, or archives amongst others. 

Co-produced by CTM Festival, Goethe-Institut Athen, Athens & Epidaurus Festival. In collaboration with KSYME/CMRC.

Mastered by Rashad Becker, Berin.
Artwork by VOJD.

CTM Editions 001
All Rights Reserved to the respective owners.

Partial Patterns

Max Eilbacher - Partial Patterns

Thursday 1 February 2024
CTM 2024 – Sustain
radialsystem

Pre-recorded talk by Fleur Ramsay followed by discussion with AM Kanngieser, Mere Nailatikau, and KMRU. Moderated by Anita Jóri.

An expert in indigenous rights and international environmental law, Fleur Ramsay will give a pre-recorded input on the current situation of peoples and places of the Pacific, giving context to the installation »Oceanic Refractions.« after which the artists AM Kanngieser, Mere Nailatikau, and KMRU will speak about their installation further with the scholar Anita Jóri, touching among other on how the work was conceptualised and created, on the Pacific context in which it is grounded, as well as on the techniques and ethics of working with testimony and field recordings.

»Oceanic Refractions« was co-produced by CTM Festival and transmediale with funding by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (German Capital Culture Fonds), Creative Australia and with support from the European Commission.

CTM 2024: Listening in Oceania

Saturday 3 February 2024
CTM 2024 – Sustain
Morphine Raum

Talk and book launch by Luis-Manuel Garcia-Mispireta

In his new book, Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta examines how people find ways to get along and share a dancefloor, a vibe, and a sound. Drawing on time spent in the minimal techno and house music subscenes in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin as the first decade of the new millennium came to a close, Garcia-Mispireta rethinks intimacy and belonging through dancing crowds and the utopian vision of throbbing dancefloors.

Diving more specifically into the chapter on »The Sweetness of Coming Undone« for this talk, Garcia-Mispireta reflects that when partygoers narrate, plan, imagine, and nostalgically remember a night out partying, they often express a desire for »something« to happen, a yearning for moments of intensity and rupture that make a night out feel special. In this presentation, he will investigate how »rough« experience forms part of nightlife cultures, as well as how partygoers manage its pains and pleasures. A dualism emerges between smooth flow and rough thrills, one that can be found not only in interviews with partygoers but also in music reviews, recordings, and popular discourse around electronic music. In contrast to psychoanalytic accounts of ecstatic self-shattering and radical transformation (such as jouissance and limit-experience), partygoers seeking rough experiences strive for the more modest pleasures of »coming undone«: stretching, unspooling, and snapping back together again.

CTM 2024: The Sweetness of Coming Undone: Rough Experience and Electronic Music Cultures

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