Heterotopia

Urban Melt in Park Palais Meran

The online meetings we have all become accustomed to are often accompanied by the experience
of being distracted and drifting off into daydreams. In this piece, you will take part in a journey into
the mind of a host in an online meeting with multiple participants. You will hear how the ringing of
a phone, a car horn, or a glitch in the online stream trigger an irresistible sonic journey in which all
these events dissolve and abandon their old meaning to form new sound worlds that emerge from
their material.

Commissioned by Electric Audio Unit

DAYDREAMING (excerpt, Binaural)

Original music: 

https://soundcloud.com/noirmoderne
https://soundcloud.com/noirmoderne/color231

Noir Moderne - U Know (Senglar Version)

For solo cello with curved bow. Composed in 2002.
Live performance by Anton Lukoszevieze at the Kintai Festival, Lithuania, on 20 August 2022.

Raimondas Rumsas

ASRW

for ensemble & electronics 

Paulo Amendoeira (percussion)Paola Aviles (harpe) Amélie Berson (flute) Phoebe Bognár (flute) Félix Lacquement (guitar) María Alejandra Jiménez (violin) Thierry Madiot (trombone) Mireia Pellisa Martín (saxophone) Carlo Sampaolesi (accordion) Adèle Viret (cello) + special thanks to Thomas Nicholson (Cage-clock-conducting)

commissioned by GMEA — Centre National de Création Musicale d'Albi-Tarn & part of the project 'experiences'

recording made at the Athanor, Albi, 06.08.2022
recording/ mixing by Benjamin Maumus, sound engineering at GMEA

for experiencers

Abby Lee Tee/Philip Sulidae, Troca Iônica

thorn

2018 · Stockholm, Sweden.

Composed during a two month residency at Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm, with support from Nordic Culture Point.

Premiered at Saarbrücker Tage für elektroakustische und visuelle Musik on the 31st of October 2019.

Original format: 8-channel fixed medium.

Exiles (Stereo reduction)

Reverie is an acousmatic composition that leads the listener through an immersive fantasy centered around deconstructed music boxes. The work comprises eight sections that alternate between explorations of the music boxes’ gears and chimes. In the work, the music boxes’ sounds are pulled apart, exaggerated, expanded, and combined with other sounds whose timbres and textures are reminiscent of the original. As the piece unfolds, the timbres increase in spectral and textural density, and the associations become more and more fantastical. Gears are transformed into zippers, coins, chainsaws, motorcycles, and fireworks, and the chimes morph into rainstorms, all sizes of bells, pianos, and more. 

Reid composed the work during residencies at the Ucross Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. 

Reverie won First Prizes in the 6th International “New Vision” Composition Competition “Galaxies” in memory of Nicolaus Copernicus, the 8th KLANG! International Electroacoustic Composition Competition, and Musicworks' Electronic Music Composition Contest; Sound of the Year's “Composed with Sound Award”; and Second Prizes in both the Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition and the XIII° International Destellos Competition.

Reverie

L’œuvre a été commandée par Radio France pour l’émission « Création Mondiale » (ex Alla Breve) le 9 février 2020 et a été réalisée dans le studio du Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) à Paris France. La pièce a eu sa création publique le 14 février 2020 au Festival Présences 2020 à la Maison de la Radio (Paris)

Portrait de la compositrice : France Musique 
https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/creation-mondiale-l-integrale/okno-de-rocio-cano-valino-diffusion-integrale-et-portrait-de-la-compositrice-80441

- MUSICWORKS 2020 | First prize in Electronic Music [Canada]
- Marcelle Deschênes Prize 2020 [Canada]
- PRIX KLANG! 2021 | Second prize [France]

(Excerpt) Okno [2020]

Dr. Leah Reid (b. 1985) is a composer, sound artist, researcher, and educator, whose works range from opera, chamber, and vocal music, to acousmatic, electroacoustic works, and interactive sound installations. Her primary research interests involve the perception, modeling, and compositional applications of timbre. In her works, timbre acts as a catalyst for exploring new soundscapes, time, space, perception, and color. In recent reviews, Reid’s works have been described as “immersive”, “haunting”, and “shimmering”.
 
Winner of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, Reid has also won the American Prize in Composition (Vocal Chamber Music Division), first prizes in the “Galaxies” 6th International “New Vision” Composition Competition in memory of Nicolaus Copernicus, Musicworks’ Electronic Music Composition Contest, the 8th KLANG! International Electroacoustic Composition Competition, the Gaetano Amadeo Prize, the Tesselat Electronic Music Competition, and the Franz Schubert Conservatory International Composer Competition, Sound of the Year’s Composed with Sound Award, the Film Score Award in Frame Dance Productions’ Music Composition Competition, the International Alliance for Women in Music’s (IAWM) Pauline Oliveros Award, and second prizes in the Iannis Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition and the 13th International Destellos Competition. She has received fellowships from the Guerilla Opera Company, Transient Canvas, Copland House, the Hambidge Center, MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), the Ucross Foundation, and Yaddo. 

Reid has worked with and received commissions from ensembles such as Accordant Commons, Blow Up Percussion, Concavo & Convesso, Ensemble Móbile, Guerilla Opera, the Jack Quartet, McGill’s Contemporary Music Ensemble, Neave Trio, Sound Gear, Talea, and Yarn/Wire. Her compositions have been presented at festivals, conferences, and in major venues throughout the world, including Aveiro_Síntese (Portugal), BEAST FEaST (England), Espacios Sonoros(Argentina), EviMus (Germany), Forgotten Spaces: EuroMicrofest (Germany), the International Computer Music Conference (USA & Chile), IRCAM’s ManiFeste (France), LA Philharmonic's Noon to Midnight (USA), the Matera Intermedia Festival (Italy), the New York City Electronic Music Festival (USA), the OUA Electroacoustic Music Festival (Japan), the San Francisco Tape Music Festival (USA), Série de Música de Câmara (Brazil), the Society of Composers National Conference (USA), Soochow New Voice Concert Series (China), the Sound and Music Computing Conference (Germany), the Tilde New Music Festival (Australia), the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (Canada), and the Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology (Taiwan), among many others. Her works are published with Ablaze Records, Cero Records, New Focus Recordings, Parma Recordings, RMN Classical, and BabelScores.

She is a Vice President of the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM), Vice President for Programs and Projects for the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), and the Artistic Director of the Boston New Music Initiative (BNMI). 

Reid received her D.M.A. and M.A. in music composition from Stanford University and her B.Mus from McGill University. Reid’s principal teachers include Mark Applebaum, Jonathan Berger, Brian Ferneyhough, Sean Ferguson, Ana Sokolovic, and Brian Paul Harman. Reid has taught at Stanford University (Stanford, CA), University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA), and at the University of Silicon Valley (San Jose, CA). She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), where she teaches courses in music composition and technology. Additional information may be found at www.leahreid.com.

Reverie

Leah Reid

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