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Granular Hole

1st prize, International Sonosfera Ambisonics Competition 2023, Pesaro (Italy)
Finalist, Fixed medium, MA/IN 2023, Matera (Italy)

Stereo reduction of HoA composed at ICST in Zurich in July 2022.

"The peculiarities of the monad and the hebdomad are the most beautiful "

Khemenu

The Librarian

Apex describes the consequences of the human imprint on the acoustic environment in which we live. The continuous search for a modern lifestyle and the continuous technological development have significantly affected the soundscape that surrounds us, introducing more and more noise into our everyday life. The work presents this idea with the symbolism of a "non-stop machine" producing noise. We observe the operation of the machine - which is directly related to the idea of the existence of the pulsating rhythm in the work - as it adds more and more elements to its core and therefore occupies more and more of the listener's attention. The work attempts to sonically depict everyday life in an urban environment, the various stages of human activity within it.

Apex

This work is dedicated to Annette Vande Gorne and Musique et Recherches.

A series of memories interrupt, overlap and flow into one another on a summer's day.

This piece is made exclusively from field-recordings taken in Brussels and Ohain in July 2011 and was begun at the studios of M&R and completed in the composer's own studio.

The creation of this piece was supported by the PRS Foundation and the Bliss Trust.

The Sun Warms The Memory (2011)

I wanted to work exclusively with vocal sounds, but to try to ignore entirely such things as words and sentences. Instead I decided to concentrate on ways in which the human voice communicates without recourse to the intricacies of language. I wanted to dig down to the deepest level and lay bare a universal language of squeaks and grunts, which might communicate emotion in the most direct manner, with as few civilising niceties as possible!

I had two primary influences: The first was that of various Dada writers/performers, in particular Kurt Schwitters. Some of the vocal patterns that I used as my source material were based on quotations from Schwitters’ Ursonate, which was a particularly strong influence.

The second was that of early animated cartoons, such as those of Tex Avery. I wanted to make something that had the same kind of manic and visceral energy as an Avery cartoon, the crude caricature and capricious, free-form narrative, and, of course, the humour.

In the composition of the piece, I also concentrated very much on abstract ‘musical’ parameters, in particular rhythm. In this, I was also inspired by the rhythmic patterning of Ursonate, but took such patterning a stage further using basic Stravinsky-esque cell techniques.

Vox mecanix

Baltazars Adventure Through The Great Machine - Excerpt

The inspiration for this piece came from the sounds of nature in combination with those of modern industrial society. Along with these, sounds of musical instruments were also used. Particularly, percussive sound-shapes are combined with buzz-like ones chosen from original sound material recorded near beehives. The form of the project evolved along with the composition of the piece and its development is based on the characteristic morphologies of these sounds. The piece is constructed as a multi-layered sound environment on which intense sonic gestures are developed.

                                                         Awards
-Prize, 12th International Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2011(Miso Music, Portugal) 
-Gianfranco Maffina Mention,  Luigi Russolo International Sound Art Competition (France, 2012).

Sting [2011]

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]

Apex

Nikos Kanelakis

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