... if there is a hare, that is not an obligation... who's been talking?

Léo Margue, direction

Flûte, Emmanuelle Ophèle
Clarinette, Jérôme Comte
Percussion 1, Gilles Durot
Percussion 2, Samuel Favre
Harpe,  Valeria Kafelnikov
Piano, Fernando Palomeque
Violon, Diégo Tosi
Alto,  Odile Auboin
Violoncelle, Éric-Maria Couturier
Contrebasse, Jules Bauer

Heterotopia I - Ensemble Intercontemporain

CENAP

Création sonore réalisée pour l'installation "Galb’Achalay" d'Abdessamad El Montassir en collaboration avec Matthieu Guillin, compositeur.
Composée originellement sur un système 5.1.
Compositeur: Matthieu Guillin
Poésies/poetry : Badi Wel M'hamed Salem
Voix/voice : Wel Sidi


Galb’Achalay puise dans les formes architecturales du Sahara et ses ruines afin de retracer et raviver ses micro-histoires. Composée à partir de poésies du Sahara, Galb’Achalay emprunte aux chants et récits méconnus de ce territoire pour ouvrir un interstice inédit qui laisse émerger et se déployer une histoire dominée. Galb’Achalay est réalisée en étroite complicité par Abdessamad El Montassir et Matthieu Guillin. 

Visuel – légendes et crédit © Abdessamad El Montassir - ADAGP
Dans le cadre du  "Dispositif de compositeur et compositrice associé(e) dans les scènes pluridisciplinaires" DRAC
Coproduction Maison Salvan, La Biennale – Festival international des arts vivants Toulouse Occitanie 
Résidence de création au studio eOle
Un immense merci à Paul de Sorbier, Wel Sidi et Franck Loiret.

Galb'achalay (5.1 to binaural, only for headphone)

Excerpt from a live recording at Les Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, 17th June 2022

Les Instants Chavirés LIVE Excerpt 17June2022

Blocking Behaviours concerns the real-time interpretation of two simulations of complex behaviour through an agent-based system. The simulations enforce a way of thinking that revolves around balancing behaviours. An attitude that considers musical output as something that emerges from an interaction with an autonomous system.

The simulation acts as a generative, rule-based system producing output that is subject to different kinds of observation algorithms. The idea is that evolving processes are set in motion where the creator/composer becomes an observer of various developments. The output can not always be controlled in detail but is instead interpreted and further processed. The interpretation involves a mapping between different modes of representation in order to simplify or combine. In Blocking Behaviours the idea is to explore the boundary of generative behaviour, control and and direct access to computer sound synthesis.

Blocking Behaviours premiered during the ICLC (International Conference on Live Coding) in April 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQ1mNvPo9k&t=784s 

https://soundcloud.com/bjarni/blocking-behaviours-iclc-example

Blocking Behaviours (excerpt)

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

echo from afar (ii)(2022), for six musicians and electronics
commissioned by hand werk 

Live Recording, hand werk, 29 November 2022, Köln

echo from afar (ii)(2022), for six musicians and electronics

Yoshitake Kawai, Bussei

Destiny is a piece made from electronic audio materials created on an analog modular synthesizer following simple processes on signal treatment and the choice of a restrict palette as an aesthetic constraint, while keeping both an overall organic expressivity and a slightly des-articulated quality at the edge of compositional agency.

Variations and antecedents of this piece have been performed live in various electronic music festivals and events. The definitive version is a part of Sisbiosis, a collaborative album put together with the artist and musician Ryoko Akama, released in 2022 on Erstwhile records (US).

https://erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/sisbiosis

Destiny (Excerpt)

Commission: Südwestrundfunk for the Donaueschingen Musiktage 2022

Live recording of the world première, Musica Nova Helsinki, 3 March 2023.

Performers:
Mattie Barbier, trombone
Weston Olencki, trombone
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Janne Nisonen, conductor

Photo: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

where the dark earth bends (2022, rev. 2023), for RAGE Thormbones, orchestra, and electronics

Resonancias

Keep digging the hare hole
for cello and electronics

(Cello-Séverin Ballon)

Grande salle -Centre Pompidou

Keep digging the hare hole (2020)

Born in Thessaloniki (Greece) in 1988, Sofia Avramidou graduated from the composition department of Aristotle University (Bachelor's and Master's degrees, 2009-2014) and from the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome (specialized Master's degree, 2014-2016), receiving the highest distinction in the class of Professor Ivan Fedele, as well as an excellence scholarship from the "Alexandros Onassis Foundation”.
In Paris, in 2020, she graduated from IRCAM's "Cursus de composition et d'informatique musicale".
She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Goffredo Petrassi Prize from the Quirinal Palace in Rome (2016), 1st prize at the IX "Francisco Escudero" International Accordion Composition Competition (2016) in Spain, and 1st prize at the 6th "Dimitris Dragatakis" Composition Competition (2014), organized by the Greek Composers' Union. She participated in numerous composition courses and seminars, with Beat Furrer, Philippe Manoury, Georges Aperghis, Francesco Filidei, Yan Maresz, Jean-Luc Hervé, Franck Bedrossian, Dmitri Kurljandski...
Sofia Avramidou also collaborates with director Evangelia Kranioti, for the film "Obscuro Barroco", which received the Teddy Award at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival. That same year, she was selected by the Venice Biennale to compose the chamber opera "Rodi rodi, morsicchia! La casina chi rosicchia?" performed at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale.
She has been commissioned by ensembles and institutions such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Philharmonie de Paris, Ircam, Venice Biennale, Musikfabrik, Ictus, Lemanic Modern Ensemble, 2e2m, Radio-France, Festival Ensemble(s), Festival de Prades, Festival Nouveaux Horizons, Orchestre National de Jazz, ECHO, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Auditorium Orchestre National de Lyon....
Her compositions have been performed at the Philharmonie of Paris, the Musikverein (Vienna), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Bozar (Brussels), the Barbican (London), the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), the Philharmonie of Cologne, the Venice Biennale, the Auditori (Barcelona), the Festspielhaus (Baden-Baden), the Philharmonie of Luxembourg, the Auditorium of Lyon, the Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), the Teatro La Fenice (Venice), the Boston University, the Megaron (Athens)...
Alongside composition, Sofia Avramidou studies Byzantine music, Hymnology, Oud and Ney instrument, as well as traditional Greek singing.
As a singer, she collaborates with various ensembles and orchestras, such as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, the Thessaloniki Municipal Orchestra, the Raanana Symphony Orchestra (Israel)...

 In 2018, she arranged traditional songs for voice and clarinet and recorded the album "Binôme" in Greece.
Her works are published by Éditions Lacroch' and BabelScores.

Keep digging the hare hole (2020)

Sofia Avramidou-composer

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