What can that be but my apple-tree?

I  "Dear father, do with me what you will. I am your child." 
II  "Are you a spirit or a human?" 
III "Who messes with the letters?" 
IV "Here all dwell free" 
V "Our merciful god has caused my hands to grow up"

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Création mondiale - Alla breve, sur France Musique 

Ensemble 2e2m:
Amaryllis Billet, Dorothée Nodé-Langlois, Hélène Desaint, Sarah Givelet

Sound team: Stephane Foulon, Inès de Bruyn, Vincent Villetard

What can that be but my apple-tree? (2023)

Vous êtes arrivés ici, là où se perdent les mots, dans le dédale des étranges traverses...

PEA clarinette et improvisation collective libre au CRC de Cournon d'Auvergne (63)

Jorge Sad (1959) 
Compositor, docente , investigador en semiología musical, organizador de conciertos .
Realizó Estudios musicales  con Rick Anna, Jorge Rapp , Francisco Kröpfl y Marcelle Deschênes. 
Recibió su diploma de Licenciado en Composición Musical en 1988 otorgado por la UCA. Realizó estudios de semiología musical y composición

Realizó numerosas composiciones acusmáticas en diversos estudios del mundo  : LIPM ( Buenos Aires) , Studio de Composition et Recherche (U. de Montréal) , Laboratorio Phonos (Barcelona) ,  CCRMA (Stanford University, CA, US) , IIESMUMD ( U de Morón) , Musiques & Recherches ( Ohain , Bélgica) , LIEM ( Madrid, España) , Groupe de Recherches Musicales ( Francia). 

Ha recibido numerosas becas del Fondo Nacional de las Artes , de la Fundación Antorchas , del Ministerio de Educación Español , del Faculty Research Program de Canadá , de la Fundación Rockefeller , de la Fundación Phonos , del Mozarteum Argentino , del Fondo Argentino de Desarrollo Cultural y becas de viaje de la Cancillería Argentina en numerosas oportunidades.

Compuso piezas instrumentales y mixtas que fueron interpretadas por músicos de la talla de Edelton Gloeden,  Fernando Lopez ,  Javier Bravo Josetxo Silguero , Alessandra Rombolá , Elena Buchbinder, Juliana Moreno , David Nuñez , James Baker , Eduardo Moguillansky , Alejo Pérez Pouilleux entre muchísimos  otros.

Compuso música interactiva para las obras de la coreógrafa Margarita Bali, Zoom in Look Out  y Pizzurno Pixelado.

 Fundó y dirigió los grupos de improvisación con live electronics , Colectivo de Creación Sonora (1995/2000)  Gestualt Ensamble (2002/ 2006) Ensamble  Seres/Parlantes. (2014…) 

Fundó y dirigió el Instituto de Investigación en Sonido y Música por medios digitales ( IIESMUNMD) 1998 /2005 en la Universidad de Morón. 

Fundó y dirige el Festival Nuevas Músicas por la Memoria (2011 … sigue) 

Encargos del Musiques & Recherches , Fundación Música y Tecnología, Centro Cultural Rojas, Centro Cultural España Buenos Aires,  Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación GRM (París) .

Recibió primeros premios del Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires , del 3er Forum de Música Electroacústica (Córdoba) , de la Tribuna Internacional de Compositores ,  Premio Juan Carlos Paz , 2do Premio Xicoatl International Composition Contest (Salzburgo) , finalista en Concurso Internacional Métamorphoses d´Orphée , Premio Ochenta Mundos música electroacústica, Subsidio del Instituto Nacional de la Música para la producción discográfica.  


Sus obras son editadas por Babelscores y por el sello español Luscinia Discos.

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.

Gargyzaa is a one-man band located in Espoo, Finland.
 I play all the instruments manually (guitars, keyboards, bass, plastic  didgeridoo, Korg monotron duo, fipple flute etc.) and sing all the vocals. Plus I have written these lyrics and peculiar poetry/ bizarre dialogues you hear (in Finnish&English).
Some people have asked me who plays the instruments and I have answered them several times that it´s me who is responsible for all this trippy noise and musical weirdness.
It has been quite tedious and more or less irritating to explain this relatively often, hahaha.
I´m a also a self taught "musician" and "vocalist". I play by ear.
The drum parts are made from short loops with Audacity and then the so called rhythm track is upoaded to my Zoom R-24. After that I will start recording the instruments/vocals on top.
I don´t have or play drums. Well, maybe one day.
So basically I use Zoom R-24 to record and even master these tracks. I bring the finished "product" to SoundCloud through Audacity.
My equipment is very amateurish, cheap and in some cases semi-broken. 
I use those infamous progressive rock structures, but deliver them with a punk rock attitude/gear, hehehe.
The cover art/design is just basically a few collages/paste-ups, psychedelically distorted&enhanced pics and a couple of random photos I took. Nothing special.
This is a non-profit project. Enjoy!
Many thanks to all of my listeners and followers!

Random beats and tests, mainly.
other things here: https://flavs.bandcamp.com

What can that be but my apple-tree? (2023)

Sofia Avramidou / composer, singer