Name: Perysinaki Vivi Submersion by Viv Perys
Duration: 4 min 46 s
Description: In this project the artist explores a vast self-contained inner space, an inner sanctum, that encloses the listener within it.

Bathysphere is about exploring the deep and discovering treasures.. Beyond the depths of water, or the depths of sound, this journey may reflect other metaphors of our existence: the inner self, the soul, the hidden universe… or any depth we wish to explore and submerse to, through listening.
The composition is based on recordings of water, combined and transformed: a river, a cave, a waterfall. The idea came from an underwater recording/performance, which was used as the basic material: while swimming in river waters on the mountains of Epirus, I thought of recording the experience of submersion through an air container, like a little “submarine” carrying my ears below the water. For this purpose I constructed a glass case, waterproof , placed a handheld recorder inside and experimented with the sound effects produced by drifting the device below water surface, or by moving it in and out of the water. At a later stage, I visited a cave and a waterfall on the island of Corfu, where I recorded different sounds: water dripping into the reverberant cave, and granular noise produced by the intense flux of the waterfall. At the stage of composition I chose the basic recordings to combine, and simultaneously brought together the inspirational experiences and memories of the spaces in which the recordings were made, and created a musical environment of the deep... This work was created as part of the Erasmus+ programme "the soundscape we live in" in 2019.

Apostolos Loufopoulos studied music at the Ionian University, Greece (Music Degree) and at City University, London (PhD in Music). His work is mainly focused on the composition of electroacoustic music and nature, but also in the inter -contextual approach to music and the convergence of musical genres. His music has been performed internationally in renown festivals of contemporary music (such as ICMC, Synthese, L’Espace Du Son and others) and has received a number of awards at international competitions such as Αrs Electronica (Austria), Bourges (France), Noroit (France), Metamorphoses (Belgium), Space of Sound (Belgium), Franco Evangelisti (Italy), Musica Nova (Czech Republic). Discography includes collections by INA-GRM, Musiques & Recherches, Ionian University, CyberArts, Touch Records and a personal release (CD-baby). His scores have been published by S. Zerboni (Milano) and Just Flutes (London). At a research level, he has participated in international programmes related to the study of the natural environment (Pythagoras, optic-acoustic ecology), at a post doctora level, materializing essays and papers on the artistic exploration and utilizarion of the natural world. He has been organizing member for national and international conferences and festivals on contemporary music and technology (ICMC, Days of Electroacoustic Music, conference on acoustic ecology, audiovisual arts festival and others). Since 2014 he is Assistant Professor at the Ionian University, Department of Audio & Visual Arts. He has also taught at the TEI of Ionian Islands (2006-2014) and the TEI of Epirus. He is a founding member of HELMCA (Greek Union of Composers of Electroacoustic Music) and the Greek Society for Acoustic Ecology. In parallel, he is music producer and director at Studio RED (Athens), specializing in the areas of recording, sampling orchestration and mixing, on various musical styles. 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU5Pfg1dOiOnz6hSVfs918g,       https://soundcloud.com/apostolosloufopoulos https://ionio.academia.edu/ApostolosLoufopoulo, https://ionio.academia.edu/ApostolosLoufopoulos

Apostolos Loufopoulos - Bathysphere (2019)

One of humankind’s notable achievements is supposed to have been the founding of the United Nations and the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It consists of 1360 words. Observing the world around me, these words feel empty. Almost everywhere I look, I see gender discrimination, sexual repression, homophobia, racism and enforced displacement. If there are truths within the text, it feels, they got lost somewhere within the noise. 1360 words is a performative cynical recounting of these words; an indirect political statement reaching out to enhance individual and collective awareness of the distance we still need to cover, so that the words will reclaim their ‘signified’ aspect and emerge through the noise as meaningful materialised realities.

Conception & Composition: Luc Messinezis.
Performance: Lina Exarhou.

1360 Words

In this project the artist explores a vast self-contained inner space, an inner sanctum, that encloses the listener within it.

Perysinaki Vivi Submersion

night pulses... and the idea of 'night' is used to represent an abstract sound-world, an 'electronic landscape', which gradually unfolds, often revealing something we might recognise there. 'Pulsations' are dominant: sound events often interwoven with variable pulses, which interact and develop an unsteady, kinetic environment, set in a static harmonic field. 'Pulsations' may also symbolise the continuous cycle of life in relation to time: eternity

Awarded First Prize and Audience Prize @ SCRIME 2003 International Electronic Music Competition, Bordeaux, France

CD release: Scr02SCRIME.768650402 
http://www.worldcat.org/title/prix-scrime-200/oclc/768650402

Perysinaki Vivi Submersion

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