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Conciertos Acusmáticos

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Acousmatic concerts

Ionian University

Biografías

Anastasios Karaiskos

Anastasios Karaiskos (Greek) is a young composer working in the field of instrumental, popular and acousmatic music.

Vasilios Ioakimides

Vasilios Ioakimides (Greek) is a visual and sonic artist. His work involves robotic devices, constructions with natural materials and soundscapes.

Theodoros Lotis (Greek)

He studied the guitar, flute, music analysis, electroacoustic composition and fine arts in Greece, Belgium and the UK. His music has been performed at festivals and conferences in Europe, Australia, America and Asia, and has received a number of awards and distinctions at Bourges, Sculpted Sound Composers Competition, Metamorphoses, Luigi Russolo, CIMESP and and Jeu de temps / Times Play. He was awarded the first prize at the Concours International de Spatialisation pour l’Interprétation des Ouevres Acousmatiques by Musiques et Recherches in Brussels. He has done commissioned work for Musiques et Recherches, Sculpted Sound Composers Competition, Amici della Musica di Cagliari, the festival Visiones Sonoras, the artistic research project Embodied Gestures funded by FWF Austria and the clarinetist Esther Lamneck. He has completed a Ph.D. in Music at the City University, London, thanks to grants from the British Academy, and the Foundation A.S. Onassis. Theodoros Lotis has been teaching electroacoustic composition and analysis at Goldsmiths College- University of London, the Technological and Educational Institute of Crete, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Universities in Europe and America as invited composer. He is Associate Professor at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. He is founding member of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association and the Hellenic Society for Acoustic Ecology. His music has been released by Empreintes Digitales.

Program

Anastasios Karaiskos "Our Fate is Sealed"

Combination of sounds, music genres in an electroacoustic landscape can be a fascinating journey both for the composer and for the audience. “Our fate is sealed” is the sustainable journey of life constructed and deconstructed through sounds and emotions.

Vasilios Ioakimides "Breathing" for pneumatic devices

A sonic installation for pneumatic devices investigating the breathing experience in the Covid-19 era.

Theodoros Lotis "Voices"

Voices of a protolanguage, voices of instinct reactions, voices that transmit instinctive expression, voices of humans and birds and frogs and voices of fear, surprise, intimacy, intrusion, complaisance, ignorance, caress. Voices uses as its primal material the voice of the director and musician Giorgos Nikopoulos from his film The Ox (recorgings: Giorgos Gargalas) and dance/body sequence recordings by Christina Mertzani, Enangelos Poulinas and Evangelia Randou. I want to thank them all for their expressivity and body sweat. Other sounds used are voice recordings (Agnese Banti), violin (Nikolas Anastasiou), clarinet (Esther Lamneck), percussion (Giorgos Stavridis). I also thank all my students who helped with the recordings. Voices is commissioned by the artistic research project Embodied Gestures (PEEK AR-399) funded by FWF Austria and had its premiere at the Echoes Around Me Festival 2020 in Vienna. Thanks to Thomas Gorbach and Enrique Tomás for initiating the commission.