| | | PROGRAMME 25 April SL3 Sonic Lab

 

 

Felipe Otondo - Irama (9’33’’)

The current piece explores notions of pulse and micro-rhythmic developments using as a timbral framework a set of recordings of various types of gamelan orchestras. The purpose of this piece was to investigate distinctive rhythmic features of traditional gamelan music using the unique timbral explorations of contemporary electroacoustic music and spatial tools to create a sense of distance and perspective in the mix. This piece was premiered at the 2012 AKOUSMA festival at INA-GRM in Paris and was shortlisted to represent the United Kingdom at the 2014 ISCM World Music Days in Wroclaw. FELIPE OTONDO Bio Born in Santiago, Chile, studied acoustics in Chile and perception of sound in Denmark, where he worked several years as a researcher in the field of musical acoustics and computer music. He studied composition in Copenhagen with Anders Brødsgaard, completed a PhD in composition at the University of York with Ambrose Field and Roger Marsh and since 2008 works as lecturer at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts of Lancaster University. His music has been played in festivals in Europe, Asia and the Americas and has received composition prizes in Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France and Italy. Felipe’s new monographic CD entitled Tutuguri has recently been released by the label Sargasso in the UK.

 

 

John Young - Are you Everybody? (18’00’’) In this work Lala Meredith-Vula’s Are You Everybody?—a photographic study of the aftermath of war in Kosova (1999-2000)—has been integrated with John Young’s electroacoustic work Lamentations. The title is an expression commonly used as a first greeting among fellow Kosovan people, when they saw each other for the first time after the war. It was a quick way of finding out whether there was anybody lost from their family. Two texts are used in the music, an extract from WWI conscientious objector Archibald Baxter’s autobiography We Will Not Cease, and four verses from the Lamentations of Jeremiah. John Young - composer Lala Meredith-Vula – Images JOHN YOUNG Bio John Young is a composer whose music focuses on the use of electroacoustic media as a means to explore the richness, complexity and affective meanings of natural sounds. His output includes multi-channel electroacoustic pieces, large-scale radiophonic work and music combining instruments and electroacoustic sounds. He is Professor of Composition in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester. LALA MEREDITH-VULA Bio Lala Meredith-Vula was born in Sarajevo in 1966 and came to Britain in the 1970s. Her work is to be found in several public collections such as Arts Council of Britain; National Gallery of Albania; Collezione La Gaia, Italy. She is currently exhibiting in a group show called “Time, Place, and The Camera: Photographs at Work” curated by Camera Austria at the The Kosova National Art Gallery, until November 2012. She is Reader in Art and Photography at De Montfort University, Leicester.

 

 

FoirmFada - 28º Matilde introduced us to a recording she made in Mirepoix, Ariège, France in September 2012. "Great setting. A perfect day, great temperature, sky turning red and the amazingly loud sound of the birds going wild coming from nowhere to be seen. It was a very spontaneous recording." FOIRMFADA Bio FoirmFada take their improv with a shot of Jägermeister. They bow and they blow. The quartet make the soundscape their habitat before beginning to explore long-form improvisation and interaction - both with each other and their adopted sonic environment - particularly experimenting with delicate, detailed micro-sound. Dave Stockard - percussion Kevin McCullagh - fiddle Matilde Meireles - field recording Michael Speers - percussion Tullis Rennie – trombone

 

 

Julian Scordato - Vision II (7’07’’) Vision II (2012) blends elements – including two graphic scores by Robert Moran and the soundscape of the city of Venice – which came together accidentally in the path, as objects in the analysis, in the dream and the vision. Not the vision of the world (ie the cosmology of positive and negative), but the counterpoint between appearance and anatomy of the image in its sound quality. The visual part determines the sound design aspects: it generates and controls the sound, integrating the particularity of the instant and the contingent. JULIAN SCORDATO Bio Julian Scordato graduated in Composition and New Technologies with Corrado Pasquotti and Alvise Vidolin at the Conservatory of Music in Venice.

His chamber and electroacoustic music works have been performed in Europe and America (Biennale di Venezia, Festival 5 Giornate - Milan, Electronic Arts and Music Festival - Miami, EMUfest - Rome, Re-New Digital Arts Festival - Copenhagen, Gaudeamus Music Week - Utrecht, Siren Festival - Gothenburg, Deep Wireless Festival - Montreal, Punto de Encuentro - Valencia and elsewhere), selected in international competitions (Roma Soundtrack Competition, Flores D'Arcais Composition Prize, Conlon Music Prize and others) and broadcasted (RAI Radio3, NAISA Webcast, RadioCemat). As a composer and performer he participated in scientific events like the Meetings of Music Informatics an the 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference.

He composes music for video, theatre and installations. He has been music curator of Rassegna dell'Arte e del Teatro indipendente di Pordenone and he collaborated with Giorgio Cini Foundation and Ca' Foscari University in Venice. He is a member of Arazzi Laptop Ensemble, group of electroacoustic music performers and composers.