MA/IN Festival 2024

SIDEREAL combines the past and present while projecting into the future with a hybrid and modern musical language. The project combines ancestral and ethnic percussion instruments with electronic compositions, culminating in a live performance during the artistic residency in Brienza, a town undergoing cultural and touristic transformation. PERC+ enhances historical spaces through sound performances, merging musical culture and territorial promotion. The residency involves the entire local community and hosts artists from across Europe, fostering cultural exchange. Local hospitality, economic, and social activities actively participate in the project, generating economic and cultural growth. Prestigious partnerships with the MA/IN festival, various Italian conservatories, and other institutions stimulate cultural dissemination and education. The project aims to ensure continuity through the release of an album with the Stradivarius Milano label, concerts in towns across the region in 2025, and outreach activities in national and international production centers, experimental music festivals, and workshops.

Concert program

Fabio Macchia [IT] /// Indeterminate State
concert for percussion and electronics

Marta gentilucci [IT] /// re//patterning 24

Giulio Colangelo [IT] /// new work

Cesare Saldicco [IT] /// new work

Stylianos Dimou [GR] /// Hyoidal Echoic Nexus (2024)

Sarah Nemtsov [DE]/// Bugs

Maurizio Azzan [IT] /// Of debris and dust

Fabio Macchia, percussionist from Lucania, he began studying drums at the age of eight and entered the conservatory at 16 to pursue classical studies. He performs as a soloist and interpreter of 20th and 21st-century music in various concert seasons, including the Ravello Festival, Roma Sinfonietta, Roma Tre Orchestra, MA/IN Festival, Taverna Maderna, Chigiana Festival, Micat in Vertice, and Auditorium Parco della Musica. Over the years, he has attended numerous national and international masterclasses, achieving a comprehensive education in various musical fields: classical, contemporary, experimental electronic music, and pop-rock-jazz. He has played with various orchestras, both Italian and European, such as the Münster Theatre Orchestra (North Rhine-Westphalia) and the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra (touring in China and beyond). He collaborates with internationally renowned musicians in both classical-contemporary and pop-jazz contexts, including Javier Girotto, Marco Sannini, Massimo Bartoletti, Jonathan Williams, Joe Barbieri, Nicola Piovani, Daniele Sepe, Giovanni Imparato, Luigi Piovano, Letizia Gorga, ArsLudi Ensemble, Chigiana Percussion Ensemble, Patrick Gallois, David Krakauer, Alessandro Carbonara, Giuseppe Ettore, David Geringas, Maurizio Giammarco, Maurizio Sigurtà, Giovanni Falzone, Roberto Spadoni, and many others. Currently, he is a freelance percussionist/drummer performing in various musical contexts and collaborating with numerous composers, including Giulio Colangelo, Mezzalira, Vittorio Montalti, Maurizio Azzan, Chisci, Vannoni, and others. He is a current member of the Thauma Ensemble and the Chigiana Percussion Ensemble.

Contemporary Music Panorama

Electroacoustic Concerts

PROGRAM

Part 1 | 19:00

Theodoros Lotis
Li Po – flute & electronics
Performer: Ria Georgiadou (flute)

Dimitris Maronidis
Les Signaux Du Vent – flute & electronics
Performer: Theodora Iordanidou (flute)

Esthir Lemi
Calculi Mediterranei – harp, marimba, piano & pre-recorded sounds
Performers: Esthir Lemi (harp), Vitória do Bem (marimba), Alexis Alatsis (piano)

Artemis Gioti
Bias – bassoon & interactive music system
Performer: Vasilis Priovolos (bassoon)

Vasiliki Legaki
The Dream of Philomela – violin & electronics
Performer: Dionysis Pylarinos (violin)

Orestis Karamanlis
BitVox – beatboxer & electronics
Performer: Giorgos Gargalas (beatbox)

Part 2 | 20:30

Pinelopi Bekiari
Flow – piano & electronics
Performer: Pavlos Sifnaios (piano)

Apostolos Loufopoulos – Myrto Korkokiou
Machine Gun Cut – flute & electronics
Performer: Myrto Korkokiou (flute)

Andreas Mniestris
MlikeL – flute & electronics
Performer: Myrto Korkokiou (flute)

Panayiotis Kokoras
Mutation – clarinet & electronics
Performer: Dimitris Kantsioulis (clarinet)

Stylianos Dimou
Momentum “I”: Death & Escape – bass flute & electronics
Performer: Myrto Mari (Bass flute)

Georgia Spyropoulou
Saksti – saxophone & electronics
Performer: Theophilos Sotiriadis (saxophone)

momentum "I": death & escape (2019)
for bass flute and live electronics

"momentum 'I': death & escape" (2019), commissioned by the 20th Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik, explores sonic boundaries for bass flute and live electronics. At its core, the piece weaves a continuum of rhythmic, repetitive figures that intertwine with the electronically generated counter-rhythms, and intricate timbral spaces creating an immersive dialogue. The electronics, shaped by impulse responses drawn from the bass flute's resonant characteristics, form a hybrid acoustic landscape, extending the instrument’s sonic possibilities. The result is an electrified experience, a meeting of acoustic and electronic realms. Dedicated with deep gratitude to Carin Levine, the work seeks to push the listener’s perception of sound and space.

The final concert of the workshop Composing for Voices and Orchestra

Seven works premiered by the Gulbenkian Orchestra

Stylianos Dimou
Tandem
para soprano, barítono e orquestra

Cong Wei
Omnia Vanitas, Caro Cardo Salutis
para soprano, tenor e orquestra

Fran Barajas
El olor de la guayaba 4
para barítono e orquestra

Mariana Vieira
Contra o tempo e a carne
para tenor e orquestra

João Carlos Pinto
Responsório
para barítono e orquestra

— INTERVALO 20 MINUTOS —

Hibiki Mukai
Ode Marítima
para tenor e orquestra

Luca Francesconi
Canti
para soprano, tenor, barítono e orquestra
(Encomenda da Fundação Gulbenkian)

Duração aproximada: 90 min.

Tandem (2024)
for soprano, baritone, and orchestra

"Tandem" is a project inspired by the homonymous text of the Greek poet Orfeas Apergis. The composition aspires to evoke a vocal dialogue with our inner self, the subconscious, or the mind during moments of void and despair within a toxic relationship. It manifests dualism through feminine and masculine characters, which ultimately dissolve into a sexless, internal battle in search of the true self, the true choice, and the truth. The vocalists are envisioned as a single vocal entity, magnified by the imposing presence of a grand orchestra. This composition conjures an augmented vocal amalgamation, a unified vocal body of harmonic and rhythmic multiplicities that evolve organically over time. In this work, text, meaning, and music are seamlessly fused into a singular entity, creating an intricate tapestry of sound and emotion.

Composing for Voices and Orchestra was the challenge set to young composers by Gulbenkian Music as part of a workshop organized by enoa - European Network of Opera Academies. Over the course of about seven months and under the guidance of composer and conductor Luca Francesconi, six young composers had the opportunity to create new works that will be premiered in this concert by the Gulbenkian Orchestra and soloists Camila Mandillo (Soprano), Marcos Alves dos Santos (Tenor) and André Henriques (Baritone). A new work by Luca Francesconi, commissioned by the Gulbenkian Foundation, will also be premiered.

UltraViolet

Works by Emilie LeBel, Rodrigo Lima, Raphael Cendo, and Stylianos Dimou

Ticket Information
Student/Senior/Alumni | $10
Adult | $20

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impetuous flow: in flux (2016)

for alto flute, alto saxophone, percussion and piano

PlayHouse

Ensemble PlayTime

Nocturne by Mátyás Wettl

electrospoon (electronics) by Nicolas Roulive

Ko-Lho by Giacinto Scelsi

flying toaster (electronics) by Nicolas Roulive

au sujet de fusion: la genèse d'un(e) . . . by Stylianos Dimou 

Music by Stylianos Dimou , Mátyás Wettl and Giacinto Scelsi, accompanied by short electronic pieces composed by Nicolas Roulive.

"au sujet de fusion: la genèse d'un(e) . . ." (2019-21)

for amplified ensemble - flute, saxophone, percussion, piano - and electronics

METABIOME

EX-SENTIA ENSEMBLE / JACOB MASON / MIGUEL FERNÁNDEZ / SANTIAGO VILLAR

Miguel Fernández (saxophone)
Jacob Mason (piano)
Santiago Villar (percussion)

Program

Robin Michel (*1988), Drei Etüden zur Erschaffung eines Mikrokosmos (2023)* I

Joshua Alvarez Mastel (*1998), Replica (2023)*

Robin Michel (*1988), Drei Etüden zur Erschaffung eines Mikrokosmos (2023)* II

José del Avellanal (*1998), Wastelands (2023)*

Robin Michel (*1988), Drei Etüden zur Erschaffung eines Mikrokosmos (2023)* III

Stylianos Dimou (*1988), in dysto (2023)**

* World Premiere ** Swiss Premiere

Ex-Sentia Ensemble was formed in 2020 by Miguel Fernández (saxophone), Jacob Mason (piano) and Santiago Villar (percussion), as a response to certain concerns: the longed-for immediacy pursued by today's society, digitalization, and the duality between the person and the virtual self in virtual spaces.

In the face of all of this, Ex-Sentia seeks through music to make its audience reflect, while at the same time opening the doors to experimentation in terms of sound. Taking Trio Accanto as its most direct influence, this ensemble introduces a fourth component to this formation (piano, saxophone, percussion), through the incorporation of the audiovisual media of our era. Hence ''Ex-sentia'': the desire to reach deep into today's music, while maintaining the link with the traditional instrumental era.

In the past years, Ex-Sentia has performed in Spain, Switzerland, Austria and for the global event Earth Day Art Model 2021. The Ensemble is committed to collaborating directly with the composers through new commissions (Isaac Roth, Dorothy Hindman, Beatriz Fraile, Giordano Bruno and Greg Watson) and recordings (Simon Steen-Andersen, Hans Thomalla, Nuño Fernández Ezquerra, Sohui Jeong, Charles Norman Mason).

in dysto (2023) / STYLIANOS DIMOU

"in dysto" is an extended, mixed electroacoustic composition that explores the concept of sonic hybridity through recursive processes of structural de/re-construction. Drawing inspiration from the resonance profiles of both natural materials and synthesized resonances, the work delves into the realm of unpredictable resonant behaviors. By merging resonance and behaviour, a unified concept is formed that mirrors the aesthetic and technical characteristics inherent in the electroacoustic elements, thereby resulting in an electrifying sonic experience.

Through meticulous construction and dissolution, conducted at both micro and macro levels, self-referential blocks of sonic action are harmoniously reconciled, ultimately giving rise to a dystopian landscape characterized by emergence and collision. The deliberate utilization of recursion and repetition serves to push the boundaries of the electro/acoustic material and the synergies observed during performance, while subjectively alluding to a transformative shift from utopia to dystopia.

Gradients | Ensemble Quarks
MUSIK21 IM NDR

Ensemble Quarks
Ilgin Ülkü, Violine
Martin Stier, Saxophon
Hinako Inoue, Piano
Philipp Henkel, Video Elektronik

Program
•
Ilgin Ülkü
Ich muss dir ehrlich sagen - 1. Satz (2019)
Jaime Farias Rojas
Puntos en el Aire (2016)
Rachel C. Walker
浮沤 (2016)
Dilxat Dawut
no title (2019)
Stylianos Dimou
machine learning (2018)
Emanuele Grossi
Imper_sonate (2023)
Jaime Farias Rojas
Sobre el espacio entre las notas (2019)

Impuls festival Finale

Manca Dornik accordion
Mikołaj Rytowski percussion
Santiago Villar percussion

Clara Iannotta 3 sur 5, for 2 percussionists, accordion (2012-2013)

zone expérimentale basel

Clara Giner Franco flutes
Mikołaj Rytowski percussion
Dmitry Batalov piano
Miriam Paschetta harp
Manca Dornik accordion
Pietro Elia Barcellona double bass

Dmitri Kourliandski Inside the movement, for timpani, piano, harp, double bass (2004)
Francesco Filidei L’Opera (forse), for 6 performers (2009)

Ex-Sentia Ensemble

Miguel Fernández saxophones
Santiago Villar percussion
Jacob Mason piano 

Sohui Jeong Fever, for baritone saxophone, percussion, piano, fixed media (2023, world premiere, dedicated to Ex-Sentia)
Beat Furrer In's Offene, for soprano and baritone saxophone, percussion, piano (2022)
Simon Steen-Andersen Rerendered, for pianist and two assistants (2004)
Stylianos Dimou in dysto, for soprano, and baritone saxophone, percussion, piano, MIDI keyboard, and electronics (2023, world premiere, dedicated to Ex-Sentia)

DAYS OF 2023

Miller Theatre at Columbia University

The Columbia Hellenic Studies department presents an evening of music and poetry readings in celebration of the poet Constantine P. Cavafy. A diverse program of compositions by Marcos Balter, Zosha di Castri, Stylianos Dimou, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Lena Platonos, and Georgios Poniridis, will be performed by the National Sawdust Ensemble under the music direction of Jeffrey Zeigler, with Greek guest musicians Yiannis Palamidas (voice) and Stergios Tsirliagos (synths). Cavafy poems will be recited in Greek and/or Arabic as well as new writing prepared for the occasion by some of the most exciting living poets. The program draws its title from Cavafy’s many works named “Days of,” reflecting on a year of his life.

This event is a part of the Onassis Foundation's "Archive of Desire": A Festival Inspired by the Poet C. P. Cavafy.

Program

C.P. Cavafy
Hidden Things

George Poniridy
Three poems by C. P. Cavafy

Come Back
To Pleasure
In Stock

Lucy Dhegrae, voice
Blair McMillen, piano

Stylianos Dimou
"au sujet de fusion: la genèse d'un(e) . . ." (2019-21)
for amplified ensemble - flute, saxophone, percussion, piano - and electronics

Jennifer Grim, bass flute
Erin Rogers, baritone saxophone Matt Kantorski, percussion
Eika Dohi, piano
Stylianos Dimou, electronics

Janlori Goldman
Ode to Blue (2017)

Zosha di Castri
Work & Day (2012)
Sae Hashimoto & Sean Ritenauer, percussion

Katerina Iliopoulou
The Bottomless Archive
Read by Katerina Iliopoulou

Dimitris Mitropoulos
Ten Inventions

Lucy Dhegrae, voice
Blair McMillen, piano

Orfeas Apergis
The poet in New York remade as feeling
Read by Orfeas Apergis

Marcos Balter
Codex Seraphinianus (2014)

Flora
Fauna
Bipeds
Hermetica
Macinery
Anthropology
Register: Albertine Gone
Linguistics
Culture
Games
Architecture

Jennifer Grim, flute
Erin Rogers, alto saxophone
Rebekah Heller, bassoon
Ljova, viola

- INTERMISSION -

C. P. Cavafy
He Vows
Read by Iman Mersal (Arabic translation)

Lena Platonos
Kavafis - 13 Tragoudia

DEBRIS • Music with Al byproducts

Roberto Alonso & Marek Poliks

Bihe Wen (China), Metamorphosis

Stylianos Dimou (HK/Greece), de faux échos

Kyoka (Germany /Japan), Dbris

Electroacoustic music concert with works from
the DEBRIS project

In this concert, we present a set of electronic compositions based on materials generated by the Demiurge audio synthesis engine, a music machine-learning platform. Demiurge consists of a tripartite neural network architecture developed by Roberto Alonso, Marek Poliks, and a team of collaborators at the Hong Kong Baptist University. Debris indexes a subset of Demiurge’s massive output database as waste material ripe for creative reconsumption. Working with Debris invokes an array of concepts that range from archaeomusicology to new materialism; Debris positions its human and nonhuman collaborators within a network, a Deleuzian assemblage, an Adornian constellation, a swarm intelligence, a xenobestial orgy, a platform. These human-in-the-loop interactions were begotten by Mariam Gviniashvili, Kyoka, Dariush Derakhshani, David Q. Nguyen, Bihe Wen, Stylianos Dimou and Iván Ferrer-Orozco.

Program

Bihe Wen: Metamorphosis [9:56]
Dariush Derakhsani: Debris [8:42]
David Nguyen: Textures Arc the Points [9:58]
Kyoka: Dbris [8:32]
Iván Ferrer-Orozco: Jardín de Luz [6:47]
Stylianos Dimou: de faux échos [14:49]
Mariam Gviniashvili: FREE FLOW [8:52]

Arditti Quartet - SWR2 JETZTMUSIK
Herrenhaus Edenkoben

Stylianos Dimou:
en tranche (2020, UA)

Michael Pelzel:
Birds, Bells and Bees (2020, UA)

Cosmopolis Festival 2022
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Samson Young
New Work (2022) for viola and electronics (world premiere - Cosmopolis Festival Commission)
10′
William Lane, viola

Stylianos Dimou
Momentum "I": death & escape (2019) for bass flute and electronics
9′
Angus Lee, bass flute
Stylianos Dimou, electronics

Tonia Ko
Breath, Contained (2013/2016) for performer, bubble wrap, and electronics
5′
Timothy Page, bubble wrap and electronics

Timothy Page
Striate (2018/2022) for timpani-enhanced cello, objects, electronics, and video
13′
Chak Yin Pun, timpani-enhanced cello

Natasha Barrett
Dusks's Gate (2018) for 8-channel audio tape
12′

JUNK!
JUNK!VR (2021)
solo performance for virtual instruments and video
15′

ABSCHLUSSKONZERT 3
// IEMA 2021/22

Oxana Omelchuk: Quodlibet (2006)
György Ligeti: Trio für Violine, Horn und Klavier (1982)
- Pause -
Stylianos Dimou: …qui s'enchaînent for large ensemble (2022) (World premiere)
Vito Žuraj: Fired-up - für Ensemble (2013)
Elliott Carter: Asko Concerto (1999/2000)

Jong hoon Kim: Pas de Deux in front of Golden Calf
for Large Ensemble (2022) (World Premiere)
Stylianos Dimou: …qui s'enchaînent
for large ensemble (2022) (World Premiere)
Kathrin A. Denner: Neues Werk (2022) (World Premiere)
Rebecca Saunders: Fletch for String Quartet (2012)
Tania León: Indígena (1991)

IEMA-Ensemble 2021/22

Tickets gibt es an der Abendkasse im Reiss-Engelhorn-Museeum eine Stunde vor Konzertbeginn. Ticketpreise: Regulär 25 €, Schüler/Studenten 5 €, Mitglieder. Kinder unter 16 Jahren haben freien Eintritt.

ACMC2022 - PROXIMITY

Day Two Evening Concert

Hunter Council Chamber (Hunter Building Room 204)

Before Music (Dugal McKinnon)
Spectral Chaos (2022) (Patrick Hartono)
A Mouthful of Locusts (Alexis Weaver)
CagedStructures#4 (Alessio Rossato)
Vocal Traces: Movements II & III (David Hirst)
Sleep Jelly (Neil Aldridge)
The Eighth Island (Lidia Zielinska)
Order 81 (Ricardo Thomasi)
Fusion:Fission (BJ Leo)
Proxima Ocean (Cayn Borthwick)
De faux échos (Stylianos Dimou)
Cosmodemonia (2022) (Phivos-Angelos)
Oro Rua (Jerome Kavanagh & Michael Norris)

DME Festival ~ Lisboa Incomum
DEBRIS project

Moon Song - Didem Coskunseven (France/Turkey)*

Debris - Dariush Derakhshani (Germany/Iran)*

De faux échos - Stylianos Dimou (Greece)*

Jardín de luz - Iván Ferrer (Mexico/Spain)*

Free Flow - Mariam Gviniashvili (Georgia/Norway)*

DBRIS - Kyoka (Japan/Germany)*

Textures Arc The Points - David Quang-Minh Nguyen (USA)*

Metamorphosis -Bihe Wen (China)*

Entullos/ Debris project

Bihe Wen (China) - Metamorphosis

Didem Coskunseven (Turquía/Francia) - Moon Song

David Nguyen (EUA) - Textures Arc the Points

Kyoka (Xapón/Alemaña) - Dbris

Stylianos Dimou (Grecia) - de faux échos