Sixth Day
Workshop – Lecture – Talk – Concert
Workshop – Lecture – Talk – Concert
24 February 2022
Csound for Beginners
Advanced Csound
Sound Spatialisation Using Ambisonics in Csound
The Role of Independent Music Groups
Amin Khoshsabk
Live Events
Workshop
Csound for Beginners
Parham Izadyar
In the workshop we want to know what csound is and how to start working with it. I will quickly explain what csound provides to our composition. so the topic will be:
. how to install csound and csoundQt
. how to start writing our programs
. what is opcode and variable-type
. how to generate a simple sine waves and work on it
At the end of the workshop participants will be able to write simple music with sine waves.
participations must have a laptop or pc, it’s best if download the files before workshop.
Thursday 24 Febuary 2022. 11:00 Tehran Time
For free registration please contact via:
info@yarava.com or +989377867630 in Telegram.
Pass code will be sent to registered participants.
Biography
Workshop
Advanced Csound
Joachim Heintz
Live Csound
In this workshop I will cover some typical situations/tools which we need when we use Csound in live electronics. I will show it following the piece which I developed recently for Oud and live elecrtonics in collaboration with Yasamin Shahhosseini. Some topics are:
– How to use a MIDI keyboard with a pedal to trigger events or change values.
– How to use the computer keyboard to trigger events.
– How to find a good architecture in your Csound program to receive and trigger events.
– How to develop a GUI (Graphical User Interface) which shows audio and control signals.
– How to record and playback buffer.
– How to work with prerecorded samples.
The participants need to have a recent install of Csound and CsoundQt, as well as a MIDI keyboard (if possible with sustain pedal). Anything else will be provided in a download page.
Thursday 24 February 2022. 14:00 Tehran Time
For free registration please contact via:
info@yarava.com or +989377867630 in Telegram.
Pass code will be sent to registered participants.
Biograpghy
Lecture
Sound Spatialisation Using Ambisonics in Csound
Oscar Pablo Di Liscia
From its creation in 1973 by the British engineer Michael Gerzon, the Ambisonics 3D sound spatialization technique has gained increasing interest in the electronic and computer music community due to the perceptual robustness of its results, the clarity of its conception, and its versatility. Regarding the last feature, it is worth to lay stress on the relative independence between its encoding/decoding stages (which makes possible the fair reproduction of an encoded Ambisonics mix using a great variety of loudspeakers arrays), the transparency of its storing formats, and many sound field transformations that are feasible in a relatively straight forward way, which are useful for technical and/or creative purposes. Many extensions of the “canonical” technique has been developed since its creation by a great number of specialists, as well as computer applications ranging from stand-alone programs, to plugins to be used on Digital Audio Workstations, and modules of programming environments for music and sound such as Pure Data Super Collider and Csound, among others. This talk will address first a brief introduction about the Ambisonics technique main features, then a description of the Csound processing units devoted to Ambisonics (i.e., Opcodes), and finally will present some Csound examples of use developed by the lecturer.
Thursday 24 February 2022. 17:00 Tehran Time
Pass code: TIEMF2021
Biography
Talk
The Role of Independent Music Groups
Soheil Soheili and Niloufar Shahbazi
Live on Instagram
Thursday 24 February 2022. 22:30 Theran Time
Biography
Daily Report
A Short Report on the Past and Upcoming Events
Live on Instagram
Thursday 24 February 2022. 23:45 Theran Tiem
Concert (Curated by Dimitri Papageorgiou)
RNA LAB QUARTET
Piece (RNA LAB QUARTET) and attached lecture (The Well)
About the piece: RNA LAB QUARTET
Algorithmic morphing by nano mutations of historical pandemics.
A reply to this work:
“It’s a true artist who finds structure and even beauty in the challenges that overwhelm most people.”
– Carla Scaletti
After creating MONUMENTUM, Kuit used the audio of these 40 genomes as base for the after- pandemic onset for societies and arts. This is created with a Mutigrid blending and mixing the 40 pandemics in an algorithmic way. Spectral amplitude- and frequency modulation is used to alter the timbres. Spectral holds are created in an algorithmic way to create musical sounds from noise.
About the lecture: The Well
The lecture The Well is how to create, as an artist, your own creative well to extract works from it.
Roland Kuit
Biography
Night Landed
Musicians:
- Flauto’Amore: Ginevra Petrucci
- Electronics: Aida Shirazi & Bahar Royaee
- Recording engineer: Gleb Kanasevich
“Night Landed” is based on a poem entitled “Echo” by the Iranian contemporary poet, Sohrab Sepehri. In addition to the text, the electronic part includes the prerecorded bass flute, electronically generated drone layers, pre-recorded and processed thunder tube sounds, bells, and humming voice. The flauto d’amore has a soliloquy that turns into a dialogue with the bass flute in the electronics. The other sounds set the atmosphere and evoke the imagery of the text. The whispered lines function as a purely textural element that interacts with other layers of sound with each iteration.
Aida Shirazi
Biography
Algal Bloom (2020)
Musicians:
- Visuals: Mieke Robroeks
- Audio: Myrto Nizami
Algal Bloom is an audiovisual work in which the spectrum and the shades of light and sound in the underwater
environment were our main goal. The music is generated from pre-recorded material and field recordings. Hand drawn stop-motion images are layered with the computer. The image and sound together are two voices that become more and more independent of each other, creating a new, contrapuntal layer. Their amalgamation at the point where none of the elements are any more recognizable, detaches them from their initial origin. Artistically we aim to organically present a unity into multiplicity.
Myrto Nizami
Biography
par l’usure
Musicians:
- acousmatic
The same way a body can be the witness of fantasies, the “sonic bodies” are also inhabited by the composer’s projections. Transformed by the force that writing exerts, these “sonic bodies”, now assembled and repeated, recreate a new network of significations, like a machine where the different components communicate with each other. The technique of “micro-montage” is at the basis of this study: it precisely served to erase the “pre-established” becoming by the play-sequence of these “sonic beings”, in order to be able to subject them to new rules.
Filippos Sakagian
Biography
Earthly Spaces for Ondes Martenot
Musician, Sound Engineer, Video Editor and … :
- International Contemporary Ensemble
Suzanne Farrin, ondes Martenot
Adele Fournet, camera operation and design
Isabel Frye, video editor
Nicholas Houfek, design and lighting
Ross Karre, video design and coordination
Merve Kayan, camera operation and design
Caley Monohon-Ward, sound editor
Ryan Streber, sound engineer
Produced for TIME:SPANS 2020 by the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust
The earthly spaces are empty,
and the roads that rule my childhood dreams,
end up in a land that denies them.
Homes no longer grow along the white horizons.
-Deltangi 10 Yadollah Royaï
Bahar Royaee
Biography
Ellen Taking Space – Chantier
Based on Chantier (2013) by Jérôme Game
L’encre bleue du chantier la nuit est enduit, saturé, lumineux. Des parpaings en béton matifiés en plastic rouge-blanc marquent l’entrée. L’enceinte grillagée les bacs à ciments les bâches une flaque d’eau les machines à l’arrêt. Les hommes avancent leurs casques jaunes est bleu, est blanc, leur combi est leur gilet phosphorescent leurs bottes. Regardent les papiers, le métal est sale sont torse-nu, la poussière est partout le ciel est blanc.
This is a new extended version of a previous electroacoustic piece composed in 2019 and now used for the dance show Die Seherinnen (2022)
Claudia Jane Scroccaro
Biography
Pollock’s Dreams: Liquefied Sounds
Musicians:
- George Holmes, Video artist
The title refers to Jackson Pollock’s paintings using his dripping technique, which became the source of inspiration for this piece. Volatile environmental sounds captured around the University of Oklahoma, Norman campus underwent a condensation process through Max/MSP (including phase vocoding, and/or granular synthesis “freeze”, filtering, envelope shaping, pitch shifting, among others) to be transformed in to liquid pigments. The liquefied sounds were then arranged in to the canvas (Pro Tools) and balanced dynamically through spontaneous real-time processes.
Konstantinos Karathanasis
Biography
Vertices for bassoon and live electronics
Musicians:
- Johannes Schwarz, bassoon and Vassos Nicolaou, live electronics
“Vertices” was commissioned by the Ensemble Modern for its 30th anniversary and it was premiered by Johannes Schwarz and Vassos Nicolaou on the 15th of January 2011 at the Alte Oper Frankfurt. This virtuosic piece – in terms of speed, changes of articulation, dynamics and the use of extended technics – was created in close collaboration with Johannes Schwarz and it is dedicated to him. The electronics are expanding the bassoon sound adding colour, resonance, delays and spatialisation. The form follows basically the concept of the labyrinth.
Vassos Nicolaou
Biography
Broken Slide
The visual components of this multimedia project consists of movies/photos which are taken with various high magnification macro and microscopic devices from one single broken microscopic slide containing some parts of an insect’s body. It was not the intention to produce realistic imagery, but to photographically explore this single object in order to render visible the hidden beauty of varying abstract landscapes. ‘Magnification’ was also the motivating idea for the composition of the piece. Based on generative principles, the music grows out of a simple constellation of numbers which creates complex structures by unfolding in time.
Gerhard Nierhaus
Biography
LAND
LAND is a conceptual audio-visual piece, for video, tape and text. The situation of a meta-machine that autocorrects the thoughts of the invisible protagonist is a metaphor for restrictions that a person undergoes in particular political systems or social structures. The invisible protagonist has outlived many different socio-political situations and their testimony is thus multilayered, shows all the advantages, disadvantages and consequences that they experience, by being the oppressor, oppressed and the apathetic.
Anda Kryeziu
Biography
One / Jedan for Violin and Live Electronics
Musicians:
- Paul Pankert, violin
- Ensemble 88
reasoning and acceptance / process and transformation which comes as a result in one
specific moment, after a long soliloquy…
sound of violin transforms through a process of “negotiations” with electronics, changing identity and character, aiming to the ending point, to one moment of final transformation…
the piece was written for Paul Pankert and Ensemble 88
Branka Popovic
Biography
Symposium
The work I chose to base my electroacoustic composition is called “Symposium” by Iordanis Poimenidis. It is an iron construction, a ‘metal canvas’ we would say, with geometric shapes of different textures and sizes that interact with each other to create an organism. Both its material and its structure formed the basis and the construction tools of my work.
Maria Tsiantoula
Biography
Fractures and Permutations
Musicians:
- Ilana Waniuk (violin)
- Ioannis Mitsialis (live electronics)
This is my first work that makes use of the electronic medium, and is based on the idea that a single phrase, composed by a sequence of metrical lengths, can be cut up to its constituent parts and produce the whole composition by their constant reordering. The main ideas that I explore in the electronic part are subtle manipulations of sound localities in the violin part and spatialization. For their realization I worked primarily with white noise, filters and reverberation. I also connected both of these ideas with the metrical structure of the piece and with the cyclic concept in a variety of ways.
Ioannis Mitsialis
Biography
Balloons For Thought
Musicians:
- Balloons For Thought
Balloons For Thought is an acousmatic piece resulting from various relations I explore with balloons. The agential and performative capacities of both the balloons and my body is investigated through free-play and experimentation. The narratives that emerge within this interaction surface within the piece as both program and abstract narratives, expressed through various gestural and textural thinking.
Fulya Uçanok
Biography
Transfigured Walls
During the COVID-19 pandemic composers and musicians persevere with producing new works. However, since the only distribution channel is online we lost the ability to create multichannel music that we can design a spatial experience in physical venues. In this fixed media piece, I deliberately target the audience that consumes music with earphones. I used Csound’s HRTF (Head Related Transfer Function) opcodes to create a virtual binaural space
that I can specify the dimensions of the room, reflection coefficients of the walls, floor, and ceiling. The listener would enjoy the 3D soundstage with moving sounds in all dimensions.
Serkan Sevilgen
Biography
Three Autumn Nights
Musicians:
- Neda Hofman Sretenovic, piano
- Svetlana Savic, live electronics
During three autumn nights, three night butterflies flew into my apartment. Trying not to hurt them (covered with a cotton candy bucket), I took them out and let them fly into the dark. Someone told me, a long time ago, that night butterflies are the souls of our dear ones, coming from “another” world. It really seemed like we knew each other. I spoke to them softly, as with close friends. I think some of them came back more than once. It was very strange to have so many visitors, so many nights. But, that was a message. Now I know they came to tell me something. Now I know they were sent as a consolation. And I know they are free.