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#01 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde

Konzert

• 26.11.2019 18:00
• Toni-Areal,
• Kompositionsstudio 3.D02, Ebene 3,
• Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich

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Jean-Claude Risset   (13.3.1938 - 21.11.2016)

Programm:

• Songs              9:13
• Octant         12:08
• Sud I               9:42
• Sud II              5:44
• SUD III            8:02
• Resonant   14:37

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#02 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde

Konzert

Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2022, 18.00 Uhr

• Toni-Areal,
• ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3)
• Pfingstweidstrasse 96,
• 8005 Zürich

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Programm

Vêpres vénitiennes – Il dì s’appressa (1999) Rainstick (1993) Im Eismeer – ein Schumann-Stück für Tonband (1997) Auf schwanker Halme Bogen (1985) Un Madrigal gentile (2004)

Gerald Bennett, geboren 1942 in New Jersey (USA), studierte unter anderem an der Harvard University bei Robert Moevs und in Basel bei Klaus Huber und Pierre Boulez. 1967–76 war er Dozent für Musiktheorie am Basler Konservatorium, ab 1969 dessen Leiter. 1976–1981 stand er dem Département Diagonal am Pariser Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) vor, und ab 1993 war er Mitglied der Internationalen Akademie für elektroakustische Musik Bourges. Von 1981 bis zu seiner Pensionierung lehrte Gerald Bennett Musiktheorie und Komposition an der Hochschule für Musik Zürich. Gemeinsam mit Bruno Spoerri, Antonio Greco und Rainer Boesch gründete er 1985 das Schweizerische Zentrum für Computermusik(SZCM) und gemeinsam mit Daniel Fueter 2005 das ICST – Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology.

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#03 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde

Konzert

Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2022, 18.00 Uhr

• Toni-Areal,
• ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3)
• Pfingstweidstrasse 96,
• 8005 Zürich

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GRANULAR

Nicos Stavropoulos, vom 12.1.2018 - 19.1.2018 Karst Grotto (2018) Der Titel wurde aufgrund seiner onomatopoetischen Qualitäten und seiner direkten Bezugnahme auf landschaftliche Qualitäten ausgewählt deren Geologische Raumstrukturen und Prozesse reflektieren die Klangwelt der Arbeit. Die Aufnahmen der Ausgangsmaterialien wurden mit kleinen Elektret  Mikrofonen in einer 5.1 Polyhymnia Pentagon Konfiguration realisiert.

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#04 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde

Konzert

Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022, 18.00 Uhr

• Toni-Areal,
• ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3)
• Pfingstweidstrasse 96,
• 8005 Zürich

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GLOCKEN

‘Ringing in’ with the church bells of the Diessenhofen/TG Reformed Church.

It is mentioned for the first time in the document of 27.03.757. Its main patron is St. Dionysius (1517 “Churches Sant Dionysius). The five bells were cast in 1883 by the bell foundry Keller in Zurich. and produce a pure B major chord.

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#05 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde

Konzert

Dienstag, 14. März 2023, 18.00 Uhr

• Toni-Areal,
• ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3)
• Pfingstweidstrasse 96,
• 8005 Zürich

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Field-Recordings & Soundscapes

Philip Samartzis  (ICST Artist in Residency 2019) Atmospheres & Disturbances

Dur: 28.30

In 2019, Philip received a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to conduct research at the High Altitude Research Center on the Jungfraujoch. This is the first time either organization has supported an artist-researcher under their respective programs, demonstrating a growing awareness of art’s ability to advocate for rare and endangered ecologies. Philip’s high-alpine research has been featured on DW Radio, Swiss Info, and Les Temps news services and exhibited in China and Japan (2019) and Switzerland (2021). It was also featured in an exhibition titled Sampling the Future (2021) at NGV Australia.

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#06 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde

Konzert

Dienstag, 04. April 2023, 18.00 Uhr

• Toni-Areal,
• ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3)
• Pfingstweidstrasse 96,
• 8005 Zürich

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Zbigniew Karkowski (Polen/Japan)

Title: _no name_

Dur: 60'

Description:

Zbigniew Karkowski (Polen/Japan)

The Polish composer Zbigniew Karkowski, who died all too soon in 2013 and lived in Japan, is and remains in a league of his own. In his almost elegiac pieces of micro-structured noise and rhythm settings, his entire visionary range comes to the fore, whether his pieces were created with a laptop or with electroacoustic means. He studied composition at the National Academy of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After completing his studies in Sweden, he studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, The Netherlands. For over 20 years, he was active in the field of experimental electronic music, composing pieces for a full orchestra, an opera, and several chamber music pieces. In 2008 Zbigniew Karkowski was a guest at ICST and realized the piece ‘No name’ in Ambisonics. ICST performed this piece on Friday 03.10.2008 at the Walchenturm in Zurich. We can expect lively noise attacks and sizzling groans. His music is a timeless oeuvre, disturbing and soothing, eruptive and static.  Zbigniew Karkowski im Walchenturm Zürich (2008)

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#07 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde

A concert featuring some of the ICST artists in residence

Dienstag, 04. April 2023, 18.00 Uhr

• Toni-Areal,
• ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3)
• Pfingstweidstrasse 96,
• 8005 Zürich

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Nikos Stavropoulos Artist in Residency  3.7. – 14.7.2017 | 12.1. – 22.1.2018

Karst Grotto     7:15

Oliver Carman Artist in Residency  11.2. -24.2.2008

dark_zurich   5:11

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#08 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde

Dienstag, 24. Oktober 2023, 18.00 Uhr

• Toni-Areal,
• ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3)
• Pfingstweidstrasse 96,
• 8005 Zürich

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La Canción de la Tierra

Mesias Maiguashca Artist in Residency am ICST: 2018 | 28.2. – 1.3.2019 | 25.4. – 26.4.2019 | 2020

La Canción de la Tierra (eine Audiovisuelle Komposition 2017-2020)

Idee und Musik: Mesias Maiguashca, Video: Carlos Poete. Technik Audio-Ambisonics: Johannes Schütt.

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#09 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde

Dienstag, 05. Dezember 2023, 18.00 Uhr

• Toni-Areal,
• ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3)
• Pfingstweidstrasse 96,
• 8005 Zürich

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Hans Tutschku: Remembering Japan

Hans Tutschku ICST Artist in Residenz vom 31.01.2022 bis zum 13.2.2022.

Remembering Japan

INFO: https://tutschku.com/remembering-japan/ https://electrocd.com/en/album/6390/hans-tutschku/remembering-japan

Biography

Foto: Tony Rinaldo Hans Tutschku is a composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music. In 1982 he joined the “Ensemble for intuitive music Weimar” and later studied theatre and composition in Berlin, Dresden, The Hague, Paris, and Birmingham. He collaborated in film, theatre and dance productions, and participated in concert cycles with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Since 2004 he directs the electroacoustic studios at Harvard University.