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Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology / (ICST) Zurich University of the Arts #12 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde Georg Katzer Konzert 22.10.2024, 18:00 Toni-Areal, Kompositionsstudio 3.D02, Ebene 3, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich Eintritt frei Programm: Steinelied 2 2010 10' Notes: Steinelied 2 In a cloud chamber, ionising radiation leaves a condensation trail with tiny water droplets, thus making the particle ‘visible’. Likewise, the ‘stones’, namely the silicon crystals of the computer, leave small ‘droplet-shaped’ sound events as they rush through the time-tone space in the computer I programmed. Between the mostly impulsive sounds, a short tonal structure emerges several times, as if from a distance, perforated by the impulsive sounds. It is reminiscent of a scent ‘from distant planets’, that of a bygone tonal music. In any case, it was just as welcome to me as the sometimes ‘dirty sounds’, which I did not try to embellish. And everything is shrouded in a ‘blue fog’. The piece is not composed with a climax in mind; rather, it remains static, revolving around itself, almost meditative.
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Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology / (ICST) Zurich University of the Arts #11 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde Mario Mary, portrait Konzert 11.06.2024, 18:00 Toni-Areal, Kompositionsstudio 3.D02, Ebene 3, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich Eintritt frei Programm: 2015 Polyphonic philosophy pièce électroacoustique en 8 pistes. [ 10’ 43’’] Commande de l’ICST de Zurich, Suisse. Création à l’Université de Zurich en novembre 2015 Continuing the aesthetic exploration about “electroacoustic orchestration” and “polyphony of space” of the previous works “Signes émergents” and “2261”, the first section of this composition develops in the horizontal plane a concept that could be called “melody of sound objects”. Here, polyphony and counterpoint of the musical discourse is interwoven through with small sound objects, creating polyphony and counterpoint taking advantage of the possibilities offered by the multitracks space with 8 tracks around public.
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Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology / (ICST) Zurich University of the Arts #10 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde The Composer, Herself Konzert 19.03.2024, 18:00 Toni-Areal, Kompositionsstudio 3.D02, Ebene 3, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich Eintritt frei Programm: Natasha Barrett Prince Prospero’s Party [2005] 2nd order Ambisonics 16:00 One of the first pieces in Ambisonic second order was by Natasha Barrett as Artist in Residency 2005 at the HMT Zurich. Natasha Barrett (1972) is a composer who explores new technologies and experimental approaches to sound in contemporary music, including concert works, public space sound-art installations, and multimedia interactive music. She is internationally renowned for her electroacoustic and acousmatic music and use of 3D sound technology in composition. Her work is commissioned and performed throughout the world and has received over 20 international awards, including the Nordic Council Music Prize, the Giga-Hertz Award (Germany), five first prizes, and the Euphonie D’Or in the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Awards (France), two first prizes in the International Rostrum for electroacoustic music and most recently the Thomas Seelig Fixed Media Award for 2023. She collaborates with performers, visual artists, architects, and scientists and is active in performance, education, and research. Link: http://www.natashabarrett.org/about.html
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Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology / (ICST) Zurich University of the Arts #09 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde Dienstag, 05. Dezember 2023, 18.00 Uhr Toni-Areal, ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3) Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich Eintritt frei 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.
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Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology / (ICST) Zurich University of the Arts #08 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde Dienstag, 24. Oktober 2023, 18.00 Uhr Toni-Areal, ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3) Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich Eintritt frei 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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Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology / (ICST) Zurich University of the Arts #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 Eintritt frei 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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Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology / (ICST) Zurich University of the Arts #06 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde Konzert Dienstag, 04. April 2023, 18.00 Uhr Toni-Areal, ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3) Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich Eintritt frei 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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Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology / (ICST) Zurich University of the Arts #05 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde Konzert Dienstag, 14. März 2023, 18.00 Uhr Toni-Areal, ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3) Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich Eintritt frei 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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Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology / (ICST) Zurich University of the Arts #04 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde Konzert Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022, 18.00 Uhr Toni-Areal, ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3) Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich Eintritt frei 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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Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology / (ICST) Zurich University of the Arts #03 ascolta Akusmatische Hörstunde Konzert Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2022, 18.00 Uhr Toni-Areal, ICST-Kompositionsstudio (3.D02, Ebene 3) Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich Eintritt frei 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.