First Day
Opening – Seminar – Concert
Opening – Seminar – Concert
20 February 2021
A Critical Reflection on the Material and Design of Contemporary Classical Music
Opening
Biography
Reza Korourian was born on November 5, 1971 in Tehran. He graduated from the Faculty of Art and Architecture with a Bachelor’s degree in Music. He was also a flutist, guitarist and pianist. He studied Music Theory, Harmony and basic lessons of Composition with Alireza Mashayekhi and continued studying Music Composition at university with Farid Omran and Kiawasch SahebNassagh. He then pursued his passion for composing more seriously with SahebNassagh. He completed his study of Electronic Music under the instruction of Shahrokh Khajenouri and Arvin Sedaghatkish. Korourian was one of the five participants who attended the first electronic music workshop in Iran which was held by Shahrokh Khajenouri. By 2008, he also participated in Joachim Heintz’s electronic music workshop and received conducting lessons by Manuchehr Sahbai. He presented his thesis in electronic music and spent years of his life translating reference books about electronic music and composition. His translation of Tom Holms’ article “The Most Impressive Electronic Music Pieces” was published in the 111th volume of “Art of Music” magazine.Two albums of his works have been published by “Contemporary Music Records” so far. The only official performance of his works was in “IC No.3” held by Yarava Music Group and with Khajenouri and SahebNassagh providing the speech, introducing Iranian and the world electronic music composers and presenting “In Dreams” by Korourian.A year later, “In Dreams” was introduced and performed at Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Reza Korourian departed this life in the morning of March 3, 2015.
Live Events
A Critical Reflection on the Material and Design of Contemporary Classical Music
In this seminar, we will critically reflect on a collection of prominent pieces, from the late 20th century to the present, which have been composed in either mixed-electronic media or influenced by electronic music. The selected works are from composers such as Fausto Romitelli, Franck Bedrossian, Bernhard Lang, Peter Ablinger, Philipp Leroux, Clara Iannotta, Simon Steen-Andersen, Mauro Lanza and Natacha Diels. These selected pieces are critically reflecting the material and structure of contemporary classical music by re-defining the relationship between the acoustic instrument, the electronic music medium and the performer. These pieces either created new structural possibilities or reiterated forgotten expressive qualities in the medium. The main goal of this seminar will be, based on the analysis of material, structure and the foundation of contemporary music, to foster critical listening and critical reflection of what music is.
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Saturdays, 20, 27 Feb, 6, 13 March 2021, 17:30-19:30 Tehran Time
Pass code will be sent to registered participants.
Susanne Zapf and Asal Karimi
Talk
The String Instruments and Electroacoustic Music
Susanne Zapf and Asal Karimi
Live on Instagram
Saturday 20 February 2021. 22:30 Tehran Time
Daily Report
A Short Report on the Past and Upcoming Events
Concert
String Quartet No. 1 (Tubular—Mondo) (2018)
Tubular – Mondo took as a starting point the rapid sampling techniques of Footwork music, cutting and looping grains of sonic (often vocal) material, completely irreverent of phrase boundaries of the original sample, resulting in jagged, fragmented, dense textures. Taking these ideas to the string quartet world, I was interested in creating a disrupted continuity between quasi lyrical gestures and their cut-up electronic resonances. In the first movement—Tubular—all players follow and interpret a unison line according to different instructions, still leaving them with improvisational liberties within rigid temporal synchronicity. In the second movement—Mondo—the ensemble breaks apart in an attempt to performatively open the stage focus.
Laure M. Hiendl
Biography
PULL THE PLUG (2009)
Biography
Annesley Black is a Canadian composer based in Frankfurt am Main. Her works span from purely instrumental music, electronics, video performance from orchestra and chamber music to theatre, solo performances and installations. She has appeared as an improviser and sound-director in Canada, Austria, Switzerland and in Germany. Her collaborations with renowned artists range from film, dance and theatre productions to multi-media art installations/ performances. While exploring an unusual breadth of innovative settings, themes and concepts, she persists in embodying these in an intricate, expressive and distinct musical language.
She has received many distinctions for her work, including the Busoni Award from the Academy of the Arts, Berlin (2008), the Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart (2009) and the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Composer Prize (2019). In 2018 she was nominated as a member of the music section of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin and the Canadian Music Centre.
Her works have been commissioned and performed by international ensembles and orchestras such as the Hessian Radio Orchestra, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Musikfabrik, ensemble mosaik, ensemble recherche, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne de Montréal and ensemble asamisima for festivals such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warshaw Autumn Festival, Wittener Days of New Chamber Music, Éclat Festival and Festival Ultima, Oslo.
Annesley Black studied electronic music and jazz guitar at Concordia University, composition with Brian Cherney, York Höller and Mathias Spahlinger, electroacoustic composition with Hans-Ulrich Humpert and Orm Finnendahl at Mcgill University, the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She teaches composition and interdisciplinary projects at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and electroacoustic composition at Dr. Hoch’s Conservatory Frankfurt.
Annesley Black
Annesley Black
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Vineta (2008)
The mythos of Vineta tells that Vineta once was a wealthy and beautiful city next to the Baltic Sea. Its habitants became so arrogant that in the end Vineta sank into the sea. As bells and a mystic atmosphere play an important role in this mythos, the sound material used are samples of cowbells and a recording of the renaissance pavan „Paradizo“ by Anthony Holborne. In the piece you can hear different states of Vineta: above the water and under the water.
Elke Swoboda
Biography
Ehsan Ebrahimi
Biography
Ataraxy (2021)
Commissioned by Yarava Music Group – World Premiere
Biography
Ata Ebtekar aka Sote (b. Hamburg, Germany) is an electronic music composer and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. In the past 30 plus years, his music has been published by various companies, such as Warp Rec-ords, Sub Rosa, Morphine, Repitch, Opal Tapes and Diagonal among others. Global cultural exposure through transmigration has been a significant stimulant for his aesthet-ics. Sote’s goal is to create unique and timeless pieces of music that are not available anywhere except in his mind. His compositions and multi-channel installations are sonic tales synchronously decoding and re-generating customary pattern of thought in nature; aural designs of crisis and harmony where contempo aligns with folklore, orchestrating an artificial saga with a variety of illuminations and analyses. His passion for all music especially, all forms of electronic music, and his extensive in-volvement in the sound art academia world, has led him to compose in a wide variety of musical styles with a strong emphasis in electro-acoustic techniques, microtonal systems and polyrhyth-mic motifs. He has a firm conviction that rules and formulas must be deconstructed and rethought; hence he alters musical modal codes from their original tonality and rhythm (tradition) to achieve vivid synthetic soundscapes. In order to accomplish dynamic expression on electronics, gesture and texture, he employs vari-ous synthesis languages and dsp techniques in a modular sound environment. Ata ‘Sote’ Ebtekar believes that music is a cultural habit of sound and anti-sound (silence). There-fore, he generates music without a specific culture, which he believes to be “the other sound.”Links:
www.disk-agency.de/artist-booking/artists/sote/
www.instagram.com/ata_ebtekar/
www.facebook.com/ata.sote.ebtekar
www.twitter.com/sotesound
www.sotesound.com
www.zabtesote.bandcamp.com
Ata 'Sote' Ebtekar
Ata 'Sote' Ebtekar
Santour: Arash Bolouri
Mastering: Nima Aghiani
Commission by Yarava Music Group
world premiere