11 августа в Санкт-Петербургском Музее Звука состоится встреча с композитором Тодором Тодоров [Todor Todoroff], со-основателем и президентом Бельгийской Федерации Электроакустической Музыки FeBeME-BEFEM и центра ARTeM: «Искусство, исследования, технология и музыка».

Один из ведущих исследователей в области компьютерной музыки, экспериментатор с обработкой речи, а также создатель интерактивных систем для инсталляций и перформансев, Тодор Тодоров принимал участие во многих значимых проектах Бельгии и Европы начиная с 1980 года (с такими композиторами, как Leo Kupper, Robert Normandeau или Joshua Fineberg, Emmanuel Nunes, Luca Francesconi в центре Ircam).

В своих электроакустических произведениях Тодор Тодоров использует многоканальную композицию, исследуя интерактивную связь между звуком и жестом в пространстве. Так, он создаёт не только «зафиксированную» акусматическую музыку, но и живые импровизационные произведения (вместе с Jean-Paul Dessy, Eric Sleichim, Stevie Wishart).

Находясь в постоянном сотрудничестве с хореографами (Michèle Noiret) и художниками (Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Fred Vaillant, Mario Benjamin), Тодор Тодоров работает в зоне трансдисципинарного искусства: например, его разработка сенсоров движения, позволяющих одновременную трансформацию звука и видео в проекте с художницей Laura Colmenares Guerra и виолончелисткой Sigrid Vandenbogaerde.

В рамках вечера, помимо общения с композитором, будет также возможно поэкспериментировать с электроакустической музыкой, сенсорами и жестами, применяемыми для звукового синтеза, преобразования и его локализации в пространстве.

Творческая встреча проходит при поддержке Генерального Консульства Бельгии в Санкт-Петербурге и фестиваля Acousmonium.

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L’arte acusmatica continua ad essere un universo pieno di fascino per chi si avvicina allo studio della musica elettronica. Capita così che dopo più di cinquant’anni dal celebre trattato di Pierre Schaeffer, la capacità di saper creare realtà immaginarie utilizzando trasduttori acustici è materia di studio nelle più prestigiose Università.

La biografia di Nikos Stavropoulos riporta che è nato ad Atene quarantaquattro anni fa e attualmente è un lettore all’Università del Galles, dove ha studiato composizione con Andrew Lewis e Adrian Moore.

Gli otto brani raccolti su Micro-lieux sono stati scritti tra il 2003 e il 2017. Periodo durante il quale il musicista greco è diventato membro del Music, Sound & Performance Group della Leeds Beckett University, del British ElectroAcoustic Network (BEAN) e della Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA). Riconoscimenti importanti che fanno di Stavropoulos un’eminenza nell’universo elettronico accademico.

La più vecchia tra le tracce raccolte su Micro-lieux e Atropos, quasi undici minuti in cui il compositore inglese d’adozione sembra voler farci entrare in caverne oscure per metterci a contatto con miti antichissimi: le dinamiche dei timbri utilizzati sono stupefacenti, in grado di passare da frequenze altissime a rantoli subsonici che smuovono le pietre.

La sintesi granulare utilizzata da Stavropoulos è una tecnica che permette di creare effetti stupefacenti partendo da semplici suoni monofonici: su Granatum e Topophilia viene creato uno spazio multidimensionale dove far muovere gli oggetti seguendo chissà quali leggi della Fisica. Su Granicus il collega Alexander Pepelasis accompagna Stavropoulos con percussioni marziane.

Accord ouvert is the debut album from Belgium based electroacoustic / acousmatic / musique concrète composer Sophie Delafontaine. The CD album/digital download servers up six tracks that dart between mysteriously unsettling, playful & bizarre, and inventive & daring — all to create a real sonic roller-coaster ride of a release.

Sophie Delafontaine was born in Switzerland in the late 1980s. At the age of twenty she decided to leave her home to move to Belgium where she studied acousmatic composition at the Conservatoire royal de Mons, she gained her master’s degree in 2014- and since she has been composing work that follows links / connections between acousmatic music and contemporary dance.

The six pieces come from between 2013 & 2018 — and each lasts between the seven and fourteen-minute mark, with an album total runtime of sixty-three minutes. Things begin in wonderful dizzying and unbalancing manner with 2015’s Ondiésop — which moves between hovering drone rises created by reverberant bell, creepily bounced & modified voices, and field recording of seagulls, waves and water. Later on, we have the decidedly unsettling & un-nerving Ressort spiral — this 2014 piece brings together winding down & up music boxes, ticking & tocking clocks/ machinery, with sheared & stretched French chatter — all to create a wonderful nightmarish & surreal atmosphere.

Though-out the release Delafontaine highlights both her flair for creating both unbalancing moodiness and sonic playfulness- with each of the six works showing these two talents in a fairly even balance. I guess as not been a French speaker myself, some of the more dialogue-heavy moments here are lost a little on me, but these never last too long — and when they are present she adds in other elements to the mix to create — uneasy, playful-ness or a mixture of the two.

Accord ouvert is a brave and decidedly varied debut release where you really don’t know where you’ll spin off, or dip into next. It shows Delafontaine as a very arty and focused sonic magpie, collection sound elements — be it field recordings, modified instruments / tones, or voices — into a decidedly spell-bind sonic experience.