CONTEMPORANEA 2018

20 ottobre 2018 - ore 21.00

Teatro san Giorgio - Udine

ACUSMATICA

Ascoltare lo Spazio / Ascoltare il Tempo

Esecuzione delle opere vincitrici della dodicesima edizione

del concorso internazionale di composizione Città di Udine

a cura di Vittorio Vella

Programma:

Pablo Martín Freiberg (Argentina - 1974)

Reflejos in-condicionados - Un-Conditioned Reflexes (dur. 6’40”- quadrifonia)

Migliore composizione elettroacustica multicanale

Natasha Barrett (Regno Unito/Norvegia - 1972)

Portals (dur. 9’00” - stereofonia)

Menzione speciale della Giuria

Frederick Szymanski (Stati Uniti - 1950)

SCREE (dur. 9’31” - ottofonia)

Menzione speciale della Giuria

Francesco Marchionna (Italia - 1967)

I Giorni Sospesi (dur. 8’54” - stereofonia)

Licenza per i plugins “GRM TOOLS complete II” offerto da INA GRM

Gordon Delap (Irlanda - 1979)

I dreamt that I died and came back as a moth

trapped in a practice room piano (dur. 9’25” - stereofonia)

Nicola Giannini (Italia - 1979)

For Hannah (dur. 7’20” - quadrifonia)

Natasha Barrett (Norway/UK) composes acousmatic and electroacoustic concert composition, sound installations and interactive art. She has also worked with theatre, large-scale outdoor media productions and sound environments for exhibitions. She is highly active as a freelance composer, and also in the mediation of spatial audio and its contemporary musical context. Her work is commissioned and performed throughout the world. Throughout her career she has received artist’s grants, residences, and a solid list of awards, including the Nordic Council Music Prize, Giga-Hertz Award (Germany), Edvard Prize (Norway), Jury and public first prizes in Noroit-Leonce Petitot (France), Five prizes and the Euphonie D’Or in the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Awards (France), prizes at Musica Nova (Prague), CIMESP (Brazil), Concours Scrime, (France), International Electroacoustic Competition Ciberart (Italy), two prizes in Concours Luigi Russolo (Italy), two prizes in the International Rostrum for electroacoustic music, and prizes in two Ars Electronica competitions (1998 and 2017). She is currently engaged in a professorship at the Norwegian State Academy for Music.

Gordon Delap comes from Co. Donegal in Ireland. He studied electroacoustic composition at City University, London, and Queen’s University, Belfast. He is a winner of the Point de Repère competition, and has received commissions from BBC Radio 3, the British Council, the Naughton Gallery, and the Crescent Arts Centre. His composition Beowulf and Grendel was performed at the Belfast Festival and the Sounds Electric Festival, and other compositions have been performed at festivals and conferences throughout the world. Recent work has been concerned with exploration of compositional applications of physical models developed by the Next Generation Sound Synthesis (NESS) team at the University of Edinburgh. He currently lectures at Maynooth University, Ireland.

Pablo Martín Freiberg  was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1974. He studied at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA) in Argentina, where he obtained the Music Professor Degree (guitar); the Musical Arts Degree (composition); and the College Professor Degree. He studied also composition with F. Maglia, G. Pozzati and M. Calzón. He is currently teaching at the UNA and A. Piazzolla Conservatory, and he is completing his doctorate at the UNA, specializing in psychoacoustics and psychology of music applied to the electroacoustic music composition. Freiberg’s music won awards given by Buenos Aires City Government, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, Fundación Encuentros, Fundación Música y tecnología, Federación Argentina de Música Electroacústica (Bs.As.) and Fundación Telefónica de Argentina. Freiberg’s works have been performed at different auditoriums in Buenos Aires, Portugal and France. Finally, Freiberg is founder and artistic director of the Electroacoustic Ensemble of the DAMus (UNA) – project of electroacoustic writing research, sound design and musical interpretation–.

Nicola Giannini is a Sound Artist and an Electroacoustic Music Composer. He explores subjects such as narrative structures, aural features of buildings and he is interested in sounds that evoke physical materials. His practice focuses on acousmatic multi-channel composition and live performance. Nicola gives particular attention to the use of ice as a compositional and performative material. He has been a guest composer at the EMS in Stockholm. He recently played at TIES in Toronto, in Leeds, at TEDxLondon, at the University of Aberdeen, at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, at the Sound Spaces Festival in Malmö. His acousmatic music was played at the NYCEMF in New York. His piece For Hannah was chosen as finalist at the International composition competition Città di Udine 2018. Nicola has a master degree in Electroacoustic Composition with the honourable mention from the Conservatory of Florence. He is part of the Artistic Research in Music group guided by the composer Tiziano Manca (Orpheus Institute). From September 2018 Nicola will be a PhD candidate at the Université de Montréal in Electroacoustic Composition, under the supervision of the Professor and Composer Robert Normandeau.

Francesco Marchionna - Always interested in the Art/Science report, he graduated cum laude in Electronic Music at the Conservatory “N. Piccinni” of Bari in 2014, under the direction of Francesco Scagliola. He attended seminars with Lionel Marchetti, Leonello Tarabella, Danilo Girardi and a laboratory of Hardware Hacking with Nicolas Collins. His compositions have been selected in various festivals Italian and abroad, collecting praise from critics and audience. Among the events: Fimu-2010 (Belfort), URTIcanti10 (Bari, 2014), SEAMUS-2015 (Virginia), Ruid al Sud 2015 (Bari),  ArteScienza 2017 (Roma), MA/IN (Matera 2017) and URTIcanti13 (Bari, 2017). Since 2010 is part of the research group Sin[x]Thesis directed by Francesco Scagliola.

Fred Szymanski is a New York-based sound and image artist. In his work, he investigates the relations between nonlinear forces and applies the results in sound diffusion and multi-screen installations and performances. His electroacoustic work has been performed at many festivals, including the 2018 International Festival of Experimental Music Bratislava, Musica Nova 2017 (Prague), 2016 Matera Intermedia Festival (Italy), 2015 Monaco International Electroacoustic Festival, and the ICMC 2015 (Denton, Texas). His image and sound work has been featured at SonicLIGHT (Amsterdam), the European Media Art Festival (Osnabruck), Mutek (as part of RML’s CineChamber) (Montreal), and Club Transmediale (Berlin). His music has been recognized with several awards:  First Prize Musica Nova (2017), Premier Prix Monaco Electroacoustique (2015), Honorary Mention Destellos X (2017), and IMEB Bourges (2007). His sound and image installations have been exhibited at the Eyebeam Center (New York), the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Diapason Gallery for Sound (New York). Szymanski’s sound work has been released by Sub Rosa, Asphodel Ltd., JDK Productions, Soleilmoon, and Staalplaat.