From: Theodore Lotis ()
Date: May 5, 2008
Subject:
ELECTRO MEDIA WORKS 08-ATHENS
Press Release ElectroMediaWorks'08 www.emw.gr The Medea Electronique the E.P.H.M.E.E. (Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Lab, Music Dept. Ionian University, Corfu, Greece) and the Center for Music Composition & Performance (C.M.C.P.) co organize in Athens the first international festival of mixed media arts, ElectroMediaWorks'08, from 14th to 18th of May 2008. An intense five day and night program listing international shows and productions, for innovative media art, electronic music and cross-over art with artists such as musicians, video artists, performers, sonic artists, involving different arts and lifestyles. ElectroMediaWorks 08 is open to anyone interested in the theory, technology, philosophy and practices of mixed media arts, in today’s state-of-the-art cultural landscape. It is hosted at a 1800-square meter industrial space down town Athens. A complete 16-channel diffusion system will be installed for the electroacoustic works and the live electronics and a 5.1 surround system for the video art installations. It takes place at the «Warehouse-Art Factory», Lamias 6 and Pireos. Official Guests Joel Chadabe, Carla Scalleti (Symbolic Sound Kyma), Gerard Pape, Daniel Kientzy, Reina Portuondo, Nicholas Isherwood, ESSIM, the institute CMMAS (Mexico) and the Institute IDKA (Sweden), Theodore Antoniou, George Koumendakis, Dimitris Kamarotos, Michael Adamis. Workshops Saturday the 17th and Sunday the 18th, 12.00 - 17.30 workshops will be held presenting new technologies and research programs. The workshops are sponsored and organized by E.P.H.M.E.E. and CMCP. Saturday, May 17th : 12.00 "Ear to the Earth" - Speech by Joel Chadabe. President and founder of the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF). 13.15 Presentation of Composer Gerard Pape, 14.40 Presentation of EPHMEE 15.15 Presentation of the institute CMMAS, 16.30 presentation of the IDKA institute. Sunday, May 18th : 12.00 Interactive Environments: Tools, design and aesthetic considerations presentation by Ianni Zannos. 14.30 Three Jour Laboratory - presentation of "Kyma" by Carla Scalleti. Core Curriculum 14th -18th of May 2008, at 18.00 - 24.30 every day: The program includes concerts and works selected from entries submitted at the international open call, which ended March 31, 2008. The program includes: • 42 concerts by organizations and independent artists from 20 countries (more than 100 works). • 22 video art projects. • An additional 900 square meter floor with installations (Interactive, audio and video) will be available to visitors of the festival. • Concert-Project in memory of Karlheinz Stockhausen with Nicholas Isherwood. Concert, which includes the production of "Capricorn" by K. Stockhausen and the implementation of 4 new projects devoted to K. Stockhausen. The concert and the open call of projects, launched in Paris in spring 2007, was organized by Gerard Pape and Nicholas Isherwood. The world premier will take place in Athens Greece in memory of K. Stockhausen. The project is scheduled to be presented in 3 more countries during 2008 (U.S., France, Spain). Contributing works by composers: Karlheinz Stockhausen / Germany, Eduardo Polonio - Spain, Gerard Pape - US / France, David Felder - Spain, Maria Aloupi & Andreas Diktyopoulos - Greece. 1) Concert - Retrosepctive of electroacoustic projects by Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gesang der Junglinge – four channel authentic tape. Telemusik - stereo tape 2) Concert - Retrospective of electroacoustic works by Iannis Xenakis: La Légende d'Eer - authentic 7 channel video tape. Kosmos X - video - tribute to Ianni Xenakis, by Efi Xirou. 3) Daniel Kientzy - Concert The META DUO established by the saxophone player Daniel Kientzy and Reina Portuondo (electronics) present a program of their own choice. 4) Gerard Pape - Concert 1. Faux Mouvements – eight channel tape (2007-08) 2. Clouds – six channel tape (2002) 3. Tantric Transformations – eight channel tape (2000) 5) Concert Tribute to Joel Chadabe - President and founder of the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) 6) Kyma Concert by Carla Scaletti 7) Greek Official Guest composers 8) Organizations, - CMMAS, IDKA, ESSIM, ERIMME, IEMA, KSYME, University of Athens. CREDITS Produced by Medea Electronique, CMCP and EPHMEE Festival Director - Manolis Manousakis Artistic Director - Maria Aloupi Curator - Christos Laskaris Production Managers - Andreas Diktyopoulos, Panagiotis Tsagarakis Tech. Supervision - Theodor Zioutos Audio Visual and Light Services - Rackey's Light Designers - BeforeLight Loudspeaker set-up Supervision - EPHMEE (Dionysis Batjakis / Andreas Mniestris / Thodoris Lotis) Video Projection Set Up Designed By - Panagiotis Tsagarakis Sound Engineer A Thodoris Zioutos Sound Engineer B Fillipos Theoharidis Production Assistants - Varveri Ersi, Marinos Koutsomihalis, George Tousis Video Mastering and Authoring - Studio 19 Computer Programming and Services - Andreas Diktyopoulos Development and Management of Web Page - Andreas Diktyopoulos, LoKey and Christos Laskaris Poster and Flyers Designed by - LoKey, Yiannis Lolis and Christos Laskaris TV AD by LoKey Production Team Maria Aloupi, Varveri Ersi, Dionysis Batjakis, Nadia Deliyiannis, Andreas Diktyopoulos, Giorgos Fragiskos, Marinos Giannoukakis, Kleopatra Korai, Christos Laskaris, Yiannis Lolis, Thodoris Lotis, Manolis Manousakis, Andreas Mniestris, Fillipos Theoharidis, George Tousis, Panayiotis Tsagarakis, Thodoris Zioutos . Law Advices and Services - Filippos and Kosmas Koteas and associates Law Office Production Designed By-CMCP, MaCo Studios UPPER ROOM (Installations) Curator - Christos Laskaris Tech Supervision - Thodoris Zioutos SEMINARS / PRESENTATIONS Organized by EPHMEE (Supported by the graduate program on the arts and technology of sound, Ionian University, funded by the European union and National funds). Co-organizer CMCP (Center for Music Composition and Performance) Curators - Andreas Mniestris / Maria Aloupi «Warehouse-Art Factory» 6 Lamia st. and Pireos av. ****************Dr. Theodore LotisLecturer-Music DepartmentIonian UniversityOld Fortress-Corfu-Greece
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