ARIADNE monodrama-installationfor voice, five performers, sound objects and electronics libretto by Daniele Bellomi music by Maurizio Azzan   Commissioned by Schallfeld Ensemble, financed by the      Theseus isn’t cruel because he leaves Ariadne. No, Theseus is cruel because he leaves Ariadne in the island of Naxos. Just a beach lashed by thundering waves, an abstract place where only the seaweed moves. It is the island where no one lives, the place where obsession turns round and round on itself, with no way out. A constant flaunting of death. This is a place of the soul. (R. Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony)   Ariadne is a story of absence ad abandon. A woman marooned on a desert island tries to reassemble the pieces of her life, marred by the abuses of men who egoistically took her, used her and then disposed of her or carried her away without any regard, treating her as a mere object. Fragmented memories emerge out of a dense fog where different versions of the myth blur together, although the only constant is Ariadne’s unheard voice beneath the gods careless eyes. The protagonist, as a final effort to escape her condition, attempts to find her true self again, in order to retrace a truth that in spite of all other versions might lead her to the end of her sufferings. Ariadne is a monodrama for voice, spatialized instruments and electronics, thought of as a sort of immersive installation, which starts even before the entering of the audience in the hall, thus making so that the space of the performance, instruments, voice and public itself become all an active participant of the setup, almost symbolically. From space, which widens all the way to the foyer and its clatter, to the piano, which echoes the processed voice and its dialogue with the rest of the instruments, scattered across the hall like rocks in the sea, up to the public, at once water that surrounds Ariadne and careless eyes of the gods that observe her pain. The very same moment in which the audience enters the hall, music starts to gradually take shape, transforming the background noises in sound through live electronics in a process that blurs the boundaries between performance and audience by making the latter an active element of the setup.          

In diesem Konzert verschmelzen die Klänge eines Violoncellos mit jenen einer Stimme, wobei das Paradoxon zwischen dem instrumentalen Klang einer menschlichen Stimme und dem gesangsähnlichen Sound eines Cellos, des „menschlichsten“ aller Instrumente, dazu einlädt, zeitgenössische Werke neu zu entdecken. Die Mezzosopranistin Helena Sorokina, Altistin des Grazer Vokalensembles Cantando Admont, und Myriam Garcia Fidalgo, Cellistin des in Graz beheimateten Schallfeld Ensembles präsentieren ihre Sammlung an Gesangs- und Spieltechniken anhand sorgsam ausgewählter Werke von u.a. Morton Feldman, Younghi Pagh-Paan und Onutė Narbutaitė und drei neuer Werke von Pablo Ortiz, Josiah Catalan, Max Roomsky und Jeeyoung Yoo. Mal vereinen sich beide Stimmen zu einer kaum voneinander unterscheidbaren Symbiose, mal wetteifern sie klar und virtuos um die Gunst des Publikums. Diese persönliche Kollektion zeitgenössischen Repertoires für diese ungewöhnliche, reduzierte, doch harmonische Besetzung zeigt die verschiedensten Soundfarben und Vielfältigkeit der klanglichen Möglichkeiten einer Alt- und einer Cello-Stimme in einem stimmungsvollen Aufführungsort mit außergewöhnlicher Akustik. # Eintritt - freie Spende # Das Konzert findet unter Einhaltung der verordneten Covid-19 Maßnahmen statt! # Um Voranmeldung wird gebeten: stimmkubator@gmail.com # Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von: Kulturverein StimmKubator, Land Steiermark A9 - Kultur, Europa, Sport, Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport, Stadt Graz Kultur, Steiermärkische Sparkasse, Grazer Wechselseitige, SKE Fonds, Katholische Hochschulgemeinde Graz, Kulturverein Achteck und Musik in KrumeggIn diesem Konzert verschmelzen die Klänge eines Violoncellos mit jenen einer Stimme, wobei das Paradoxon zwischen dem instrumentalen Klang einer menschlichen Stimme und dem gesangsähnlichen Sound eines Cellos, des „menschlichsten“ aller Instrumente, dazu einlädt, zeitgenössische Werke neu zu entdecken. Die Mezzosopranistin Helena Sorokina, Altistin des Grazer Vokalensembles Cantando Admont, und Myriam Garcia Fidalgo, Cellistin des in Graz beheimateten Schallfeld Ensembles präsentieren ihre Sammlung an Gesangs- und Spieltechniken anhand sorgsam ausgewählter Werke von u.a. Morton Feldman, Younghi Pagh-Paan und Onutė Narbutaitė und drei neuer Werke von Pablo Ortiz, Josiah Catalan, Max Roomsky und Jeeyoung Yoo. Mal vereinen sich beide Stimmen zu einer kaum voneinander unterscheidbaren Symbiose, mal wetteifern sie klar und virtuos um die Gunst des Publikums. Diese persönliche Kollektion zeitgenössischen Repertoires für diese ungewöhnliche, reduzierte, doch harmonische Besetzung zeigt die verschiedensten Soundfarben und Vielfältigkeit der klanglichen Möglichkeiten einer Alt- und einer Cello-Stimme in einem stimmungsvollen Aufführungsort mit außergewöhnlicher Akustik. # Eintritt - freie Spende # Das Konzert findet unter Einhaltung der verordneten Covid-19 Maßnahmen statt! # Um Voranmeldung wird gebeten: stimmkubator@gmail.com # Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von: Kulturverein StimmKubator, Land Steiermark A9 - Kultur, Europa, Sport, Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen…

For its first appearance at ManiFeste, the Austrian ensemble Schallfeld has chosen to focus on the adventure of the young Italian composer Maurizio Azzan, who set out on the traces of Ariadne. She who helped Theseus to destroy the Minotaur, embodies sleeping beauty, abandonment and solitude on her island, perplexity and doubt, all mythological and contemporary attributes. An intimate voice diffracted in the audience, the non-linear narration conceived by librettist Daniele Bellomi, Ariadne embodies wandering more than a marked path. From Ariadne to Beat Furrer's Aria, a family history emerges that explores dramaturgy in space and the constant ambiguity between instrumental and vocal. Between these two universes, the young composer Rachel Beja experiments with a new kind of music: strings, electronics, and the beating of a Daf, a large drum from the Persian tradition. Anna Piroli soprano Ensemble Schallfeld Leonhard Garms conductor Étienne Démoulin IRCAM computer-music design   Maurizio Azzan Ariadne - French premiere Rachel Beja Frammenti di memoria abolita - premiere 2021 commissiond by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou and the Divertimento ensemble with the support of the ULYSSES network, supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe program Beat Furrer Aria More info hereFor its first appearance at ManiFeste, the Austrian ensemble Schallfeld has chosen to focus on the adventure of the young Italian composer Maurizio Azzan, who set out on the traces of Ariadne. She who helped Theseus to destroy the Minotaur, embodies sleeping beauty, abandonment and solitude on her island, perplexity and doubt, all mythological and contemporary attributes. An intimate voice diffracted in the audience, the non-linear narration conceived by librettist Daniele Bellomi, Ariadne embodies wandering more than a marked path. From Ariadne to Beat Furrer's Aria, a family history emerges that explores dramaturgy in space and the constant ambiguity between instrumental and vocal. Between these two universes, the young composer Rachel Beja experiments with a new kind of music: strings, electronics, and the beating of a Daf, a large drum from the Persian tradition. Anna Piroli soprano Ensemble Schallfeld Leonhard Garms conductor Étienne Démoulin IRCAM computer-music design   Maurizio Azzan Ariadne - French premiere Rachel Beja Frammenti di memoria abolita - premiere 2021 commissiond by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou and the Divertimento ensemble with the support of the ULYSSES network, supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe program Beat Furrer Aria More info here For its first appearance at ManiFeste, the Austrian ensemble Schallfeld has chosen to focus on the adventure of the young Italian composer Maurizio Azzan, who set out on the traces of Ariadne. She who helped Theseus to destroy the Minotaur, embodies sleeping beauty, abandonment and solitude on…

Moving Surfaces Schallfeld Ensemble is presented for the first time at the Mostra Sonora de Sueca with a chamber music program articulated around two works by two of the most important authors in the international contemporary music scene: Beat Furrer and Giorgio Netti. The program will be completed by Charisma of Iannis Xenakis and two works by young composers with whom Schallfeld has developed a close collaboration over the years: Anahita Abassi and Diego Jiménez Tamame, both students at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz .   Giorgio  Netti  :   due  lune  più  in  là (clarinet, sax, cello, piano, percussion ) Beat Furrer: Aer (2010): clarinet, cello, piano Anahita Abassi: Moving Surfaces III / Another birth (Piano, Tenor Sax, Percussion )  I. Xenakis: Charisma (violoncello, clarinet) Diego Jiménez Tamame: …and they’ve got us in their cage, ruined of grace and senses… : clarinet and celloMoving Surfaces Schallfeld Ensemble is presented for the first time at the Mostra Sonora de Sueca with a chamber music program articulated around two works by two of the most important authors in the international contemporary music scene: Beat Furrer and Giorgio Netti. The program will be completed by Charisma of Iannis Xenakis and two works by young composers with whom Schallfeld has developed a close collaboration over the years: Anahita Abassi and Diego Jiménez Tamame, both students at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz .   Giorgio  Netti  :   due  lune  più  in  là (clarinet, sax, cello, piano, percussion ) Beat Furrer: Aer (2010): clarinet, cello, piano Anahita Abassi: Moving Surfaces III / Another birth (Piano, Tenor Sax, Percussion ) I. Xenakis: Charisma (violoncello, clarinet) Diego Jiménez Tamame: …and they’ve got us in their cage, ruined of grace and senses… : clarinet and celloMoving Surfaces Schallfeld Ensemble is presented for the first time at the Mostra Sonora de Sueca with a chamber music program articulated around two works by two of the most important authors in the international contemporary music scene: Beat Furrer and Giorgio Netti. The program will be completed by Charisma of Iannis Xenakis and two works by young composers with whom Schallfeld has developed a close collaboration over the years: Anahita Abassi and Diego Jiménez Tamame, both students at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz .   Giorgio  Netti  :   due  lune  più  in  là (clarinet, sax, cello, piano, percussion…

18.-22. July 2021, online The second Conference on AI Music Creativity brings together two overlapping research forums: The Computer Simulation of Music Creativity Conference (est. 2016) and The International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (est. 2012). The objective of the conference is to bring together scholars and artists interested in the emulation and extension of musical creativity through computational means and to provide them with an interdisciplinary platform in which to present and discuss their work in scientific and artistic contexts. The 2021 Conference on AI Music Creativity will be hosted by the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) of the University of Music and Performing Arts of Graz, Austria and held online. The five-day program will feature paper presentations, concerts, panel discussions, workshops, tutorials, sound installations and two keynotes. CALL FOR SCORES

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Schallfeld will be Ensemble in Residence in the next edition of the Impuls Festival and Academy. More info about our concerts will come soon!! Check the impuls website for updates! Special Programs with Ensemble Schallfeld Call for Scores + Reading Sessions + Feedback-Meetings   with Manuel Alcaraz Clemente Sound Session with Percussion   with Szilárd Benes (Bass-)Clarinet: Demonstration-Workshop and Call   with Elisa Azzarà and Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka Instruments + Voices . Call + Workshop                Schallfeld will be Ensemble in Residence in the next edition of the Impuls Festival and Academy. More info about our concerts will come soon!! Check the impuls website for updates! Special Programs with Ensemble Schallfeld Call for Scores + Reading Sessions + Feedback-Meetings   with Manuel Alcaraz Clemente Sound Session with Percussion   with Szilárd Benes (Bass-)Clarinet: Demonstration-Workshop and Call   with Elisa Azzarà and Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka Instruments + Voices . Call + Workshop   Schallfeld will be Ensemble in Residence in the next edition of the Impuls Festival and Academy. More info about our concerts will come soon!! Check the impuls website for updates! Special Programs with Ensemble Schallfeld Call for Scores + Reading Sessions + Feedback-Meetings   with Manuel Alcaraz Clemente Sound Session with Percussion   with Szilárd Benes (Bass-)Clarinet: Demonstration-Workshop and Call   with Elisa Azzarà and Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka Instruments + Voices . Call + Workshop                

Music by U. Rojko, E. Seyedi, U. Pompe, C. Castellarnau and P. Clift.Music by U. Rojko, E. Seyedi, U. Pompe, C. Castellarnau and P. Clift.

19h30 im MUMUTH GRAZ (Lichtenfelsgasse 14, György Ligeti Saal) Programm: Buoyant (2013), stereo electroacoustic Ear-Walking Woman (1996), prepared piano Ruth Anderson, I come out of your sleep (1979, revised 1997), 4-channel electroacoustic bayou–borne for Pauline (2016), six players, vocal and/or instrumental Ensemble Schallfeld Klangregie: Ulrich Gladisch Eintritt frei ACHTUNG: 18.10.2021, 14h00 (Inffeldgasse 10/3, IEM CUBE) signalegraz Interview und Lecture mit Annea Lockwood 20.10. - 22.10.2021, ganztägig im MUMUTH GRAZ (Lichtenfelsgasse 14, Foyer) Klanginstallation A Sound Map of the Housatonic River (2010), 4-channel sound installation   Signale Graz KUG-Home Signale Konzerte Rahmenprogramm Themen Links Downloads Freunde und Förderer Kontakt Programm: Buoyant (2013), stereo electroacoustic Ear-Walking Woman (1996), prepared piano Ruth Anderson, I come out of your sleep (1979, revised 1997), 4-channel electroacoustic bayou–borne for Pauline (2016), six players, vocal and/or instrumental Ensemble Schallfeld Klangregie: Ulrich Gladisch Eintritt frei ACHTUNG: 18.10.2021, 14h00 (Inffeldgasse 10/3, IEM CUBE) signalegraz Interview und Lecture mit Annea Lockwood 20.10. - 22.10.2021, ganztägig im MUMUTH GRAZ (Lichtenfelsgasse 14, Foyer) Klanginstallation A Sound Map of the Housatonic River (2010), 4-channel sound installation   Signale Graz KUG-Home Signale Konzerte Rahmenprogramm Themen Links Downloads Freunde und Förderer Kontakt Konzertbeginn: 19h30 im MUMUTH GRAZ (Lichtenfelsgasse 14, György Ligeti Saal) Programm: Buoyant (2013), stereo electroacoustic Ear-Walking Woman (1996), prepared piano Ruth Anderson, I come out of your sleep (1979, revised 1997), 4-channel electroacoustic bayou–borne for Pauline (2016), six players, vocal and/or instrumental Ensemble Schallfeld Klangregie: Ulrich Gladisch Eintritt frei ACHTUNG: 18.10.2021, 14h00 (Inffeldgasse 10/3, IEM CUBE) signalegraz Interview und Lecture mit Annea Lockwood 20.10. - 22.10.2021, ganztägig im MUMUTH GRAZ (Lichtenfelsgasse 14, Foyer) Klanginstallation A Sound Map of the Housatonic River (2010), 4-channel sound installation