Cross-disciplinary approaches in time-based art – lecture/artist talk

15/06/2023


Together with Valentina Besegher Scotti (visual artist, curator) we will discuss our artistic research and the interdisciplinary outcomes of our joint project Labor Neunzehn, at the intersection of time-based art practices.

Selected duo works in terms of material and spatial organisation (sound installation, live audiovisual performance, video art) will be presented and discussed, while an overview of our personal research on topics such as the space of resonance, the use of the archive and found footage will be offered. Extracts, including scores, sketches, video and sound recordings, will support the presentation.

Professor: Dimitri Papageorgiou

Details
Date: May 15 Time:
18:30 – 20:30

Event Category: LectureVenue
Foyer School of Music Studies
Thermi University Campus
Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 57001 + Google Map

Organizer
School of Music Studies, A.U.Th

www.mus.auth.gr/en/musevent/cross-disciplinary-approaches-in-time-based-art

Music Current Festival

12/04/2023



As a recipient of the 2022/23 Music Current Commission Award my piece Calanchi receives its premiere at this year’s Festival at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin.

“Calanchi” frames a series of musical objects, or musical thoughts for piano and guitar, that investigate concavity, erosion, friction, pressure and dynamic voids in sound, as well as the chromatic qualities of these two chordophones. The premiere of the piece is performed by Izumi Kimura (piano) and Shane Latimer (electric guitar).

In the context of the festival I partecipate to the panel discussion “Beyond Pitch: perspectives on new music composition methods” along with the composers Francis Heery, Michael Maierhof, Natacha Diels, the pianist Izumi Kimura, and the visual artist Jaki Irvine.

The project is kindly supported by www.goethe.de/culturemoveseurope

Award 2022/23
Music Current Commission Call
Music Current Festival
Dublin Soundlab

debole forza for piano and ebow (revision premiere)

31/01/2023

I am pleased to be working on a revision of my original piece “debole forza” (2010, for piano and e-bow) now commissioned by the American-Canadian pianist Andrew Zhou. The revised piece will be premiered in Berlin in a double-bill concert for piano (Andrew Zhou) and clarinet (Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson) on January 31, 2023.

https://www.laborneunzehn.org/hypotesis-w-andrew-zhou-and-ingolfur-vilhjalmsson/

The concert is produced with the generous support from the Perspektive Kultur programme of the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa of Berlin.

CANCELLED – New audiovisual work by Besegher/Massobrio at the Tehran International Electronic Music Festival – TIEMF

08/12/2022

Due to the current situation in the country, the ‘Tehran International Electronic Music Festival’ has been postponed until next year. I would like to follow the festival organisers in their decision to “show our solidarity and unity with the people and their movement” as well as in their hope “that next year this festival be held in a ‘free’ Iran and under more favourable conditions”.

https://tiemf.com/

SOUND

composition :: improvisation :: sound for film and installation :: audiovisual performances
  • Calanchi (view score)

    composition

    for piano and electric guitar
    Izumi Kimura, Shane Latimer

    2022

  • Lichtbrechungen

    composition

    for clarinet, alto sax, flute, accordion
    Klangforum Wien & PPCM Graz

    2021

  • Senza – miniatura #3

    composition

    for piano and percussion

    2020

  • Senza – miniatura #2

    composition

    for piano and percussion

    2020

  • Senza – miniatura #1

    composition

    2020

  • Senza (view score)

    composition

    for piano and percussion
    Yumi Suehiro, Josh Perry (Ensemble Mise-en)

    2019/2020

  • Villa Deati

    composition

    for string trio

    2018

  • Jenner

    composition, film, audiovisual

    archive, e-guitar, live electronics
    Alessandro Massobrio: e-guitar, pedals, field-recorder
    Valentina Besegher: video, text

    2016

  • …a lungo (view score)

    composition

    for piano
    Marc Tritschler

    2014

  • Geneva / Chapter One

    composition, installation, film

    A film by Valentina Besegher

    2013 - 2015

  • Studi fenomenologici:legno (view score)

    composition

    for e-guitar
    Alessandro Massobrio

    2013

  • Studi di contrazione

    composition

    For e-guitar

    2013

  • Non v’è cosa (view score)

    composition

    for Accordion, Sax, Cello and Percussion (without percussionist)
    Ensemble LUX:NM

    2012

  • Emergences (view score)

    composition

    for large ensemble or 22 instrumentalists

    2011

  • debole forza (view score)

    composition

    for piano and ebows
    (Anselm Kiefer - Die berühmten Orden der Nacht)
    Julia Den Boer

    2010

  • A Narration About Some Hunks of Matter#2

    composition, improvisation

    for 8 loudspeakers
    space-audio samples © University of Iowa instruments on Voyager and Cassini spacecrafts

    2010

  • In-tra (ii)

    composition

    for double bass and live electronics

    2010

  • Emergences for guitar (view score)

    composition

    for e-guitar and analog reverb unit
    Alessandro Massobrio

    2009

  • Pale Blue Meadows

    composition

    for 4 e-guitars
    Zwerm electric guitar quartet

    2008

  • Bad Horse

    composition, improvisation

    e-guitar, audio mixer, analog reverb unit
    Alessandro Massobrio

    2007

  • Submerged Choirs (view score)

    composition

    for electric guitar, tape recorder, reverberation system
    Variable loop lenght

    2005

  • Xi Cigny – Studi d’attrazione e gravitazione (view score)

    composition

    for e-guitar and Holiest Grail
    Matthias Koole

    2004

  • In-tra (i)

    improvisation

    analog tape reverb, mixer, custom software

    2001

ABOUT

me

I am an independent musician, composer, coder, and cultural worker. My sound research focuses on temporality and the proximity of listening and thinking.



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www.alessandromassobrio.com
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