FLOATING SOUND GALLERY

Vienna

A C O U S M O N I U M 2 0 2 4

M a y 0 9 - second day

International festival of multichannel electroacoustic music
curated by Anton Iakhontov (Patrick K.-H.), Armando Balice and Alisa Beck | a co-production of the Floating Sound Gallery Vienna, Alcôme and echoraum

Entry
^{per day —
EUR 10 / EUR 7 (reduced) | all three days — EUR 24 / EUR 18 (reduced)}

^{Doors open at 18.30 Uhr
Performances start at 19.00}

︎echoraum
Sechshauser Straße 66
1150 Wien

About the Event

ACOUSMONIUM festival was launched by the Floating Sound Gallery as an annual platform for international artists in 2018 at the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theater St.Petersburg. It offers a platform of the “loudspeakers orchestra”, proposed by Francois Bayle in 1974 as an environment for live concert situation of electronically made music, to communicate the works of experimental genres.

This year we enjoy the collaboration with a contemporary classic - Alcôme of France, who are not only bringing their program but also their loudspeakers system.

Programme
@echoraum

09 MAY

x Paul Ramage

Avec mon amour (quand même) (10’) 2024 / PREMIERE
commissioned by Alcôme
Détours de manège (10’) 2019

x Thomas Grill

blueprinting (15’) 2024 / PREMIERE
realized with the support of BMKÖS Jahresstipendium Komposition

x Zeynep Sarıkartal

Verkohlt Unter derselben Sonne,
first act is: Die Erde (11’) 2023/24
supported by Kompositionsförderung MA7
(Anna K. Frommann: Voice, Performance, Zehra Dogan: Art Works, Ruth Pishler: Sound Reactive Visuals, Andreas Pronegg : Dramaturgical Assistance)
Taste of Pearl (8'47’’) 2023
video by Ulduz Ahmadzadeh

x “petites formes 2024“

Acousmatic Composition Competition (Canada, France, Japan, Taiwan) 10th anniversary, a selection of various laureats presented and performed by Christian Eloy (about 50')

x Christian Eloy

FOLD-IN (8'10) 2017

Avec mon amour (quand même) (10’) 2024 / PREMIERE
by Paul Ramage

commissioned by Alcôme

Détours de manège (10’) 2019
by Paul Ramage

Paul Ramage is a violinist, improvisational musician and composer. After meeting Didier Lockwood, he became interested in jazz and improvised music. At the same time, he continued his studies in classical violin at the Conservatory of Cergy-Pontoise, graduating with a diploma in jazz and violin. He then completed studies in electroacoustic composition at the Paris Conservatory and a master's degree in electroacoustic composition at INA_GRM.

At IRCAM he completed the course in composition and computer music. Composer of about fifty acousmatic, mixed or instrumental works, he has performed internationally (France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Romania, United Kingdom, Japan, United States, China...). He has received numerous awards and currently teaches composition and sound design at the Conservatoire and the Pôle Supérieur de Paris, and is a member of ALCÔME.

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blueprinting (15’) 2024 / PREMIERE
by Thomas Grill

realized with the support of BMKÖS Jahresstipendium Komposition

Individual bachelor and master studies of Interactive Electronic Instruments at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Doctoral degree in Composition and Music Theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz.

Scientific research in fields of sound perception, analysis and modeling, interactive electronic instruments and artificial intelligence. Development of commercial and open-source software, electronic instruments and interactive media systems. Conception and realization of multi-media installations and live electronics in the context of contemporary music. Scientific publications, lectures and workshops at international institutions and conferences.

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Verkohlt Unter derselben Sonne,
first act: Die Erde (11’) 2023/24
by Zeynep Sarıkartal

supported by Kompositionsförderung MA7
(Anna K. Frommann: Voice, Performance, Zehra Dogan: Art Works, Ruth Pishler: Sound Reactive Visuals, Andreas Pronegg : Dramaturgical Assistance)

Taste of Pearl (8'47’’) 2023
by Zeynep Sarıkartal

video by Ulduz Ahmadzadeh

Zeynep Sarıkartal (1985, Ankara) is a sound-artist, improviser and researcher. She studied classical Piano in Ankara Bilkent Music School, had her Bachelor from Musicology in Istanbul Yildiz Technical University and her MA in University of Vienna in Ethnomusicology. Since 2010 she is based in Vienna and works as composer, improviser and sound artist in theater, film and multimedia projects, curates events, publishes articles, performs under the moniker ZS ZS. She mostly collaborated with musicians from the fields of experimental, noise, flashcore, extratone and other related genres. From 2016 on, she started to develop creative research projects that focuses on the concept of social death. ZS ZS live performances are about exploring and merging harsh, rhythmical and atmospheric soundscapes together with text and field recordings within a dramaturgical concept.

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“petites formes 2024“

Acousmatic Composition Competition (Canada, France, Japan, Taiwan) 10th anniversary, a selection of various laureats presented and performed by Christian Eloy (about 50')

FOLD-IN (8'10) 2017
by Christian Eloy

Acousmatic piece – dedicated to Ying-Chien Wang, highly talented ehru performer
Commissioned by Taiwan Music Institute and TPMC for International Taiwan Music Festival 2017

Fold-in is an acousmatic piece whose sounds come entirely from this instrument, very popular in Asia: the erhu, sometimes called the Chinese violin.
During the sound recordings, some characters of the instrument immediately asserted themselves: a very active tone, huge energy, a very marked timbre, a very long and intense sustain of the bow, a wide register of dynamics and highly varied play modes.
The reverse side of these strong characters is that here we have a highly identifiable instrument,
sometimes connoted, whose genes are perceptible in all the manipulations.
The fold-in refers to techniques used in literature, with permutations, by William S. Burroughs and Brian
Gysin in the years 1950 to 1960, whose work The Third Mind combines these different experiences.
These techniques naturally bring to mind the techniques for editing concrete music in its beginnings, then for editing electroacoustic music with the development of a true language arising from these elementar manipulations; the different experiences with collective works and exquisite cadavers practised in the nineteen sixties by French experimental studios will also be remembered (GRM, GMEB).
I have therefore retained these strong characters of the erhu (tone, sostenuto, timbre, pizzicato etc.) keeping the morphologies, the “allure“ and other Schaefferian criteria, in order then to construct the discourse in a relatively simplicity of editing and mixing, including processes similar to fold-in.
Thank you to Ying-Chien, for these precious sounds.

Christian Eloy (1945, Amiens, France) is a French composer who studied flute at the Conservatoire national de région in Amiens, then furthermore at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique (CNSM) in Paris.

He taught electro-acoustic composition at the Conservatoire national de région in Bordeaux. He worked within the electro-acoustic music assisted by computer workshop of the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) and at city of Paris. Also, he was teaching musicology in the universities of Bordeaux I & Bordeaux III. He's the founding member of composer's association Octandre and he director of the Studio de création et de recherche en informatique musicale électroacoustique (SCRIME) at the University of Bordeaux 1.

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Supported by / Gefördert von
Stadt Wien Kultur, BMKÖS, SKE austromechana, echoraum, ALCÔME, Sacem and Copie Privée

petites formes

Special thanks to SONORA music