To hear on Sunday 3 and 10 February 2013, 2pm - 9pm
over the BassBox loudspeaker installation in the ohrenhoch basement:
ΜΑΓΜΑ
(Premiere)
by Thanos Chrysakis
Thanos Chrysakis on 'ΜΑΓΜΑ' [30:38]:
'Magma' is a half-hour long electroacoustic piece, composed between June 2010—July 2011. Myriads of colliding sounds coalesce and interact in an abstract sonic dramaturgy of magmatic textures that transfigure the boundaries between experimental electronics, electro-acoustic, ambient, glitch, and microsound.
Thanos Chrysakis' output consists of composition, performance, and installation. He was born in Athens in 1971, residing in the UK since 1998. With several albums to his name his work has also appeared in festivals and events in several countries.
He composes for electronics, acoustic instruments and environmental sounds, focusing on the structural, aesthetic and transfigured capacity of sonic matter.
His work was amongst the selected works at the International Competition de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges 2005, in the category œuvre d'art sonore électroacoustique, while received an honorary mention in 2006 at the 7th International Electroacoustic Competition Musica Viva in Lisbon.
He has also recorded/performed with a number of improvisers including among others Wade Matthews, Dario Bernal-Villegas, Jerry Wigens, James O'Sullivan, Philip Somervell, Jamie Coleman, Chris Cundy, Zsolt S?rés, Sebastian Lexer, Artur Vidal.
Current and upcoming projects for 2013-14 include a residency at Visby centre for composers in Sweden, a series of compositions for Wilfrido Terrazas (flutes), Natalia Pérez Turner (cello), Tzenka Dianova (piano), and Dana Jessen (bassoon) as well a new electronic music CD entitled ‘Above the hidden track an endless blaze’.