1. One City Away - Estelle Schorpp
“One City Away” is from her recent Bandcamp release “ In My Ears (for Maryanne)”' which is a tribute to the work of American composer and sound artist Maryanne Amacher. Algorithmically composed using SuperCollider, the album highlights several aspects of her work: amplitude dynamics, sound-walk-inspired temporal structure, and above all, the musical exploration of distortion product otoacoustic emissions*. The composition encourages the creation of "perceptual geographies," to use Amacher’s terms, by making space, body and ear resonate at the same time. Thus, by alternating scales of perception within the temporality of an unfolding landscape, 'In My Ears (for Maryanne)' is a sound experience that is both delicate and visceral, essentially physical.
Estelle Schorpp is a French-born and Montreal-based sound artist, composer and researcher active in the field of experimental music and sound ecology. Integrating concepts from disciplines such as sound ecology, sound studies, media theory, history of science, acoustics and psychoacoustics, her polymorphous approach combines performance, sound installation and algorithmic composition. Her work is founded by several research and creation grants and has been presented internationally at festivals such as La Biennale di Venezia (IT), Ars Electronica (AT), MUTEK (MX, CA, AR, JP), Akousma (CA), FIMAV (CA), Le Mans Sonore (FR), Exhibitronic (FR, DE), MuTeFest.
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3. Shane Turner - rumors, approximated
︎rumors, approximated is an exploration of synthesis, vocals (Simone Pitot/Delorca), and a model combining the two.
Charting sensory discord: the constant dissolution and resynthesis of the senses experienced while moving between conflicting sensory regimes over the course of a particularly dynamic year. Complete information ecosystems, fed by private algorithms that reflected and molded their permissible sensoriums, ran headlong into collision while cultural schisms arose over the basis of old and nascent forms of expression.
Shane Turner is a composer who is drawn to the mutable boundaries and properties of acousmatic music as a way of expressing experiences omitted by essentialism. Their music encompasses solo fixed works, audio for installations, popular forms in soundtracks, as well as group performances with live electronics and synthesis. Shane's works have been released on the Panospria Label under NoType, by the CEC, and performed at various festivals, including Mutek. They studied electroacoustic music composition at Concordia University.
4. Horacio Vaggione Gymell I & Gymell III
Vaggione treats sculpted sounds you’ve never imagined as raw material, shaping and molding it in ways that burst the borders of what's possible by stretching and compressing the multi-layered sources of interwoven audio splinters into fastly lit and intricate timbral tapestries. This rich domain of sonic architectures that sway between delicate & ethereal towards a vigorous viscerality that at times can emit an unpredictable rhythmic cadence that utterly defies traditional structures yet can still carry a multi-scanned momentum that keeps any listener engaged on the edge of their seats.
Gymel I We can think of the active (corpuscular) principle of these Gymel by drawing inspiration from the words of Bachelard (1932): “The corpuscle has no more reality than the composition which makes it appear”. And again: “Suffice it to say that the existence of the corpuscle has a root in all space.” This explains not only the unreality of the corpuscle —if it is not inhabited by the composition— but also the reality of the space where it appears as continuity.
Horacio Vaggione (Argentina, 1943), has lived in Paris since 1978. Composition studies at the National University of Cordoba, then doctorate in musicology at the University of Paris VIII. Studied computer music at the University of Illinois (1966). Co-founder of the Center for Experimental Music at the University of Cordoba (1965-68), member of the electronic music group ALEA of Madrid (1969-73), he worked in France at IRCAM, at INA- GRM, at GMEB. Resident in Berlin (DAAD, 1987-1988). Between 1989 and 2012 he was full Professor (composition and research) at the University of Paris VIII, where he is currently Professor Emeritus.