ISCM 2011 World new music days – dutch section selection

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The dutch section of the ISCM organisation, has announced there national selection of dutch composers to be submidded for the ISCM 2011 world new music days. ‘Bioluminescence’, an electroacoustic composition by Augusto Meijer is one of six composers selected for submission. Unfortunately, Bioluminescence didn’t make it to the final International selection.

excerpt of ‘Bioluminescence’: click here

Composers selected by the dutch ISCM section:

Juan Felipe Waller (1971)                             Plato-Plastic Dialogues for percussion ensemble and electronics. (2010, 12’)

www.felipewaller.com

Marcel Wierckx (1970)                                  ZinTuig, for electric guitar and multimedia (2009, 5’30”)

www.lownorth.nl/

Bart Spaan (1963)                                            Sur place: interior, electronic music (2010, 9’32”);

www.xs4all.nl/~bspaan

Augusto Meijer (1988)                                    Bioluminescence, electronic music (2010, 14’)

https://augustomeijer.wordpress.com/

Peter Bosch/Simone Simons (1958)            Bang Spring Time Sound sculpture

www.boschsimons.com

About ISCM

The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) is an important international network of members from around fifty countries, devoted to the promotion and presentation of contemporary music – the music of our time. ISCM has had a distinguished history. From its foundation in Salzburg in 1922, a receptiveness to aesthetic and stylistic diversity has been a characteristic of the Society. Today more than ever with the incredible diversity which exists in contemporary musical expression around the world, this ideal is still strongly supported by ISCM members.

Each year, ISCM presents the <!– –>World Music Days Festival<!– –> , hosted by one of ISCM’s members, which provides a feast of contemporary music across a broad range of contemporary practice. The host nation has some flexibility in determining the individual themes that drive the programming of the Festival, either presenting a showcase of activity from around the world, or applying other criteria for the selection and programming of works.

Landschappen @ ICMC 2010

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‘Landschappen’, a 17 minute electroacoustic piece, was accepted for programming at the International Computer Music Conference 2010, in New York. The piece was played on june 4th 2010, Tabler theatre Stony Brook University.

Listen to Bioluminescence & Landschappen @ “230 volt” 01/31/2011, de Concertzender

about ICMC:

The ICMC is the preeminent annual gathering for computer music practitioners from around the world and its unique interweaving of professional paper presentations and concerts of new computer music, refereed by ICMA- approved international panels, creates a vital synthesis of science, technology and the art of music.

For more information, visit http://www.icmc2010.org/index.html and http://www.computermusic.org/page/23/

LAC: Linux Audio Conference 2010

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The Linux Audio Conference is an international conference about Open Source Software for music, sound and other media with Linux as the main platform.

The Linux Audio Conference audience consists of software designers, programmers, musicians, composers, engineers and others with a serious interest in Open Source Software for Music and Sound.

As part of the conference’s concerts, Augusto was asked to perform the piece ‘Landschappen‘. The concert took place in a small theatre in Utrecht, and was performed together with  a theatre performance act by Arianna Cattini and Drosula Tsangaratou.

For more information about the conference, please visit:

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/?page=about

A Blind Date? 2010

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Put a choreographer and a composer together and instruct them to make a presentation within two weeks, from scratch, based on a theme. That is, in short, the purpose of the yearly workshop called A Blind Date? This is also organised this year.

The participating choreographers and composers are students from Rotterdam Dance Academy and Utrecht School of Music and Technology. For Rotterdam Dance Academy the fourth-year students of the Bachelor of Dance programme, specialisation Choreography take part: Gizem Bilgen, Rita Soeiro, Guillermo Blinker and Chun-ho Lam.

The students work in groups. During the workshop are a few miniperformances before a so called feedback team, which consists of guest teachers. This team judges the interaction between the students and the contents of the productions, among others. With the presentation on February 11 2010 in the Theaterzaal of the Codarts building at Kruisplein the students conclude the workshop.

Augusto Meijer collaborated with Guillermo Blinker.
This years theme was “contemporarily”.
What if a person got caught up in a loop, somewhere between his life and death? This idea is explored and exposed in a 12 minute performance.
Above this tekst, you can watch a short excerpt from the performance.

Free State of Amsterdam

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As its contribution to the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), the Municipality of Amsterdam presents the city of Amsterdam as a “Free State” – a place where designers display their ideas about a free and open future – in the exhibition The Free State of Amsterdam (Amsterdam Vrijstaat). Amsterdam wants to give new meaning to the saying “The city’s air is liberating”.

Nine firms of young urban planners from Amsterdam and Rotterdam have therefore fleshed out their vision of freedom and planning in nine largescale models for various areas of their proposed metropolis. The designers only wish to present strategies and ideas, not actual plans. To avoid even a hint of official blue-printing, they continue to work on their models during the Biennale, integrating ongoing input and thus making the exhibition a true workplace that reveals its full potential only towards the end.

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Karres & Brands was one of these firms.
Lars J. Brouwer, Mark Thur and Augusto Meijer, have created a sound installation for their largescale model.
They attempted to capture the ‘sound of Amsterdam’ and place it around the maquette.
Various famous speeches and anecdotes from citizens of Amsterdam are blended with environmental sounds in this installation.

E-live 2010

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The E-live concert is part of a festival for New Music.
Performers and musicians/composers from the Utrecht school of the Arts, performed their pieces in this beautiful location:

The Nicolaïkerk (St. Nicholas church) is a medieval church in the southern part of the old city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. This building is the home of two very interesting instruments, the organ built by Marcussen and the carillon built by the famous Hemony brothers (17th century). These instruments are the backbone for a series of concerts, which are organised each year by the Stichting Culturele Evenementen Nicolaïkerk (Foundation for Cultural Events in the Nicolaïkerk ).

'Landschappen' with Sara Licher & Arianna Cattini

'Consensual science'

Augusto’s piece ‘Landschappen’ was performed at this concert, which involved a modern dance improvisation.
Collaboration with:  Sara Licher, Arianna Cattini, Wim h. De Vries.
Also, he collaborated with Arjan de Wit and Michael Dzjaparidze for a second e-live performance.
Together they did an experiment with software programming and classical instruments. Augusto was involved in the composing process.
The end result is ‘Concensual science’.

Technology Penetrates Tradition

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Experimental mix of acoustic and electronic music! On the 14 days informal congregation of 20 young talented musicians in Ohrid, Macedonia, organizers tried to squeeze the very best of talents and present it to international audience.

The traditional ways v.s. the advantages of technology, Technology Penetrates Tradition – NL/MK was the first of a series of projects that offered a platform for young people to promote and propagate their culture, learn about other cultures in Europe, propagate cultural diversity and create a network of intercultural dialogue.

The participants explored the differences in each others culture, the different way of life, different perceptions of the cultures surrounding them, embraced those differences and communicated with each other by creating and playing music.

Period: 9th – 23rd July 2009

Place: Various locations in Ohrid, Macedonia

Coaches: Gerard van Wolferen, Hans Timmermans, Marcel Wierckx, Slobodan Bajić and Katerina Pejoska

Coordinators: Katerina Pejoska & Aleksandar Velinovski

Participants:

Laurens Joannes van der Wee
Martijn Jasper Duiven
Wesley Wai Win Wong
Sjoerd van den Sanden
Rutger Muller
Mark Ijzerman
Joost Spanjerberg
Robin Koek
Nolan Wessel Smeets
Augusto Meijer

Lejla Bekiri
Nikola Vaskov
Goran Petrovski
Irena Petrovska
Xhezire Aliti
Shkëlzen Pajaziti
Aleksandar Spasovski
Branislav Gerazov
Vladimir Krstevski
Ilija Volkan
This project was initiated by the Zoey Foundation for Arts and Culture.
For more information on the Zoey Foundation, please visit: http://www.zfac.org/

The pieces were performed in various cafe’s in Ohrid, and as a part of the ‘highlands of the lowlands’  filmfestival, again in Ohrid.
This filmfestival was part of the Ohrid summer festival.

Blind date 2009

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danceperformance by: Lucie Burton, Katrin Langner, Augusto Meijer

‘a Blind date 2009’ is an interdisciplinair project for modern dance, scenography and composition (electronic music).
The project is an intense collaboration between these 3 disciplines. In just 3 weeks, a dance performance is made and performed at the Codarts academy, in Rotterdam. The process was guided by  Beppie Blankert, Maarten Kastelijns, and Hans Timmermans.

participants:

Choreography:
Lucie Burton,  Tatiana Eranosyan, Katarzyna Sitarz, Benedit MacIsaac
Scenography:
Katrin Langner, Danielle Boer, Marieke Veenstra, Brechje Schoen
Composition:
Augusto Meijer, Tanaquil Schuttel, Than van Nispen, Laurens van der Wee.

Al quds underground

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Merlijn and his partner organisations organize more than 150 performances in small and private spaces, to bring the focus on personal, intimate stories. In this way they avoid politics or nationalism, but emphasize the human size and the direct contact between people with diverse cultural backgrounds.

One of the performances involved a skype connection between Amsterdam and Jeruzalem.
This connection made a live jamsession between Amsterdam and Jeruzalem possible.
Lars J Brouwer, Laurens van der Wee and Augusto Meijer were involved in realizing this idea.