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HKU Spectrum #1: soundscape for art exhibition

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HKU Spectrum is a project concept, concerning electroacoustic compositions from Utrecht School of the Arts, in collaboration with various art forms. This concept is founded by Konstantinos Vasilakos & Augusto Meijer.

HKU Spectrum in collaboration with Fine Arts: URBAN SPECTATOR 

Augusto has created a soundscape for a temporarily art exhibition in Hilversum: “Made in Hilversum”. The concept is to create a mixture of fine art pieces being enriched by electroacoustic sounds, played back in the space. The resulting exhibition is called Urban Spectator.

The soundscape consists of various electroacoustic works which are chained after each other.
Composers:  Olivier Schreuder, Arjen Jongeneel, Jannick Oeben, Augusto Meijer.

HKU Spectrum is on facebook


Unheardfilm, the battle: soundtrack competition nominee

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Unheard filmfestival: The battle

The Battle has become a permanent feature of the festival: students at European art and music academies go head to head to compose the best sound score for short films (including several from the EYE archives). Future sound designers and composers choose from a selection of five short films to win a place in the finals. The 15 best entries will be screened to the public and contestants will explain their compositions during a Q&A session at the end.

This year (2011), Augusto’s soundtrack was nominated in the competition, thus screened @ eye institute, Amsterdam.

Submission:

Bioluminescence & Landschappen @ 230 volt (online radioshow)

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“Landschappen” & “Bioluminescence” were presented on a Dutch online radioshow called “230 volt”. “23o volt” is part of a big online radio network called Concertzender. “Landschappen” & “Bioluminescence” are electroacoustic pieces composed by Augusto Meijer.

The streaming is available on demand, so you’ll be able to catch up at any time!

 

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

 

‘Fenestra’ @ GLOW Light-art Festival 2010

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photo: Klaartje Esch

photo: Klaartje Esch

about GLOW:

photo: Tim Bruijninckx

photo: Tim Bruijninckx

GLOW – International Forum of Light in Art and Architecture
Eindhoven 2010 I 5th Edition I ‘(Re-)Discovering Eindhoven’

Due to the dedication of CityDynamiek Eindhoven, from November, 6th to 13th, 2010, the city center of Eindhoven turns again into a forum of interventions, installations, performances and events based on the phenomena of artificial light.

about ‘Fenestra’:

During GLOW Galerie Van de Water and Stichting PEK, Platform Artists from Eindhoven, work together to show light art by young artists from Brabant. Jaap van den Elzen presents his light installation Fenestra for the Don Bosco Square, supported by a soundscape of Augusto Meyer. Van den Elzen uses the windows on the square and transforms them into a layered, spatial composition of light and color. The soundscape enhances the experience by reflecting appropriate materials, emotion and shapes into a world of electronic sound.
Suzanne van Rest shows her installations Space Between Thoughts and Soft Warmth of Southern air. Opening hours from 19.00 – 22.00 hrs.

Galerie van de Water – www.galerievandewater.nl Jaap van den Elzen – www.jaapvandenelzen.nl
Stichting PEK – www.stichtingpek.nl GLOW 2010 – www.gloweindhoven.nl

Bioluminescence @ Experimentarium

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Bioluminescence is an electroacoustic composition project by Augusto Meijer

The Bioluminescence piece is mainly composed for a sound&light installation exhibited at the Senses exhibition in the Experimentarium, Copenhagen. This is a great opportunity to present electroacoustic music for a young new audience! Augusto Meijer composed an electronic piece for the sound installation.

SENSES – new temporary exhibition

Are you a super smeller? A taste specialist with ‘power vision’? And why can dogs hear frequencies that you can’t? Experimentarium’s major new temporary exhibition SENSES, which is all about the amazing senses of humans and animals.

We can touch, smell, taste, see and hear the world around us. At the Senses exhibition, you get the chance to test it all and compare your senses with others – both humans and animals.

More info on SENSES, or experimentarium? visit:

http://www.experimentarium.dk/index.php?id=3021

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The sound of Bioluminescence is captured in a wooden structure, designed by Jaap van den Elzen, who also designed an experience of Light for the Exhibition. The Bioluminescence piece is played back via 6 loudspeakers situated around the structure. People who enter this wooden structure are being surrounded by the mystical soundworld of Bioluminescence.

http://www.jaapvandenelzen.nl/

Bioluminescence @ ISMIR 2010

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About Bioluminescence:

“Bioluminescence” is a mystical journey of sound, which display’s the world of bioluminescent creatures that live in the great depths of our oceans. “Bioluminescence” is primarily made for an art installation project, in which both light-art and the “Bioluminescence” piece attempt to trigger our senses to experience this journey. There is a second version of the piece made for concert performances.

About ISMIR

The Eleventh International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010) is held in Utrecht, Netherlands, from August 9th to 13th, 2010.

Since its inception in 2000, ISMIR has been the world’s leading forum for research on the modelling, creation, searching, processing and use of musical data. As the term Music Information Retrieval (MIR) indicates, this research is motivated by the desire to provide music lovers, music professionals and music industry with robust, effective and usable methods and tools to help them locate, retrieve and experience the music they wish to have access to. MIR is a truly interdisciplinary area, involving researchers from the disciplines of musicology, cognitive science, library and information science, computer science and many others.

After ISMIR’s scientific program on the 11th of August, the Utrecht School of Music and Technology (USMuT) presented a concert.
This 1 hour concert took place in the K&W gebouw (conservatory) in Utrecht.

program

Three compositions for prepared piano, Disklavier-grand piano and electronics performed by Sonsoles Alonso

  • Niek Lucassen: “Short Piece for Prepared Piano”
  • Ben Wallet: “Oh, Aarde bestel mij nu meteen, timmer zes planken om mij heen”
  • Rogier van Straten: “Improvisation for piano, Disklavier en electronics”

Three compostitions for various electronics

  • Konstantinos Vasilakos: “…” voor singing voice, Petzhold-blokfluit en electronics.
  • Laurens van der Wee: “Cake” for analogue synthesizer and sonic improvisation system.
  • Augusto Meijer: “Bioluminescence” for fixed media and 4 loudspeakers.


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.