54 Electroacoustic Miniatures
Catalogue Number: HEM001
Release Year: 2015
Format: Double CD Deluxe Edition, File Download
Compilation Producer: Katerina Tzedaki
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A few words about this edition
The idea of producing a CD with music composed by members of the Hellenic Electroaoustic Music Composers’ Association, was in the air for years. Many times this topic had been discussed by the Board of Directors or by the Association’s General Assembly. Around 2010 the Board of Directors, decided to propose a type of edition, which could include compositions of all members willing to contribute. The miniature form seemed to be the most viable possibility. The composers were instructed to create a composition unfolding in ‘the shortest possible length of time’. We thought that this guideline would be a kind of invitation to create self-contained and brief musical works, representative of each composer’s musical aesthetics. Today, four years later, we are fortunate to have completed this edition. This long listening ‘journey’ of compressed and ex-panded time, includes 54 works by 54 composers of three generations. Enjoy the listening!
Foreword by Simon Emmerson
Is there a ‘sound’ to Greek electroacoustic music? Well, not really – it is precisely the range of sound on this CD that is a major part of its extraordinary value. But maybe there is a special ap- proach to sound, a special sensibility. It seems that there is something in the ‘air’ – maybe the sound has its own special ‘breath’ and Greek composers speak its language and have gained a sensitivity to its inner nature. The landscape is one theme many of us hear in the music - easiest to describe but in fact there is not one approach here but many. In some of the works the land- scape (including human and urban sounds) seems to speak to us directly close to, person to person, while in others a sense of great distance draws us in deeper, calling us from afar - we seek in our listening to explore, to follow, to move inwards. And in yet others we travel some- where, blown about by the forces unleashed within the sound.
This landscape changes all the time of course. ‘Soundscape’ is interpreted differently now than 30 years ago. Now we hear more glitchy noise - both analogue and digital - that speaks of the electrical circuits all around us. Yet there remains a feel for its reality in the world, it seems to have real physical presence. I can almost see and feel it alongside the wind or the sea with its own particular spirit. All the works in this collection speak of the passions, conflicts, archetypes and their stories which have been part of the fabric of Greek culture for so long. The miniature form gives us a generous glimpse of a potentially larger view – yet succinct and to the point.
There is often a special intensity about this soundworld, something that I have heard as a constant theme since my first revelatory experience of Greek electroacoustic music at the Herodus Atticus Theatre in Athens in 1977. And now over 50 composers working at such a level in this field is a fantastic achievement - both collective and individual. The growth has been so successful that there is now a world-wide Greek diaspora of practice in this field which is shown in the range of localities now covered by members of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA). This shows a passionate commitment to the world of music made with sound that goes beyond the traditional methods of the arts in many ways. It creates new possibilities in culture, in education – that is in life itself.
Simon Emmerson, London, July 2014
Tracklist
1. Michael Adamis - Piece 1 02:05
2. Dimitris Kamarotos - What I Think of U 02:41
3. Anastasios Kokkinidis - No Studs 03:25
4. Apostolos Loufopoulos - Ghost 04:01
5. Orestis Karamanlis - Stressed Dust 02:58
6. Stelios Giannoulakis - The Door Study 04:00
7. Panayiotis Velianitis - Sirius 03:12
8. Tim Ward - A Small Enclosed Landscape 02:17
9. Dimitris Karageorgos - Time Life 03:12
10. Lambros Pigounis - La Fente 04:00
11. Costis Drygianakis - Preamble 03:49
12. Dionisis Athinaios - Dreaming 04:39
13. Akis Daoutis - Future Song 01:58
14. Stelios Zoumadakis - Otan Petheni Vasilias 02:08
15. Christos Zaxos - Xorki 02:05
16. Andreas Monopolis - Overload 03:59
17. Andreas Mniestris - Stones, bricks, tiles... 02:41
18. Manolis Manousakis - No Truth True Lies 02:00
19. Georgia Spyropoulos - Brut I 04:13
20. Anastasios Stamou - Santa 02:45
21. Markos Lekkas - Notturno 04:04
22. Giorgos Stefanou - Morfima & Tomi 03:20
23. Marinos Koutsomichalis - Miniature 03:17
24. Sotiris Laskaris - Audimal 01:51
25. Spyros Polychronopoulos - Two Lonely 03:35
26. Panayiotis Kokoras - Tones of Hesitation 00:46
27. Vassilis Roupas - Woolgathering 02:59
28. Katerina Tzedaki - The Other Island 03:33
29. Nikolas Valsamakis - Theorie du Contexte 03:27
30. Gabriel Negrin - Nostalgia 02:22
31. Andreas Diktiopoulos - Narration 02:01
32. Nickos Harizanos - The Sleepwalker and his Poems 03:34
33. George Tousis - Sound's Crisis part II 03:40
34. Tychonas Michailidis - Burning Voice 03:31
35. Konstantinos Karathanasis - Pastorale 04:00
36. Thanassis Epitideios - Transit 02:07
37. Philippos Theocharidis - Debris 03:14
38. Ioannis Kalantzis - Ades 02:38
39. Lefteris Papadimitriou - Mutating Plant 01:35
40. Nikos Stavropoulos - Nyctinasty (Radio Edit) 03:55
41. Giorgis Sakellariou - 3:59 03:59
42. Giorgos Stefatos - Intera 01:01
43. Greg Grigoropoulos - Encre Noir 03:15
44. Phivos-Angelos Kollias - Another Construction of Reality 04:34
45. Kostas Moschos - Soundscape 1 03:10
46. Anargyros Deniosos - 8-25calBinF retro 7K 01:16
47. Vasilis Kokkas - A Glimpse in the Algorithm of Love 02:14
48. Aki Pasoulas - Seawater 01:00
49. Theodore Lotis - Le Grain d' Annete 03:30
50. Sofoklis Arvanitis - Miniature 02:22
51. Dimitris Bakas - Becoming 01:17
52. Leda Efstratiou - Micrometer 00:45
53. Aris Delitheos - Clamataksik 02:47
54. Panos Amelidis - Forward-Stop-Rewind-Stop 01:53