The artistic collective LOXOSconcept, with the support of Matera 2019, KEYHOLE cultural association, BLUE CAT BLUES association, Spaziomusica association promotes the 3rd edition of MA/IN 2018 [MAtera INtermedia festival] + the 2nd edition of the MA/IN~SPAZIOMUSICA COMMISSION program
The MA/IN 2018 will take place in MATERA at the end of September 2018
The city of Matera will be “European Capital of Culture 2019”, and LOXOSconcept is project leader for 2018/2019 Sound Art/cultural programming. The MA/IN festival is aimed at the production and promotion of sonic and digital arts at an international level
MA/IN 2018 + MA/IN~ spaziomusica commission
TWO DIFFERENT CALLS
MA/IN ~ 2018 festival
deadline expired
MA/IN 2017 calls for submissions in the following categories:
This call is CLOSED
2nd MA/IN ~ SPAZIOMUSICA COMMISSION
EXTENDED DEADLINE : July 1st, 2018 (23:59 - Rome time)
With the support of SPAZIOMUSICA association of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) the MA/IN promotes the creation of a new work for FLUTE and Electronics/Multimedia.
Works should be for Flute (Concert C, Alto flute, Bass flute ) and electronics (live or fixed) or multimedia (audio-video/ lights). The performer is ENRICO DI FELICE
All pieces must be not previously performed
Selected works will be performed twice:
world premiere at the MA/IN 2018 (Matera)
the second performance during the 37th Spaziomusica Festival (Cagliari)
This call is CLOSED
PRIZES
The selection panel will assign :
LIVE PERFORMANCE / SOUND ART
In collaboration with IN ViTRØ ~ artificial sønificatiøn international project for « Matera 2019 – Euro Capital of Culture »
MA/IN focuses on SOUND ART and makes available a special fund for sound installations and performances.
MA/IN will:
- provide AudioVisual Recording for all live performances.
- realize the MA/IN 2018 digital mixtape (for acousmatic/audiovisual art)
- publish the MA/IN 2018 digital booklet
- provide professional musicians and technical support.
JURY
international selection panel
Yan Maresz
Jury2018
French composer Yan Maresz was born in 1966 in Monaco. He started music as an autodidact jazz guitarist and then became the sole student of guitarist John Mc Laughlin. Studies at Boston’s Berkelle College of Music, and then composition at the Juilliard School of Music, he enters in 1993 at Ircam’s composition and computer music course. Since then, his music is widely performed at major international festivals, as well as in the seasons of prestigious symphonic ensembles or ensembles in Europe, the United States and Asia. He was resident at the Villa Medicis in Rome, at the Europaisches Kolleg der Kunste in Berlin, and at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. He teaches new technologies and electro-acoustic composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, as well as at the Conservatoire de Boulogne Billancourt. ©2018_Ygeslin
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Justė Janulytė
Jury2018
Born in Vilnius in 1982, Justė Janulytė studied composition at the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy, Milan ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ Conservatoire and in various masterclasses. She has collaborated with some of the world’s leading ensembles and soloists including Teatro La Fenice Symphony, Gothenburg Opera Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Polish National Philharmonic Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic, French Flute Orchestra, Riga Sinfionetta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Ensemble Bit20, Orchestrutopica, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber and Male Choirs, Danish Radio Chamber, Kamer, Sequenza 9.3 and Camerata Silesia choirs, Quasar, Xasax and Flotilla saxophone quartets, cellists Mario Brunello, Francesco Dillon, Henri Demarquette, and Anton Lukoszevieze, flutist Manuel Zurria, saxophonist Marcus Weiss, harpsichordist Goska Isphording amongst others. Her music has been performed across Europe, the Americas, and Australia, and has featured in some of the world’s leading festivals including Sydney Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Venice Biennale, RomaEuropa, Holland Festival, Warsaw Autumn, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, SonicA (Glasgow), Maerzmusik (Berlin), Biennale Némo (Gaîté lyrique, Paris), Musica festival (Strasbourg), Musik protokoll im steirischem Herbst (Graz), Musicadhoy (Madrid), Vale of Glamorgan Festival (Cardiff), Expositions of New Music, Moravian Autumn (Brno), Gaida (Vilnius) to name a few. Justė Janulytė first came into public view in 2004 when her graduation work White music, for 15 strings, was awarded as the best chamber piece of the year by the Lithuanian Composers’ Union. Furthermore, her five next compositions also won the same prize. In 2009 Aquarelle, for choir, won the 1st prize (in the category of composers under 30) at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. In 2011 she was awarded the Young Artist's Prize by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and in 2017 the Lithuanian National Arts and Culture Prize, the highest artistic distinction in Lithuania. The majority of the works by the author, written for dense monochromatic ensembles (only strings, only winds or only voices), explore musical time/space experiences through large-scale multilayered textures of infinite pulsating sounds and extremely gradual ‘thermodynamic’ metamorphoses. While balancing between the aesthetics of minimalism, spectralism and drone music, Justė Janulytė composes acoustic metaphors of optic ideas (Observation of Clouds for voices, winds and strings, The Colour of Water for saxophone(s) solo and orchestra, and Here at the quiet limit for male choir and string orchestra), and researches the visual nature of musical phenomena in the works where sound and image are fused together (Breathing Music for string quartet, electronics and kinetic sculptures, Eclipses for 4 strings, live electronics and soundproof glass installation, Sandglasses for 4 cellos, electronics and video installation). Justė Janulytė currently teaches composition at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, lives between Vilnius and Milan. www.justejanulyte.com Photo: © Dmitrij Matvejev
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Manuella Blackburn
Jury2018
Manuella Blackburn is an electroacoustic music composer who specializes in acousmatic music creation. However, she also has composed for instruments and electronics, laptop ensemble improvisations, and music for dance. She studied music at The University of Manchester (England, UK), followed by a Masters in Electroacoustic Composition with David Berezan. She became a member of Manchester Theatre in Sound (MANTIS) in 2006 and completed a PhD at The University of Manchester with Ricardo Climent in 2010. Manuella Blackburn has worked in residence in the studios of Miso Music (Lisbon, Portugal), EMS (Stockholm, Sweden), Atlantic Centre for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA), and Kunitachi College of Music (Tokyo, Japan). Her music has been performed at concerts, festivals, conferences and gallery exhibitions in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the USA. Manuella Blackburn has received a number of international awards and prizes for her acousmatic music including: Grand Prize in the Digital Art Awards (Fujisawa, Japan, 2007), First Prize in the 7th and 10th Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica Música Viva (Lisbon, Portugal, 2006, ’09), First Prize in the Musica Nova International Competition of Electroacoustic Music (Prague, Czech Republic, 2014), International Computer Music Association European Regional Award (Australia, 2013), 3rd Prize in the Diffusion Competition (Ireland, 2008), Public Prize in the Concurso Internacional de Composição Eletroacústica (CEMJKO, Brazil, 2007) and Honorary Mentions in the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras (CMMAS) competition (Morelia, Mexico, 2008) and in the Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo (CIMESP ’07, Brazil). She is currently Senior Lecturer in Music at Liverpool Hope University (England, UK).
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Jagoda Szmytka
Jury2018
Born in Legnica (Poland) in 1982, Jagoda Szmytka studied art history, philosophy, music theory and composition in Wrocław, Graz, Frankfurt/Main and Karlsruhe. Her music has received international recognition through numerous features at festivals and institutions such as Warsaw Autumn, Wien Modern, Lucerne Festival, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Ultraschall Berlin, ECLAT Stuttgart, Ferienkurse Darmstadt, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Deutschlandfunk Cologne, Royaumont Paris, Polish National Opera Warsaw and many others. Among other things she received Staubach Honorarium and the Stipend Prize of the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, scholarships from the DAAD, the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg, residencies at Herrenhaus Edenkoben and La Muse en Circuit Paris. In 2017 artist in residency at Villa Serpentara. Many time artist-in-residency at ZKM|Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe. In 2015 WERGO/EZM released her portrait CD "BLOODY CHERRIES". In 2016 Jagoda Szmytka wins the GEMA Detuscher Musikautorenpreis. Jagoda Szmytka composes "for people", "about people", "with people". Szmytka's "social composing" examines social and interpersonal processes such as communication and identity often in relation to phenomena that influence modern life or referring directly to the social dimension of making music. Szmytka's "intertextual music" is written for ear, eye and thought - incorporates mixed-media, trans-media and cross-genre formats - her compositions are mixture of texts, images and sounds that build dense structures in reference to high & pop culture, philosophy, or reality (music theater projects: LIMBO LANDER - social-media music theatre, LOST - trans-media music theatre, LOVE LABEL - mass-media music theatre). Jagoda Szmytka is a founder and leader of two projects: PLAY – Platform for art and culture social initiatives & ENTER - Collective specialized in performing Referential Music.
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Candaş Şişman
Jury2018
Candaş Şişman (1985, İzmir-Turkey) studied fine arts in high school and graduated from the Animation department of Eskişehir Anadolu University. He spent one year at university in the Netherlands, studying multimedia design. In 2011 he co-founded Nohlab, a studio producing interdisciplinary experiences around art, design & technology. He is also a member of NOS Visuals, which is a collaborative platform that creates real-time, sound-reactive audiovisual performances. For the last five years, he gives lectures on the interaction between sound and visuals in university. Candaş Şişman has received several awards since 2007, among which is an Honorary Mention from Prix ARS Electronica Computer Animation/Film/VFX and Jury Selection Award in Art Division from 18th Japan Media Arts Festival. He participated in many exhibition and festival, such as Venice Architecture Biennale, TED X, ARS Electronica, Todaysart Festival and Japan Media Arts Festival. Candaş Şişman recently exhibited Sonicfield-01 Sound Installation in Venice Architecture Biennale and ‘FLUX’ audiovisual installation among İlhan Koman Hulda festival in İstanbul. Candaş Şişman aims to manipulate our notion of time, space and motion by his work, using digital and mechanical technologies. Taking the natural sciences and universe as his reference point, the artist combines physical forms with digitally produced images. Thus a bridge between the physical world and the digital world becomes visible. The works of Şişman build on complex bases, but the forms are simple, allowing the audience to engage in intellectual interaction with the artwork, in which the “process” is the utmost important structural element. The artist lives and works in İstanbul, and is represented by PG Art gallery in Turkey. www.csismn.com www.nohlab.com www.nosvisuals.com
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Matteo Franceschini
Jury2018
Born into a family of musicians, Matteo Franceschini began his composition studies with his father later graduating from the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatoire in Milan under the guidance of Alessandro Solbiati. He studied at "Santa Cecilia" National Academy in Rome under the supervision of Azio Corghi and attended the Cursus offered by the Ircam in Paris. He has received several prizes, both in national and international competitions. He has received commissions from La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Wigmore Hall, Biennale of Venice, Festival Mito, Philharmonie de Paris, Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, National Orchestra of Belgium, Reims Opera, Saint-Etienne Opera, and, moreover, from important festivals and organizations. He has realized operas, orchestral and choral works, chamber music, soundtracks for movies as well as multimedia installations. Matteo Franceschini concentrates his research on theatricality of musical gesture and on the necessity of pulling languages of different matrix together by following the rules of contrast and fusion. His imagination is founded on the strength of narrative contents and the creation of a complex, formal and sound structure. His works, conducted among others by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Mikko Frank, Pascal Rophé and Gustav Kuhn, have been performed in various international festivals. “Il risultato dei singoli”, his first monographic record, was published in April 2011. He has been named composer in residence at “Arcal” of Paris, at the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France and at the Philharmonic Academy of Rome. “Fedora – Rolf Liebermann Prize for Opera 2014”, he has received the “Italian Affiliated Fellowship in the Arts” from the American Academy in Rome. In 2017, Franceschini adopted "Tovel" as his stage name for the project "ABCDEFG [a tuned sculpture]”. As "Tovel", he relaunches the figure of the author/interpreter. His direct, live involvement becomes therefore the expression of a creative act. Since 2011 he is published by Casa Ricordi – Universal Music Publishing. photo : ©Valentina Mari
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Alexander Khubeev
Jury2018
Alexander Khubeev was born in 1986 in city Perm (Russia). He graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2011 (class of composition of Yuri Kasparov, class of electronic composition of Igor Kefalidis), he finished his post-graduate course in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2014. Since 2014 he is a coordinator of Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city. Alexander Khubeev won awards in Argentina, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, USA. In 2014 he received a scholarship of Darmstadt Summer Courses, in 2015 he became Gaudeamus prize winner in Netherlands. His music is played in concerts held in more than 20 countries around Europe, Asia, South and North America on such festivals as “Venice Biennale”, “Darmstadt Ferienkurse”, “Gaudeamus Musicweek”, “MATA”, “Gergiev Festival”, “Quantensprunge”, “Ultima”, “Transit Festival”, “Mixtur”, “SPOR”, “Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival”, “Moscow Forum”, “Diaghilev Festival”, ”Moscow Autumn” and many others. Khubeev worked with such conductors as Reinbert de Leeuw, Lucas Vis, Bas Wiegers, Thomas Moore, his compositions were played by such ensembles as Asko|Schoenberg, Nadar, Slagwerk den Haag, Blackpage Orchestra, L'Arsenale, Insomnio, Uusinta, dissonArt, Vortex, Aleph, ExNovo, Vertixe Sonora, IEMA, Gageego, Lemniscate, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, The Studio for New Music Ensemble, Percussion ensemble of Mark Pekarsky, GAM-ensemble, eNsemble, string quartet “Cantando”. His music is broadcasted on radio France Musique, Deutschlandradiokultur, Concertzender (Netherlands), RTP (Portugal), ARTxFM (USA), Radio of Russia, Radio “Orpheus” (Russia) and others. Composer in residence of GAM-ensemble in 2011. Member of Russian Composer's Union. Since 2017 his compositions are published by Donemus.
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Stefan Prins
Jury2018
After graduating as an engineer, Stefan Prins (Kortrijk, Belgium, 20/5/1979) started to study fulltime piano and composition at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, Belgium, where he obtained his Masters degree in Composition magna cum laude. Concurrently, he studied “Technology in Music“ at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels,“Sonology“ at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and “Philosophy of Culture” and “Philosophy of Technology” at the University of Antwerp. In 2017 he obtained a PhD in composition at Harvard University under the guidance of Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. As a composer he received several important awards in Belgium and abroad, such as the “Berliner Kunstpreis für Musik” (2016), “ISCM Young Composer Award” (2014), “Kranichsteiner Musikpreis für Komposition” (Darmstadt, 2010), a “Staubach Honorarium” (Darmstadt, 2009) and the “International Impuls Composition Award” (Graz, 2009). In 2012 the Union of Belgian Music Journalists elected him "Young Belgian Musician of the Year". In 2014 he became laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for the Sciences and Arts in the Class of the Arts. Stefan Prins is closely involved with the Nadar Ensemble, as a composer and co-director, and was one of the founders of the long-standing trio for improvised music “collectief reFLEXible" and the band “Ministry of Bad Decisions”, together with percussionist Brian Archinal and e-guitarist Yaron Deutsch. His music has been played by a.o. Klangforum Wien, Nadar Ensemble, Ictus Ensemble, Nikel Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Trio Accanto, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Recherche, Athelas Sinfonietta, Ensemble Proton Bern, Zwerm Electric Guitar Quartet, Champ d’Action on festivals such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Wittener Tage für Neue Musik, Eclat, Warsaw Autumn, Gaudeamus Festival, Musica Strasbourg, Ars Musica, Tzlil Meudcan, Impuls Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival & Ultima Festival. His preferred color is blood-red. Photo : © Louise Lindenbolz
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Cathy van Eck
Jury2018
Cathy van Eck is a composer and sound artist. She focuses on composing relationships between everyday objects, human performers, and sound. Her artistic work includes performances with live-electronics and installations with sound objects which she often designs herself. She is interested in setting her gestures into unusual and surprising relationships with sounds, mainly by electronic means. The result could be called “performative sound art”, since it combines elements from performance art, electronic music, and visual arts. Her work transcends genres and is presented at occasions as diverse as experimental or electronic music concerts, open air rock festivals, sound art gallery venues, digital art events, or performance art festivals. Cathy has a teaching position at the Sound Arts department of the University of the Arts in Bern, Switzerland. She is a regular guest lecturer at other art and music universities. In her book Between Air and Electricity, published in 2017, she investigates the use of microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments.
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