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Dr Manuella Blackburn is an internationally recognised and multi award-winning composer of sound-based music and digital arts. She has been working with sound for over 15 years and has created projects for fixed media, instruments and electronics, installations, and music for film and audio-visuals. Her music is published on the Montreal-based label, Emprientes DIGITALes and she has received over 250 performances and exhibitions world-wide.

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In this work, the voice embodies the sentiment of admiration and longing towards a revered sky object (...hence, the horizon). In its timbre, it channels the glow of the evening sky! The instruments mirror / reflect that particular spectra of the voice; wherefore, together they form a community ‘in awe’... -The rest of the piece embodies other two -related- Sumerian tablets!

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Originally from Istanbul, Turkiye, and now living in Austin Tx, for composer, vocal performer, and improviser Esin Gunduz, sound originates in the body. She explores life’s energies as vibrations, timbre as visceral sensory experience, creating breathtaking acoustic vistas that have an unveiling quality. Her works span mediums: acoustic, electroacoustic, sound installation, and exist within diverse contexts: live / chamber music, and sound: for theatre, with field recordings, with moving image, or around exhibitions. They shine a light on the multiplicity and unity, the psychological and spiritual overtones of our lives and life itself.

Link:
www.esingunduz.com

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This piece originates from an international communal project conceived during a series of COVID-19 lockdowns in 2021. Members of an online international community were invited to create a repository of field recordings, which other artists could use to create their tracks. "Renewed Communal Hopes" was crafted using this communal pool of sound recordings, supplemented with field recordings created by the author on location in Daylesford, Australia. Additional synthesiser parts were also incorporated into the piece.

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iubar is an award-winning collaborative project hailing from Australia, led by Polish-born and Newcastle-based Martin K. Koszolko, a music producer known for his work with electronic acts KOshowKO and Philosophy of Sound. Martin is also a sound researcher who holds a PhD in remote music collaboration technologies. iubar project’s philosophically charged music is an ode to resistance and hope which invites listeners to confront the harsh realities of a world in crisis and get a glimpse into a possible future where survival is only an option.

Links:
philosophyofsound.info/iubar-project

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"Beyond" was composed with the human body's movements in mind. It explores fluidity and resistance within the confines of time. Harmonic layers intertwine, evoking the tension between constraint and freedom, portraying a journey of transformation and growth. As the music progresses, it captures the essence of trying, failing, experiencing, and ultimately evolving. Through its dynamic structure, "Beyond" invites listeners to immerse themselves in a soundscape where the struggle against time unfolds in a constantly changing auditory tapestry.

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Misagh Azimi is an Iranian-German composer and digital artist. He has a background in composing for various mediums, including film, contemporary dance, and theatre. He has collaborated with esteemed organisations such as the German Opera in Düsseldorf and the European Union. He has released albums across multiple genres, many of which were released under his online label "Warm Mud Records". Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in creative applications of AI in music at Victoria University of Wellington.

Link:
www.misaghazimi.com

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Light as solid matter. Light as something you can touch, squeeze, grasp. “Material Luminosity” is a portrait of tangible light created with concrete samples of tam-tams, gongs, cymbals and Tibetan bells. Musical instruments to implement a synesthesia between sound textures and the idea of brightness. The color of the metal that tends towards the color of light, the destructured sound that simulates the fragmentation of light, the high acoustic frequencies like filaments of light.

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Nicola Fumo Frattegiani is an electroacoustic and audio-visual composer living in Perugia, Italy. Author and performer, his research deals with electroacoustic music, sound for images, video, art exhibitions and compositions for theatrical performances. He is currently professor of Audio & Mixing and Sound Space Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia.

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This is an edit of a performative moment - sonification of radio propagation, or, electromagnetic radiation via interactions and spatial placement of radio receivers and low powered transmitters interacting with obsolete circuitry. Output recorded using F1 ZOOM attached to 5 inch radio receiver speaker.

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I’ve been doing field recordings in my hometown, Istanbul. On a windy day, I was crossing the Bosphorus on a ferry. I had my collection of windjammers with me: a dead kitten, a dead cat, a softie, a blimp, and a windshield for the blimp. None of them were available in Turkey, so I purchased them during my trips to America since wind noise is something you should avoid like a plague in recordings. Anyways, the wind was horrendous at the outside of the ferry, so it was impossible to record anything. Then I suddenly removed all the protection and exposed my expensive shotgun microphone to strong wind. You will hear the result of my “what you should not do” experiment.

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Serkan Sevilgen is an electroacoustic music composer who employs his professional programming skills to create computer music. He works as the Director of Engineering of the catastrophe modeling company Temblor, Inc. Sevilgen has an MA in Sonic Arts from the Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) at the Istanbul Technical University. He co-founded Soundinit, an initiative focusing on sound, and is a founder of WORC, a networked music ensemble. He is a member of the Istanbul Coding Ensemble. His musical works and research focus on computer music, sonification, networked music systems, web audio, live coding, stochastic procedures, and soundscape.

Link:
www.serkansevilgen.com

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The piece was created for a sound and visual installation. The main goal was to create music that is internally cyclical and at the same time to maintain the narration and the idea of moving "towards something". Important symbols that appear in the piece of music are childhood and the sun which are associated with innocence, nature and hope.

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A young Polish composer studying at The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. The fine artist by education. In music, her particular interests are form and timbre.

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The piece is inspired by the the sculpture "The Broken Circle” by Beverly Pepper (2011), created as an element of land art in the city of Brufa, in Umbria (Italy). b_k_n( ) intends to restore the representation of a generating force, of an explosive event that produces the beginning of life and of the world, in a timbrical and structural dimension where the contrast between stillness and dynamism creates a formal balance poised between possibility and impossibility. The overall circular trend, from which sound structures emerge that offer as many interrupted paths of ascent and descent, interprets the materiality of the original work and its conflictual contrast with the landscape, reading it from different distances and according to different angles. The timbrical research aims to recall the materials used for sculpture (mainly Corten steel and concrete), with the preparation of traditional instruments as violin and an electric bass guitar, to generate sound materials to feed many electronic synthesis processes (granular synthesis, resynthesis and physical modeling) used to build the piece.The result is a work that associates the materiality of sound and the use of residual timbres as citations of the associated collective ancestral memory to the universal shape of the circle.

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Nicola Cappelletti (ITA/FRA) is an electroacoustic sound artist, performer and composer. After studying violin he graduated in electronic music at the F. Morlacchi Conservatory in Perugia. Winner of the XV National Prize of the Arts (Electroacoustic Composition), his artistic research focuses on the relationship between acoustic sound and electronic treatment in relation to audiovisual works, theater and contemporary poetry. As a performer his activity ranges from popular music, with forays into rock and club music, to concerts of radical improvisation for prepared violin, prepared electric bass and live electronics. He is a member of the Opificio Sonoro ensemble.

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Nebula Noise is the ambient project of Mat Dal Din, formerly of Aotearoa, now based in Helsinki, Finland. He also makes techno under the name Techno Neighbour.

Link:
https://nebulanoise.bandcamp.com/

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The Nausea is an experimental, sound art, noise, and electronic project combining string instruments with electronics and boundary/volume stressing experimental elements, composed and performed by multi-instrumentalist Anju Singh.

Bio:
Anju Singh is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer and noise/sound artist exploring texture through the use of extended/experimental techniques, electronics, musical and non-musical materials, custom-built instruments, and processing. A core process in her practice is using methods of deconstruction and reanimation to repurpose and contextualize materials in new compositional environments. Anju composes for ensembles, film, opera, and theatre.

Links:
www.anjusingh.com www.thenausea.bandcamp.com/album/requiem