Giovanni Onorato & Riccardo Ancona — A Critical Perspective on the Idea of Post-Acousmatic @HuddCeReNeM

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Giovanni Onorato, Riccardo Ancona
Raise the Curtain! A Critical Perspective on the Idea of Post-Acousmatic

DOI:10.5920/IdeaofPostAcousmatic

Rethinking the History of Technology-based Music
Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM)
University of Huddersfield, 9-11 June 2022

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Giovanni Onorato & Riccardo Ancona — A Critical Perspective on the Idea of Post-Acousmatic

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$Electric Indigo: Ferrum Electric Indigo: Ferrum (2019) for live electronics http://indigo-inc.at/ http://www.electricspring.co.uk/ Electric Spring is an annual festival of sonic exploration of cutting-edge practice in electronic music. The five-day programme of concerts, installations and symposia brings together a collection of people from diverse musical backgrounds to share their knowledge and perform music. The festival is curated by the Music and Music Technology staff of the University of Huddersfield. /// Credits Performed by Susanne Kirchmayr/Electric Indigo at Electric Spring, 22 February 2019, Phipps Recital Hall, University of Huddersfield. Audio recorded by Alex Harker Video recorded by Sam Gillies Edited by David Velez /// Program Note Ferrum is a large-scale exploration of inharmonic timbres, oscillating between brutal grinding textures and intricate percussive singularities, created by digitally transforming recordings of various metallic objects. /// Bio Electric Indigo, DJ, composer, musician, has performed in 38 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She represents an intelligent and distinguished interpretation of techno and electronic music. Her DJ-sets are characterized by a wide variety with a clarity of vision and a depth that comes from a deep understanding of the music and the art of DJing. As a composer and musician, she creates music for concert spaces, clubs, sound installations and occasionally for stage plays and short films. In her compositions and live performances, she emphasizes the spatial-temporal placement of subtly elaborated sounds and structures, often generated from speech recordings. Electric Indigo shuttles between Vienna and Berlin. Electric Indigos first solo album was released on imbalance computer music in March 2018. Electric Indigo started her DJ career in Vienna 1989 and lived in Berlin for three years [1993-1996] to work at the legendary Hard Wax record store. In those years, she also began to produce music, first releases came out in 1993. 10 years later, she started her own label indigo:inc recordings which is sound asleep nowadays... In 1998, she founded female:pressure an international database and network for female artists in the fields of electronic music and digital arts which was awarded with an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2009. Institutions like the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the University of Fine Arts Vienna, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna commonly invite Electric Indigo as a guest lecturer. She received the outstanding artist award Musik 2012 in the category electronic music and computer music and the national grant for composition 2013 from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture. Important works include multichannel compositions like Structuring Contours - premiere at Klangspuren Festival 2011, Chiffres - premiere at e_may / Wien Modern 2012, 109.47 degrees - premiere at Dunkle Zeiten Festival 2014, MORPHEME - premiere as audiovisual multichannel concert together with Thomas Wagensommerer at CTM Festival 2015, Barry Duffman - premiere as audiovisual multichannel concert together with TE-R at Wien Modern 2015, the commissioned 8 channel composition Tolkowskys Refraction - premiere at Heroines Of Sound Festival 2017, Hierarchy Glitch a commissioned work for Klangforum Wien, together with Vessela Dantcheva - premiere at Eclat Festival, Stuttgart, 2019, and ferrum - premiere of the long version ferrum H at Electric Spring Festival, Huddersfield, 2019.$

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