As part of Interfaces, short works were created, that can be played by children aged 6-10. Our goal is that these works will inspire young musicians to explore the sonorities and techniques of contemporary music, whilst remaining well within their physical capabilities. Explore the repertoires below, download them for free and have fun!
The educational material “DIY – Making our own musical instruments” is a practical guide with detailed instructions, examples and exercises for educators who want to experiment with DIY constructions and different ways of creating music in the classroom.
A documentary for the Interfaces network, an international interdisciplinary project which seeks to introduce audiences to cutting-edge work by musicians and sound artists.
As part of the 20th KAMUNA (Karlsruhe Museum Night), so-called "in-situ performances" took place at three locations in Karlsruhe on August 4, 2018: The project room ßpace, the artist-run space Halo ARS and the pedestrian zone Kaiserstraße were connected to the ZKM via an outgoing audio data stream.
Presentation of the book published by the Hertz-Lab and the Centre Iannis Xenakis with moderated discussion by the editors Peter Weibel, Ludger Brümmer and Sharon Kanach, followed by a concert with a piece by Julia Rommel, which was created in the context of the artist's residence "Graphical Notation", as well as a software presentation.
Lectures, panel discussions, workshops, installations and concerts on the topic of artistic telematic projects.
Contemporary culture is shaped through discussions, encounters, exchanges. Four years after its official launch, the interfaces program culminates in an international conference that brings together creative Europe in its entirety.
The European University Cyrpus (EUC) in collaboration with Pharos Art Foundation, affiliate partner of Interfaces Network, is organising a violin concert featuring Peter Sheppard Skaerved as part of the 11th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival.
As part of the Karlsruhe Museum Night (KAMUNA) 2019, Artemi-Maria Gioti and Kosmas Giannoutakis will present the project "CECIA" (Collaborative Electroacoustic Composition with Intelligent Agents) and participate in a panel discussion with Yannick Hofmann from the ZKM | Center for Art and Media.
Playing electronics / voice / nature In the context of this year’s Sounding Paths Residency programme, invited arists Stine Janvin Joh and Felicity Mangan (Native Instrument) will present a workshop demonstrating selected composition techniques using electronic and vocal adaptations of wildlife audio recordings.
The selection results for the site-specific residency in Syros, Greece are now out!
As part of the interfaces activity "Cross Genre Residencies" the ZKM | Hertz-Lab launched an open call for sound artists and composers to submit project proposals for a one-month residency.
As part of the Urban Music Boxes and Troubadours activity, version 2.0 of the UPISketch application has been released. Below you can find the links for available versions to download.
As part of the ATLAS Project of the Interfaces Network, the Onassis Stegi invites professional and amateur musicians and sound mixers, to participate in a workshop by Dimitris Kamarotos (composer), Kostas Bokos (sound technician), and John Antipas (sound mixer) about the sounds of the city of Athens, Greece.
“Sounding Paths 2019” The Onassis Stegi in partnership with Syros Institute & Syros Sound Meetings, associate partners of the INTERFACES network, invite musicians, sound artists & intermedia artists of all levels & backgrounds with a documented interest in site-specific and environmentally inspired sound art, ...
As part of the Interfaces activity “Cross Genre Residencies” the ZKM calls for sound artists and composers who are interested in developing new artistic strategies for affective technologies.
CECIA (Collaborative Electroacoustic Composition with Intelligent Agents) is an innovative art project within the framework of the Interfaces -activity "Cross Genre Residencies" that integrates the creative agency of 5 composers and Machine Learning algorithms in order to produce a coherent composition of electroacoustic music.
Oscillation is a project and festival circling around various aspects of the nature of sound, with a special curiosity about its capacity for creating and sharing space, its propensity to occupy the zones in between spaces, positions, events, discourses, etc: a betweening space. Read more here.
Onassis Stegi in cooperation with Medea Electronique call for artists, musicians, composers, philosophers, archivists/researchers, video artists, designers, dancers and anyone who designs, builds and/or employs new interfaces or pre-existing interfaces in innovative ways, and performers who are excited by the prospect of working with new ...
We are happy to announce the 2019 recipients of the EUC Residencies: Ann Warde, an independent composer, sound artist, and researcher. Her experimental projects are frequently informed by her previous scientific work with whale sounds as an analyst and programmer at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Ηοw can an electronic system be used as an interface of experimental enquiry? Can you create an expressive interface for playing electronic music? What is the importance of networks (humans) and decentralised knowledge in relation to technology?
InSonic 2018_algorithimic spaces This year’s edition of the inSonic festival is a showcase for genre-spanning artistic confrontations with new media technologies and innovative concepts, which will be explored in lectures, hands-on demonstrations, concerts and live coding performances.
In the summer of 2017 researchers at DMU developed a series of 4 workshops to be used in schools for introducing pupils to sound-based creativity. As part of these workshops pupils participated in listening training, made recordings using digital recorders and then used this material to create their own compositions on computers.
Within the framework of the participatory art residencies , Jonathan Frigeri and Klaas Hübner will present their work in a post -residency presentation and concert at Q-O2 on 24/10/2018, 20:00.
Organised between 5 and 14 October 2018 at The Shoe Factory in Nicosia, the 10th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival will celebrate its anniversary by bringing together, in Cyprus, some of the most iconic names on the international contemporary music scene: Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Pierre-Laurent ...
The European Unversity Cyprus n collaboration with Pharos Art Foundation, an affliate partner of Interfaces Network, is organizing a concert by Klangforum Wien as part of the 10th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival.
IRCAM is conducting a pan-European survey "New Music and Audience Development" with contemporary art enthusiasts as a part of the “Interfaces” project. If you attended one Interfaces concert or performance or more, please take two minutes to fill out the online questionnaire and let us know what you thought !
The European Unversity Cyprus in collaboration with Pharos Art Foundation, an affliate partner of Interfaces Network, is organizing an UPISketch workshop as part of the 10th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival. The workshop is a parallel event of the activity "Living Museums Project" of the Interfaces Network.
The European Unversity Cyprus in collaboration withPharos Art Foundation,an affliate partner of Interfaces Network, is organizing the performance "In Aria" as part of the 10th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival. The performance is a parallel event of the Interfaces Network activity "Urban Music Boxes and Troubadours".
The ZKM and Centre Iannis Xenakis (CIX) are organizing a two-day artistic-scientific symposium to explore current approaches and contemporary trends in the field of graphic notation for parameter generation for musical compositions. Read more about the conference here.
How is music shaped by the architectures and geographies it is made in? Listen to the resonances between contemporary musical culture and new spaces for performance across three days of debates, performances and workshops. Read more here... DAY 1_11/10/2018: When do i Disappear?
The selected electronic music artists for the EUC-residencies-programme are presenting their work which they developed during their one-month residency in Nicosia, Cyprus. 11/07/2018_irid.
As part of the Urban Music Boxes and Troubadours activity of the Interfaces project, Rodolphe Bourotte has published online new tutorial videos and a demo to demonstrate some basic functionality of the application “UPISketch”, a new version of UPIC for mobile devices which will act as modern interactive music box.
The ZKM | Center for Art and Media received more than 70 entries for the open call, "MyCity, MySounds", which ran until May 20th, 2018. Project proposals by Amble Skuse, Thomas Butler, Nicolas Melmann, and Hojo/Kraftwere selected for implementation starting in September, 2018.
As part of the activity "Urban Music Boxes and Troubadours" the European University Cyrus organizes a solo clarinet recital with Kristine Dizon.
We are happy to announce this year's results for Artists in Residence for Koumaria Residency 2018.
‘Bringing New Music to New Audiences’ is a three-day international conference which is intended to bring together community artists and other musicians, educators, animateurs, specialists within music and other cultural organisations, government policy representatives and representatives from cross-cultural projects who are involved with ...
As part of the Interfaces Project, the European University Cyprus EUC organises informal acoustic interventions / concerts inside museum spaces in Cyprus, aiming to capture the way in which visitors can choose to experience collections: people can spend time on the pieces in which they are more interested as they move and explore various ...
As part of the Urban Music Boxes and Troubadours activity of the Interfaces project, Rodolphe Bourotte has prepared four (4) short tutorial videos to demonstrate some basic functionality of the application.
The Interfaces Community Arts Resources Hub is intended to act as an information hub regarding initiatives, in particular around Europe but also well beyond, that focus on offer access to new music by a diversity of audiences not familiar with it.
As part of the Interfaces -activity "Living Museums Project", EUC organises informal acoustic interventions / concerts inside museum spaces in Cyprus, aiming to capture the way in which visitors can choose to experience collections: people can spend time on the pieces in which they are more interested as they move and explore various ...
Ircam-Centre Pompidou will host on 19/5/2018 the final presentation of the results of the educational programme Creative Workshops (ateliers de la creation).
Learn and unlearn, code and decode the world; four verbs that define a festival and an academy, the Forum Vertigo and the multidisciplinary exhibition at the Centre Pompidou.
In partnership with the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki and museum educators, artists, musicians and composers, the Onassis Stegi-Athens organised a 4–month educational programme for students of vocational high schools aiming to bring students in contact with contemporary art ...
From April 23 to July 1st, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe calls on artists to submit new composition ideas and proposals for electroacoustic compositions resulting from the digital real-time interpretation of graphics and graphic notation. The artists apply for a one-month residency at the ZKM with the composition proposals.
The program of this edition of Tuned City is organized as one constant stream of talks, performances and presentations. There are no parallel events unless overlaps are part of the intended dramaturgy. Nevertheless, some events might happen unannounced or even unnoticed – pay attention!
The Onassis Stegi(OCC) in partnership with Medea Electronique in the framework of Interfaces Network calls for applicants that are interested in designing, building and/or employing new interfaces or preexisting interfaces in innovative ways, and are excited by the prospect of working with new interfaces, or becoming one!
“Sounding Paths 2018” The Onassis Stegi Athens in partnership with Syros Institute & Syros Sound Meetings, associate partners of the INTERFACES network, invite musicians, sound artists & improvisers with an interest in experimentation & site-specific composition, improvisation or performance, for a joint 10-day- residency in the ...
This initiative aims to create a new, technology-driven form of community-based music making crossing age groups, levels of ability and cultural background and most importantly bringing together people from all around Europe. Hacking and subsequently performing with a networked device would suggest broader access issues relating to music making.
ZKM | Center for Art and Media invites artists to apply for a one-month residency with new project ideas for the app »MyCity, MySounds«.
After the Prologue and the first Chapter of Mario de Vega's „Spiegelung. A prologue and 6 chapters“ in Berlin, the second chapter is to be presented in Tuned City on 1-3 June 2018. ›Spiegelung.
Sharon Kanach, Jean-Louis Villeval both vice presidents of Iannis Xenakis center along with Rodolphe Bourotte research and composer gave an interview on RCF, a French radio station. Read the relevant posting here. For more information about the programme cick here.
We are happy to announce the July 2018 recipients of the EUC Residencies: ---> Click here for the presentations of their work. ---> Click here to read more about the EUC-electronic music residencies.
"All power to the Imagination!" On the occasion of the fifty-year anniversary of May 68, the Onassis Stegi opens its doors for the sixth year to young people and adults in an event of a subversive nature. See here the full programme.
The European University Cyprus, as part of the “Interfaces” project, is announcing a call-for-works. The aim of this call is to develop a contemporary idiom repertoire foryoung performers aged between 6-10 years old.
David Helbich – “Audience, listeners, spectators, visitors, guests: how dare you show up!” – audience observations & visitors scores Audiences are performative, not only in an intellectual sense; by following or watching a work of art – but also physically.
Carolyn Chen – Music for bodies Games of listening, moving, listening through moving – requiring no particular training or instruments. Warm-up exercises drawn from aikido, tai chi, contact improvisation, Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed.
Edyta Jarzab – Joining the Resistance In this workshop, Jarzab shares a set of exercise she has developed and used in Warsaw before and during street protests, that aim to amplify the importance and power of the voice as a tool within political activism. Participants experience and explore their full voice in space, in relation to others.
Manuela Naveau – Knowledge or Non-knowledge The internet not only makes it necessary for us to redefine terms such as the masses and the individual, it also focuses attention on forms of participation that occur involuntarily and unconsciously.
Bill Dietz – L’école de la claque That the modern European concert format and its concertantelistening are exemplary instances of the historical “public sphere”is a foundational assumption tacitly accompanying much “critical”music production.
DMU will host a three-day international conference investigating initiatives related to community action and participation. The deadline for proposals (papers, workshops, demonstrations, sharings/performances) is 15 March 2018. Papers are to be of 20’ duration with 10’ for questions and discussion.
The InSonic 2017 festival will take place at the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien from 7/12/2017 until 10/12/2017. The full programme is now online.
The European University Cyprus, as part of the “Interfaces” project, is announcing a call for applications for residencies for electronic music artists. The residencies will take place in July of 2018 and 2019.
Through Q-O2 workspace, Interfaces calls for residency proposals for artists, practitioners, theorists, and educators working in the fields of sound, music, site-specific and/or participatory strategies for residencies of 1-2 months each in Brussels, Belgium between January 2018 to June 2019.
Experiencing for the first time the relation between sound and visual representation.
The UPISketch Development as part of the even "urban music boxes and troubadours" goes on: Since the first target is a touchscreen device, the navigation will be simplified with the use of two-finger touches for zooming. You can draw details at any scale and have the playhead updating the page at current zoom level.
Call for Participation inSonic2017: Immersive Future calls for academic and non academic works and contributions.
Make complex beats, rhythms, pops, clicks and chirps with the Electro-Cricket, a DIY musical instrument!
Next phase into the UPICSketch Development: Graphic User Interface. The GUI (Graphic User Interface) is in progress: the vectorization algorithm is applied to drawing gestures.
The educational material “Composing Sounds through Digital Apps” is addressed to teachers who want to discover sound with their students, to produce recordings inside and outside the classroom and to compose music with digital tools. What do the words “sound”, “soundscape” and “listening” mean?
As part of the urban music boxes & troubadours-event, Rodolphe Bourotte and Sean Soraghan already made the first steps into the UPISketch Development.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Ana-Maria Avram, hyper-spectral composer and co-conductor of Hyperion Ensemble. Since 1988, Ana-Maria Avram had been a member and co-conductor of Hyperion Ensemble with her husband Iancu Dumitrescu, who together pushed the Romanian avant-garde into the hyper-spectral realm.
Music workshops for high school and lyceum students.
We are happy to announce the first two recipients of the EUC Residencies.
An audio-visual and highly interactive walk at the neighbourhoods of Kerameikos/Metaxourgeio in Athens to discover parts of the city you were unaware of.
Urban Music Boxes and Troubadours kicks off its preliminary activities with the world renowned violinist PETER SHEPPARD SKAERVED.
Imagine a bridge between two riverbanks, covered with a crowd of musicians, choreographers and painters, artists who work with light, with sound, with fog, audiences and listeners and curators, all motivated by the ambivalence of the forms and "reciprocity".
The Koumaria Residency 2017 is looking for sound artists, dancers / performers, photographers, video artists, programmers and DIY makers to work on a multidisciplinary project Soundscapes/Landscapes_Rizome III – Sparta and its environs.
Syros Sound Meetings initiative invites musicians, sound artists & improvisers of all levels & backgrounds with a documented interest in experimentation & site-specific composition, improvisation or performance, for a joint residency in the island of Syros, ...
Intended for students in vocational high schools and medical-educational institutions, the project Ateliers de la creation (Studios of Creation) builds bridges between visual art, sonic art, and new technologies in close collaboration with new programs for applied arts.
The European University Cyprus, as part of the “Interfaces” project, is announcing a call for applications for 12 residencies for electronic music artists. The residencies will take place in July and August of 2017, 2018 and 2019.
EVENTS WITH FREE ADMISSION PROGRAMME 16:00-20:30 FOYERS 16:00-17:00 All through the building James Tenney (1934-2006) Swell Piece No.
“SPECTRUM XXI” festival is the only worldwide event dedicated to spectral music – one of the major trends in experimental and contemporary music. The festival will hold its tenth edition in 2016 with concerts in London, Berlin and Paris.
Last concert in London of the Spectrum XXI- Interfaces festival, Tenth Edition.
Opening event of Spectrum XXI festival Tenth Edition featuring the Hyperion International Ensemble. Workshop on Spectral Music, Launching of the book "The Metamorphosis of the Musical Text" and of the last CD Production Edition Modern Collection with music by Dumitrescu and Avram.
NEW MODELS AND PRACTICES FOR AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN EUROPE Interfaces is an international, interdisciplinary project focusing on bringing new music to an extensive range of new audiences.
Can choreography be performed in the form of an exhibition? This question is the starting point for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's.
INTERFACES project kicks off with the 1st partners’ meeting from the 1st to the 2nd of July 2016 in Athens, Greece. Hosted by INTERFACES project coordinator Onassis Stegi, the meeting focuses on project management procedures, project timeline, activities, and the design of an audience development strategy.
