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Copyright

Iannis Zannos; Martin Carlé; Vasilis Agiomyrgianakis; Takumi Ikeda; Hanako Atake;

Published On

2024-10-09

Page Range

pp. 699–712

Language

  • English

Print Length

14 pages

41. The Xenakis Networked Performance Marathon 2022 (Sustainable Resources)

Chapter of: Meta-Xenakis: New Perspectives on Iannis Xenakis’s Life, Work, and Legacies(pp. 699–712)
This article examines the conceptual, aesthetic, and technical aspects of a collaborative, multi-sited performance in the main Dance Studio classroom of Athens Conservatoire, presenting sixteen pieces from artists in ten different countries in the span of eight hours, as part of the Meta-Xenakis Symposium held in 2022. The performance strategies include motion sensing, live-coding, and environmental integration, conceived under the imperatives of frugal innovation, in the sense of establishing low-impact practices for the assembling of hardware and software resources, and for the presentation of the event both with the Athens Conservatoire and as a street performance that formed part of a complementary collaborative project. The article discusses in detail the modifications (hacks) of low-cost hardware and open-source software used in the project, together with a discussion of the telematic procedures and aesthetic paradigms used to link the various sites.

Contributors

Iannis Zannos

(author)
Lecturer at Ionian University

Iannis Zannos has a background in music composition, ethnomusicology, and interactive performance. He has worked as Director of the Music Technology and Documentation section at the State Institute for Music Research (SIM) in Berlin, Germany, and Research Director at the Center for Research for Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He teaches audio and interactive media arts at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. Since 2018 he focuses on telematic dance performance with a series of works between Greece, Japan, and other countries.

Martin Carlé

(author)
Post-Doctoral Researcher at Ionian University

Martin Carlé lives as a musicologist, media theorist and Emacs org-mode enthusiast. His cultural objective is to leverage Literate Programming techniques as a performative methodology for experimental media arts, reproducible research and a sustainable computer literacy. While running a music recording studio and an audio consultant company, he studied systematic musicology, popular music and media history at the Humboldt-University Berlin (HUB). There he received his doctoral degree with a thesis on the epistemology of ancient Greek music theory and the respective musical notation systems. Within the frame of the German Research Society (DFG), he worked at the Helmholtz Institute for Culture Techniques and taught as assistant professor at the department of Media Studies (HUB). Ongoing international collaborations include the French ANR project “PROGRAMme.” He is currently working as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Hub of Arts Laboratories at the Audio & Visual Arts Department of Ionian University, Corfu Greece.

Vasilis Agiomyrgianakis

(author)
Post-Doctoral Researcher at Ionian University
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2035-9686

Vasilis Agiomyrgianakis is an audiovisual artist, composer, and researcher. He is experienced in live coding for audiovisual performances as well as in the development of microcomputer sensor systems for artistic and academic purposes. He teaches Computer Sound Design, and he is Post-Doctoral Researcher in HAL (Hub of Art Laboratories) at the Department of Audiovisual Arts of the Ionian University, Greece. He has published papers, music and participated with his works in various conferences and festivals in Europe and Japan.

Takumi Ikeda

(author)

Takumi Ikeda is a self-taught computer musician and composer. He appears in live performances and composes contemporary music with his programs. Many performers have featured his works. Recently he has been working on baritone and computer, trombone with nine-axis sensor, piano and soundtrack, choral pieces, pieces with video scores, and scores for improvisers. In 2016, Ikeda created the soundtrack for Kei Shichiri's film Music as Film, followed by a screening with live music with performers. His CDs were released in 2020 (de dicto 00) and 2022 (ftarricl-663).

Hanako Atake

(author)

Hanako Atake is a contemporary dancer/performer based in Tokyo. She started ballet in Japan at the age of three and studied various styles of dance at the London Studio Centre in England from the age of nineteen. Since 2005, she has been a member of the Tokyo-based contemporary dance company Crewimburnny. She has also presented her own choreographic works and performed in improvisation and butoh performances in Japan, England, and France.