2022 Xenakis tour

Villa Mâche, Amorgos

02.05, KSOT (State School o Dance), Athens

presentation of complete solo piano works for the class of Alexis Porfiriadis

12.05, EHESS / CAMS (Centre d’analyse et de mathématique sociales), Paris

improvisation with Mikhail Malt based on solo piano piece Evryali with IRCAM’s SOMAX 2 application

event organization: Marc Chemillier

25.05, Xenakis Centenary International Symposium, Athens

performance of Evryali and à r. (Hommage à Ravel) for the opening of the Xenakis International Conference

event organisation: Anastasia Georgaki, Makis Solomos, Elsa Kiourtsoglou, Jakob Steinhauer, Dimitris Exarchos

26.05, Xenakis Centenary International Symposium, Athens

paper presentation and workshop:

“Rendering embodied experience into multimodal data: concepts, tools and applications for Xenakis’ piano performance”

with Jean-François Jégo, Aurélien Duval, Fred Bevilacqua and Stella Paschalidou

28.05, Xenakis Centenary International Symposium, Nafplio

workshop:

“Mapping materialities: Digital embodied interactions with Iannis Xenakis’ work”

with Katerina ElRaheb, Marina Stergiou, Iannis Zannos, Pablo Palacio, Maria Roussou and Dimitris Batsis

19.06, EnCounterpoints Festival, WABE, Berlin

piano recital including Xenakis’ complete piano works and premieres by François-Bernard Mâche, Lin Yang and Andreas Staffel

event organisation: Andreas Staffel

29.08 – 11.09, Centre Des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, Paris

artist residency with Jean-François Jégo and Aurélien Duval in the context of the project Habiter (avec) Xenakis

26.09 – 09.10, Centre Des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, Paris

artist residency with Jean-François Jégo and Aurélien Duval in the context of the project Habiter (avec) Xenakis


20.10 – 23.10, International Xenakis Conference, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

recital of complete Xenakis solo piano works with augmented reality, in collaboration with Jean-François Jégo and Aurélien Duval


23.10 – 25.10, International Xenakis Conference, Braïla, Romania

recital of complete Xenakis solo piano works

24.11, Centre Des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, Paris

with Jean-François Jégo and Aurélien Duval in the context of the project Habiter (avec) Xenakis

first part of a concert with Percussions de Strasbourg

01.12, IRCAM, Paris

workshop on the use of physiological data for the analysis and technologically-enhanced learning and performance of Xenakis’ solo piano music

with Jean-François Jégo and Aurélien Duval, Stella Paschalidou, Frédéric Bevilacqua

22.12.2021 / Habiter (avec) Xenakis

Thrilled to announce that, thanks to the efforts of Makis Solomos and Jean-François Jégo, the project ‘Augmented reality for Iannis Xenakis Evryali for piano solo’ has received additional funding by EUR-ArTeC, in the context of the project ‘Habiter (avec) Xenakis’ for the Xenakis Centenary 2022, including further technical development in collaboration with the IRCAM in Paris, a residency at the CDA d’Enghien-les-Bains and several presentations to be announced.

10.12.2021 / Xenakis 2022

Relieved and thrilled to have three proposals, in collaboration with several colleagues and mentors, accepted for the Xenakis Centenary International Symposium: https://xenakis2022.uoa.gr/

A paper and workshop proposal with Jean-François Jégo, Aurélien Duval, Frédéric Bevilacqua and Stella Paschalidou under the title:

Rendering embodied experience into multimodal data: concepts, tools and applications for Xenakis’ piano performance

And a workshop with Katerina ElRaheb, Marina Stergiou, Iannis Zannos, Pablo Palacio, Maria Roussou and Dimitris Batsis under the title:

Mapping materialities: Digital embodied interactions with Iannis Xenakis’ work

07. & 08.12.2021 / organisation of Anestis Logothetis Centenary Symposium @ Music Department, University of Athens

Very excited to be co-organising an international symposium for the Anestis Logothetis centenary on December 7 and 8 at the University of Athens, with Maria-Dimitra Baveli, Jakob Steinhauer and Anastasia Georgaki.

I will also be animating a round table on Anestis Logothetis’ book, Zeichen als Aggregatzustand der Musik, from the point of view of embodied cognition and Human-Computer interaction in music representation today. With a fantastic interdisciplinary gender-balanced group, including Benjamin Bacon (TU Berlin), Cat Hope (Monash University), Alexis Porfiriadis (PhD, Bath Spa University), Katerina ElRaheb (University of Peloponnese), Sarah Fdili Alaoui (LRI-Université Paris-Sud 11, Ex)Situ INRIA), Stella Paschalidou (Hellenic Mediterranean University) and Georg Hajdu (HfMT Hamburg).


The full programme, including talks, concerts, workshops and the round table is now available here, stay tuned as we will be announcing channels for following this online: https://youtu.be/yqG5adOq_AY

concert at the Philosophy School Museum, University of Athens

25.10.2021 / new book chapter on touch and tangible interactions

In my mailbox today: Beautiful collective volume on contemporary piano music: Contemporary Piano Music: Performance and Creativity, by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, edited by Madalena Soveral and featuring a chapter of mine on the music of Klaus K. Hübler and Wieland Hoban, alongside work by great colleagues such as Heloisa Amaral, Joana Sá and Mariachiara Grilli among others.

My chapter, “Intelligence and spirit in contemporary piano performance: On the multiple senses of touch in Klaus K. Hübler’s Sonetto LXXXIII del Michelangelo and in Wieland Hoban’s when the panting STARTS“, is one of three articles on touch and tangible interactions, written dring 2021, accessed here: https://pavlosantoniadis.wordpress.com/2020/10/11/1053/

Cordially thanks to Madalena Soveral for her kind invitation to the Fourth International Contemporary Piano Meeting at ESMAE Porto, the occasion that gave birth to this text; Annoushka Papaetova (Anna Papaeti) for her invaluable comments and caring solidarity during writing; and to Wieland Hoban for the years-long intellectual stimulation, for his rare friendship and for the panting.

The text is dedicated to my first piano teacher, Chryssi Partheniade, for awakening in me the experience of a sublime cross-modal piano touch, not the least through the sight of her sculpted, as if by Michelangelo, hands on the keyboard; and to Eleni Landrou for most kindly and lovingly introducing me to her.

21.10.2021 / recording project of new work by composer Lin Yang

Time to brush up my tiny Mandarin skills during the coming two months for the recording project of Lin Yang‘s 2020 work “13:24 – 13:42”, evocation of a prenatal listening experience for reciting pianist and electronics.

“The title “13:24-13:42” describes an 18 minute long prenatal listening experience. Sounds of human language are filtered through the protective layers of the mother’s body before entering the cochlea of the fetus. Two poems by the Song poet Su Shi (1037-1101) are used in the piece. “Zui Weng Cao” (“The Drunkard”) is relatively short and is recited by the pianist. “Chi Bi Fu” (“The Red Cliffs”) is longer and forms the basis of the electronic part, in which a recorded recitation of the poem is transformed into a stream of unfamiliar syllables. The sounds of the prepared piano and the digitally modified human voice blend together to create a disjointed and filtered auditory impression”.

19.10.2021 / invited talk @ music notation workshop, IDMIL, McGill University

IDMIL (Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory), McGill University, Montreal, music
notation workshop.

Invited talk: “Embodied interaction with adaptive music notation through multimodal data: concepts, tools and biopolitics”, in the context of the research project “Optimisation of piano learning through adaptive interactive systems: evaluation and development of the GesTCom prototype”.

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Video (talk starts around 13′): https://youtu.be/NXJAFoFpqtU

02.10.2021 / collaboration with KNM Berlin @ Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin

FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, kulturraum, Berlin

Collaboration with the contemporary music ensemble KNM Berlin.

Work by Martin Schüttler (I Need You Love, 2015) for ensemble and live-electronics. In the context of a collaboration with soundinitiative for HAUSMUSIK CONCERT soundinitiative/ KNM CONTEMPORARIES 2021

Schüttler set-up
Schüttler annotated score sample
Schüttler annotated score plus click-track sample
practicing at home
Fahrbereitschaft 1
Fahrbereitschaft 2
kulturraum – milchbar
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20.09.2021 / conference talk @ EYROMAC-10

EUROMAC-10, X Европейский Конгресс по музыкальному анализу (10th European Music Analysis Conference), Moscow Conservatory.

Conference talk (in French):

“L’incarnation des algorithmes: Approches et technologies analytiques du point de vue de l’interprète dans l’oeuvre pour piano seul Mists d’Iannis Xenakis”

https://euromac.mosconsv.ru/sites/default/files/EuroMAC10%20Booklet.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2scny2qJFV_-9p1bnzLR9AUpadWFqjyrUKZfVOkG6snTaK3IETe4ECiH4