29. Internationale Studienwoche für zeitgenössische Musik vom 13.-20. Mai 2007
Montag, 14. Mai 2007, 21 Uhr Glockenhaus, Glockenstraße, Lüneburg

Electronic music from the electronic studio’s of

Conservatory of Amsterdam
&
Music & Technology Hilversum (Utrecht School of the Arts)

Natalia Dominguez Rangel	Visages, schizophrenic thoughts
Stijn van Beek	Higway
Wilbert Bulsink	Tik
Tania Sikelianou	During a Voice….
Wilco Alkema	kon-flict
Hans Timmermans	WORDS

Visages, schizophrenic thoughts - Natalia Dominguez Rangel

The sordid image of a lonely woman
Photographic black and white images
Time… on and off

This piece comes from four re-worked fragments (2006) of a piece composed in 2004, my first years in Amsterdam. These all led to an imaginary sound-escape that co-relates to the text and visuals expressions. Acoustic and electronic, one colour, one unity.

Natalia Dominguez Rangel
Studied at “Pontificia Universidad Javeriana” University with emphasis on Sound Engineering and sub-emphasis on Composition and Production; she studied with Juan Sebastian Monsalve, Harold Vasquez, Eblis Alvarez. Since 2003 she is studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Fabio Nieder, Wim Henderickx, Keyla Orozco and electronic music with Jorrit Tamminga. She has participated in several concerts inside and outside of the Conservatoire in The Netherlands, Germany and Iceland. In 2004 “Visages” was performed in AIKITWIF, WIR, IKIA festival (Amsterdam), the Westergasfabriek (machinegebouw). “Paris/Saigon” (for film) was premiered in the Westergasfabriek (Gasthuis), and performed again in DeBalie and at the Nederlands film festival in Utrecht. Two micro pieces “Static” and “Electricity” were performed by Adaptor ensemble in Reykjavik (Iceland), and later also in Berlin (Germany), 2005. With the same ensemble she premiered a new piece in Berlin. She also worked with theater and dance in 2005 and 2006. She has participated in master classes with Johanna McGregor (2001), mixed composition with Arturo Parra (2002) and rhythmic workshop with Composer James Wood (2004). Natalia Dominguez Rangel obtained the second prize on a competition by the Quink ensemble with “Deep NeST” in 2004.

During a Voice…. - Tania Sikelianou

In this piece I would like to express the dynamic with the passion that the human voice has…and not only this….I also use some elements from the Byzantine music which is part of my culture, and simultaneously I try to explore making different sounds in combination with the original sounds and progress sounds in both movements.

Tania Sikelianou, (b. 1977, Patra, Greece) is a Greek composer of mostly stage and chamber music that has been performed in Europe; she is also active as a violinist.
Currently Ms. Sikelianou is Master student in Composition at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam (Prof. W.Henderickx). She obtained her bachelor degree in Composition at the Consveratory of Amsterdam in June 2006. She had composition lessons with Prof. K. de Vries, Daan Manneke and attended seminars with Theo Loevendie, Tan Dun & Fabio Nieder. In addition, she followed courses in film music with Prof. J. Haanstra and electronic music with Prof. J. Tamminga.
Ms. Sikelianou combines contemporary music with the traditional Greek music (Byzantine) in many of her compositions. She also has special interest for writing music for film and stage. Her works have been performed in concerts in Greece, Belgium and in The Netherlands (see list of recently performed compositions).

Tik – Wilbert Bulsink

Tik was produced at the electronic studio of the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
Limited resources leading to most imaginative results.
Tik discovers the possibilities of short sounds (tics) and filters.

Wilbert Bulsink (1983) was born in Doetinchem in the Netherlands. From a young age on he started writing scores and playing music on organ and piano. He studied piano with Ton Hartsuiker and composition with Daan Manneke.  In 1998 he won the first prize in the Prinses Christina Composition Concours. In 1999 he received the NOG Stimuleringsprijs for Ontdekkingen for orchestra. In 2005 he was awarded the Jan van Vlijmenprijs. In 2006 he won the Proms in Paradiso Programmaprijs with The Expected, a performance he made in cooperation with Thomas Myrmel, based on a film by Keren Cytter. His works have been performed by the Nieuw Ensemble, the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, de Volharding and others.  At this moment he studies composition with Theo Loevendie and Wim Henderickx, electronics with Jorrit Tamminga and piano with Gert-Jan Vermeulen at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

WORDS - Hans Timmermans

'WORDS' can be listened to as if turning pages in an old storybook that is written in a language you don't understand.
Some of the stories are lovely, nice or friendly; some of the stories seem so horrifying that one hurries to turn pages.
Some of the stories you really want to listen to again and again.
'WORDS' is about fascination for human speech and about the way the human brain responds to speech, especially to your own mother tongue. 'WORDS' is mostly constructed from Japanese text-fragments (poems and travel-stories) .
Most listeners won't be native Japanese en their brains will be mostly occupied by the phenomena of 'Human Speech'. Some of the text-fragments are Dutch, native Dutch listeners will suddenly start listening in a different way, their brains
will be very busy finding out the meaning of the text-fragments. For native English listeners the experience will be another one.
The form of 'WORDS' is 'a book', stories and turning pages to start reading a new chapter, 'WORDS' is build in scènes with a clear metaphor for the start of the new chapter.
Most of the material of 'WORDS' is made using generating algorithms that deconstruct spoke texts and reconstruct sound-a-likes like strange song-like structures. These algorithms have also been used in 'PASSION', but in that piece
different human sounds were used. Several forms of Vocoding have been used; Vocoding is a well-known technique, which enables speech-like material to control other types of sound in way that makes these other sound speak (speaking orchestra's etc.) Text-fragments have been read by Makiko Sadakata (Japanese poems and stories) and Kris Rietveld (recipes, voice-exercises).
'WORDS' is composed and produced with my own software in C++. This software is a composition-environment to which I add new elements with every new composition, for 'WORDS' several Vocoders were designed and added.