SARAH LEMIEUX (US)
we are all one luminous fractal thing (11'56" - 2025)
GERALD TRIMMEL (AU)
Embracing the Ghosts (8'52" - 2025)
NIKOLAOS FOTIADIS (GR)
Echoes Of Climate (7'28")
SARAH LEMIEUX (US) we are all one luminous fractal thing (2025)
"we are all one luminous fractal thing" is an acousmatic composition exploring the inextricable connection between humans and the Earth. The score interweaves field recordings of wave-like sounds—ocean tides, wind through trees, and other environmental textures that echo the organic, rhythmic qualities of white noise. These natural patterns merge with evolving harmonies, human breath, and flute. If you focus on the sound of your own breath as you listen, you can collaborate in this experience, and feel the deep connection between the rhythms of nature, the cycles of your body, and all living things.
GERALD TRIMMEL (AU) Embracing the Ghosts (2025)
Four decades later, my 1985 composition "Palimpsest 18" catalyzes this sonic return—a turning toward past ghosts. These aren't mere relics but active resonant spaces interwoven with present. "Embracing the Ghosts" dialogues intensely with these traces—not nostalgic reflection but dynamic sonic transformation. Ghosts include unique, irretrievably lost sounds I encountered but never recorded, haunting memory and inspiring reanimation through similar structures. My composition embraces this past-present interplay: archival recordings from early 1980s, including unused "Palimpsest 18" material, recombined via contemporary synthesis. Granular synthesis and spectral transformations reshape them into new reality—some fragments untouched, others dissolved and reconfigured.
INIKOLAOS FOTIADIS (GR) Echoes Of Climate
Echoes of Climate is a multidimensional electronic composition capturing humanity's evolving relationship with nature—from harmony to disruption and consequences. Three sections explore destructive human impact while conveying fragile restoration hope. 'Balance' portrays untouched nature in perfect harmony through artificial birdsong and water flows creating dreamy organic landscapes. 'Intervention' depicts human disruption with aggressive, dissonant sounds building to explosive climax representing absolute destruction. Harmony fractures through chromatic transitions while polyrhythmic motifs collide. 'Consequence' begins with distant sounds symbolizing destruction's remnants—sparse textures and processed soundscapes evoking emptiness, yet hope gradually emerges with consistent rhythm and ticking sounds marking renewal possibilities.