YU CHUNG TSENG (TW)
Tunares (7'12" - 2025)
KONSTANTINOS KARATHANASIS (GR/USA)
Ode to Kitchen (7'47" - 2015)
TOLGA YAYALAR (TR)
Impulse Impromptu II (8'45")
GIANLUCA POMPILIO (IT)
Heliocline (5'50" - 2025)
YU CHUNG TSENG (TW) Tunares (2025)
Main source: chaotic bamboo bush collisions and friction sounds. Composition idea: create naturally musical work from chaotic bamboo material—thus "Tunares." Composer used stretching, harmonizing, rhythmizing, melodizing, texturizing to musicalize these sounds. Result: artistic yet natural composition despite striking transformation from original bamboo character. Tunares oscillates between real/virtual, concrete/abstract bambooscapes—neither absolutely abstract nor representational. Finished February 1st, 2025 at Computer Music Studio, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. "Tunares" tributes John Chowning whose "Turenas" influenced this work's creation.
KONSTANTINOS KARATHANASIS (GR/USA) Ode to Kitchen (2015)
Ode to Kitchen homages Neruda's 225 Odes celebrating everyday objects like bread, artichokes, socks through sounds, colors, smells, emotions. Hundreds of kitchen sounds were classified by gestural archetypes and substances, processed through classic tape manipulation. Complex textures emerged from fast, random reading of similar sound folders. Thousands of resulting sound objects were orchestrated into highly energetic, kaleidoscopic amalgam. Received 1st place SIME 2016 and honorary mention Música Viva same year.
TOLGA YAYALAR (TR) Impulse Impromptu II
Impulse Impromptu II is the second piece exploring electroacoustic virtual improvisation with specific instruments, challenging conventional musical perceptions. Focusing on the Japanese Koto, it removes the instrument from traditional context, reimagining it as a sound-emitting object. The piece delves into the Koto's sonic essence, utilizing inherent sounds and soundboard reverberations while manipulating these elements to transcend conventional boundaries. Key aspects include spatial models and High Order Ambisonics, immersing audiences in expansive sonic landscapes that push beyond traditional stereo imaging toward multidimensional experience.
GIANLUCA POMPILIO (IT) Heliocline (2025)
Heliocline is a space of transition: between surface and depth, between light and darkness, between what emerges and what dissolves. The title is inspired by the concepts of thermocline and photocline, zones in which sudden changes in temperature or light occur within oceanic layers. In a similar way, Heliocline metaphorically explores the stratification of sound in the depths, where frequencies penetrate only so far before silence slowly takes over. In this threshold, sound behaves like light: it refracts, it fades, it transforms. The composition is a world premiere.