Sixth call for work for composers and multimedia artists
Saint-Etienne – May 2019
False or repressed memory? Juxtaposition of perception and memory? A sign of previous life, an illusion, a temporal anomaly? The eternal return of the same? The feeling of déjà-vu intrigues both artists, philosophers and scientists.
As part of the Art & Science Days, Musinfo proposes to composers and artists from around the world to participate in a call for a sound or multimedia work.
We dedicate this 2019 edition of the call for works to the phenomenon of deja vu in its different dimensions.
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The 6th Sampo Composition Contest / Residency
Composition Contest and Residency for Acoustic Instrument and Sampo
Saint-Etienne 11 - 18 May 2019
Musinfo is pleased to announce the sixth edition of the Composition Contest and Residency for Acoustic Instrument and Sampo. With this initiative Musinfo supports the work of contemporary composers in the field of live-electronic. The residency will take place during the 2019 Art & Science Days in Saint-Etienne.
The winning composers will receive a commission from Musinfo to compose a new work for an acoustic instrument and Sampo. Sampo is an electronic device made for any musician or composer to expand the sound field of an acoustic instrument.
The writing of the new composition will include two phases:
• First, the winners will work with the P-Soft software which emulates Sampo. They will exchange with the performers of OpusCentrum ensemble, who will prepare the works on their Sampos.
• The winners will then be invited to carry out their residency in Saint-Etienne for one week to finalize their compositions and prepare the concert which will take place during the 2019 Art & Science Days together with the performers. Sampos will be made available to composers during the residency.
This year the performers of the residency are Alicja Lizer-Molitorys (flute) and Marie Ythier (cello).
Artex
Artex - Artistic & Technologic Exchange
The Artex project consists in establishing artistic exchanges around the innovative instrument Sampo manufactured by Musinfo association in Saint-Etienne.
Our objectives are multiple:
- To develop relations with cultural institutions and independent artists abroad
- To promote the use of new technologies in music
- To support contemporary musical creation
- To sustain the repertoire of mixed music
Art & Science Days 2018
25 - 29 June 2018
Questions about time
“What then is time?” wondered Augustine of Hippo. “If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
The present, the past, the future... Basic material for the composer, an object of study for the researcher... Everyone, in their way, watches time pass by, measures it, observes it, uses it. Yet the question remains: what then is time?
We dedicate this 2018 edition of the Art & Science Days to sound and visual / scientific and imaginary time.
Fifth call for work for composers and multimedia artists
Bourges – June 2018
“What then is time?” wondered Augustine of Hippo. “If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
The present, the past, the future... Basic material for the composer, an object of study for the researcher... Everyone, in their way, watches time pass by, measures it, observes it, uses it. Yet the question remains: what then is time?
As part of the Art & Science Days, Musinfo proposes to composers and artists from around the world to participate in a call for a sound or multimedia work.
We dedicate this 2018 edition of the call for works to sound and visual / scientific and imaginary time.
Read more: Fifth call for work for composers and multimedia artists
The 5th Sampo Composition Contest / Residency
Contest / Residency Results
The international jury selected two winners of Sampo Contest / Residency:
Nikos Koutrouvidis
(Greece)
Maurilio Cacciatore
(Italy)
Art & Science Days 2017
19-23 June 2017
The fruit of imagination
One of the most profound mysteries of this world is its creation, its birth, its life... As Anaxagoras said, "Nothing of the things that exist ever dies; rather each thing, as it is separated from another, takes on a different shape." Thus the composer creates a new universe of sounds, forms, harmonies from what he knows, what he has learned...
We dedicate the 2017 Art & Science Days to sound and visual / scientific and imaginary creation.
Mechanical Instrument
A gestural instrument for pianist, ordered by Utopik Ensemble.
The original idea is that of the composer Arturo Gervasoni who imagined a wood surface for his composition Mechanical Area "for pianist on surface". The purpose of the instrument / interface Mechanical Instrument is to capture the vibrations produced by the pianist with his fingers on different wooden plates specially designed to obtain a wide variety of sounds and distribute the in space, with the possibility to act directly on the sound parameters.
