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Bee
APOSTOLOS LOUFOPOULOS
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_Bee_ was created in summer 2010. The work is inspired by the microcosmos of insects, a world of intense/energetic flying behavior, and could be described as a “journey on the back of a bee”, since metaphorically often places the listener in this imaginary position, as “traveling” on the insect itself.
The work is characterized by intense/kinetic motions and rapidness, which can be observed throughout a context of antithetical relationships between sounds: from smooth micro-motions to vast and rapid passages, from calmness and stillness to the burst of energy, to flight and vortex, to the essence of speed and rapid transition between spaces.
The basic audio material used to create the context of the piece is mostly borrowed from the natural environment and constitutes a variety of outdoor recordings such as those of summer insects (bees, wasps, flies), sea-related sounds (seashore waves, distant or close) and forest soundscapes (distant birds, ground noises, rocks, bird/insect natural combinations etc.), which have followed a course of transformation regarding their morphology at a variety of levels. In addition to this material, a number of synthesized sounds were composed and transformed accordingly, finally being mixed with naturally derived material.
The context can be described as “acousmatic”, where the purpose was to treat sound-sources as sound/shapes equally, regardless of their natural or synthetic origin. The “behaviors” created most of which are reminiscent of natural or supernatural actions – derived from the transformations or combinations between both natural and non-natural sounds.
Links: http://www.essim.gr/en/members/Apostolos_LOUFOPOULOS.htm
The work is characterized by intense/kinetic motions and rapidness, which can be observed throughout a context of antithetical relationships between sounds: from smooth micro-motions to vast and rapid passages, from calmness and stillness to the burst of energy, to flight and vortex, to the essence of speed and rapid transition between spaces.
The basic audio material used to create the context of the piece is mostly borrowed from the natural environment and constitutes a variety of outdoor recordings such as those of summer insects (bees, wasps, flies), sea-related sounds (seashore waves, distant or close) and forest soundscapes (distant birds, ground noises, rocks, bird/insect natural combinations etc.), which have followed a course of transformation regarding their morphology at a variety of levels. In addition to this material, a number of synthesized sounds were composed and transformed accordingly, finally being mixed with naturally derived material.
The context can be described as “acousmatic”, where the purpose was to treat sound-sources as sound/shapes equally, regardless of their natural or synthetic origin. The “behaviors” created most of which are reminiscent of natural or supernatural actions – derived from the transformations or combinations between both natural and non-natural sounds.
Links: http://www.essim.gr/en/members/Apostolos_LOUFOPOULOS.htm
Produced at composer's private studio in Kifisia, Athens, Greece. Original sounds recorded 2010 at the island of Kefalonia, Greece with support from the Technical Educational Institute of Ionian Islands, Department of Sound Technology and Musical Instruments http://www.teiion.gr
Premiere Performance: Electroacoustic Music Days 2010, Corfu 29-31 October 2010, Ionian University -Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composer's Association (HELMCA) http://www.essim.gr/en/ea_days2010.htm
Premiere Performance: Electroacoustic Music Days 2010, Corfu 29-31 October 2010, Ionian University -Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composer's Association (HELMCA) http://www.essim.gr/en/ea_days2010.htm
Apostolos Loufopoulos (GR) studied music at the Ionian University of Corfu (music degree, 1999) and electroacoustic composition with Denis Smalley at City University, London (Ph.D. in electroacoustic composition – 2005). He has attended seminars on contemporary composition and music technology at IRCAM (Paris, Academie d’ete, 1998). His works have been performed worldwide and have appeared on different CD collections (Ionian University, Musiques et Recherches, INA-GRM / Scrime-Noroit), on the radio and on the Internet. He is a founding member of HELMCA (Greek Union of Composers of Electroacoustic Music, www.essim.gr) and the Greek Society for Acoustic Ecology.