Organizers
Centre for Music Composition & Performance (CMCP) - www.cmcp.gr
The Centre for Music Composition and Performance (CMCP) was established in November 2006 as a home to cultural activities in the area of contemporary art. It organizes lectures covering subjects from various arts and sciences. The center also produces concerts in collaboration with Greek as well as international centers and performers.
Within the last year it has organized more than 30 lectures with keynote speakers ranging from composers, performers, conductors, university lecturers and visual artists. It has also organized 7 concerts of solo, chamber and electroacoustic music and 8 educational seminars. It has co-produced 3 art projects, and has more than 10 direct orders to Greek Composers leading to the production of concerts and the relevant CD from Nova Musica in Paris. CMCP is a co founder of ElectroMediaWorks 08.
Medea Electronique - www.myspace.com/medeaelectronique
The Medea Electronique collective was formed in Athens, Greece in 2006. Inspired by a play of words – Medea versus Media, it was initiated by the people forming the artistic core of the Stench on a white shirt team, namely painter Christos Laskaris and contemporary music composer Manolis Manousakis. Peter Tsagarakis and Yannis Lolis Soon a number of fellow artists and people into Art joined forces with them, creating an artful collective. Sharing a tendency for innovation, an inherent drive towards novelty and a lust for art, strong synergies were created within this diverse group of people which soon resulted in the collective's first project, Project_01 (Πείραμα_01)
Project_01 (Πείραμα_01) is a mixed media show loosely based on the Myth of Medea and the Euripides play of the same name. It comprises live and tape music, live electronics, video and VJ-ing, actors and singers and light projections. It has been staged so far in Athens (Benaki Museum of Modern Art), Corfu (Ionian Academy Concert Hall) and San Diego, USA (NWEAMO Festival) during Spring, Summer and Fall 2007 respectively.
Medea Electronique is one of the three organizing parties of Electromedia works ’08, a New Media Arts festival that will take place in Athens between 14 and 18 May 2008 for the first time.
Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Laboratory (EPHMME) - www.ionio.gr/depts/music/emral/
The Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Laboratory of the Music Department was founded in 2003. Its main goals are research and the production of original works in the wider field of computer music and sonic art.
The lab' s main axes of action are the following:
- the coverage of teaching needs in the Department of Music Studies as well as in other Ionian University Departments, at under- and postgraduate levels.
- the promotion of research in the area of electroacoustic music technology at local and international level.
- the production of teaching tools and methods for a variety of music specialties
- the production of original music works using novelty techniques of the electronic sound technology
- the development of organizational, design, planning and technical support expertise for the production of various genres of electroacoustic music in a live context
- the responsible and valid spreading of knowledge in the field of electroacoustic music technology, in the Greek and international scientific and artistic communities and the broader public alike.
The lab's director is assistant professor Andreas Mniestris. Members of the team include lecturer Theodore Lotis, special technical staff member Dionisis Batjakis as well as a number of postgraduate students.
In the course of the past four years, the lab has been involved in –among others- the organizing of electroacoustic music concerts, the organizing of music information technology conferences, the creation of archives of Greek electroacoustic music composers' works and in the production of music records . Since May 2005 it coordinated the “Research and Recording of Greek Soundscapes” project, subsidized by the programme EPEAEK II in the framework of the “Pythagoras - aid of research teams in universities” programme.
