Sauti (Felipe Otondo)

• Notes: Sauti, meaning both "sound" and "voice" in Swahili, somehow encapsulates the essence of this piece created by means of field recordings carried out in Kenya in 2012. The work combines community radio recordings and various soundscapes of the city of Mombasa combined with synthesized textures and layers of rhythmic patterns inspired by traditional West African music. The piece was composed at the Arts and Technology Lab of Universidad Austral in Valdivia, Chile.

• About the Artist: Felipe Otondo is a composer and researcher based in Valdivia, Chile. He studied acoustics in Chile and later composition at the University of York in England with Ambrose Field and Roger Marsh focusing in electroacoustic music, sound installations and music theatre. His music has been played in festivals in 37 countries across Asia, Europe, North and South America. He has received various international awards and prizes at composition competitions such as Cittá di Udine International Composition Competition (2008 & 2013), Qwartz Radio France Award (2012), Musica Nova International Competition of Electroacoustic Music (2013), MATERA intermedia (2016) and the Chilean National Innovation Award (2019). He is currently Associate Professor and Director of the Arts and Technology Lab (LATe) at Universidad Austral de Chile. His new album release entitled “Mombasa” was recently published by Sargasso Records.

KOM (Diego Ratto)

• Notes: This is an electroacoustic piece about Stockholm with concrete sounds of Stockholm. In this composition, there are different sections in contrast that, for me, describe some aspects of this capital, such as: the agitated commuter life, metro and public transports, the rhythm of a big city, the restful nature and sea. Different parts and moods that all together create what has been this place for me, especially in the early period. So, this can be also a personal way to work on my thoughts and impressions as a foreigner who moved, from a small town of Italy, to a new place, a new city and a new urban reality. What I’ve seen, what I’ve heard and especially what I’ve felt.

• About the Artist: Diego Ratto (B. 1988, Alessandria, Italy) is a musician and composer currently based in Santa Barbara, CA.
  He received a Bachelor of Music in jazz guitar in 2016 and in electronic music in 2017 from Music Conservatory "A.Vivaldi" in Alessandria (Italy). He graduated from KMH - Royal College of Music in Stockholm (Sweden) with a Master of Music in electroacoustic composition in 2019.
  He is currently a PhD student in music composition at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), with Professors João Pedro Oliveira and Curtis Roads.
  He has been awarded with the following prizes: Prix Russolo 2022 (finalist FTTB), Golden Lala Awards 2020 (Poznan, PL), Sound of Silences - Edison Studio / Romaeuropa Festival 2020 (Rome, IT), Musicworks Magazine Electronic Music Contest 2020 (Toronto, CAN), Wocmat 2018 International Phil Winsor Computer Music Competition (Taiwan), Rimusicazioni Film Festival 2018 (Bolzano, IT), Residency Prix CIME 2017 - International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music, Electroacoustic Contest EFME 2016 (Santa Fe, RA).
  In June 2018 he was offered an artistic residency at the prestigious ICST - Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology - (Zhdk) in Zurich.

Fibres (Alex Sipahioglu and Jack Woodbury)

• Notes: Fibres is a collaborative composition by Alex Sipahioglu and Jack Woodbury. Recorded between 2020 and 2021 in Wellington, Fibres samples recordings of discarded or unnoticed sounds of personal significance to the composers. The resonance of a metallic water bottle, the clicks of disused electronics and toys, the subtle song of wind chimes at a family member's house. By collecting these often-forgotten sound objects, Fibres exposes the intangible, fibrous sonic connections we have to the people, places, and events that comprise our lives.

• About the Artist: Jack is a Wellington-based composer and audio engineer. His compositional work focuses on juxtaposing noise and glitch textures against ambient materials.
  
  Largely working in the fixed media space, Jack has released the 2022 "Unfathomed Waters" and 2020 “inst.19-20” albums on Rattle Records. The former, collaboratively composed with Peter Liley, draws inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft’s "The Temple". The latter is a fixed media collection of works originally composed for audio-visual installations. Jack has presented works in the UK, USA, Australia, and New Zealand.

Proximal II (Wayne DeFehr)

• Notes: Proximal II explores ways of connecting and feeling close. Although the platforms that became commonplace during the pandemic are often blamed for the tension of connection and distance, maybe that model could be made more complicated. Someone could be in the same room and feel distant, or be online and feel close to another person miles away.  This piece zooms in on the beginning seconds of connection – the greeting, the word “hello.” But also the sounds of the technology, here from earlier times, call out to people first and announce the potential to connect in whatever ways possible.

• About the Artist: Wayne is a classically trained pianist, studying for many years in Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music program. After graduating as a music major from college he began composing for live theatre, providing sound support for a range of works by playwrights like Sharon Pollock, Peter Shafer, and Moliere among many others. From there he began exploring more experimental sonic expressions and started presenting ambient music at events and festivals, such as the International Computer Music Conference and the New York City Electronic Music Festival. He is currently a board member of the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS) in Edmonton, Canada.

Aridflow (Jason Bolte)

• Notes: AridFlow was inspired by the spring thaw in the Gallatin Mountains south of Bozeman, MT. The work was commissioned by the Zaccho Dance Theater (San Francisco). The composition was premiered as part of a Spring Thirst, presented by Mountain Time Arts. 

• About the Artist: Jason Bolte is a composer and educator. He currently resides in Bozeman, Montana USA with his wife Barbara, their two beautiful daughters, and friendly dog Allie. Jason teaches music technology and composition at Montana State University where he serves as the Director of the School of Music. Jason’s music explores the North American mountain west, modular synthesis and live performance, intersections of music, art, and science, and other spaces he finds fascinating.

Por Mi Culpa (Damian Anache)

• Notes: Rhythm, lights and shadows; micro-details, grains and noises; overlapped layers and textures in a simulated space. "Por Mi Culpa" (Spanish for "Mea culpa", a Latin phrase translated as "through my fault") rest beneath an oscillation between discrete clicks and continuous noises, moving around from here to there, from close to far. The piece was created exclusively with granular synthesis over Pure Data programming language (Miller Puckette, 1996). Each grain of sound is reated with filtered white noise, passing throw a parallel bank with resonant frequencies inspired by vocal tract formants. The software development for the piece was created within the framework of the activities of the STSEAS research program (Temporal systems and spatial synthesis in sound art), Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.

• About the Artist: Damián Anache (1981) is an Argentinian artist based in Buenos Aires. His works focus on time events on forms such as sound pieces and videos exploring non-narrative expressions of micro-detail, noise and geometry. His musical pieces has been played at international venues, among them: Abrons Arts Center (NY,US), Conservatorio Santa Cecilia (IT); Abingdon Studios (UK); CMMAS (MEX). As a professor works at National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) and National University of Quilmes (UNQ), where he also participates in research activities since 2007. He has recently compiled and published the book Tekné: Apropiaciones desde el arte actual (Tekné: Appropriations from current art, Arte x Arte, Fundación Alfonso y Luz Castillo, 2019, Arg.).