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Hello all,<div><br></div><div>**sorry for cross-postings - and once again if you are not interested in receiving newsletters just ask and I' ll remove you from my list.. <br><br></div><div>my latest work is the first <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">of a series of installations dedicated to the exploration of the musical and architectural potential of everyday domestic appliances - </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">it is accommodated at the Arthur Sykes Rymer Auditorium at the university of York ("..the premiere listening space for reproduced sound in the UK..")</span></span></div><div>until this Monday midnight</div><div><br></div><div>note that this is NOT a public event, </div><div>and access to the space is limited and NOT guaranteed especially off the working hours,</div><div><br></div><div>(however, if anyone is in the area and interesting in visiting the installation, he may contact me and I can make sure he gets in)</div><div><br></div><div>so I decided to upload a video on my site - fully aware that it' s not possible even to imply the actual work </div><div>that way</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://marinoskoutsomichalis.com/works/domestic-appliances-project/domestic-appliances-project.html">http://marinoskoutsomichalis.com/works/domestic-appliances-project/domestic-appliances-project.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>program notes and bio follow :</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman"><b>domestic appliances project #1</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><br></b></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">A domestic freezer has been selected as the only sound source. Using a variety of carefully selected and placed contact microphones, coils and other transducers (mainly custom-made), sounds from the machine are amplified and projected into the auditorium - achieving both an exploration and an expansion of the machine - to develop a composed sonic environment. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">Sound here operates on an architectural level in competition with the Freezer' s corporeal presence and by enacting areas of different sonority within the auditorium. This provides visitors a ready-made sonic environment for them to experience, an opportunity to wander inside it, to explore it and define their own individual pathways through the work – their unique encounters with it. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">Questions of site- and time- specificity of the work arise due to the highly-referential nature of both the found-object and its accommodating space, this might introduce a conceptual aspect to the work. But the physical presence of the Freezer, the carefully composed soundscape and the individual character of the auditorium, are evidence that it' s not about A freezer into A space, but about THIS very Freezer into THIS space and the-artist' s own interpretation of how they can interact together and merge. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div></div><div><div>Marinos Koutsomichalis (Athens, Greece 1981 - ) composer, sound-artist.</div><div><br></div><div>Active in the fields of both sound-art and notated music, Marinos Koutsomichalis profoundly indulges in sound and all auditorial stimuli, from within a philosophical viewpoint. He is interested in creating self-evident sonic experiences - organic life-forms that guide or inspire, in turn, their very maker. Usually in his works, traditional ideas of formalism, causality or transformation are abandoned and "musical" references are overwhelmed, for the shake of sound itself, which is no longer the carrier of an artificially planted "meaning" or "message" but the very message itself.</div><div><br></div><div>As a sound-artist, he works within a strict site- and time- specific context, utilizing DSP techniques,field recordings and generative procedures. His main focus is on the architectural possibilities of sound - how to occupy space sonically in meaningful ways - both through intuitive performances and scholastic installations. Phonographic techniques hold a distinct place in his arsenal, as both a tool to interpret given space or found-sounds, and, further, to document his own work, always in respect to the boundaries medium-oriented reproduction imposes.</div><div><br></div><div>Notation is just another medium for him to explore - its textural and timbral possibilities in particular, and though not his main focus, his acoustic output should not be overlooked, as it features works for a variety of instruments and ensembles that are frequently performed. He is, also, into various side-projects or solo experiments, from time to time, when he feels he needs to do something different, trying to constantly re-establish his individual relationship with sound.</div><div><br></div><div>His work has been released by various labels including Entr' acte (uk) and EchoMusic(gr), while he both performs / is being performed around the globe - amongst others Usa, Greece, Uk, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. He is currently pursuing an MA by research in composition with digital media at the university of York, under the supervision of dr Tony Myatt, whilst he holds an offer to undertake a Phd in music in the same university. He also holds degrees in Harmony, Counterpoint and Management. He spends most of his time between York, Athens and Creta.</div><div><br></div></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div>--------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Marinos Koutsomichalis</div><div><div>--------------------------------------------------------</div><div>web:</div></div><div>www.marinoskoutsomichalis.com</div><div><a href="mailto:marinos@marinoskoutsomichalis.com">marinos@marinoskoutsomichalis.com</a></div><div><div>--------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Greece:</div></div><div>Paloumpioti 33, 11476, Athens</div><div>mobile: 00306938954510</div><div>--------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Uk:</div><div>11, Granville Terrace</div><div>YO10 3DY, York</div><div>mobile: 0044(0)7593021328</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>