SO.UND.ING Acousmonium: Di-Fusion

18–19 March 2024

Kino Šiška, Komuna hall

Authors
Patrick K.-H. [Anton Iakhontov],Daniel Teruggi,beepblip [Ida Hiršenfelder],Bojana Šaljić Podešva,Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio,Elżbieta Sikora,Katharina Klement

Di-Fusion offers two immersive evenings of contemporary composed electroacoustic music in surround sound. Artists shape the sonic field through spatial diffusion on an octaphonic system, turning listening into a dynamic, embodied experience of space.

The program is created in cooperation with the Floating Sound Gallery from Vienna, curated by Patrick K.-H. [Anton Iakhontov]. His selection from the gallery’s archive is complemented by live performances from invited artists, bringing together archival works and new pieces.

Special guest appearances highlight key figures in the history of multichannel electroacoustic music. The project also opens an acousmonium listening lounge, offering focused, immersive listening to selected works.

Di-Fusion offers two immersive evenings of contemporary composed electroacoustic music in surround sound. Artists shape the sonic field through spatial diffusion on an octaphonic system, turning listening into a dynamic, embodied experience of space.

The program is created in cooperation with the Floating Sound Gallery from Vienna, curated by Patrick K.-H. [Anton Iakhontov]. His selection from the gallery’s archive is complemented by live performances from invited artists, bringing together archival works and new pieces.

Special guest appearances highlight key figures in the history of multichannel electroacoustic music. The project also opens an acousmonium listening lounge, offering focused, immersive listening to selected works.

18.00–19.30, listening session (sound installation)

  • Michael J. Schumacher: Freed Field (30’03), 2018
  • Michael J. Schumacher: Filters and Filtered (21’30), 2014

20.00–22.00, live performances (interpretations / diffusion)

  • Katharina Klement: peripheries (27’30), 2014–2016
  • Daniel Teruggi: Sweet J (5’40), 2011 — video: Christiana Kluge [8-channel AV projection]
  • Daniel Teruggi: Punctus spatio (17’00), 2021
  • Patrick K.-H. [Anton Iakhontov]: Postards (30’00), 2022–2024
  • Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio: Speak-ON (12’00), 2024
  • Bojana Šaljić Podešva: Prayer: Tears Within Uncover a Human (20’00), 2024

18.00–19.30, listening session (sound installation)

  • Victoria Morgunova: C.R.N.S. (40’55), 2020

20.00–22.00, live performances (interpretations / diffusion)

  • Elżbieta Sikora: Axe rouge V (13’22), 2011
  • Daniel Teruggi: Êchoi (13’00), 1997
  • Daniel Teruggi: Spaces of mind (17’40), 2004
  • Patrick K.-H. [Anton Iakhontov]: Yellow Rabbit (10’00), 2023
  • Katharina Klement & Axel Doerner: 5 levels (18’44), 2022 — video: Patrick K.-H. [Anton Iakhontov] [8-channel AV projection]
  • beepblip [Ida Hiršenfelder]: Voluminozno gibanje vodne Zemlje (18’55), 2024
  • Elżbieta Sikora: Paris Gare du Nord (14’50), 2017
Patrick K.-H. [Anton Iakhontov]

A Russian composer and artist, renowned for his exploration of graphical sound, animation, and interactive performances. With over 40 opera, drama, and theater plays featuring his music and video, he has been showcased at 200+ festivals globally, including Ars Electronica and Club Transmediale, earning international awards like LÚMEN_EX and the Golden Mask.

Daniel Teruggi

Hailing from Argentina, he emerged as a significant figure in electroacoustic music. While serving as director at INA’s GRM from 1997 to 2017, he not only spearheaded audiovisual preservation but also enriched the musical landscape with his compositions. He received awards such as the SMPTE Archival Technology Medal and the Giga-Hertz Award, cementing his legacy as both a musician and a technological innovator.

beepblip [Ida Hiršenfelder]

A sound artist and archivist. She makes immersive bleepy psychogeographical soundscapes with analogue electronics, DIY and modular synths, field recordings and computer manipulations. She is a member of the Jata C group for bioacoustics and sound ecologies (2018–) and the Clockwork Voltage community for modular synthesis.

Bojana Šaljić Podešva

A composer, devoting herself mostly to researching sound as an entity that affects the listener physically and substantively. Her music oscillates between complete abstraction and complex semantic languages. She is the recipient of a number of awards for concert works, stage and film music for her oeuvre, which spans operatic, choral, chamber, soloist and electronic music.

Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio

Built a multifaceted career spanning acoustic, electroacoustic, and experimental music, along with various artistic disciplines. From solo instrumental performances to ensemble compositions and mixed media installations, he is a curator and head of R&D at HEKA Lab at PINA in Koper, Slovenia, where he designs immersive studio technologies and content production.

Elżbieta Sikora

A Polish composer based in France. Her diverse compositions span stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, electroacoustic works, and film scores. She studied under notable figures such as Pierre Schaeffer, François Bayle and Tadeusz Baird, and has received numerous honors, including the GEDOK competition First Prize in Mannheim.

Katharina Klement

An Austrian composer-performer celebrated for her diverse work in both composed and improvised music, encompassing electronic and instrumental genres. She is known for complex projects involving music, text, and video, with a special focus on inventive piano techniques. Her international performances span from St. Petersburg to Sao Paolo.

Artists: Patrick K.-H. [Anton Iakhontov], Bojana Šaljić Podešva, beepblip [Ida Hiršenfelder], Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio, Katharina Klement, Daniel Teruggi, Elżbieta Sikora
Curators: Patrick K.-H. [Anton Iakhontov], Brane Zorman
Organisation: Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman, Urška Savič
Public relations: Matej Tomažin and Anja Pia Biščak
Design: Matej Tomažin
Photography: Urška Boljkovac
Translation and proofreading: Daniel Sheppard

Production: Cona
Coproduction: Kino Šiška
Organisation: CONA, Floating Sound Gallery (Vienna), Kino Šiška
In cooperation with: PINA

The festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.

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