ULYSSES JOURNEYS FOR SOUND DESIGNERS

At the impuls Academy and its Festival 2025, the ULYSSES Platform supported Benedikt Alphart as part of his ULYSSES Journey, first as a composer in the Special Program "Speculative Sound Synthesis", and also as a sound designer in two further projects. In the latter, he was able not only to work with the PPCM-Ensemble and Dimitrios Polisoidis, but also with composers such as Pierre Jodlowski, Simon Steen-Andersen, Franck Bedrossian and Clemens Gadenstätter, partly also already before the coretime of the Academy. The results of this work were then successfully presented at the impuls Festival. 

27 February 2025, 14.00+16.30, FLUXES, Reiterkaserne . Performancesaal, Leonhardstrasse 82-84, 8010 Graz

This project aimed to explore the exciting possibilities that multimedia and live-electronics bring to contemporary music composition and performance. The selected pieces will featured works by renowned composers and impuls coaches Pierre Jodlowski and Simon Steen-Andersen, as well as showcased innovative music from students who are actively engaged in electronic music. The program offered a unique opportunity to engage with the evolving relationship between technology and music, expanding the creative potential for both composers and performers.

PPCM-Ensemble
Pablo Marin-Reyes trombone | Maurizio De Luca accordion | Szymon Kałużny violin | Mina Zakić cello | Benedikt Alphart electronics

Programme

Simon Steen-Andersen Study for String instrument #3, for cello, video (2011)

Luis Torres Peyotl, for accordion, live-electronics (2023)

Pierre Jodlowski  In & Out, for violin, cello, video, electronics (2004)

Rocío Cano Valiño Antanaklasi IV, for violin, electronics (2021)

Pierre Jodlowski Outer Space, for trombone, electronics, video, lights (2018)

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28 February 2025, 19.45, Grande Finale, MUMUTH . György-Ligeti-Saal, Lichtenfelsgasse 14, 8010 Graz

For the Grande Finale of this year’s impuls Festival and Academy, students in the specialized master’s programme “Performance Practice in Contemporary Music” present works by composers Annesley Black, Franck Bedrossian and Clemens Gadenstätter, who teach at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and partly also at impuls, as well as a work of Mark Andre. A kind of home game with international appeal!

PPCM-Ensemble

Jun Nakamura flute

Sara Valle flute, piccolo, bass flute

Dácil Guerra Guzmán clarinet, bass clarinet

Juan Alonso Moreda saxophone

Pablo Marin-Reyes trombone

Mario Porcar Rueda percussion

Maria Iaiza piano

Maurizio De Luca accordion

Szymon Kałużny violin

Aleksandra Kornowicz violin, viola

Irati Goñi Leoz cello

Mina Zakić cello

Cem Tolunay Gürakar double bass

Benedikt Alphart electronics

Francesco Di Giorgio conductor

Programme

Mark Andre Asche (2004)

Franck Bedrossian It (2004)

Annesley Black Scrap (2018-2019)

Clemens Gadenstätter Sextett (1993)

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