Interzone
for punctum collective ensemble (2023)
Premiere: 23.03.2023, Brick-15, Vienna. Kindly supported by the Federal Ministry for Arts & Culture (AT) and Stadt Wien Kultur.
Interzone is a meditation on the fragility of our everyday normality and of the humaneness in humans. A reflection on a hard-to-process, hard-to-come-to-terms-with or make-a-sense-of simultaneity of a relatively stable, secure, comfortable, occasionally careless or absurdly noisy ‘homeostasis of everyday’ and the devastating events unfolding at the same moment either globally or at an individual level.
E Ignashev is a Vienna-based composer and sound/audiovisual artist. His works, often referring to surreal, dreamlike or scientific narratives, include acousmatic and live-electronic pieces, audiovisual art, installations, and soundtracks, aiming to create tangible sonic experiences by fusing musicality with psycho-/otoacoustics, microintervals, extended techniques, AI, spectral transformations, and spatial sound projections.
Psychosonography and sonic adventures as a mission: sounds from custom-built instruments, synthesizers, field recordings, vintage lab equipment, audio-programming environments, extended instrumental and vocal techniques shaped into immersive sonic worlds of resonating entities and organic gestures interwoven with machinery composure.
E is a co-founder of ‘moquette’ and ‘Blinds’ concert series with the punctum collective ensemble; A Certain Trio (ACT) explorative sound art union, Wiener ARP Ensemble (W~ARP), The Kickers, Marie Byrd Land, and other project-specific formations. He contributed music for several film projects and the Loóna app (winner of the Apple Design Awards 2021).
His work has been supported by BMKÖS, MA7, SKE. He studied electroacoustic music, composition, sound art, and electronic media at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw/ELAK), Darmstädter Ferienkurse, cello and music technology since an early age, and psychology with a focus on cognition and creative thinking in music as a diploma/PhD.
︎ Künstlerischer Lebenslauf (de)
Psychosonography and sonic adventures as a mission: sounds from custom-built instruments, synthesizers, field recordings, vintage lab equipment, audio-programming environments, extended instrumental and vocal techniques shaped into immersive sonic worlds of resonating entities and organic gestures interwoven with machinery composure.
E is a co-founder of ‘moquette’ and ‘Blinds’ concert series with the punctum collective ensemble; A Certain Trio (ACT) explorative sound art union, Wiener ARP Ensemble (W~ARP), The Kickers, Marie Byrd Land, and other project-specific formations. He contributed music for several film projects and the Loóna app (winner of the Apple Design Awards 2021).
His work has been supported by BMKÖS, MA7, SKE. He studied electroacoustic music, composition, sound art, and electronic media at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw/ELAK), Darmstädter Ferienkurse, cello and music technology since an early age, and psychology with a focus on cognition and creative thinking in music as a diploma/PhD.
︎ Künstlerischer Lebenslauf (de)
photo: (1) Ж Ignashev, (2) Christiano Tekirdali,
(3) Hessam Samavatian
Dates
upcoming dates
23.03.23
Blinds #4 :: Brick-15, Vienna, AT. ‘Interzone’ live with punctum collective
︎ Supported by BMKÖS ︎ Gefördert von der Stadt Wien Kultur
︎ Supported by BMKÖS ︎ Gefördert von der Stadt Wien Kultur
21.04.23
Live with punctum collective — Österreichische Postsparkasse, Vienna, AT
22.04.23
Live with Marie Byrd Land — Love’s Farewell :: Cafe Siebenstern, Vienna, AT
Jun ‘23
moquette ix :: Konzilsgedächtniskirche Lainz Speising, Vienna, AT :: solo and with punctum collective
Aug ‘23 tba
Poème Manekinétique :: Auf der Suche nach dem Klang des Glücks.
Audiokinetic installation (with Frederic Stritter) Dedicated to György Ligeti’s 100.Anniversary and 60. Anniversary of Poème symphonique Gefördert von der Stadt Wien Kultur
Oct ‘23 tba
moquette x :: Konzilsgedächtniskirche Lainz Speising, Vienna, AT
Nov ‘23 tba
Blinds #6 :: tba, Vienna, AT :: Eye masks, music, analog films :: solo and with punctum collective
past dates
15.11.22
Blinds #3 :: Künstlerhaus Wien, AT :: Eye masks, music, analog films.
︎ Supported by SKE
︎ Supported by SKE
04.11.22
moquette viii :: Konzilsgedächtniskirche Lainz Speising, Vienna, AT :: solo and with Punctum Collective
28.09.22
Blinds #2 concert series (with Punctum Collective) :: Künstlerhaus Wien, AT :: Eye masks, music, analog films. ︎ Supported by SKE
10.09.22
Live at VELAK Gala at Symposion Lindabrunn, Lindabrunn, AT, live
03.09.22
Bodies of Water, Kongressbad, event by czirp czirp, Kongressbad Vienna, AT :: dj/live hybrid-set
01.08.22
ImPulsTanz Festival, Burgtheater / Vienna, AT :: DJ-Set b2b with Yuzu
17.06.22
Moquette vii, Konzilsgedächtniskirche Lainz Speising, Vienna, AT :: solo and with Punctum Collective
29.04.22
Live at Das LOT, Vienna, AT
28.04.22
Moquette vi, Konzilsgedächtniskirche Lainz Speising, Vienna, AT :: solo and with Punctum Collective
09.04.22
Blinds #1 concert series (with Punctum Collective) :: Künstlerhaus Wien, AT :: Eye masks, music, analog films.
︎ Supported by SKE
︎ Supported by SKE
16.03.22
Echoraum, Vienna, AT :: ‘G E M S — genetically modified sounds’ (für AI/ML raw-audio Erzeugung)
︎ Gefördert von der Stadt Wien Kultur / (postponed from 21.01.22 due to CoV)
︎ Gefördert von der Stadt Wien Kultur / (postponed from 21.01.22 due to CoV)
Jun ‘21
moquette V, Konzilsgedächtniskirche Lainz Speising, Vienna, AT :: live solo and with Punctum Collective
Jun ‘21
Echoraum, Vienna, AT :: sound projection at Shut Up And Listen festival: Nothing is real
︎ Supported by BMKÖS
︎ Supported by BMKÖS
May ‘21
Echoraum, Vienna, AT :: liaisons sonores electroacoustic music festival :: ‘Light cones and Actual Entities” — multichannel acousmatic composition, sound projection
︎ Supported by BMKÖS
︎ Supported by BMKÖS
Apr ‘21
::postponed/cancelled :: Vienna, AT :: live with W~ARP — Wiener ARP Ensemble mit AkustikInstrumentalistInnen
Feb ‘21
::postponed/cancelled :: Moquette v, Konzilsgedächtniskirche Lainz Speising, Vienna, AT :: live solo and with Punctum Collective
Jan ‘21
::postponed/cancelled ::
velak Konzertreihe, Vienna, AT :: live performance A Certain Trio
Dec ‘20
Alte Schmiede, Vienna, AT :: live performance with A Certain Trio
Sep ‘20
moquette iv, Konzilsgedächtniskirche Lainz Speising, Vienna, AT :: live performance with punctum collective
Sep ‘20
Ars Electronica 2020 — SOUND CAMPUS, Linz, AT :: live performance with A Certain Trio
Aug ‘20
VELAK #115, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, AT :: live performance with W~ARP — Wiener ARP Ensemble
Jun ‘20
moquette iii, Konzilsgedächtniskirche Lainz Speising, Vienna, AT :: live performance with punctum collective
May ‘20
Modulometer — an online stream concert, Vienna, AT :: ‘Needless Needles’ — a generative composition for PureData
Feb ‘20
Panzerechse Bauchfrei, Venster 99, Vienna, AT :: live performance with A Certain Trio
Dec ‘19
Shut Up And Listen Festival, Echoraum, Vienna, A :: live performance with W~ARP — Wiener ARP Ensemble
Oct ‘19
La Cueva, UG Soundlabor, Semperdepot, Vienna, AT :: live performance with A Certain Trio
Oct ‘19
moquette ii, Konzilsgedächtniskirche Lainz Speising, Vienna, AT :: live performance with ṗunctum collective
Aug ‘19
‘Suspense’ — original soundtrack to the photo exhibition of Tim Parchikov as a part of the cultural programm of the Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, IT
Jun ‘19
Velak Gala, Fluc, Vienna, AT :: live performance with A Certain Trio
Jun ‘19
moquette i, Konzilsgedächtniskirche Lainz Speising, Vienna, AT :: live performance with ṗunctum collective
Jun ‘19
live with Santa Melodica Orchestra at mumok (museum of modern art), Vienna, AT
May ‘19
ELAK concert at the Floating Sound Gallery, New Stage of the Alexandrinski Theater, St.Petersburg, RU :: a fixed media 8-channel acousmatic version of ‘Ionosphere’, sound diffusion: Thomas Grill
May ‘19
Kramladen, Vienna, AT :: live performance with A Certain Trio (together with Yuri Landman)
Apr ‘19
Washington International Film Festival, US |
Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran, IR
‘The Case’ — an original movie soundtrack together with Andrei Oid, international premiere
‘The Case’ — an original movie soundtrack together with Andrei Oid, international premiere
Mar ‘19
Konzilsgedächtniskirche, Vienna, AT :: live performance of ‘Terrane’ for dust, soprano and live-electronics with Nava Hemyari
Sep ‘18
‘Poor Folk’ — original movie soundtrack together with Andrei Oid :: premiere and vinyl release at Garage Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, RU
Sep ‘18
Ars Electronica 2018, Linz, AT :: an acousmatic presentation of ‘Per Aspera Ad Astra’ on a 20.4 speaker system as a part of a Listening room / Sonic Saturday
Jun ‘18
ELAK concerts at Steinergasse 8, Vienna, AT :: (1) live performance with W~ARP — Wiener ARP Ensemble (with Wolfgang Musil and Frederic Stritter); (2) fixed media multichannel spatialisation of ‘Ионосфера’ and MDWhale (with Frederic Stritter)
Jun ‘18
Organo/Logics at Hofburgkapelle Wien (Chapel of the Hofburg Imperial Palace), Vienna, AT :: live performance of ‘Ionosphere’ for organ and live-electronics. Organ: Wolfgang Kogert; künstlerische Leitung: Karlheinz Essl
May ‘18
‘Sounds of Matter’ — an international composition competition encouraging composers to find new creative ways to convey scientific ideas through music. A ‘Public choice’ award for the ‘Fullerene-graphene Sandwich’ acousmatic composition, Vienna, AT
Apr ‘18
‘Дело Собчака’ — an original movie soundtrack together with Andrei Oid, russian premiere, Moscow, RU
Apr ‘18
Sonic Lab at Anton Bruckner Private University, Linz, AT. A 20.4-sound system live sound diffusion of ‘Per Aspera Ad Astra’ acousmatic composition
Jan ‘18
ELAK-Werkstattkonzert, Echoraum, Vienna, AT :: ‘Per Aspera Ad Astra’ acousmatic composition for a 16-channel system
Jul ‘17
Electric Orpheus Academy, Rappottenstein, AT :: live sound diffusion of a fixed media multichannel piece. Künstlerische Leitung: Günther Rabl, Wolfgang Musil
Jul ‘17
Schizophonic — ELAK Sommerkonzert, WUK, Vienna, AT :: ‘Terrane’ for dust, soprano and electronics, live performance with Nava Hemyari (voice)
Jun’ 17
Soundings VI, mdw, Vienna, AT :: live performance of ‘zwîval’ for a Michelsonne toy piano and live-electronics. Toy piano: Asmir Jakupovic
Jun ‘17
MDW Aufspiel, Konzerthaus, Berio Saal, Vienna, AT :: The 200. Anniversary of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw). ‘Phyllotaxis’ — a fixed media acousmatic multichannel composition presented as a part of a special selection for the anniversary concert
Jan ‘17
Echoraum, Vienna, AT :: ‘Phyllotaxis’ acousmatic composition for a 12-channel system
Jan ‘17
Improvisation und neue Musikströmungen, Clara-Schumann-Saal, mdw, Vienna, AT. A concert of improvised music with acoustic and electronic instruments. Künstlerische Leitung: Katharina Klement
Sep ‘16
Vienna Acousmonium concert ‘Sounds Around Me’, Semperdepot, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT :: live sound diffusion of ‘Studie IIIIIIV’
Jul ‘16
Sommerkonzert ELAK Wien, Moë, Vienna, AT :: live performance of ‘An attempt at a Sound Conception of the Universal Ether‘ for a grand piano, objects, and electromagnetic electronics, 4-channel. Piano: Asmir Jakupovic
Apr ‘16
All You Need Is Ears, Tresor, Berlin, DE
Jan ‘16
Voyage Sonore, Echoraum, Vienna, AT :: a 10-channel sound diffusion of an acousmatic piece ‘Studie IIIIIIV’
Aug ‘14
Konnex Night @ OSTHANG Project, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Darmstadt, DE :: live performance
Selected Works
Live-performance at Hofburgkapelle
(Chapel of the Hofburg Imperial Palace), Vienna, 22.6.2018.
The piece is for live organ and 6-channel electronics, this is a stereo mixdown version.
Ionosphere focuses on the organ's sounds usually almost unhearable and unnoticed due to being quite, far from the listener, blurred by the acoustics of the space or considered artefacts accommodating the “proper” sound.
The wind from the blower, the tiny nuances and changes on the border between wind and tones, frequency beatings from the half-opened stops' combinations. Electromagnetic fields recorded with special microphones create an electronic layer of the piece.
The wind from the blower, the tiny nuances and changes on the border between wind and tones, frequency beatings from the half-opened stops' combinations. Electromagnetic fields recorded with special microphones create an electronic layer of the piece.
Light Cones and Actual Entities
I Kami ︎ II Interzone ︎ III Kugelblitz ︎ IV Hypersurface of the Present
#processandreality #mankowskispace #a.n.whitehead #liaisonssonores2021 #echoraum
Originally an 8-channel acousmatic sound projection, reduced to stereo here.
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