We are glad to announce our 5th Acousmatic Music International Composition Competition “Iannis Xenakis”. This comes after the successful organisation of the previous one which was completed last November with the public performance of the winning pieces, along with compositions by the jury members and Xenakis in 2 very special, fully attended concerts at the Noesis Science Museum of Thessaloniki 

For the 5th edition of our competition we are having a great jury chaired this time by Kees Tazelaar 

We are looking forward to receiving your works and organise one more time this worldwide celebration of electroacoustic music

We wish you all having a great new year!

Dimitris Maronidis
Director of the competition

We are glad to invite you to our 4th Iannis Xenakis Electronic Music Festival on November 11th (17:00 concert A & 20:00 concert B) You will have the unique opportunity to attend two concerts of innovative electronic music in a very special venue, the planetarium at Noesis – Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum. This year, we have the honour to host the renown composer Jonty Harrison who has served as the chair of the jury for this edition of our competition. Between the two concerts, there will be a round-table discussion on a newly published book titled: “Iannis Xenakis – on rhythm in architecture” by Elisavet Kiourtsoglou. 

Our 4th competition was, once again, very successful in attracting 222 submissions from all around the world. The artistic and technical level of the submitted pieces was outstanding. Xenakis’ compositional endeavour, an unconditional and insatiable quest in discovering new sounds, has found its way into most of these pieces. In our first concert, you will listen to pieces by the jury members along with “Concrete PH” by Iannis Xenakis. In the second concert, you’ll have the opportunity to listen to the pieces that got an award or distinction in the competition

On behalf of the Contemporary Music Lab, I would like to express my gratitude to all of the participants of the competition, to the members of the jury, to our very special guest Jonty Harrison and all of the wonderful electroacoustic community for helping us make our dreams about modern music a reality. Enjoy this world-wide celebration of acousmatic music in Xenakis’ homeland!

Dimitris Maronidis
 Director of the Competition

NOESIS – Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum
11 Nov 2023 | 17:00 & 20:00  

Free Entrance | Priority tickets will be available at the museum box office, on the day of the event from 16:00

Concert A | Saturday 11.11 17:00
Iannis Xenakis – Concrete Ph
Jonty Harrison – Kammermusik
Elsa Justel – Gwerz
Luis Quintana – Junkyard Construction-Why Stop The Swing
Panayiotis Kokoras – Useless box
Robert Normandeau – Melancholia

Intermission |  Book Presentation | Saturday 11.11 18:30
Presentation and round-table discussion on a newly published book titled: “Iannis Xenakis – on rhythm in architecture” by Elisavet Kiourtsoglou. 

Concert B | Saturday 11.11 20:00
Cameron Naylor (UK) – Foxglove
Zach Thomas (US) – husk 2
Robert McClure (US) – in excess
Edmar Soria (MX) – Vortex Flow
Ian Whillock (US) – Directionality
Todor Todoroff (BE) – Voices Part III – Resistance

We are happy to announce that we have received 222 compositions for our 4th International Composition Competition Iannis XENAKIS. Many thanks to all of the composers who have submitted their music to this worldwide celebration of modern music. The pieces will now get anonymized (not names, titles or program notes will be passed to the jury) and we expect to be able to announce the results later in mid-spring this year. The winning compositions will be presented in the autumn in a special concert along with works by the jury members and Xenakis. Please stay tuned with us! We wish you a happy, creative, and safe new year!

We announce today our 4th International Composition Competition of Electronic Music “Iannis Xenakis”!

Our 4th competition comes after the successful organisation of our last one, which was completed in September with the presentation of the winning pieces along with compositions of the jury members and Xenakis in 4 spectacular concerts featuring M&R Acousmonium from Belgium.

For the 4th edition of our competition we have again an excellent jury chaired this time by Jonty Harrison. We are looking forward to receive again works of high artistic quality and to perform them in our future concerts!

We wish to all of the electroacoustic community having a safe and creative year! 

Dimitris Maronidis
Director of the Competition

Contemporary Music Lab organizes 4 concerts in collaboration with INFLUX-Acousmonium on Saturday, September 18, 2021, at 12.00 and 20.30, and on Sunday, September 19, 2021, at 18.00 and 20.30 at the Aristotle Museum of Natural History (port of Thessaloniki). The concerts take place as part of our the third International Iannis Xenakis composition competition and a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth which is starting in a few weeksThe Belgian ensemble INFLUX-Acousmonium specializes in electroacoustic music of the 20th and 21st century, with particular emphasis on modern 3D sound diffusion techniques. In their concerts at Thessaloniki, they will present works by composers who have worked with Acousmonium, an electro-acoustic opera by ANNETTE VANDE GORNE, director of the ensemble and head of the competition committee, as well as the works that got an award in this year’s competition and of course works of Iannis Xenakis.

We would like to inform you that for our Third International Iannis Xenakis Competition we have received 224 compositions from 40 countries! It has been a challenging year and we hope that when our awards-concert will take place in Autumn all this nightmare will be over. We would like to thank all of the composers who have participated in this celebration of modern music. We are planning to organize special events dedicated to Iannis Xenakis so, please, stay tuned with us! We wish all of you a happy, creative, and safe new year!

In a grey, devastating mood, we announce today our Third International Competition of Electronic Music “Iannis Xenakis”. Unfortunately, our announcement is coming amidst the world-wide, life-threatening pandemic of COVID-19 virus. Since in all world, very austere measures and lock-downs are taking place, maybe it’s a good time for staying at home, contemplating, and being creative while protecting the sensitive groups of people around.

This competition is a very special one since it coincides with the 20 years’ commemoration of Xenakis. We are proud of having with us an excellent jury consisting of highly acclaimed composers and chaired by a legendary figure in electroacoustic music: Annette Vande Gorne.

We wish all of the electroacoustic community, and everybody out there, staying safe and we are looking forward to receiving exciting new works!

Dimitris Maronidis
Director of the Competition

On 5th of October 2019 two electronics music concerts will take place at TSSO Concert Hall “Solon Michailides” at Nikis Avenue 73, Paralia Thessaloniki.

Please find below more information

CONCERT #1 – 18:00
The first concert features compositions by Iannis Xenakis and the Jury of the 2nd international electronic music competition Iannis Xenakis. (Trevor Wishart, Ludger Brümmer, Oliver Carman, Panayiotis Kokoras, Joao Pedro Oliveira)

CONCERT #2 – 20:30
In the evening, the winning compositions of the competition will be presented.

PROGRAMME
Damian Gorandi (Argentina) – So…is coming…
Madore Xavier (Canada) – Les loges de la suite
Dimitrios Savva (Cyprus) – Moments Of Liberty II Falling Within
James O’Callaghan (Canada) – If (and only if) I am among
Apostolos Loufopoulos (Greece) – Demons And Fairies
Robert Seaback (United States) – in surge

The chair of the jury Trevor Wishart, a legendary figure in the field of electronic music will be with us and diffuse his own piece!
See you all there. It’s going to be an exciting day!

We would like to inform you that due to the large number of submitted compositions, many of which are in multi-channel format, the results of our second competition will be announced by the end of April. We apologize for this delay and we hope you understand that the jury is having to do an incredibly demanding job!

We have also decided to reschedule the concerts for the following autumn in order to give space for the composers who will want to attend the event, to arrange their travel. Stay tuned!