Echofluxx 15, Festival of New Media, Art and Music

Selected Video works and Artists

Joao Pedro Oliveira (Portugal) - Et Ignis Involvens, 11'30" - This piece is inspired on the first vision of the prophet Ezechiel (Ezechiel 1:4): “et vidi et ecce ventus turbinis veniebat ab aquilone et nubes magna et ignis involvens et splendor in circuitu eius et de medio eius quasi species electri id est de medio ignis” “And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself; and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire”. This piece was commissioned by Gulbenkian Foundation, and was composed in the composer’s personal studio and at the University of Keele Electronic Music Studio. The audio part of his piece received the first prize at Metamorphoses 2006 Competition (Belgium). The video part was made at the composers personal studio. Joao Pedro Oliveira completed a PhD in Music at the University of New York at Stony Brook. His music includes one chamber opera, several orchestral compositions, a Requiem, 3 string quartets, chamber music, solo instrumental music, electroacoustic music and experimental video. He has received numerous prizes and awards, including three Prizes at Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition, the prestigious Magisterium Prize in the same competition, the Giga-Hertz Special Award, 1st Prize in Metamorphoses competition, 1st Prize in Yamaha-Visiones Sonoras Competition, 1st Prize in Musica Nova competition, etc.. He is Professor at Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and Aveiro University (Portugal). He published several articles in journals, and has written a book about analysis and 20th century music theory.

Brigid Burke (Melbourne) - Gloss, 15'01" - This work is a series of 9 short connected movements. 1. Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, piano and electronics, 2. Electronics, 3. Bb clarinet, flute, double bass and electronics, 4. Bass clarinet, piano, electronics and flute, 5. Electronics, 6. Piano, double bass and electronics, 7. Bass clarinet, Bb clarinet, double bass, flute and electronics, 8. Eb clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, piano, double bass and electronics, 9. Bass clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, double bass, piano and electronics. Gloss was inspired by a series of nine pen and ink drawings, which were used as graphic notation for the different instrumental combinations and live electronics. The nine graphics were then integrated into the video art work which shows glimpses of the graphics in superimposed layers in conjunction with pencil drawings of squiggles depicting wire. These were then photographed. The depiction of wire glosses the image with a superficial lustre. Brigid Burke: Composition/score, Electronics, Bb clarinet/bass Clarinet, artwork, visuals and video. Grania Burke: Eb clarinet/bass clarinet Megan Kenny: flute/pic David Mc Nicol: piano Ian Wilmot: double bass. Brigid is an Australian composer, clarinettist, visual artist and video-maker. She has had works performed extensively both nationally and internationally. Most recently, she has performed in the Fed Jam visuals on the Big Screen Fed Square ICMC International Computer Music Conference Perth Australia, Echofluxx Festivals Prague, Generative Arts Festivals in Rome & Milan Italy, Asian Music Festivals in Tokyo, The Melbourne International Arts Festival, Futura Music Festival Paris France, Mona Foma Festival Hobart, The International Clarinet Festivals in Japan and Canada also Seoul and Australian International Computer Music Festivals. She will in 2015 be Artist in Resident at Marshall University USA with a Edwards Distinguished Professor Artist Residency as well as at NMIT Melb. Aus. Artist Residency also at ADM NTU Singapore. She has been a recipient of an Australia Council Performing Arts Music Project Fellowship. She also curates Seensound Visual/Music series at LOOP Bar Melbourne Australia. http://seensound.comHer involvement in many audiovisual performances has led her to integrate real time sound, visuals, and theatre in her performances to create innovative use of sonic objects, speakers, video cameras, computers, clarinet animations, notation, original prints, drawings, digital animation, traditional notation and free improvisation. She has received commissions from the Australian Broadcasting Commission ABC, Australian Asian Foundation, Japanese Printing Corporation, ANAT, South Australian Govt. and Australia Council. Universities have supported Brigid in her performances, compositions and artwork. She has a PhD from UTAS University of Tasmania and a Master of Music in Composition from Melbourne University.

Daniel Cabanzo (FR) and Albert Bayona (ES) - Flux II, 8'40" - This is the second version of Flux, from the Latin word “fluxus” which refers to the flow or the idea of transporting either information, materials or energy. Flux is originally on stereo format and it is inspired by the flow of life, where the idea of ??adapting images to the music becomes stronger, finally achieving an audio-visual work where the images and the music share a synergy which complements each other. Flux plays with the sensation of the coming and going flow of people and situations that are perpetually changing and in constant movement, dying and being born and finally becoming an endless cycle of transformations in a continuous movement of "eternal return." music: Daniel Cabanzo, video: Albert Bayona. Albert Bayona is a visual artist and cultural promoter. Since 1986 he has been engaged in teaching at the School of Arts Leandre Cristňfol in Lleida. He was the director of this School between 1995-2000. His arts works involve many different disciplines like paintings, drawing, photography, video, digital technology and music. Between 1986 and 2000 he participated in the organisation of the Grants “Entrega” that Lleida’s town hall was giving. In addition, he was the artistic director of the Periferiat’s Gallery, the Museum “el Roser” and “Sant Joan” and finally codirector of the Animac Animation Festival. He has benefited from the grants of the Catalan government “Generalitat de Catalunya” and Lleida’s town hall. His works have been presented in Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Art Center La Panera (Lleida), Museum Abelló L'Aparador (Mollet del Vallčs), la Caixa Fundation, Museum Jaume Morera (Lleida), Center Lectura (Reus), Développement Cultural (Foix), Gallery Sebastiŕ Petit Art Contemporani and Gallery 44 (Barcelona). Albert has participated in the following festivals: ARCO (Madrid), Art Frankfurt, Biennal de Vic, Videoformes (Clermond-Ferran), New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Split International Festival of New Film, Lúmen_ex 2011 (Badajoz), Festival Signes de Nuit (Paris), The Wrong Biennale, LOOP Festival (Barcelona), CO.AR.CO (Marseille), Under the Subway Video Art Night (New York), BccN MACBA (Barcelona), ccVAD Patio Herreriano (Valladolid) and Instantes de Paisaje CDAN (Osca). In 1985 Bayona received the second prize of the XXIV Fundation Joan Miró for his work Variacions per a una estčtica racional (1984). Later on in his career, in 2008, his audiovisual Monday to Friday (2008) was the winner of the Vasudha Prize for the best environmental short film at the International Film Festival of India-Goa.

Rachel Yurkovich (US) - Five-Second Rule, 4'01" - After pondering how our perspective of food changes immediately once it hits the ground... This happened. Rachel was born in South Carolina, raised in Prague, The Czech Republic and now lives in Cleveland, Ohio. She received her BFA in Sculpture and Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2014. Her work involves instances of uninhibited consumption in living things captured by video. This work has been exhibited nationally in venues such as the SPACES Gallery, ROY G BIV Gallery in Ohio as well as well as locations such as the Aggregate Space Gallery and the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in California. Thanks to the 2014 First Agnes Gund Traveling Award, Rachel is planning her upcoming travels to Chernobyl, Ukraine as a location for filming in the near future.