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ΑΓΧΙΒΑΤΕΙΝ NEWS

ΑΓΧΙΒΑΤΕΙΝ s back to life !!!!

an organisation and independent label dedicated to cultural and  
educational activities
- more curatorial and educational acts soon to be announced
- new releases soon


November:

14-15.11.2009 - Athens, Greece - workshop on supercollider curated w.  
Bios

NEW RELEASES OUT IN NOVEMBER:

01. Marinos Koutsomichalis 'Trevor Jones Studio Sessions vol I'
02. Marinos Koutsomichalis 'Peripatetic'


PERIPATETIC





Peripatetic. adjective. 1. Travelling from place to place, esp working  
or based on various places for relatively short periods. 2. with  
reference to the Aristotle' s practice of walking to and fro while  
teaching. (Oxford American Dictionary).

Probing the aural

Cities are sound installations - organic sound-emitting devices. They  
are both 'generative pieces' and 'field recordings'. Our auditory  
system defines our own individual acoustic space in such an  
environment. By wandering around, by consciously controlling the way  
we listen, we can alter this sonic-image and shape it according our  
will. We can interpret given space, inhabit its sonic qualities and  
seek aesthetic potential there.
The act of recording highlights and documents such a praxis, while  
enables me to further shape the soundscape in respect to how various  
pieces of equipment listen to and perceive sound. But what ultimately  
matters, is awareness of the sounds around us.
By trying to compose out of given space, I seek to highlight this  
perceptional shift. Letting Sound guide me to wherever it may,  
upgrades everyday life experiences into stand-alone compositions.

Assembling experiences

The material consists of field recordings made in the cities of  
Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, York, London, Vienna, Brussels, Gent,  
Antwerp, Liverpool, Leeds and inside various means of transportation  
between them.Post production was cosmetic – limited to a couple of  
necessary edits just to remove some short clippings and handling  
noises. No further manipulation is being applied to the recordings. I  
chose to provide no indexes both to avoid associations and to  
highlight the continuity in the act of being aware to sound.

MK, 2009

1st edition of 180 cdrs


TREVOR JONES STUDIO SESSIONS vol I




The first months of the 2009 I composed a series of generative pieces  
that were later performed in the control room of the Trevor Jones  
Studio in York, Uk, in four impovised sessions (02, 03, 18 and 20 of  
March).
The focus was on how sound alters the aesthetic and physical qualities  
of the site and how it challenges its functionality. It was an attempt  
to establish a sonorous architecture within the room.
I scholastically tried to create meaningful phonographic  
representations of my efforts to dominate the space, so I could end up  
with brand new fixed media works out of these attempts.That is to  
treat my own performance as if a found soundscape to interpret.
Careful microphone selection and positioning is a powerful  
compositional tool on its own. In these recordings I used a pair of  
Neumann U-87i microphones. It soon become evident, though, that these  
original recordings were that highly depended on the site itself, that  
it was impossible to master. So I re-record everything in the only  
place where it sounded nice, using a Soundfield ST-250 microphone, in  
order to end up with a smoother version.
For the record, I only used the supercollider programming environment  
and a Lexicon TC 6000 system.

THIS ALBUM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ORIGINAL TREVOR JONES STUDIO  
SESSIONS !

MK, 2009

1st edition of 180 cdrs


you can pre-order on www.agxivatein.com


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Greetings from hot Crete !





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Marinos Koutsomichalis
Sound Artist, Composer
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web:
www.marinoskoutsomichalis.com
www.agxivatein.com (cultural acts)
marinos at marinoskoutsomichalis.com
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Greece:
Paloumpioti 33, 11476, Athens
mobile: 00306938954510
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Uk:
mobile: 0044(0)7593021328