The ZKM and Centre Iannis Xenakis (CIX) are organizing a two-day artistic-scientific symposium to explore current approaches and contemporary trends in the field of graphic notation for parameter generation for musical compositions.

Read more about the conference here.

Friday, 28/09/2018
14:00-18:00: Symposium Session I @Lecture Hall
14:00: Cyrille Delhaye “Composing by drawing with UPIC: landmarks, archives and traces of composers”
15:00: Alain Després "The 1980s: UPIC is less than ten years old"
16:00: Guy Médigue “The Early Days of UPIC”
17:00: François-Bernard Mâche “L'Upic à l'envers”
18:00 break

20:00: Concert I @Cube
Julian Scordato "Constellations"(2014), for graphic sequencers and electronics
Julian Scordato "Vision II" (2012), for graphic sequencers and electronics
Julian Scordato"Engi" (2017), for graphic sequencers and electronics
François-Bernard Mâche "Tithon" (1989), Fixed-Media

Saturday, 29/09/2018
10:00-13:00 Symposium Session II @Lecture Hall
10:00: Julian Scordato “Graphic scores from UPIC to IanniX”
11:00: Mark Pilkington “Current 9 – Audio-visual Composition”
12:00: Chikashi Miyama “Developing software for the audiovisual interaction”
13:00: break

14:00-18:00 Symposium Session III @Lecture Hall
14:00 Julio Estrada
15:00 Rodolphe Bourotte & Sharon Kanach “UPISketch: Renewal of an Old Idea”
16:00 Panel-Discussion (Moderator: Ludger Brümmer)
18:00 break

20:00 Concert II @Cube
Chikashi Miyama  “Piano Chimera” (2008), video
Chikashi Miyama  “Strokes” (2018, UA), audiovisual performance
Chikashi Miyama  “Modulations” (2013/2018), for interactive multimedia system
Mark Pilkington “Current 9”, audiovisual performance
Mark Pilkington “Lamaload A/V” (2017), audiovisual composition (8 channels)
Wilfried Jentzsch “Paysages Y 757” (2014)
Alexej Weber “Klanggewebe” (2018)

15:00–20:00, Friday–Saturday, 28–29/09/2018
Installations by Chikashi Miyama,  Rodolphe Bourotte & Sharon Kanach