Concert of Electroacoustic Music with works by Ilias Kotzias
Program
• In Foreign Parts (In der Fremde poem by Joseph von Eichendorff, 1833)
solo soprano
• Reflections
for solo clarinet
• And this Sunset poem Pablo Nerouda
for soprano, bass clarinet and prerecorded material
• The Cry of the Burned Trees
for clarinet and two computerized clarinets.
• Sea, the Whales
for sequencer
Intermission
• Gaza
for B flat clarinet, bass clarinet and sequencer
• My Sea
for sequencer
• Invention on Silence
solo soprano
• Silence
for sequencer
Ilias Kotzias is a composer specialising in electronica and electroacoustic experimental music. He uses various compositional techniques from tropic part-writing to noise and sound texture constructions. Regardless of the techniques and the means he uses, he focuses on listeners' perception.
He believes that human significant feelings and incidents are accompanied by a specific sound mark or texture. The birth, a heart attack, anxiety, a car crash, joy, are incidents and feelings he things that are linked with archetype sounds. With his music, he is trying to emerge feelings and memories hidden in our subconsciousness.
Mainly, he composes music for the stage. Among Ilias' music are the Atopos for Konstaninos Thomaides' physical theatre project, The Gaze That Scours The Landscape for Libby Worth's physical theatre project the Space x2 and the How People Understand for Josh Ward's choreography. His music has been performed in various venues in UK, Greece, Belgium, Hungary and Turkey.
Ilias studied musicology at the University of Athens specialising in contemporary music and acoustics. Alongside he got acquainted with Baroque and Classical compositional styles at National Conservatoire of Athens. He also studied contemporary composition with the renown Greek composer George Zervos. In 2007 he acquired his Master Degree at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is currently a PhD candidate in electronic composition at Royal Holloway, supervised by the distinguished electronica, film and television composer, Dr Brian Lock.