A Journey of Artistic Discovery Across Europe
IN-SITU: TEAM COMPOSITION
Organised by impuls, Austria
coached by Matthew Shlomowitz and Dimitrios Polisoidis
with
Jun Nakamura flute | Sara Valle flute | Pablo Marin-Reyes trombone | Mario Porcar Rueda percussion | Maria Iaiza piano | Maurizio De Luca accordion | Szymon Kałużny violin | Aleksandra Kornowicz violin | Mina Zakić cello | Irati Goñi Leoz cello
+ further selected performers, Anika Ariana Hernández Vera piano | Nina Casati violin | Christoven Tan viola
+ selected composers, Simon Bahr | José del Avellanal Carreño | Roni Glaser | Athanasia Kontou | Arianna Pittino | Bernat Pont Anglada
As one of the various Special Programs at the impuls Academy 2025, composer and performer participants were invited to sign up for “Team Composition”. Works created for this project could either be co-authored (such as score-based work between multiple composers, or between a composer and performers e.g. creating their own parts) or “open works” that leave room for performers to make creative contributions beyond the remit usually ascribed to “interpretation” (examples for „open works“ include e.g. instruction scores, graphic scores, pieces with modified stave/staff notation, and pieces involving improvisation).
The project draws on Matthew Shlomowitz’s experience as a composer of open scored work such as his “Letter Piece”-series, where players create their own content within guidelines. The PPCM ensemble, formed by students of the class for “Performance Practice in Contemporary Music” of Klangforum Wien at KUG, are supported by the Ulysses Platform for this "In-Situ" programme, performing, but also co-developing projects. Dimitrios Polisoidis, coordinator of the PPCM course, in turn, assists in the realization of the “Team Composition”-project with his experience in conceptual music and improvisation projects with artists such as Peter Ablinger, Bernhard Lang and others. In addition to the PPCM ensemble, a number of individual instrumental participants from the Academy joined the project.
