EWA TRĘBACZ [read like: Eva Trembatch]

NEWS & EVENTS

CIME/ICEM 2023

November 3-4, 2023 - Rethymno, Crete

41st CIME/ICEM General Assembly 

Electroacoustic Music Days 2023

 

"Umbrae" - an Ambisonic work by Ewa Trębacz - has been included in the program of the Electroacoustic Music Days 2023 in Rethymno, Crete (Greece), in a joint event with the 41st General Assembly of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (CIME/ICEM). 


 

      

During the 5 days of the festival, 13 concerts are scheduled and 78 works will be performed – 50 works by HELMCA composers and 28 international works by CIME/ICEM members.

These include Belgium (FeBeME-BeFEM, Musiques & Recherches), France (Maison des Arts Sonores), Italy (Tempo Reale), Portugal (Projecto DME), Poland (PSeME), Ukraine (UAEM), USA (SEAMUS, UNT/CEMI), China (EMAC), Mexico (AARSOM) and Canada.

 

 

 

 

The program includes fixed media works - among them 15 octophonic, works for video, as well as performances incorporating analog electronics, computer systems, acoustic instruments and voice. The works will be presented with a loudspeaker orchestra surrounding the audience.

 

The event is hosted by the Department of Music Technology & Acoustics (HMU), in collaboration with the Hellenic Association of Electroacoustic Music Composers (HELMCA).

Festival website: https://meres-icem2023.hmu.gr/

Full program: https://meres-icem2023.hmu.gr/program/

 

 

SOUND Festival 2023 | SERG: "Encounters"

 

Sunday, October 29th, 5:30pm

SOUND FESTIVAL 2023

ENCOUNTERS

 

Curated by SERG
Sound Emporium Research Group

Kings Pavilion, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

 

Works by Alejandro Brianza, Barry Truax, Berk Yağlı, Ewa Trębacz, 
Gordon Delap, Jonty Harrison, Juan Carlos Vasquez,
Leah Reid, Pete Stollery, and Shawn Pinchbeck


Full program...

 

Encounters is a listening event exploring how we encounter sound. SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group) will showcase soundscape compositions from various artists and composers to demonstrate how our encounters with sounds shape our perception of our environment. Presented by Lise Olsen and Alistair Rennie.
 

SOUND is a new music incubator based in North East Scotland, encouraging new music creation and discovery.
 

SERG is a community of creative people at the University of Aberdeen whose main goal is to explore and realise new ideas through innovative and enjoyable sound projects. SERG members are keen to collaborate with others from different disciplines and to engage in practice-based research projects where sound is a key element.

 

 

CD Release: "Tower of Broken Mirrors"

  ODYSSEY TWO
PSeME Collection
Polish Society of Electroacoustic Music

OPUS SERIES - REQUIEM RECORDS
opus-series.com

 

The Tower of Broken Mirrors - an Ambisonic soundscape by Ewa Trębacz in collaboration with Josiah Boothby and Leanna Keith - has been released on a CD as part of the Odyssey Two collection of eleactroacoustic works from Poland. 

 

The second album from the PSeME Collection series of Polish electroacoustic music, this album includes 15 compositions created by a very diverse group of artists, representing various styles of contemporary music, different aesthetics, differing creative approaches, and utilizing different technologies. One can find examples of acousmatic music, live electronic forms, and compositions featuring live instruments and voices.

 

The album is supported by the Polish Society of Electroacoustic Music (PSeME), which was established in 2005 to consolidate the community of composers in this field of music and promote them worldwide through festival networks and other events. Since its founding, numerous initiatives have been realized, including the creation of the PSeME Collection series, which represents successive electroacoustic odysseys. 

 

Works by: Ewa Trębacz, Aleksandra Bilińska, Marcin Pączkowski, Krzysztof Gawlas, Krzysztof Knittel, Max Kohyt, Marcel Chyrzyński, Piotr Roemer, Joanna Stępalska-Spix, Marzena Majcher, Piotr Czerny, Tomasz Prasqual, Tomasz Misiak and Marcin Olejniczak, Eugeniusz Popławski, Anna Jędrzejewska.


Curated by Dariusz Mazurowski (PSeME - Polish Society of Electroacoustic Music).

 

CD1 - Track 1
Ewa Trębacz - The Tower of Broken Mirrors (2021, remix 2023)
Josiah Boothby - horn, Leanna Keith - flutes, Ewa Trębacz - violin and electronics

SPHERE Conference - Kraków, Poland

KRAKÓW, POLAND - October 20-21, 2023


SPHERE Conference - Konferencja SFERA


Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music

Studio for Electroacoustic Music


CONCERT 3

 

Krzysztof Kicior - Blockchain Music Study 2.5 (2023) 
Czesław Minkus - SFERobroty’23 (2023)
Piotr Madej - Wildwood Rain (Spherical Object 6) (2023)
Ewa Trębacz - Umbrae (2023), Ambisonic soundscape
Krzysztof Gawlas - Freescape (2023)
GrupLab - Plejrek 380 (2023)
Marek Chołoniewski, Krzysztof Gawlas, Leszek Hefi Wiśniowski,
Czesław Czet Minuks, Piotr Madej

 

            The Sphere Conference on the 50th anniversary of the Electroacoustic Music Studio of the AMKP in Krakow concerns the form of a spherical and holistic image of space-time in the physical and symbolic dimensions, with particular emphasis on music, sound art, video and animation as well as selected forms of media art (including 3D and VR).

Similarly to previous SME conferences, it also refers to civilizational and ecological changes, cosmos and microuniverse, as well as selected social and political strategies.

 

CWU New Music Festival 2023

October 6-8, 2023
 

CWU New Music Festival

Central Washington University

Ellensburg, WA, USA

 

 

  

 


Minotaur for French horn and surround sound was performed on October 6, 2023 by Jeffrey Snedeker during the first edition of the New Music Festival at the Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. 

 

Live concert recording: 
Format: binaural
Microphone: CoreSound TetraMic

Decoding software:
The Ambisonic Toolkit (ATK)
 

 

 

ARS ELECTRONICA 2023


LINZ, AUSTRIA, Sept. 6-10 2023

 

September 9, 2023 - Sonic Saturday


Concert "Medium Sonorum"

 

“Umbrae”  - an Ambisonic soundscape by Ewa Trębacz - was premiered on September 9, 2023 as part of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. The concert was the final event of their Sonic Saturday annual symposium, this year titled "Manufacturing Audible Truth" (in response to the festival's theme Who Owns the Truth?). The Symposium took place at the Sonic Lab of the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz.

 

The program included mulitchannel compositions by Jakob Gille (DE), Manu Meier (CH), Chin Ting Chan (HK), Ewa Trębacz (PL/US), Tolga Yayalar (TR), and Berk Yagli (CY) - all of them presented with the ABPU's 20.4 surround sound system.

   


The theme of Ars Electronica in 2023, this year for- mulated as a question, aims directly at key disputed topics of our time: truth and ownership, interpretive authority and sovereignty. Can truth be owned? Is there a right to truth and if it does belong to someone or some institution, what control and responsibility are associated with it?

 

How do we ask ourselves such questions in this age of global interconnectedness and the rapidly developing performance of so-called Artificial Intelligence?  In an age, moreover, in which a small number of people, in neo-feudalistic fashion, have usurped the management of collective knowledge, and in which we also have good reason to doubt whether the vision of technology represents the solution to our problems.



 

 

GLISSANDO: Sounds from Space

    GLISSANDO - March 1, 2023
 

Sounds from space. About the music of Ewa Trębacz

Article by MACIEJ JABŁOŃSKI

 

"All Ewa Trębacz's works that I know are characterized by considerable restlessness,  which lurks subcutaneously even in fragments devoid of clear movement. From the point of view of form, they are very coherent, homogeneous - the composer usually uses two opposing forms of music: lively and condensed versus quasi-static, calm. Despite the predominance of restless mobility, Ewa Trębacz's music is in fact contemplative."

 

Read more...
 

Original text in Polish...

 

 

CD Release: Sound Chronicles of the Warsaw Autumn 2020

 

  

Ewa Trebacz's Metanoia, concerto for violin, string orchestra and surround sound, has been released on a CD as part of the CD collection Sound Chronicles of the Warsaw Autumn 2020 (CD #3).

 

The CD also includes works by Paweł Hendrich, Tomasz Skweres, and Przemysław Scheller, with performances by Adam Bałdych (violin) and NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra with Christan Danowicz (conductor). 

 

MEET THE COMPOSER: Ewa Trębacz

     

   

 

 

MEET THE COMPOSER:

Ewa Trębacz

 

Moderator: Aleksandra Bilińska

 

Languages: Polish and English

 

65th International Festival of Contemporary Music

WARSAW AUTUMN

 

Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw

September 19, 2022

WARSAW AUTUMN 2022

Warsaw Autumn 2022

 

September 18, 2022  - ATM Studio, Warsaw

 

65th International Festival of Contemporary Music

WARSAW AUTUMN

 

DIALOGUE ZONE – CHAMBER PLAYERS' MARATHON


PART 1: ENERGIES

 

Works by

Ewa Trębacz, Miroslav Srnka, Martyna Kosecka, Marco Stroppa, Pierre Jodlowski, Artur Zagajewski,

 

Performed by

Chopin University Modern Ensemble (dir. Julia Kurzydlak, Ignacy Zalewski), Gośka Isphording, Kwadrofonik, Artur Zagajewski

 

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September 19, 2022, 10am 

Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw

 

MEET THE COMPOSER: Ewa Trębacz

Moderator: Aleksandra Bilińska

MUSICA POLONICA NOVA 2022

 

May 25-29, 2022, Wrocław, Poland

 

FESTIVAL "MUSICA POLONICA NOVA"

National Forum of Music

 

Andrzej Kosendiak - director

Paweł Hendrich - artistic director

 

Works by Ewa Trębacz (composer-in-residence): 

 

May 29, 2022, 5pm - National Forum of Music, Red Hall

Ligeia for invisible soprano, ensemble and surround sound 

Chain Ensemble, Andrzej Bauer - conductor

Anna Niedźwiedź - invisible soprano

 

May 29, 2022, 7pm - National Forum of Music, foyer 

Minotaur  for horn and surround sound

Mateusz Feliński, horn (live)

Josiah Boothby, horn (electronic layer)

 

May 29, 2022, 8pm, National Forum of Music, Main Hall

Metanoiaconcerto for violin, string orchestra and surround sound

Adam Bałdych - violin

NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, Christian Danowicz - conductor

 

 

 

NOCCO presents DECADENCE

 

Saturday, April 23, 2022, 2:00 PM

Good Shepherd Center in Seattle

 

Sunday, April 24, 2022, 7:30 PM

Town Hall Forum, Seattle

 

 

NOCCO - North Corner Chamber Orchestra presents

DECADENCE

 

Scott Joplin - The Cascades

Ewa Trębacz - A Machine for Entropy

Paul Hindemith - Lustige Sinfonietta Op. 4

 

 

Inanna Descending at UMFC, Warsaw

 

Sunday, April 3, 2022 - Warsaw, Poland

 

The F. Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (UMFC)

 

"Nowa Muzyka - Nowe Technologie"

Concert curated by dr Wojciech Błażejczyk

 

Marta Grzywacz - voice
Mateusz Śmigasiewicz - electronics
Chopin University Modern Ensemble,

Julia Kurzydlak, conductor

 

Simon Steen Andersen – "Study for String Instrument #2" for strings and whammy pedal

 

Brigida Muntendorf – "keep quiet and dance" for voice, clarinet, violin, cello and electronics 

 

Ewa Trębacz – "Inanna Descending" for variable ensemble and Ambisonic sound (Polish premiere)

 

Mateusz Śmigasiewicz – "Soundscape study" no 3. - "Harmonie der Welt" for 2 Moog synthesizers and tape (world premiere)

 

Wayward Music Series | Wayward in Limbo

Ewa Trębacz, Leanna Keith, Josiah Boothby - at Satsop Nuclear Plant

 

Wayward Music Series | Wayward in Limbo # 119

 

THE TOWER OF BROKEN MIRRORS

 

Josiah Boothby, French horn

Leanna Keith, flutes

Ewa Trębacz, violin & electronics

 

The soundscape emerged from our collective hallucinations at the CT3 cooling tower and the reactor building at Satsop Nuclear Plant. We wandered around, improvised, and the spaces responded with their lovely echoes and delays. All of the sounds were recorded, processed and mixed in Ambisonics, the version presented here is a binaural mix. More about this project...

Warsaw Autumn 2020

 

Tuesday - September 22, 2020

 

W.Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio

63rd International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn"

 

Musica Polonica Nova at Warsaw Autumn: A special Presence

 

Works by Paweł Hendrich, Tomasz Skweres, Przemysław Scheller and Ewa Trębacz

 

Full program...

 

 

MUSICA POLONICA NOVA 2020 - Canceled due to Covid-19

MUSICA POLONICA NOVA 2020
CANCELED

 

Dear Friends,

 

As of spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has put a global pause on artistic activities.

 

All of my spring concerts - on both sides of the Atlantic - have been canceled or postponed.  This included the premiere of my violin concerto at Musica Polonica Nova Festival in Wrocław with NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra and jazz violinist Adam Bałdych.  

 

I will be posting more information about rescheduling this one, and possibly other concerts.

 

STAY HEALTHY - STAY SAFE

 

SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE 

 

Kin of The Moon presents: FIRE ∴ REFIRE

Kin of The Moon presents: FIRE REFIRE | Seattle,  Nov.22, 2019

 

Friday, November 22, 2019, 8:00 PM 

WAYWARD MUSIC SERIES

 

Kin of The Moon 

FIRE ∴ REFIRE

 

Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center 
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Fourth Floor, Seattle, WA

 

Seattle-based ensemble Kin of the Moon premieres  “No house on fire, no.” by Seattle saxophonist and composer Neil Welch, with Abbey Blackwell, bass. 

 

KOTM encores Ewa Trębacz’s “Winter After Times of Fire" for ensemble of improvisers and surround sound.

 

KOTM will also premiere Leanna Keith and Em Piro’s interactive work “imagination is an act of rebellion”.

 

Thanks to King County's 4Culture for their generous support.

 

Radio Eclectus: The life and times of Ben Johnston and Bogusław Schaeffer

Radio Eclectus: The life and times of Ben Johnston and Bogusław Schaeffer

 

Radio Eclectus presents:

 

The life and times of Ben Johnston (1926–2019) and Bogusław Schaeffer (1929–2019), with contributions from Harry Partch, John Schneider, Ewa Trębacz and the Kepler Quartet. Plus new albums from John Zorn, Michael Gordon, Amy Denio and Norm Chambers, a rousing new recording of Xenakis’ Psappha, and a reach into the vaults for some improvised music from half a century ago, including Miles Davis’ transition from acoustic to electric, and a newly unearthed concert performance by Alice Coltrane. Radical music from the Northwest and beyond, presented by Michael Schell.

 

Listen on Mixcloud...


Photo credits: Miles Davis by Palumbo, Harry Partch from Stephen Pouliot: The Dreamer that Remains, Iannis Xenakis by Les Amis de Xenakis, Ben Johnston and John Schneider by John Fago, John Zorn by Scott Irvine.

 

Schaefferiada 90

Schaefferiada 90

 

SCHAEFFERIADA 90
A special concert, celebrating Bogusław Schaeffer's 90th Birthday


Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 7 PM
Gallery of Contemporary Art "Bunkier Sztuki" in Kraków
pl. Szczepański Sq. 3a, Kraków, POLAND

 

The concert included a new reading of Schaeffer's composition Spektra, a multichannel version of his Missa Elettronica, as well as Les Sons Esoteriques for flutes and electronics by Barbara Buczek. The concert also included a series of 90-sec long miniatures based on the "BSCH" theme, composed for this occassion by the former students of Professor Schaeffer: Marek Chołoniewski, Martin Daske, Anna Jędrzejewska, Krzysztof Kostrzewa, Hossam Mahmoud, Joanna Stępalska-Spix, Too Jung Shin, Ewa Trębacz and Nicole Younes.

PROGRAM

Bogusław Schaeffer - Spektra
Barbara Buczek - Les Sons Esoteriques

90 sec for 90 years
Anna Jędrzejewska - Video Score 3
Krzysztof Kostrzewa - Trio
Marek Chołoniewski - BeSCH
Martin Daske - Tinguelytude
Hossam Mahmoud - Schaefferiade
Soo Jung Shin - Musik für BSCH
Joanna Stępalska-Spix - Schema BSCH
Ewa Trębacz - B-SCH 90!
Nicole Younes - blessing

Bogusław Schaeffer - Missa Elettronica

PERFORMERS

Muzyka Centrum Ensemble
Joanna Stępalska-Spix - flute, Marek Chołoniewski - electronics, Mariusz Pędziałek - oboe, Jan Pilch - percussion, Kazimierz Pyzik - double-bass

Concert organized by:
Academy of Music in Kraków (Composition Faculty and Studio of Electroacoustic Music)
Gallery of Contemporary Art "Bunkier Sztuki", Kraków
 

World premiere of "Inanna Descending" by Ewa Trębacz

World premiere of "Inanna Descending" by Ewa Trębacz

 

February 28, 2019

 

World premiere of Inanna Descending 

for Ambisonic sound and variable ensemble

by Ewa Trębacz

 

Music of Today / DXARTS: Until Spring 
Meany Center for the Performing Arts - Gerlich Theater
University of Washington Campus in Seattle

 

Performed by
Mirta Wymerszberg (bandoneon), Josiah Boothby (French horn),

 Kin of the Moon ensemble: Heather Bentley (viola), Kaley Lane Eaton (soprano), Leanna Keith (flute) 

 

Kin of the Moon ensemble premieres "Winter After Times Of Fire" by Ewa Trębacz

 

February 22, 2019

 

World premiere of Winter After Times of Fire 
for ensemble and surround sound

by Ewa Trębacz

 

Work commissioned by Kin of the Moon 
through a grant from King County's 4Culture 
 

New Phase: Faculty Concert Featuring Kin of the Moon 
PONCHO Concert Hall at Cornish College of the Arts 
710 E Roy St, Seattle, Washington 98102

 

Heather Bentley, viola | Leanna Keith, flute | Kaley Lane Eaton, soprano

 

Alina Ratkowska performs "Chordochromies" in Gdańsk, Poland

Alina Ratkowska performs "Chordochromies" in Gdańsk, Poland


December 6, 2018

 

Chordochromies, a 2003 piece  for harpsichord and computer-realized sound by Ewa Trębacz, was performed by Alina Ratkowska on December 6, 2018 in Gdańsk, Poland. The concert was part of their "New Music in Old Townhouse" series.

 

The concert included works for harpsichord (Alina Ratkowska) and piano (Małgorzata Walentynowicz) with electronics, by composers Ewa Trębacz, Francois Sarhan, Edward Sielicki, Krzysztof Knittel, and Michael van der Aa. Sound diffusion: Dariusz Mazurowski. 

 

Full program (in Polish)... 

 

"Minotaur" at SPLICE Festival II, BGSU College of Musical Arts

"Minotaur" at SPLICE Festival II, BGSU College of Musical Arts

 

Minotaur at SPLICE Festival II

BGSU College of Musical Arts

 

Minotaur for horn and surround sound, an Ambisonic work by Ewa Trębacz, was performed by Josiah Boothby as part of SPLICE Festival II Concert 4, Bowling Green State University. 

Recorded live on November 10, 2018 
Bryan Recital Hall, BGSU College of Musical Arts 
Josiah Boothby - French horn | Ewa Trębacz - electronics

 

 

 

 

"Ligeia" by Ewa Trębacz at MISE-EN Festival 2018, New York City

 

Saturday, June 30, 2018, 4-10pm

 

NEW MUSIC MARATHON 
at Taipei Cultural Center, NYC

1 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017 

 

Ewa Trębacz joined an international team of 25 Visiting Composers at the Fifth MISE-EN Music Festival, for the New York City premiere of her work Ligeia

The four-day new music festival, organized by Ensemble MISE-EN and artistic director Moon Young Ha, took place in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY, from June 27 to 30. In total, the Mise-En Music Festival  featured the work of 25 contemporary composers spanning 15 countries, including 24 premieres. The works of these composers were selected from the festival's call for scores, which yielded 572 submissions. 
 

Ewa Trębacz - Composer’s talk:  Wednesday, June 27th, 3pm  

MISE-EN_PLACE Bushwick, 678 Hart St #1B, Brooklyn, NY 11221

 

 

Ewa Trębacz awarded Listen UP! Music by Women 2018 Artist Grant from Allied Arts Foundation in Seattle

Ewa Trębacz awarded Listen UP! Music by Women  2018 Artist Grant from Allied Arts Foundation in Seattle

 

Ewa Trębacz awarded Listen UP! Music by Women
2018 Artist Grant from Allied Arts Foundation in Seattle

 

Listen UP! Music by Women: a cross-genre competition for new works by women composers and songwriters, was the first opportunity of its kind in Washington State. Ewa Trębacz was awarded the 2018 grant to support the premiere of her new work Inanna DescendingThe piece was premiered on February 28, 2019 at Meany Center for the Performing Arts, Gerlich Theater in Seattle. 

 

Women have been historically and systemically disadvantaged in the fields of music composition and songwriting, often receiving far fewer opportunities and resources to create new musical work than their male peers. Listen UP! Music by Women presented an opportunity for community dialogue, expression and support for the significant female talent in Washington.

 

 

"Errai" at SEAMUS 2018

"Errai" at SEAMUS 2018

 

Thursday, March 29, 3:30 p.m. 
SEAMUS 2018 - CONCERT 3 
University of Oregon School of Music

 

Ewa Trębacz's audiovisual composition ERRAI was presented at the 2018 national conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), held at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance in Eugene, Oregon.

 

 

Ambisonics & the Ambisonic Toolkit (ATK) @ DXARTS

Ambisonics & the Ambisonic Toolkit (ATK) @ DXARTS

 

November 15, 2017, 7:30 pm 

DXARTS, University of Washington 
and the Pacific Northwest Section 
of the Audio Engineering Society
 

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Ambisonics & the Ambisonic Toolkit (ATK) @ DXARTS 

Presentation by Joseph Anderson, DXARTS 


Project demonstations by 
Ewa Trębacz & Josiah Boothby,  
Daniel Peterson & Martin Jarmick, 
James Wenlock

 

Ewa Trębacz with Josiah Boothby (French horn) demonstrated their soundfield recordings from the Dan Harpole Cistern in Fort Worden, Washington, along with the "full 3D" reverb recreating the acoustics of that unique space in real time.

 

 

Nonsequitur presents: THEA FARHADIAN + EWA TRĘBACZ

Nonsequitur presents:  THEA FARHADIAN + EWA TRĘBACZ

 

August 3rd, 2017, 8:00 pm 
WAYWARD MUSIC SERIES 
 

Nonsequitur presents: 


THEA FARHADIAN + EWA TRĘBACZ 

Performances by 
Josiah Boothby, French horn 
Thea Farhadian, violin / electronics
Ewa Trębacz, violin / electronics


Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center 
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Fourth Floor, Seattle, WA

 

June 19-25, 2017 - NYCEMF 2017

June 19-25, 2017 - NYCEMF 2017

 

June 19-25, 2017 - NYCEMF 2017 

 

New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival

 

Concert 9, Abrons Art Center, Playhouse
Wednesday, June 21, 2017, 8-10:30 PM

 

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Ewa Trębacz 
Minotaur for horn and computer-realized surround sound 
Josiah Boothby, French horn

 

 

WAYWARD MUSIC SERIES: Alumni Alchemy

WAYWARD MUSIC SERIES: Alumni Alchemy

 

May 25-26, 2017, 7:30pm 

WAYWARD MUSIC SERIES

 

ALUMNI ALCHEMY
Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center in Seattle

Concert 1   |   Concert 2

 

Two consecutive evenings of electroacoustic music, video and performance by University of Washington Alumni composers and friends. 

 

Works by Linda Antas and her colleague from Montana State University Jason BolteTom BakerDonald CraigRyan M. HareBen McAllister, Douglas Niemela, Joshua Parmenter, and Ewa Trębacz with Josiah Boothby.

 

 

Music of Today: UW Alumni Composers

Music of Today: UW Alumni Composers

 

May 12, 2017, 7:30pm

 

MUSIC OF TODAY
UW Alumni Composers
 

Meany Hall for the Performing Arts 
University of Washington Campus in Seattle

 

An evening of computer music and video from the UW School of Music and DXARTS Alumni composers. Works by Linda AntasBret Battey , Donald CraigEwa TrębaczBen McAllister, and Nicolás Varchausky.

 

Full program...

 

 

Women in (New) Music: 50+ Pieces of Advice from Women Composers

Women in (New) Music: 50+ Pieces of Advice from Women Composers

 

Women in (New) Music: 50+ Pieces of Advice from Women Composers

 

In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, Classical King FM's Second Inversion asked 54 women composers the following question: 
 

In what ways (if any) do you feel that being a woman has shaped your experiences as an artist? What advice do you have for other female-identifying artists who are aspiring to creative leadership roles? 

 

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http://secondinversion.org/2017/03/08/women-in-new-music-50-pieces-of-advice-from-women-composers/ 
 

Gośka Isphording performs "Chordochromies" in Toruń, Poland

Gośka Isphording performs "Chordochromies" in Toruń, Poland

 

November 25, 2016

 

LabSen CSW, Toruń, Poland

 

Polish-Dutch harpsichordist Gośka Isphording performs Chordochromies for harpsichord and computer-realized sound at the new contemporary music festival "Słuchalnia" in Toruń, Poland.

 

Studio recording (G.Isphording, harpsichord)...

 

 

”Digital Immersion“ concert at Montana State University

”Digital Immersion“ concert at Montana State University

 

October 2nd, 2016, 7:30pm

 

DIGITAL IMMERSION
Montana State University, Reynolds Recital Hall 

 

An evening of immersive audio works for digitally created sounds and live performers.


Works for instruments and electronics by composers Linda Antas (MSU) 
and Ewa Trębacz (DXARTS, University of Washington). 

Performances by MSU School of Music faculty

Mike Nelson, Stephen Versaevel, Jeffrey Vick, Linda Antas

and guest Andrew Miller.

 

 

World premiere of "Ligeia", with Seattle Modern Orchestra

World premiere of "Ligeia", with Seattle Modern Orchestra

 

April 9th, 2016, 8pm 

 

"Musica Electronica" 
Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center 
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Fourth Floor, Seattle, WA 


Seattle Modern Orchestra in partnership with DXARTS 
presented an evening of electronic music, including three works 
from three different generations and three stages of technological development. 

 

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PROGRAM 
Differences - Luciano Berio
Ligeia for invisible soprano, ensemble,and surround sound - Ewa Trębacz
Lichtbogen - Kaija Saariaho

 

 

"Minotaur" performed at Seattle Modern Orchestra Benefit Concert

 

February 20, 2016, 7:30pm
 

Seattle Modern Orchestra Benefit Concert
Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Fourth Floor, Seattle, WA

 

Minotaur for horn and surround sound was performed by Josiah Boothby at the Seattle Modern Orchestra annual fundraiser event.
 

 

"Minotaur" at ICMC 2015

"Minotaur" at ICMC 2015

 

September 30, 2015

 

Minotaur at ICMC 2015

 

Minotaur for horn and surround sound was performed by Heather Suchodolski at the Murchison Performing Arts Center, University of North Texas, as part of the 41 International Computer Music Conference.


The conference was organized by the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI), Division of Composition Studies, University of North Texas.

 

https://icmc2015.unt.edu

 

 

 

Machinations Musical, Divers & Sundry

Machinations Musical, Divers & Sundry

 

May 7th, 2015, at 8pm
WAYWARD MUSIC SERIES:
Machinations Musical, Divers & Sundry

Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Fourth Floor, Seattle, WA

 

Current and past students from the University of Washington School of Music and DXARTS join forces to present an evening of experimental music and performance.

 

Works and performances by


Daria Binkowski, flute and Anna Stachurska, live electronics
Josiah Boothby and Ewa Trębacz, violin/horn duo with surround sound
Donald Craig, 19-tone equal temperament electric guitar
Inmi Lee, vocal performance with live electronics and kinetic sculpture
Joshua Parmenter, cello with live electronics
Douglas Niemela and Donald Craig, duo improvisation of sound and video

 

Full program...   |   Facebook Event Page...

 

 

Open Borders Generation Concert Tour 2014

Open Borders Generation Concert Tour 2014

 

Open Borders Generation Concert Tour 2014

 

Polish and American musicians present music by a selection of Polish composers born in the 1970s.

 

Three concerts include works by Paweł Hendrich, Agata Zubel, Ewa Trębacz, Cezary Duchnowski and Krzysztof Wołek.

November 12, 7:30pm
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Tryon Festival Theatre, Urbana, IL


November 14, 8:00pm
University of Louisville School of Music
Margaret Comstock Concert Hall
Louisville, KY


November 16, 8:30pm
Frequency Series Constellation
3111 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL

 

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PROGRAM

Pawel Hendrich – Emergon αβ
for large ensemble and electronics

Agata Zubel - Not I
for soprano, ensemble and electronics

Ewa Trębacz - Minotaur
for horn and surround sound

Cezary Duchnowski - 1 5 1, 2 4 2, 3 3 3
for violin, cello and electronics

Krzysztof Wołek - Motions, Stases
for piano and large ensemble

 

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Agata Zubel, soprano

Małgorzata Walentynowicz, piano

Jancie Philippus, French horn

 

Illinois Modern Ensemble

Stephen Andrew Taylor, conductor

 

 

NEW CD RELEASE!


NEW CD RELEASE!
POLISH MUSIC TODAY
Portraits of Contemporary Polish Composers:
 

EWA TRĘBACZ

©2013 Polish Radio S.A. | Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC | Polish Composers' Union

 

From CD Booklet:
PLACES, SPACES, ENCOUNTERS:
A Conversation with Ewa Trębacz.

BY ANNA NIEDŹWIEDŹ.

 

Polish Radio, Polish Music Information Center and Polish Composers' Union (ZKP) have released Ewa Trębacz’s monographic audio CD as part of the new series Muzyka Polska Dzisiaj (Polish Music Today), promoting new works created in Poland and around the world.

 

This CD includes 5 works by Ewa Trębacz, created between 2000 and 2013, ranging from solo works with electronics to large orchestral works with Ambisonic sound. The project is non-commercial with approximately 300 CDs to be donated to various institutions, and a small number to be distributed by the Polish Radio.

 

The CD has been presented as the "Album of the Week" by Classical King FM's Second Inversion, their online channel devoted to contemporary music, where you can find an interview with Ewa and Josiah Boothby (French horn, collaborator on much of the disc release).

 

The CD is available to stream from Ewa Trębacz's SoundCloud channel

 

CROTCHETS, QUAVERS ... AND SILICON PARCHMENT

CROTCHETS, QUAVERS ... AND SILICON PARCHMENT

 

January 23 and 24, 2014, 7:30pm

 Chapel Performance Space in Seattle

 

DXARTS and Wayward Music Series present:


CROTCHETS, QUAVERS ... AND SILICON PARCHMENT
New works for electronics, video and interactive media.

 

A two-night festival of interactive art featuring new and recent works by Donald Craig, Eunsu Kang, Ewa Trębacz, Marcin Pączkowski, Joshua Parmenter, Robert Blatt, Alexis Eggertsen, Joel Ong, Hector Bravo Benard, Ha Na Lee, Sergio Luque, Shih-Wei Lo and Steve Escoffery.

 

With performances by Josiah Boothby (French horn).

 

 

 

Cloud Drawings: an evening of computer music

Cloud Drawings: an evening of computer music

 

June 17, 2013, 8pm

Chapel Performance Space in Seattle

 

Cloud Drawings:

an evening of computer music

 

With guest artist Charles Céleste Hutchins

 

Music and performances by Hector Bravo Benard, Donald Craig, Charles Céleste Hutchins, Joshua Parmenter and Ewa Trębacz

 

More..

 

 

 

Northwest Horn Symposium

Northwest Horn Symposium

 

April 20, 2013

 

NORTHWEST HORN SYMPOSIUM

Montana State University School of Music

Bozeman, Montana

 

Josiah Boothby performed Minotaur at Northwest Horn Symposium 2013 
Montana State University. The 2013 Northwest Horn Symposium was held at the Montana State University School of Music, April 19 through April 21 in Bozeman, Montana. Horn players of all ages attended from Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, New York, Colorado and Wyoming.

 

Concert recording (mp3)...

 

 

ANC'L'SUNR (2012) for orchestra and 3D sound

ANC'L'SUNR (2012) for orchestra and 3D sound

 

February 24, 2013, Warsaw, Poland
 

ANC'L'SUNR (2012) 

Spatial Soundscape with Orchestra in the Foreground
premiered at the W.Lutosławski Concert Studio

 

The Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marek Moś, premiered ANC'L'SUNR for orchestra and Ambisonic sound by Ewa Trębacz at the W. Lutosławski Concert Studio S1 in Warsaw.

 

The concert was a part of the Generations XVI annual event, organized by the Polish Radio, the Polish Composers Union and the Polish Society of Authors and Composers ZAIKS. This year it featured works by 4 composers: Paweł Buczyński, Krzysztof Meyer, Anna Zawadzka-Gołosz and Ewa Trębacz. The concert was broadcast live on the Polish Radio Programme II.

 

 

Organised Sound 17.2 (2012)

Organised Sound 17.2 (2012)

 

Organised Sound 17.2 (2012)

 

An article by Ewa Trębacz has been published in Organised Sound - an international peer-reviewed journal of music and technology. The article focuses on applications of immersive audiovisual media to experimental art, in particular in the context of so-called Visual Music.

 

Trębacz, Ewa. "Depth Modulation: Composing Motion in Immersive Audiovisual Spaces". Organised Sound 17.2 (2012): 156-162. Print.

 

 

Classical Tuesdays in Old Town: Wired for Sound

Classical Tuesdays in Old Town: Wired for Sound

 

January 10, 2012 - Tacoma, Washington
 

Classical Tuesdays in Old Town: Wired for Sound

 

An evening of electroacoustic music by Joshua Parmenter, Donald Craig, Pete Moss, Douglas Niemela, and Ewa Trębacz, presented by Old Town Business & Professionals Association, North Tacoma, Washington.


Minotaur
concert performance (mp3)

Josiah Boothby, French horn

 

 

Glissando 19 (2011)

Glissando 19 (2011)

 

Glissando 19 (2011)

Junge Komponisten aus Polen auf Deutsch

 

A special, German-language edition of Glissando - a Polish contemporary music magazine - includes an article by Ewa Trębacz discussing selected aspects of immersive media based art. 

 

Trębacz, Ewa. "Modulation des Raumes: auf der Suche nach der Sprache eines immersiven Mediums." Glissando 19 (2011): 72-76. Print.

 

 

The Last Minute

The Last Minute

 

November 16, 2011 

 

Wayward Music Series: The Last Minute
Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center in Seattle

 

An evening of electroacoustic music and digital video by Seattle-based composers Donald Craig, Pete Moss, Douglas Niemela, Joshua Parmenter and Ewa Trębacz. The concert will include a digital video work Symphony By Numbers by Donald Craig and three surround sound pieces: Risonanza for computer-realized sound by Joshua Parmenter, Heat for computer-realized sound by Pete Moss, and Minotaur for horn and surround sound by Ewa Trebacz, with horn playerJosiah Boothby. It will also include two works for viola and computer-realized sound: Retro by Douglas Niemela, and a new work by Donald Craig titled November 16, featuring violist Brianna Atwell.

 

 

Understanding Visual Music conference at Concordia University

Understanding Visual Music conference at Concordia University

 

August 26-27, 2011

 

Understanding Visual Music 2011 Conference

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

 

Based on her doctoral dissertation research, Ewa Trębacz presented "Depth Modulation: Visual Music in Immersive Media Environment" at the Understanding Visual Music conference at Concordia University in Montreal.

 

UVM 2011 was a two-day conference focused on developing an understanding of the practice of visual music, its definition, related creative and perceptual considerations, current trends, technological innovation, and possible future directions.

 

 

 

Sekwens at "FilmFest" in Dresden

 

April 12-17, 2011 - Dresden
 

Sekwens (dir. R.Sowa, music and sound by Ewa Trębacz) was presented at the International Short Films Festival "FilmFest" in Dresden, Germany.

 

 

 

"Polish Music: The New Generation" concert at USC, Los Angeles

"Polish Music: The New Generation" concert at USC, Los Angeles

 

March 26, 2011 - Los Angeles
 

"Polish Music: The New Generation. With guest artist, David Lynch."

 

Works by Wojtek Blecharz, Mikołaj Górecki (son of the late Henryk Mikołaj Górecki), Jarosław Kapuściński, Robert Pierzak, and Ewa Trębacz. 

 

Ewa Trębacz's work Minotaur for horn and surround was performed by Seattle-based French horn player Josiah Boothby at the special event featuring works by Polish composers living in the United States. The concert was organized by the Polish Music Center at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

 

The evening was capped with a special performance by filmmaker David Lynch, appearing in a keyboards-grand piano duet of free improvisations with Marek Żebrowski.

 

Monographic concert - "Portraits of Composers", Warsaw

Monographic concert - "Portraits of Composers", Warsaw

 

December 8th, 2010 - Warsaw
 

"Portraits of Composers": Ewa Trębacz 
Event organized by Polish Composers Union 


PROGRAM 


Minotaur for horn and surround 
Chordochromies for harpsichord and computer-realized sound 
Sekwens, animated film, dir. Robert Sowa, music and sound by Ewa Trębacz 
Interior Portrait, animated film, dir. Robert Sowa, music by Ewa Trębacz 


Alina Ratkowska - harpsichord 
Henryk Kowalewicz - French horn 

 

 

Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 6 (2009)

Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 6 (2009)

 

Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 6 (2009)

 

Max Nyffeler's article on Ewa Trębacz's music, art (and other adventures) in the context of a new generation of Polish composers.

 

Nyffeler, Max. "Klettern in imaginären und realen Räumen. Die Multimedia-Künstlerin Ewa Trębacz." ["Climbing in Imaginary and Real Spaces. Multimedia Artist Ewa Trębacz."] Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 6 (2009): 28-29. Print. Language: German.

 

"Errai" premiered at the 52nd WARSAW AUTUMN Festival

 

September 19th, 2009 - Warsaw
 

Errai premiered at the 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music WARSAW AUTUMN.

 

"Errai" is an audiovisual immersive work by Ewa Trębacz, created in collaboration with Josiah Boothby (French horn), Anna Niedźwiedź (soprano) and Robert Sowa (lighting animation).  Stereoscopic animation and Ambisonic soundtrack were realized by Ewa Trębacz at DXARTS, University of Washington, Seattle.

 

The work is based on encounters of spaces and encounters of artistic personalities, where the entire physical and perceptual space, including the audience, is considered the resonance box of a single instrument. Selected immersive technologies are combined together in an attempt to challenge our perception of the real and the imaginary.

 

Spaces compete.  While the sound fills the entire physical space, and even extends it, the visual layers focus the visual perception at certain moments, events, and selected parts of the time-space. Spaces overlap. Sound and imagery compete for audience attention demanding at times an extreme focus and willingness to stretch the borders of perception.



This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

 

 

 

The 56th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers

 

June 8-12, 2009 - Paris 
56th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers 


Ewa Trębacz's work things lost things invisible for Ambisonic space and orchestra received a prestigious recommendation of the 56th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. 
 

The International Rostrum of Composers has been organized since 1954 by the International Music Council, associated with UNESCO. 56 works from 27 radio stations from four continents have been presented in Paris during this year's edition of the Rostrum.

 

 

 

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