Conditions for impuls reading-sessions with Klangforum Wien and Enno Poppe:

1.) You have to register for impuls 2011 as a participant of the impuls-Academy first.

2.) The instruments and musicians available for the reading-sessions are:

1 Flute, 1 Oboe, 1 Clarinet, 1 Bassoon, 1 Saxophone, 1 Trumpet, 1 Trombone, 1 Horn, 1 Percussion, 1 Piano, 1 Accordion, 1 Harp, 1 Violin, 1 Viola, 1 Cello, 1 Double Bass

3.) Of course your work does not have to be a work exactly for this instrumentation. It can be a smaller instrumentation for the instruments listed above.

4.) Scores (score plus voice parts, printed or well readable) must be delivered to impuls by November 30th, 2010 the latest. Please send material to the following address: impuls, c/o Ute Pinter, Lichtenauerg. 5/16, 1020 Wien, Austria

5.) A commission (Andrew Jezek and Florian Müller, Klangforum Wien) will choose the works for the impuls-reading-sessions.

6.) The impuls-reading-sessions with Klangforum Wien and Enno Poppe will take place on February 6th, 10.00-12.30 and 14.30-17.00, plus lunch together for further discussions). All impuls-participants are welcome to attend.

Composers selected:

Pedro Alvarez, Juan Camilo Hernández Sánchez, Mauricio Pauly Maduro, Luis Codera Puzo

Live Electronics at IEM

In the context of the impuls Academy 2011 the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) will hold a workshop on Live Electronics for composers and instrumentalists. During the workshop, existing and new pieces for soloists and Live Electronics will be discussed and rehearsed in depth and presented at a final concert on February 14th within the impuls Festival 2011 and also as part of the Signale-Graz concert series.

IEM Graz is one of the key research centers at the intersection of arts and science and has a strong history in the development and performance of Live Electronic music. The workshop and concert will take place in the György Ligeti Hall of the MUMUTH, which provides an ideal acoustical and technical infrastructure. Workshop participants will have the possibility to use the new Live Electronics software environment developed in the context of the European Culture 2007 project Integra II.

Both composers and instrumentalists participating in the impuls Academy are invited to register for this workshop. In addition to works submitted by composer participants, solo pieces by the following composers will be worked on in the workshop and performed in the concert: Roland Dahinden, Karlheinz Essl, German Toro-Perez, Jonathan Harvey, Pierre Jodlowski, and Edwin Roxburgh. The final choice of the program will be adapted to performers and instruments available, and pieces submitted.

Composers are encouraged to submit short pieces (about 10 min.) for solo instrument and live electronics which have been performed already. All material (score, software, information about controllers, etc.) has to be included in the submission. From these submissions up to 3 pieces are chosen for the workshop and concert, depending on the availability of instrumentalists to perform the pieces. Please note the early Submission deadline of September 30th, 2010 to allow optimum preparation. All instrumentalists and composers who have registered will be informed about the selection in October such as to allow for enough preparation time before the workshop. Please also feel free to contact office(at)impuls(dot)cc for further details.

Conditions:

1.) You have to register for impuls 2011 as a participant of the impuls Academy first.

2.) In addition to that your registration for this special program is necessary (also through office(at)impuls(dot)cc)

3.) Compositions (score, software, information about controllers, etc.) then need to be sent to plessas(at)iem(dot)at directly until Sept. 30th, 2010.

4.) For detailed questions about the program you may also contact plessas(at)iem(dot)at as well as eckel(at)iem(dot)at directly.

Composers and instrumentalists selected:
Michele Del Prete, composition / Tomoko Honda, piano, electronics / Hyunsuk Jun, composition / Karolina Öhman, cello, electronics / Hannah Reardon-Smith, flute, electronics / Mari Targo, violin, electronics / Marij Van Gorkom, bass clarinet, electronics / Aliona Yurtsevich, composition

Call for scores

All composers participating in impuls 2011 are invited to hand in a short piece either for voice solo or voice duo or voice + 1 instrument

The pieces selected will then be worked on during impuls by both singers/instrumentalists and composers in Petra Hoffmann´s class for voice and enrich the exchange and transfer of knowledge amongst composers, singers and other instrumentalists. The pieces might then be also performed in public.

Conditions:

1.) Composers have to register for impuls 2011 as a participant of the impuls Academy first.

2.) If you want to hand in a piece, please send a short message to office(at)impuls(dot)cc , concern: Voice solo / Voice + to announce your participation already early in advance. Please then send your piece per email (pdf) to office(at)impuls(dot)cc. Deadline: December 10th at the latest. In case of selection please bring along a printed version (score, parts) of material in February as well.

3.) Length of piece: approximately 3-4 minutes

4.) Instruments available: please note that at the moment only soprano and mezzo-soprano and the following instruments are available: flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, cembalo, accordion, percussion.

5.) The selection of pieces will be made by Petra Hoffmann. The scores will then be made available to singers and instrumentalists participating for preparation.

6.) For the rehearsals all composers participating in impuls 2011 are of course invited to attend, learn more about the specifics and possibilities of writing for voice, ... and enrich the discussion and mutual learning through their perspectives. No extra registration necessary for those, who will not write a new piece themselves but want to attend anyway. Also singers donnot have to register seperately.

7.) Please note that the pieces must not necessarily be current ones or written especially for this occasion. If you wish to write a new piece however we suggest to f.e. use a text by E.E.Cummings.

8.) If you need further information please contact the impuls-office at office(at)impuls(dot)cc.

Composers selected:

ka`mi, Soo-youn Lee, Rita Torres, Raimund Vogtenhuber, Yukiko Watanabe

Special program for composers and flutists

All composers participating in impuls 2011 are invited to write a short new piece for flute.

The pieces selected will then be worked on during impuls both in Eva Furrer´s class for flutists and in a workshop, where composers and instrumentalists meet to work on the pieces, discuss different approaches to interpretation and – amongst others – learn more about specific notation and the instrument. The pieces shall then be performed in public.

Conditions:

1.) Composers have to register for impuls 2011 as a participant of the impuls-Academy first.

2.) If you want to write a new piece, please send a short message to office(at)impuls(dot)cc , concern: composition for flute, to announce your participation already early in advance. Please then hand in your new piece (2 copies) - till December 15th at the latest – to the following address: impuls, Ute Pinter, Lichtenauerg. 5/16, 1020 Wien, Austria.

3.) Length of piece: approximately 1-2 minutes

4.) Solo-piece for Piccolo or Flute respectively Alto- or Bass Flute

5.) The selection of pieces will be made by Eva and Beat Furrer. The scores will then be made available to flutists participating.

6.) For the workshop all composers participating in impuls 2011 are invited to attend and enrich the discussion. No extra registration necessary for those, who will not write a new piece themselves. Also flutists don´t have to register separately.

7.) If you need further information please contact the impuls-office at office(at)impuls(dot)cc.

Composers selected:

Pedra Alvarez, Samuel Andreyev, Santiago Díez Fischer, Liam Flenady, Jarkko Hartikainen, Hyunsuk Jun, Lan-chee Lam, Eun-Ji Lee, Francesco Pavan, Anton Safronov, Lars Werdenberg, Julien Vincenot

Call for Scores
As participants of impuls 2011, the ensemble Interface invites young composers to submit scores to be considered for rehearsal and public performance within the impuls Academy and impuls Festival 2011 in Graz.

Conditions:
1) composers must be registered in and accepted as participants of the impuls Academy 2011 to be considered.
2) composers must then register for the Ensemble Meets Composer program with ensemble Interface: please send an email to office(at)impuls(dot)cc to announce your participation.
3) the ensemble instrumentation will include: 1 Flute (piccolo, flute, alto flute and bass flute), 1 Clarinet (Eb/Bb and Bass Clarinet), 1 Piano, 1 Percussion, 1 Violin, 1 Cello.
4) scores fulfilling the exact instrumentation (for all 6 players) will be given top priority, but submitted pieces for smaller subsets of this instrumentation will also be considered.
5) scores and parts must be submitted in electronic form (PDF) no later than November 15th, 2010 to both office(at)impuls(dot)cc and voyles(at)ensembleinterface(dot)com.
6) selected composers will be notified no later than December 1st, at which time arrangements can be made for printed material (scores and parts).

Composers selected for Concert:

Mariana Ungureanu, Daniel Vezza, Julien Vincenot

Composers selected for Reading-sessions:

Pedro Alvarez, Nicholas Peters, Lars Werdenberg, Aliona Yurtsevich

The Ernst Krenek Institute in Krems will commission a composition to a participant of the composition class at impuls. 7th International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music. After a three-week visit at the Institute in Krems and in depth study of composer Ernst Krenek, a piece for a chamber music ensemble should be composed.

Requirements:
1.) Composition (of 10-15 minutes) for a chamber music ensemble (5-7 musicians), which should   contain parts for string, woodwind, percussion and/or piano (at least three out of the four instrumental groups have to be chosen).
2.) Three week residency at the Ernst Krenek Institute, with Ernst Krenek’s work providing the impulse for the creation of an independent composition.
3.) The deadline for submission of the score and parts is the end of 2011.

The commission includes:
1.) 2,500 EUR
2.) A three-week visit to Krems (including accommodation and travel expenses)
3.) Premiere of the new piece at a concert of Klangforum Vienna

The composer will be selected during the impuls Academy in February 2011. (It is not necessary to apply for this selection).

For more information contact:
Veronika Grossberger
v.grossberger@krenek.com
www.krenek.com

Besides his class for percussionists Christian Dierstein will give an additional Masterclass, that will put a special emphasis on new techniques for percussionists as well as specialities of music-theatrical forms. Specially for composers Mr. Dierstein will thematize particular new techniques on percussion-instruments as well as striking techniques and tools. Duration of Masterclass: approximately 2 hours.

„Yoga for Musicians” is a daily, developing class, lasting from Monday, February 7th till Monday, February 14th, 2011, 8.30 to 9.30 am at KUG, offered by Eva Furrer, tutor also of the flute-class at impuls-Academy 2011.
•No previous experience with yoga is necessary.

•Participants can take a small breakfast before the class.

•After the class some fruits and tea will be provided.

•Participants must bring along a suitable Yoga-mat.

•Number of participants limited to a maximum of 12.
•Contribution for the whole course per person: € 50.- (including taxes, fruits and tea; to be paid at the beginning of the class)

•For registration please contact the impuls-office, office(at)impuls(dot)cc.

•If you have any questions about the yoga class please contact Mrs. Eva Furrer directly: eva.furrer(at)aon(dot)at and have a look also at www.lujong-yoga.at/en/Vita.html

LU JONG (Tibetan Healing Yoga) functions on three levels: physical, energetic and mental. During the yoga practice, our concentration moves from “outside to inside”. Therefore, we shift our senses from the outside world to inside our bodies. We learn to feel ourselves, to listen to ourselves and to find the source of inexhaustible strength and our center.

The five basic exercises of LU JONG to balance the five elements are particularly effective in the prevention of health problems, above all in people that experience chronic stress. In Tibetan Medicine, the disruption of the inner winds (lung) is understood to negatively affect the balance of the five elements and the three vital fluids or principal energies (wind, bile and phlegm). This manifests itself as a disruption of our internal powerhouse and is followed by physical and psychological disease (weak immune system, chronic back pain, digestive problems, insomnia, trouble concentrating etc). 

In the eyes of western medicine, stress is defined as a physical reaction to external or internal burdens. Musicians are often placed under enormous strain for extended periods of time, for example, striving for perfectionism, intense work and endurance pressures, exaggerated awareness of duty, noise, bullying and so on. The so called “Burnout Syndrome” is described as total emotional exhaustion, the feeling of estrangement from one’s self and/or experiencing other adverse reactions and a diminishing capacity to function (or increasing dissatisfaction with performance). “Burnout” refers to a concept of our core energy and means the burning out of fuel elements due to overheating or a decline in cooling. In TibetanTantrayana burnout is understood as a closure of the energy channels whereby the free flow of energy in the body is inhibited. This impacts the physical, energy and mental levels. 

Lu Jong – Exercises:

Lu Jong exercises concentrate mainly on the movement of the spinal column, our powerhouse or battery.The spine is stretched, turned and bent in every direction. Lopsided, unbalanced stresses and strains, such as those, caused by playing an instrument, are evened out, damage caused by long periods of sitting, bad posture and tension are counteracted. The energy channels become permeable again, blockages are released, and the five elements and the body energies are brought back into balance.

http://www.lujong-yoga.at/en/Yoga_for_Musicians.html