At impuls Festival 2025, the ULYSSES Platform supports Benedikt Alphart as part of his ULYSSES Journey, both as a composer (in Speculative Sound Synthesis, see here) and as a sound designer in the two activities below:

1) FLUXES

This project aims to explore the exciting possibilities that multimedia and live electronics bring to contemporary music composition and performance. The selected pieces will feature works by renowned composers and impuls coaches Pierre Jodlowski and Simon Steen-Andersen, as well as showcase innovative music from students who are actively engaged in electronic music. The program offers a unique opportunity to engage with the evolving relationship between technology and music, expanding the creative potential for both composers and performers.

Date and venue: 27 February 2025, 14.00 and 1630, KUG, Reiterkaserne, Performancesaal, Leonhardstrasse 82-84, 8010 Graz

PPCM-Ensemble

Pablo Marin-Reyes trombone
Maurizio De Luca accordion
Szymon Kałużny violin
Mina Zakić cello
Benedikt Alphart electronics

Pierre Jodlowski  In & Out, for violin, cello, video, electronics (2004)

Luis Torres Peyotl, for accordion, live-electronics (2024)

Simon Steen-Andersen Study for String instrument #3, for cello, video (2011)

Rocío Cano Valiño Antanaklasi IV, for violin, electronics (2021)

Pierre JodlowskiOuter Space, for trombone, electronics, video, lights (2018)

More info here

 

2) GRANDE FINALE

Since 2009, Klangforum Wien has held a collective professorship at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) and is dedicated to passing on forms of artistic expression and playing techniques to a new generation of musicians in the specialized master’s programme “Performance Practice in Contemporary Music” (PPCM). PPCM students have been involved in impuls activities for many years now. Likewise former participants of the impuls Academy often return to Graz for PPCM studies. The exchange is fruitful, the commitment and quality impressive.

For the Grande Finale of this year’s impuls Festival and Academy, and following performances at the impuls MinuteConcerts on 22.2, the presentation of the Special Program Team Composition on 24.2 and Fluxes on 27.2., PPCM students present works by composers Annesley Black, Franck Bedrossian and Clemens Gadenstätter, who teach at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and partly also at impuls, as well as a work of Mark Andre. A kind of home game with international appeal!

Date and venue: 28 February 2025, 19.45, MUMUTH, György-Ligeti-Saal, Lichtenfelsgasse 14, 8010 Graz

PPCM-Ensemble

Jun Nakamura flute

Sara Valle flute, piccolo, bass flute

Dácil Guerra Guzmán clarinet, bass clarinet

Juan Alonso Moreda saxophone

Pablo Marin-Reyes trombone

Mario Porcar Rueda percussion

Maria Iaiza piano

Maurizio De Luca accordion

Szymon Kałużny violin

Aleksandra Kornowicz violin, viola

Irati Goñi Leoz cello

Mina Zakić cello

Cem Tolunay Gürakar double bass

Benedikt Alphart electronics

Francesco Di Giorgio conductor

 

Mark Andre Asche (2004)

Franck Bedrossian It (2004)

Annesley Black Scrap (2018-2019)

Clemens Gadenstätter Sextett (1993)

More info here