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HELEN PAPAIOANNOU
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That Long Moonless Chase / その長い月のない追跡
That Long Moonless Chase is a work by myself and artist Noriko Okaku . It centres around two folk tales, one from Sheffield and one from Kyoto, which we looped through online translation engines, propagating new iterations of the original texts. My music for electronics & baritone sax, centring around recordings of the narrated texts, were developed alongside Noriko’s mixed-media animation, which takes photos of Honganji Temple & Sheffield Cathedral as starting points. The piece includes some atmospheric sound design elements from Başar Ünder, part of whose worked included manipulating my field recordings of sites in Sheffield. Read more here.
The first iteration of this work was commissioned and supported by the British Council and Sensoria, with research support from Sheffield Hallam University's CCMS.
Glow Sticks
for 2 toy pianos and electronics playback, composed for Xenia Pestova Bennett and Pascal Meyer and commissioned by NottFAR.
You can also watch a live performance of Glow Sticks by Quey Percussion Duo: watch live performance
LINES, DISCS & BEAMS
for 4 performers / groups
Workshop performance by the Ligeti Quartet.
Three-Legged Thing
for 3 performers
composed for Hokkett (Tina Hitchens, Yvonna Magda, Helen Papaioannou)
SPLINTER
Splinter is built from several short sections which continually change the rules organising the ensemble’s interaction, asking the performers to listen and communicate with each other in different ways. This piece was commissioned by MATA Festival 2016, NYC, and was written for Oslo's Ensemble neoN + Ryan Muncy on baritone sax. and Pat Swoboda on electric bass.
Performed by Ensemble neoN, Dixon Place, NYC.
BENT COGS, LOOSE SCREWS
This piece was commissioned by LSO Soundhub and was premiered by LSO players, conducted by Daniel Cohen.
METAL CLAY
Metal Clay consists of a series of games for percussion duo, which are shaped by cooperative-competitive musicianship. Metal Clay was premiered Renzo Spiteri and Michael Speers at LSO St Luke's, London.
FRACTURED MOULDS,
SCATTERED SIGNALS
This composition for 9 performers uses strategies which shift and re-orientate the group dynamic through different means of rhythmic coordination, without a conductor. Fractured Moulds, Scattered Signals was premiered on 28 June 2014 at LSO St Luke's, London.
COGS
This collection of graphic cyclical scores focus on players’ negotiations of rhythmic relationships during improvisation, or in graphically-framed compositions.
ZETA POTENTIAL
for large ensemble
Commissioned by the European Composers Professional Development Programme, Zeta Potential was composed for Amsterdam’s Nieuw Ensemble.
IN THE LOOP
for tenor saxophone and bass trombone
Helen Papaioannou: Tenor Saxophone
Hannabiell Sanders: Bass Trombone