Kicking Memories
Football is not just a game. It is a form of entertainment, a multi billion dollar industry, a social event and a great sport.
All around the world, not just professional players, but everyone has a relation with this sport. Whoever we are or from which nationality we come from, nearly all of us have some sort of a memory, related with football: the first goal that we scored when we were kids, or the details of a national match, etc. Even though the languages or the cultures may differ, football is like a universal language.
This piece is about the memories of different people from different parts of the world. On the background, you will hear the sounds of a football match, right from the beginning until its end: the fans’ arrival, the stadium slowly filling up, the players’ heating up, the start of the match, the applause of the spectators, the break, the goals, the final moment and people leaving the stadium. As to the foreground of the piece, you will experience memories and stories told by people in their native languages. These stories and sounds combined with their processed versions will become like a universal audio-football memory and will urge us to ask ourselves this simple question: “what is my first memory related with football?”
Erdem Helvacioglu received several prizes including two consecutive 3rd prizes in the 2002 and 2003 Luigi Russolo Electroacoustic Competition and an honorable mention in the 2004 Insulae Electronicae Electroacoustic Competition with his electroacoustic tape works. His album “A Walk Through The Bazaar” was released by Locustmusic, USA in June 2003. It was judged “outstanding” by Wire Magazine. He contributed to the soundart compilation cd “ctrl-alt-del” with his piece “Personal Crisis”, together with other composers such as Scanner, Kim Cascone and Merzbow. His compositions have been performed in various countries such as Portugal, Norway, Romania, Canada, France, Italy, USA, Austria, Singapore, Turkey and at electronic music festivals and exhibitions such as the 1st and 3rd Istanbul International Electronic Music Festival, CEAIT 2003, Pulsefield International Soundart Exhibition 2003, San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2004, Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music 2004, Nuit Bleue Electronic Music Festival 2004, Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2004, Computer Art Festival 2004, CEAIT 2005, 14th Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival 2005, Acousmania Festival 2005, Musica Viva Festival 2005, Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival 2005, Licences Festival 2005, Why Note Festival 2005, 15th Akbank International Jazz Festival, La Salle Electroacoustic Music Festival 2005, Ctrl-alt-del Soundart Festival 2005 and the 10th International Electroacoustic Music Festival ”Primavera en La Habana”. Currently, he is continuing work toward a PhD in electroacoustic composition at MIAM, Istanbul. Future projects include cd collaborations with composers John Wilson and Kazuya Ishigami.
Football is not just a game. It is a form of entertainment, a multi billion dollar industry, a social event and a great sport.
All around the world, not just professional players, but everyone has a relation with this sport. Whoever we are or from which nationality we come from, nearly all of us have some sort of a memory, related with football: the first goal that we scored when we were kids, or the details of a national match, etc. Even though the languages or the cultures may differ, football is like a universal language.
This piece is about the memories of different people from different parts of the world. On the background, you will hear the sounds of a football match, right from the beginning until its end: the fans’ arrival, the stadium slowly filling up, the players’ heating up, the start of the match, the applause of the spectators, the break, the goals, the final moment and people leaving the stadium. As to the foreground of the piece, you will experience memories and stories told by people in their native languages. These stories and sounds combined with their processed versions will become like a universal audio-football memory and will urge us to ask ourselves this simple question: “what is my first memory related with football?”
Erdem Helvacioglu received several prizes including two consecutive 3rd prizes in the 2002 and 2003 Luigi Russolo Electroacoustic Competition and an honorable mention in the 2004 Insulae Electronicae Electroacoustic Competition with his electroacoustic tape works. His album “A Walk Through The Bazaar” was released by Locustmusic, USA in June 2003. It was judged “outstanding” by Wire Magazine. He contributed to the soundart compilation cd “ctrl-alt-del” with his piece “Personal Crisis”, together with other composers such as Scanner, Kim Cascone and Merzbow. His compositions have been performed in various countries such as Portugal, Norway, Romania, Canada, France, Italy, USA, Austria, Singapore, Turkey and at electronic music festivals and exhibitions such as the 1st and 3rd Istanbul International Electronic Music Festival, CEAIT 2003, Pulsefield International Soundart Exhibition 2003, San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2004, Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music 2004, Nuit Bleue Electronic Music Festival 2004, Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2004, Computer Art Festival 2004, CEAIT 2005, 14th Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival 2005, Acousmania Festival 2005, Musica Viva Festival 2005, Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival 2005, Licences Festival 2005, Why Note Festival 2005, 15th Akbank International Jazz Festival, La Salle Electroacoustic Music Festival 2005, Ctrl-alt-del Soundart Festival 2005 and the 10th International Electroacoustic Music Festival ”Primavera en La Habana”. Currently, he is continuing work toward a PhD in electroacoustic composition at MIAM, Istanbul. Future projects include cd collaborations with composers John Wilson and Kazuya Ishigami.
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