Radio Papesse

Let’s take a pause. It’s time for some classical music. Some contemporary bits and old classics available on brand new recordings. It’s time for A Classical Education together with Yannis Kyriakides, a composer and sound artist very much involved in creating new forms and hybrids of media, in synthesizing disparate sound sources and exploring spatial and temporal experience. 

Tune in on Radio Papesse and you can listen to his latest album, Antichamber and some of the pieces he composed Opera Aperta/Loose Work, the Dutch Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.

Tuesday July12th, 11AM

Ouverture 1 from: Opera Aperta/Loose Work, 54.ma Biennale di Venezia 
Zembekiko 1918 from Antichamber, 2011
Ouverture 2 from: Opera Aperta/Loose Work, 54.ma Biennale di Venezia 

Tuesday July 12th at 6PM
Ouverture 3 from: Opera Aperta/Loose Work, 54.ma Biennale di Venezia 
Antichamber from: Antichamber, 2011
Ouverture 4 from: Opera Aperta/Loose Work, 54.ma Biennale di Venezia 

Thursday July 14th at 11AM
Ouverture5 from: Opera Aperta/Loose Work, 54.ma Biennale di Venezia 
Telegraphic from: Antichamber, 2011
Ouverture 6 from: Opera Aperta/Loose Work, 54.ma Biennale di Venezia 

Thursday July 14th at 6PM
Ouverture 1 from: Opera Aperta/Loose Work, 54.ma Biennale di Venezia 
politicus_excerpt from: Opera Aperta/Loose Work, 54.ma Biennale di Venezia 
Ouverture 2 from: Opera Aperta/Loose Work, 54.ma Biennale di Venezia

Yannis Kyriakides (Limassol, Cyprus, 1969) lives and works in Amstelveen, the Netherlands.
He studied Musicology at the York University, United Kingdom and under Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, the Netherlands. As a composer and sound artist Kyriakides strives to create new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and exploring spatial and temporal experience. Kyriakides regularly composes works for the ensembles ASKO, the Netherlands; Icebreaker, United Kingdom; Ensemble MAE, the Netherlands; and MusikFabrik, Germany. Kyriakides has written over a hundred compositions and his work will be featured in November Music 2011, the Netherlands. In 2000 he won the International Gaudeamus Composition prize for his composition a conSPIracy cantata. The cd Wordless, received an honorary mention in the Prix Ars Electronica 2006, and his recent album Antichamber was nominated for the 2011 Qwartz Award. Together with Andy Moor and Isabelle Vigier he founded and runs Unsounds, a label for new electronic music. He is artistic director of Ensemble MAE, and teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague.