Greek pianist and creative technologist Pavlos Antoniadis has been working for many years on developing an interface that converts the slightest movement of a pianist into sound through motion tracking. His performance will focus on the result of this project, a large-scale work with video and artificial intelligence titled 你們是蟲子 (You Are Bugs) — Hommage à Liu Cixin, for piano, R-IoT sensors, and AI agents. The idea of interaction between music and mathematical models is also reflected in three other works on the program: Tiento del Tercer Tono by the Spanish late Renaissance composer Antonio de Cabezón (1510–1566), Horatio Radulescu's Fourth Sonata — a poetic interpretation of the physical qualities of sound — and the Berlin premiere of ALGOL by post-war avant-garde classic Nicolaus A. Huber, inspired by the correspondence between C. G. Jung, the founder of psychoanalysis, and quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli. The program will also feature the virtuoso piece No by exiled Russian composer Dmitry Burtsev, and it will conclude with Sofferte Onde Serene for piano and electronics (1977) by Luigi Nono, one of the greatest visionaries of the future in music history, whose 100th birthday is being celebrated around the world this year. The piece, a fusion between the living pianist and the electronic sound cloud, was written for and dedicated to pianist Maurizio Pollini, who passed away this year.

PAVLOS ANTONIADIS
pianist, musicologist,
and creative technologist

His programming features the most complex contemporary works, extremes of physicality, live electronics, multimedia, sensors, virtual and augmented reality and musical theater, often in eclectic dialogue with ancient repertoire from Cabezón to Bartók. He is also active in free improvisation, collaborating with Panos Ghikas or with the Improtech community and notably Mikhail Malt (IRCAM REACH programme) for AI-assisted improv, and has collaborated with the physical theater group Zero Point (Athens). As a soloist, he has worked with composers such as Mark Andre, Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Wolfgang Rihm, Tristan Murail, Richard Barrett, Walter Zimmermann, Wieland Hoban, and has premiered solo piano works by James Erber, Nicolas Tzortzis, Andrew R. Noble, Luis Antunes Pena, Dominik Karski, Laurentiu Beldean, Lula Romero, Uday Krishnakumar, Irene Galindo Quero, Frank Cox, Michael Edward Edgerton among others. Pavlos Antoniadis is currently Associate Professor of Music Communication and Technology at the University of Ioannina, Greece and a collaborator of the team interaction-son-musique-mouvement at IRCAM, Paris since 2014.

DMITRY BURTSEV
composer, sound artist

Dmitry studied composition at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Professor V.G. Tarnopolsky and graduated in 2017. Since then, he has been composing music for theaters such as the Moscow Chekhov Art Theater, the Moscow Academic Theatre of Vladimir Mayakovsky, and the Norilsk Polar Drama Theatre, among others. Dmitry is also known for creating interdisciplinary musical performances that integrate performing arts, free improvisation, and a collage of contemporary and popular music combined with field recordings.
In 2022, Dmitry left Russia and is now based in Tbilisi, Georgia. His current artistic research focuses on the human perception of sound both within and beyond musical contexts, particularly in relation to affect theory. He investigates the sonic environment of human habitation through field recordings, transforming these sounds into musical compositions. Additionally, his interest in spoken word and language serves as a foundation for musical ideas, influenced by years of accordion practice and free improvisation. Through contemplation on memory and the act of forgetting, Dmitry reflects on European and non-European musical traditions, seeking to understand present reality through compositional tools and musical discourse.