Contemporary Music Lab

Contemporary Music Lab Contemporary Music Research and Performance Lab The Contemporary Music Lab (C.M.L.) Subjects pertinent to the interests of the C.M.L. The C.M.L.

of the School of Music Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki was founded in order to accommodate the research, educational, and artistic requirements of the School and the Composition Area at an undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level. include the following:

Music Composition
Music Theory and Analysis of contemporary music
Music Performance of contemporary music
Music Philosophy

and Aesthetics of contemporary music
Music Education
Electronic Music
Music Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
Any other subject of musicological or theoretical concern related to contemporary music

Besides any research, educational, and artistic requirements of the School, one of the main focal points of the Contemporary Music Lab activities is the promotion, growth, and development of contemporary music in Greece. aspiration is to cover the whole spectrum of contemporary music creation, however, special focus is given to music and aesthetics that propagate new and original sonic directions and cultivate an experimental spirit thus reflecting on the deadlocks as well as the perspectives of our cultural reality

Dimitri Papageorgiou Director of CML
Michalis Lapidakis Co-director of CML
Dimitris Maronidis Director of Xenakis Electronic Music Competition
Constantinos Tsougras
Danae-Maria Stefanou
Georgios Sakallieros
Constantinos Chardas

We are delighted to announce the 6th Acousmatic Music International Composition Competition “Iannis Xenakis”. This new e...
03/02/2026

We are delighted to announce the 6th Acousmatic Music International Composition Competition “Iannis Xenakis”. This new edition follows the successful organisation of the previous competition, which concluded last November with public performances of the winning works, alongside compositions by the jury members and Iannis Xenakis, presented in two very special, fully attended concerts at the Noesis Science Museum of Thessaloniki.

For the 6th edition of the competition, we are honoured to welcome an outstanding jury, chaired this time by Daniel Teruggi.

We look forward to receiving your works and to once again organising this worldwide celebration of electroacoustic music.

Deadline is the 1st of January 2027

Dimitris Maronidis
Director of the Competition

https://xenakis.web.auth.gr/rules/

Lecture/Workshop at the School of Sonic Arts, Tehran in collaboration with the Contemporary Music Lab. Dimitri Papageorg...
17/10/2025

Lecture/Workshop at the School of Sonic Arts, Tehran in collaboration with the Contemporary Music Lab.
Dimitri Papageorgiou, Algorithmic composition and the fragility of sonic identity

This presentation explores the intersection of memory, repetition, and algorithmic processes in my compositional practice. Drawing from cognitive psychology (e.g., Schacter’s theories of memory distortion) and fractal mathematics (e.g., Mandelbrot’s scaling), we will dissect how interlocking techniques—recombining germinal pitch cells—and scaling strategies—self-similar rhythmic hierarchies—mimic the reconstructive nature of human recollection. Through analysis of works like In the Vestige of the Present (2008), we will examine how algorithms transform fragmented materials into evolving sonic architectures, balancing invariance and corruption. The talk situates my methods within a lineage of 20th-century avant-garde practices while proposing new frameworks for understanding memory as a compositional tool in the digital age. The presentation is concluded with a workshop, From Code to Score: Algorithmic Interlocking in SuperCollider and Dorico. This hands-on workshop guides participants through the practical implementation of reconstructive techniques using SuperCollider and Dorico.

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