Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association
The Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA), founded in 2002, is the only national association of electroacoustic music in Greece..[1] It is registered as a nonprofit organization (act. 1059.91/2001). Its members are active composers and sound artists who creatively use advances in music technology, producing a variety of musical forms of sonic art in their work. The main aim of HELMCA is to strengthen the collaboration and solidarity among its members and to promote electroacoustic music in Greece and abroad.
HELMCA became the official Greek federation of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (CIME/ICEM) in June 2006,[2] and it is the national member of the IREM (International Rostrum of Elactroacoustic Music, a part of UNESCO).
Aims
Among the future aims of HELMCA are:
Development of the sonic arts in Greece
Promotion of sonic art in Greece, Europe and worldwide
Strengthening collaboration and solidarity
Protecting ethical and financial interests
Previous aims have been realized by:
Hosting cultural and scientific events
Educational activities and initiatives
Development of infrastructure for encouraging artistic and scientific research
Publications
Promotion and communication
Participation in national and international artistic and scientific festivals, conferences and competitions
Members
Among HELMCA members are: Panos Amelidis, Dimitris Bakas, Dimitris Barnias, Penelope Bekiari, Anargyros Deniozos, Andy Dhima, George Dousis, Costis Drygianakis, Minas Emmanouil, Sofia Emmanouilidou, Thanasis Epitideios, Epameinondas Fassianos, Costas Frantzis, Stelios Giannoulakis, Nickos Harizanos, Ioannis Kalantzis, Georgia Kalodiki, Dimitris Kamarotos, Nikos Kanelakis, Dimitris Karageorgos, Orestis Karamanlis, Konstantinos Karathanasis, Phivos-Angelos Kollias, Vasilis Kokkas, Panagiotis Kokoras, Marinos Koutsomichalis,Theodoros Lotis, Apostolos Loufopoulos, Stelios Manousakis, Luc Messinezis, Andreas Mniestris, Andreas Monopolis, Marios Moras, Ioannis Panagiotou, Dimitris Papageorgiou, Aki Pasoulas, Maria Pelekanou, Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris, Vasilis Roupas, Dimitris Savva, Yiorgis Sakellariou, Georgia Spiropoulos, Georgia Spyridopoulou, Nikos Stavropoulos, Giorgos Stefatos, Kostas Stratoudakis, Dimitris Talarougas, Philippos Theocharidis, Stelios Tsiloglou-Ignatiadis, Katerina Tzedaki, Nikolas Valsamakis, Stefanos Vasiliadis, Tim Ward, Haris Xanthoudakis, Agapi Zarda and Stelios Zoumadakis.
Activities
Many of HELMCA's activities are part of international partnerships and collaborations:
ICEM CD recording with HELMCA participation, France 2008
ICEM + Elevkonsert på IDKA Kulturkiosken, Sweden 2008
Participation at the International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music, Lisbon, Portugal 2007
Participation at the 15th Audio Art Festival, Kraków, Poland 2007
CEMAT (Centri musicali attrezzati – Federation of Italian Electroacoustic Music Centers) international series of electroacoustic music, Rome, Italy 2006
Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association
The Electroacoustic Music Days festival, held annually, is the association's most important event where members meet, exchange ideas and present their latest work in a series of concerts. Every year it is organized in a different city and so far it has been hosted in Corfu, Rethymnon, Lixouri, Ioannina and Athens. The works are presented with an acousmonium loudspeaker orchestra. The festival has been held continuously since 2002 and is one of the longest-running electroacoustic music festivals internationally.
