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Tangible Music Club #13: MSHR + LOTIS
concert

Tangible Music Club #13: MSHR + LOTIS

Stadtwerkstatt Saal

MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems.

Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with a life-like current.

They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects.

MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, as an offshoot from the collective Oregon Painting Society.

The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.
https://mshr.info/


Theodoros Lotis composes electroacoustic music, soundscapes, music for instruments and computers, music for dance and installations with a cross-platform and cross-media approach. He studied the guitar, flute, music analysis, electroacoustic composition and fine arts in Greece, Belgium and the UK. His music has been performed at festivals and conferences in Europe, Australia, America and Asia, and has received a number of awards and distinctions at Bourges (France, 2000), Sculpted Sound Composers Competition (UK, 2000), Metamorphoses (Belgium, 2000, 02, 16), Luigi Russolo (Italy, 2000, 02), CIMESP (Brasil, 2001) and and Jeu de temps / Times Play (UK/Canada, 2002). He was awarded the first prize at the Concours International de Spatialisation pour l’Interprétation des Ouevres Acousmatiques by Musiques et Recherches in Brussels. He has done commissioned work for Musiques et Recherches (Belgium, 1997, 2000, 2014), Sculpted Sound Composers Competition (UK, 2000), Amici della Musica di Cagliari (Italy, 2001, 2017), the festival Visiones Sonoras (Mexico, 2007), the artistic research project Embodied Gestures (2020), the Athens Epidaurus Festival (2025), the clarinetist Esther Lamneck (as invited composer at the New York University in 2012) and for dance and theater companies. Having produced several instrumental works and collaborated with artists from various disciplines (dance, theatre, video) his current endeavours in music are focused on sonic spectrum, timbre and sonic space. He has completed a Ph.D. in Music at the City University, London, thanks to grants from the British Academy (Arts and Humanities Research Board), and the Foundation A.S. Onassis. Theodoros Lotis has been teaching electroacoustic composition and analysis at Goldsmiths College- University of London, the Technological and Educational Institute of Crete, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Universities in Europe and America as invited composer. He is Professor at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, where he teaches Sonic Arts, Electroacoustic Composition, History and Aesthetics of Electroacoustic Music, Music Informatics, Programming for Music and Live Electronics. He is founding member of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA) and the Hellenic Society for Acoustic Ecology. His music has been released by Empreintes Digitales (www.electrocd.com).          

https://www.theodoroslotis.com/