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).
Among the future aims of HELMCA are:
Previous aims have been realized by:
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.
Many of HELMCA's activities are part of international partnerships and collaborations:
| Electroacoustic Music Days | |
| Location: | Greece |
| Years Active: | 2002-present |
| Founders: | Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association |
| Genre: | Electronic music, electroacoustic music |
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.
| Electroacoustic Music Days | |
| Location: | Greece |
| Years Active: | 2002-present |
| Founders: | Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association |
| Genre: | Electronic music, electroacoustic music |