The Logos Foundation is a professional artistic organisation founded in 1968. It focuses on the promotion of

new music New music may refer to: Musical styles and movements Pre-20th century * Ars nova, musical style in 14th-century France and the Low Countries * '' Le nuove musiche'', collection of monody by Giulio Caccini * New German School, music style in late 1 ...

s and audio related arts by means of new music production, concerts, performances, composition, technological research projects and other contemporary music related activities. The Logos Foundation (and its concert hall, the

Logos Tetrahedron The Logos Foundation is a professional artistic organisation founded in 1968. It focuses on the promotion of new musics and audio related arts by means of new music production, concerts, performances, composition, technological research projects a ...

) is based in

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...

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(

Flanders Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, ...

region). Composers

Godfried-Willem Raes Godfried-Willem Raes is a Belgian composer, performer and instrument maker. He is the founder of the Logos Foundation of which he is still the president. He holds a PhD from Ghent University and is professor of experimental music composition at t ...

and

Moniek Darge Moniek Darge or Monica Darge (born 1952) is a Belgian composer, musician, audio artist and educator. She was named a Cultural Ambassador of Flanders. Life Darge was born in Bruges and studied violin and music theory at the Music Conservatory of ...

are the major driving forces behind the Logos Foundation. Since the last decades of the 20th century the Logos Foundation encourages publication of music in a

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format.

Logos Tetrahedron

The ''Logos Tetrahedron'' is a concert hall in

Ghent, Belgium Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...

adjacent to the foundation's recording studio and offices. It has seating for 150 people and is equipped with sound and light infrastructure. Since the concert hall is in the shape of a

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, it has no straight angles and, as a result, no standing waves can occur. Acoustic waves can never amplify one another in phase and are reflected by the walls under ever changing angles. The hall is exclusively used for contemporary and experimental music, such as

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

and

computer music Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs. It includes the theory and ap ...

and holds approximately 65 concerts a year, primarily by the Logos Foundation. In 2012 they were host for the

ISCM World Music Days The ISCM World Music Days is an annual contemporary music festival organized by the International Society for Contemporary Music, originally created in 1923 as the ISCM Festival as a means to support the most advanced composition tendencies.

. The concert hall was built in 1990 by

and the Logos workgroup using steel, concrete and plate-metal. Construction took one year. The hall was opened in 1991 with a three-day festival.

M&M robot orchestra

Logos houses the innovative music ensemble M&M robot orchestra (man and machine). All kinds of musical interfaces (wireless gesture control, real time sound analysis, microwave radar, acceleration sensors, pyrodetectors, lightsensors, myoelectric devices, brainwaves, EEG and ECG and so on) are combined with the results of experimental

robot A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be c ...

design. Collaborative concerts are organised involving interactive robots and musicians. They made a
manual
' for composers who would like to write for this orchestra. In 2021, the

Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (commonly abbreviated as S.M.A.K., translated as ''City Museum for Contemporary Art'') is a relatively new museum located in Ghent, Belgium, and is renowned both for its permanent collection (Art & Languag ...

in Ghent dedicated an exhibition to the Logos Foundation and its robot orchestra.

References

External links

Official site of Logos Foundation

Logos Foundation on the website of Flanders Music Centre

Buildings and structures in Ghent Buildings and structures completed in 1991 Music venues completed in 1991 Buildings and structures completed in 1990 Tourist attractions in East Flanders 1991 establishments in Belgium Arts foundations based in Europe Organisations based in East Flanders Culture of Ghent Belgian music industry Year of establishment missing 1968 establishments in Belgium {{Belgium-stub

Logos Tetrahedron

M&M robot orchestra

See also

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