The Sounding Museum at the BoCCF

The Sounding Museum:
A music walk in the Foundation

Can anyone hear the sounds of the museum?
Is there any rhythm or melody to history?
Can we record our land’s culture through music notation?

Celebrating the European Night of Museums, the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation invites the public to "The Sounding Museum", an immersive experience that combines the expressiveness of visual art and sound with the wealth of our cultural heritage in an experimental musical theatre performance.

Contemplating the art and history of Cyprus, visitors will set out on a sonic tour of the Foundation's exhibits and premises, created and curated by young Cypriot composer Andreas Papapetrou and performed by a group of ten classical musicians.

Weaving sounds using various instruments, the musicians will walk alongside visitors, creating a constantly shifting 45-minute musical promenade that will include a tour of the Foundation's museums and collections and the “Rooms to Contemplate” exhibition of contemporary Cypriot art.

Musicians:
Elli Aloneftou - Soprano
Stella Christou - Soprano
Demetris Yiasemides - Flute
George Georgiou - Clarinet
Evangelos Christodoulou - Bassoon
Maria Kramvi - Percussion
Viki Hadjiandreou - Violin
Tefkros Xydas - Viola
Alexia Yiangou - Cello
Sophia Price - Double Bass

Friday, 19 May 2017, 20:30 & 21:30
Two performances: 45 minutes each

Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
86-90, Faneromeni Str., Old Nicosia
For information call 22 128157

Free admission

Further information at the BoCCF website and the Facebook event page.

Poster design by chrysopsaro.com

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The Sounding Museum
Μουσικός Περίπατος στο Πολιτιστικό Ίδρυμα

Μπορεί κανείς να ακούσει τους ήχους του μουσείου; 
Έχει ρυθμό και μελωδία η ιστορία; 
Καταγράφεται σε μουσικές νότες ο πολιτισμός του τόπου μας;

Στο πλαίσιο της Ευρωπαϊκής Νύχτας Μουσείων, το Πολιτιστικό Ίδρυμα της Τράπεζας Κύπρου προσκαλεί το κοινό σε μια αλλιώτικη επίσκεψη στους χώρους του για το δρώμενο «The Sounding Museum», μια πειραματική παράσταση μουσικού θεάτρου που συνδυάζει την εικαστική εκφραστικότητα και την ηχητική δημιουργία με τον πλούτο της πολιτιστικής μας κληρονομιάς.

Μέσα από τη ζωντανή ερμηνεία δέκα μουσικών, οι επισκέπτες θα περιπλανηθούν νοερά στην ιστορία και μυθολογία της Κύπρου, σε μια ηχητική ξενάγηση που ξεκινά στο προαύλιο και συνεχίζει στα εκθέματα και τους εσωτερικούς χώρους του Πολιτιστικού. 

Υφαίνοντας μελωδίες με ποικίλα όργανα, οι μουσικοί θα κινούνται μαζί με τους επισκέπτες δημιουργώντας ένα διαβατό ηχητικό περιβάλλον 45 λεπτών, που θα περιλαμβάνει περιήγηση των μουσειακών χώρων του Πολιτιστικού και της τρέχουσας έκθεσης «Rooms to Contemplate», η οποία παρουσιάζει τα σημαντικότερα έργα της Συλλογής Σύγχρονης Κυπριακής Τέχνης του Πολιτιστικού.

Συνθέτης και επιμελητής της μουσικοθεατρικής παράστασης, ο νέος Κύπριος δημιουργός Ανδρέας Παπαπέτρου, ο οποίος ειδικεύεται στην σύνθεση και εκτέλεση έργων σύγχρονης μουσικής και στον αυτοσχεδιασμό.

Συμμετέχουν οι μουσικοί:
Έλλη Αλωνεύτου - Σοπράνο
Στέλλα Χρήστου - Σοπράνο
Δημήτρης Γιασεμίδης - Φλάουτο
Γιώργος Γεωργίου - Κλαρινέτο
Ευάγγελος Χριστοδούλου - Φαγκότο
Μαρία Κραμβή - Κρουστά
Βίκυ Χατζηανδρέου - Βιολί
Τεύκρος Ξυδάς - Βιόλα
Αλεξία Γιάγκου - Βιολοντσέλο
Σοφία Price - Κοντραμπάσο

Παρασκευή, 19 Μαΐου 2017
20:30 & 21:30
Δύο παραστάσεις 45 λεπτών

Είσοδος ελεύθερη

Φανερωμένης 86-90, Παλιά Λευκωσία 
Για πληροφορίες: 22 128157

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στην ιστοσελίδα του ΠΙΤΚ και στη σελίδα του facebook event. 

Echo Wants Her Voice Back "Quicksand" single release

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Echo Wants Her Voice Back presents her latest single ‘Quicksand’ and a selection of her songs at London’s exclusive members venue Library, on Saturday 6th May.

Echo Wants Her Voice Back is fronted by London-based, Cypriot-born singer/songwriter Eleni Skarpari, whose style has been described as folk noir and whose experimental sound has been compared to PJ Harvey and Bjork. Her songwriting has been praised as‘lyrically weaving her words with precision and passion’ and her performances as ‘hanging on her every word.” This led to a prime slot performance at 2016’s SXSW, festivals and radio play. Following her debut EP, ‘Heart of Stone’, which was self-released through a successful crowd-funding campaign comes her new single ‘Quicksand’, a ballad cloaked in a contemporary folk nuances, released digitally on Monday 8th May.

For this event, she is performing with piano and accordion player Andreas Papapetrou, Reuben Ard on double bass and Danilo Rodrigues on percussion.

20:00pm, Saturday 6 May 2017
LIBRARY private members club
112 Saint Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4BD

Ticket link at Eventbrite

For more information on Echo Wants Her Voice Back:
https://www.facebook.com/echowantshervoiceback/
https://twitter.com/EchoWHVB

Grendel Babies "Oh My" album release party

I am very excited to be performing in this! It's been years in the making!

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“Oh My” is the debut album by the band Grendel Babies. The album features ten tracks composed by Grendel Babies frontwoman Marilena Zackheos. Mixing elements from jazz, baroque, folk, rock, incorporating tsifteteli, waltz, and swing rhythms, as well as changing time signatures, the work embraces diversity.

Expect to hear somber odes like “Enchantress” with lyrics from Sappho about the goddess Aphrodite, dark comical ballads about failed loves like “Birth of the Beheader” and “Eating,” loony swing tunes such as “Ophelia”, as well as manic anthems like “Hiroshima Maidens”, a five-and-a-half-minute history of plastic surgery and of the role that war has played in its development. 

Appearing live are the Cyprus-based Grendel Babies members: Marilena Zackheos on keys and vocals, Ioulios Georgakopoulos on drums and percussion, Alexia Yiangou on cello, Mike Zachariades on bass, Charitini Kyriakou on tzouras, Andreas Papapetrou on accordion, Julia Petrou Michaelides and Eleni Skarpari on vocals. 

The Grendel Babies' stage performance will be followed by a live DJ party, and competitions with the chance to win prizes. DJ Maria Panosian will grace the decks with select offbeat, electro-swing and retro tunes. Bring your wingtips and character shoes! 

Saturday, March 25 2017 at 09:00 pm
Kosmiko Kentro Antonaki, 17 Vasiliou Voulgaroktonou, Nicosia, Cyprus

The entrance fee is 10 Euros including a CD. 
For reservations, call 22664697

Also this month:
Grendel Babies unplugged album launch
Tuesday March 28 2017 at 08:30 pm
Prozac Kafenio, 3A Medondos, Nicosia, Cyprus

Parallax 09 - Exercise: Les Noces

Exercise: Les Noces by choreographer Elena Koukoli is a performance/installation that will be presented at The Asylum, in Peckham on Sunday 29th January as part of the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Parallax series.

I will be participating in this event as a sound designer. Following Elena's example, I've worked with recordings of Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces and, after some rather severe editing, created a long soundtrack for the performance.

Further information on the event below the flyer.

Elena Koukoli’s Exercise: Les Noces pushes the limits of performance by interweaving music, dance and visual art. The work translates Bronislava Nijinska’s iconic ballet Les Noces to an installation of ‘ready-made choreographies’: replicated and re-performed artworks, design objects and video clips. Throughout the three hour event, the audience is invited to watch and listen, move around, come and go as they please or even attend a self-defence class. Exercise: Les Noces expands the conventional verges of dance performance, introducing a durational installation that challenges the frames of both theatre and gallery.

4pm-7pm - Admission Free
The Asylum, Caroline Garden’s Chapel, Peckham, London SE15 2SQ

Further information at: trinitylaban.ac.uk/whats-on/research-events/parallax-09-exercise-les-noces

© Elena Koukoli, 2013

Bastard Assignments at the Colouscape Music Festival

Well this is a first! I've never had a piece of mine performed in an inflatable venue before! This Saturday come and immerse yourselves in a maze of colour and sound: London composers collective Bastard Assignments are hosting an exciting performance event at the Colourscape (it's sort of an exceptionally large and colourful bouncy castle you can roll around, jump or lie in while listening to the music) for the 2016 Colourscape Music Festival, featuring work by Maria-Christina, Vitalija Glovackyte, Oli Haylett, Andreas Papapetrou and Caitlin Rowley.

Maria-Christina (harp) and Thodoris Ziarkas (double bass) will perform a new version of Spindle, a piece that explores two of my artistic obsessions: tying things up with yarn and audience participation!

Details on tickets and times:

17th September, 1-5pm at the Clapham Common [ Windmill Drive, London SW4 9DE ]

Ticket prices (admission for an hour): Adult £10, Child £5, Family £28

Further information in the Colourscape Festival Brochure.

Caryatid Unplugged at the Rosemary Branch Theatre

Quite an interesting time to be in the UK - and this might provide stimulus for further conversations:

Evi Stamatiou's Caryatid Unplugged (the Brexit edition) will be presented at the Rosemary Branch Theatre 29th June to 1st July 2016. It is a wacky play using a mix of comedy, cabaret and mime performance styles as a means to discuss issues of immigration and populist politics in the UK and Greece through the eyes of a bewildered Caryatid stuck inside the British Museum.

The play features some music by yours truly! Further information below.

Get your tickets here: http://www.rosemarybranchtheatre.co.uk/?event=caryatid

Evi Stamatiou performing Caryatid Unplugged in MONOMAFFIA Pärnu Teatrifestival 2014

In a madly comic performance pitching modern anti-immigration dogma against a wry wink from the ancient world, celebrated political theatre artist Evi Stamatiou satirizes the British Government’s ironic position – on the one hand refusing to return the Greek marbles (here represented by Stamatiou’s touching embodiment of a lone female statue), and on the other, unceremoniously resisting the arrival of the unwanted Greek, presented in ribald comic form as Rita, an economic migrant wishing to stay in Blighty.  Heralded as creating “a world of bubbly satire”, Stamatiou punctures the po-faced indifference of David Cameron and others, and presents Rita’s desire to remain and the marbles’ desire to leave as a playful, but direct challenge to the questionable status quo.

After a successful run at The Edinburgh Festival and Monomaffia Festival in Estonia, this hilarious show will ruffle feathers in London for the first time 6 days after the EU referendum.  Whatever Britain decides, what will happen to Rita and the statue? Are they in or out?

Her infectious delivery wins over the audience. Under the slapstick, the finger stays firmly on our political pulse, and towards the end the message suddenly becomes shockingly clear when the spotlight turns on the exploitation at the heart of Europe’s dark underbelly – The Stage

Current cast and creatives: Evi Stamatiou (writer/director/performer), Ellen Macleod (performer), Tom White (performer) and Andreas Papapetrou (music). Many thanks to Matt Smith for design and lighting tips.

Pudili: New music works for children

Join us for a free concert on June 12th 2016 at the Municipal Conservatory of Petroupoli, Greece, featuring premieres of six new works for young children. I am participating with a work called "Psithyros tis limnis" (The lake's whisper) for children's choir and handheld percussion. See poster for further details.

"Out of thin air" in Sound and Movement - 2nd April

Rehearsal for "Out of thin air" - 20 March 2016

This Saturday, 2nd April at 6pm, choreographer Elena Koukoli and I are presenting our collaborative project titled "Out of thin air", a promenade piece for dancers, small choir and electronics (tape part). The performance will be part of in Sound and Movement and the event will also host a performance by the improvising percussion and electronics duo Far Rainbow (Bobby Barry and Emily Mary Barnett) with dancer Inês Zinho Pinheiro and "We are on the same page" by composer Vassilis Chatzimakris, performed by members of the In(s)core collective.

The event will take place at the Old Finsbury Town Hall, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4RP.

I hope to see some familiar faces there! Here is the link to the facebook event if you want more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1685901724992880

Please note that due to staffing limitations we cannot sell tickets at the door - so if you plan to come you will need to purchase them online in advance. Here is the link for the tickets: https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/zero-wave-presents-sound-and-movement-pieces-for-dance    

Dancer group rehearsal for "Out of thin air" - 20 March 2016

"Out of Thin Air"
A collaborative project between choreographer Elena Koukoli and composer Andreas Papapetrou.

Exploring notions of emptiness and excess, this performance invites the audience to navigate the space and seek out the drifting gestures and meaningless utterances happening in the void. Performers: Patricia Auchterlonie, Katerina Barabouti, Rebecca Callow, Vassilis Chatzimakris, Sandra Elphinston, Becky Leslie, Caroline Mawer, Rena Minegishi, Maria Nikitidou, Zina Abdul Nour, Becky O'Brien, Pavlina Papadopoulou, Andreas Papapetrou, Hannah Parsons & Robert Suchy.

Call for performers! - 2nd April 2016

I'm working on a project in collaboration with choreographer Elena Koukoli, which explores the concept of air as breath. I'm seeking performers who are comfortable using their voices to create soundscapes - singers, actors and amateur vocal enthusiasts - to help me realise my part in this: a small vocal ensemble with electronics - duration c.15 minutes. The performers do not need to have extensive experience in choral singing as the piece is not technically demanding, but will need to be comfortable with basic interaction with dancers and audience during performance (i.e. walking to different spots in the hall - no acting necessary!).

The concert date is the 2nd of April (6pm) and the venue is the Old Finsbury Town Hall. The piece is not difficult to perform vocally but it will require a couple of short rehearsals (to get used to the graphic score and series of actions). The first rehearsal will be on 24th of March, 7-8.30pm in Greenwich (email me for further information). The next, same time and place on the 31st.

The evening will also include an improvised performance for drums and electronics by Emily Mary Barnett and Bobby Barry (Far Rainbow) accompanied by dancer Inês Zinho Pinheiro (and quite possibly more tba).

If you are interested in this project please let me know using the contact form of this website or my email. I look forward to hearing from you!

Finished the PhD!

As some of you may know I had my viva voce examination for my PhD thesis yesterday. It all went smoothly and I got a straight pass! 

If you are curious to see what this was all about, at the bottom of this post you'll find a link to the portfolio website with the videos of the pieces I created as part of my research. Some of it has been published here already but most of it hasn't, so you're bound to find something you haven't seen before! Check it out here:

artefactsofperformance.blogspot.com

Photo taken after the performance of Inquietus at the ICA, 28 May 2013 © C. Zografou