A deeper look into Slab Altar, an artistic research residency at Het Muziek's GRASpunt, with a wonderful team and @iiioooio.bsky.social support. A new cycle of testing ideas and opening conversations.
Slab Altar ⚙️ Residency at Het Muziek. A short glimpse of what we’ve been working on at the very hospitable space of GRASpunt in Amsterdam. More info about the team and the residency at hetmuziek.nl/updates/than...
The trip to Thessaly rounded off with lots to remember, and discussions on old & future plans. The workshop Transdisciplinary Approcahes took place 28 & 29 March as part of Mousikotropo Festival at the Municipal Conservatory of Larissa. Interview in Greek to Eleftheria newspaper.
Back to my hometown for a workshop coming weekend 28 & 29 March. Transdisciplinary Approches goes to Larissa, Greece, part of festival Mousikotropo. More info: mousikotropo.gr/evdomada-4/#...
📢 Composing Time and Space workshop at Time of Music. Applications open till 22nd March! Looking forward to the Viitasaari experience 🌲🌲🌲
In today’s class we had some company from the 60s, 70s and 80s. #ConservatoriumvanAmsterdam
A comeback here 📢 sharing a workshop: CORPS À CORPS on small format performative compositions, mentoring next to George Aperghis and colleagues. Athens, May 25-29. sites.google.com/eem.org.gr/g...
Last soundcheck, connection tests, taking positions. Nightwater just before opening its doors to the public. 📸 Thomas Beltsios kicking in rural vibes from our common hometown. Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Ensemble Klang, @iiioooio.bsky.social
Nightwater before opening its doors to the public. Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, together with Ensemble Klang and @iiioooio.bsky.social. 📸 Thomas Veltsios
Nightwater 12-14 September at Muziekgebouw Amsterdam. e-flux announcement kicked in. Looking forward to making this work happen with a wonderful team.
Greek podcast alert 🎙️Καλεσμένοι στην καντίνα του Griekse Huis Rotterdam, μιλάμε με τον Γιάννη Μιχαλόπουλο για το έργο μας Nightwater 12-14 Sep στο Muziekgebouw. See you there!
Nightwater 12-14 September coming to the Muziekgebouw. Working with a wonderful team towards something rather unexpected & different 🌙💦 I'm very happy for all this and very much looking forward to offering this hybrid experience to our audience.
Try Out Night // Thought Provoking Poetics in Sound, Vision, Scenography, Crowd Choreography and Variable Duration by @thanasisde.bsky.social at Muziekgebouw
The news is out 💥 Nightwater premieres at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam on 12, 13, 14 September.
A large-scale performance installation throughout the building, unfolding as a rural dream inside an urban venue 🔈 We’re teaming up with Ensemble Klang, The Rest is Noise and Greek musicians!
“Eat my dust“ was resounding at the Greek Pavilion, spoken by a child we recorded at the village my mother is from. He was riding his bike alone, imagining he owns a huge motorbike. Two tire marks got revealed after removing the large machine at the build-down of Xirómero/Dryland at Venice Biennale.
A conversation about rural landscapes, immersive listening, cultural memory and how to hold your own strange language in public. Thank you Myrthe Meester & Muziekgebouw Productiehuis. 🔈🔈 We’re about to announce wonderful news for the jubilee season of the #Muziekgebouw.
Playing live today at De Keuken Pletterij in Haarlem. It’s a nice warm up towards some exciting news. #soundscape #liveset #electronics
Panegyrica airs on Sunday 25 May 08:00 CEST at On Air On Site, in a 3-day-long program. It’s a warm up for a large scale work that is about to come. News soon! onaironsite.com/artists/than... #radiodocumentary #soundscapecomposition @iiioooio.bsky.social
Tomorrow the composition students of the Conservatory of Amsterdam launch their graduation “Composers’ Festival”. Three days of different genres of new music with 100 musicians and collaborators taking part. Wishing wonderful concerts to all students! More info: www.consam.nl
Panegyrica will be airing on 25 May at the 48-hour radio event On Air On Site 🔈💥 a 45’ sonic diary of an artistic research on Greek rural culture. More info soon! onaironsite.com
From the Margaroni Residency to Xirómero/Dryland in Venice. The residency team poses on the last day of the year-long artistic research on Greek rural culture, funded by the Onassis Stegi. Find more info at iiiooo.io/margaroni-re... @iiioooio.bsky.social. News soon 💥
📷 Pinelopi Gerasimou for the Onassis Stegi 💥
A year ago today: the #GreekPavilion at #VeniceBiennale is inaugurated and Xirómero/Dryland starts its journey!
Xirómero/Dryland and its visitors. Testimonies out of the guestbooks and a short selection of written words by art professionals about the work.
🛠️ What is placed in and what is left behind? The irrigation machine ΑΡΜΑΘΑ as a deity, as a body, a dancer, a conductor. Xirómero/Dryland, Greek Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2024.
🛠️ combining 70s industrial agricultural technology, electronics, hydraulics and sensors. With that yellow and that blue. Xíromero/Dryland, Greek Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2024.
🛠️ Xirómero/Dryland in the making. #VeniceBiennale #GreekPavilion. The pavilion as rural warehouse / as a temple. Wet.
A year ago we were installing our work at the Greek Pavilion in Venice, getting ready for the opening of La Biennale. Xirómero/Dryland has been an immersive installation, placing an irrigation machine in the centre of it; our great performer, our slow dancer, bringing the entire work into life.
Visited the reading halls of @labnf.bsky.social at Richelieu. To future research & projects to come.
Reich/Richter it is. Asko Schoenberg Ensemble, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam 🪇
