«J’accuse » / « أتّهم »

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▣ «J’accuse » / « أتّهم »
sounds ● readings ● Palestine

Carol Sansour ● Rami El Sabagh ● Christos Chryssopoulos ● Takis Katsampanis ● Anastasis Stratakis ● Rabea Sliman

On the occasion of the Greek publication of the book J’accuse / Κατηγορώ by Francesca Albanese (KAIROS Publications), KET presents an evening of readings and sounds dedicated to Palestine.

Around a table, political and personal texts, historical events and memories meet poetry and sound.

Excerpts from J’accuse by Francesca Albanese alternate with poems by Carol Sansour, texts by Ghassan Kanafani, and sounds from Palestinian films, selected and processed by Rami El Sabagh.

An evening of readings “around the table”: words, poetry, history and sound as a shared moment of listening and memory.

The evening will close with a musical act by Palestinian vocalist and performance artist Rabea Sliman, conceived as a continuation of the readings — a space where words give way to sound, and where memory, silence, and listening continue in another form.

A video by visual artist Anastasis Stratakis, who created the visual work for the Greek edition of Francesca Albanese’s book, will be screened as an introduction to the evening.

◇ Carol Sansour’s poems are read in Arabic by the poet and projected in Greek in Natasa Sideri’s translation.

◇ Ghassan Kanafani’s short story is read in Greek in a translation by Nasim Alatras (Salto Publications).

◇ Video credits : Anastasis Stratakis, Evidence, 2026, single-channel FHD video, black and white, silent, 5′ 40″ loop. Courtesy of the artist.

☀ Admission on a first-come, first-served basis.

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«J’accuse » / « أتّهم»

تسجيلات ● قراءات ● فلسطين

بمناسبة صدور النسخة اليونانية من كتاب «أتّهم» / «Κατηγορώ» لفرانشيسكا ألبانيزيه (دار كايروس للنشر)، يقدم مركز Ket

أمسية من القراءات والتوليف الصوتي من أجل فلسطين.  

جلسة حول طاولة تلتقي عليها النصوص السياسية والشخصية، الأحداث التاريخية والذكريات مع الشعر والتسجيلات الصوتية.

تتناوب خلالها مقتطفات من كتاب «أتّهم» لفرانشيسكا ألبانيزيه مع قصائد لكارول صنصور، نصوص لغسان كنفاني ومقاطع صوتية من أفلام فلسطينية، اختارها وتدخّل عليها رامي الصبّاغ.

أمسية قراءات ”حول الطاولة“: كلمات وشعر وتاريخ وصوت، كمساحة زمنية مشتركة للإنصات والذاكرة.

سيَختتم الأمسية المغني والمؤدي الفلسطيني ربيع سليمان بعرض موسيقي يشكل امتداداً للقراءات، حيث يمنح الصوت طريقاً للكلمات، وبذلك يستمر فعل الذاكرة والصمت والإنصات بشكل آخر.

ستُفتتح الأمسية بعرض لفيديو للفنان البصري أناستازيس ستراتاكيس، الذي عمل على التصميم البصري في النسخة اليونانية لكتاب فرانشيسكا ألبانيزيه.

◇ بمشاركة كارول صنصور، رامي الصبّاغ، كريستوس كريسوبولوس، تاكيس كاتسامبانيس، أناستازيس ستراتاكيس وربيع سليمان.

◇ ستَقرأ كارول صنصور شعرها بالعربية وستُعرض على الشاشة ترجمة نتاسا سيديري إلى اليونانية.

ستُقرأ قصص غسان كنفاني القصيرة باليونانية من ترجمة نسيم ألاتراس (دار سالتو للنشر).

◇ عن الفيديو: أناستازيس ستراتاكيس، «إيفيدينس»، ٢٠٢٦، شريط فيديو أحادي FHD، أبيض وأسود، صامت، ٥‘ ٤٠‘‘ loop.

تعود حقوق الفيديو للفنان.

أولوية الدخول لمن يصل أولاً. ☀

6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble: Premieres 2026

Following a call for works of graphic and verbal notation from composers around the world, the 6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble presents the world premiere of four works by lo wie, Andrew Weathers, Kevin Corcoran, and Anton Lukoszevieze. Three of these (-6-, Reverse Horizon, Figure Ground) were written specifically for the 6daEXIt ensemble.

The ensemble focuses on open-form works, in which the relationship between the composer, the performer, and the listener remains open. The score is not a closed system with predetermined notes, but a set of instructions, rules, and stimuli that lead to actions that are sometimes more defined and sometimes more free. The works thus create a shared space for action and listening. The piece “-6-,” for example, is performed throughout the concert, functioning as a framework that encompasses everything else that happens, without overshadowing it.

The final form of each piece is shaped in real time by the ensemble, which is why every performance is different. These practices lie somewhere between composition and free—non-idiomatic—improvisation.

Program:

1. -6- (lo wie, 2025)

2. Reverse Horizon (Andrew Weathers, 2025)

3. Figure Ground (Kevin Corcoran, 2025)

4. Lost Opera 4 (Anton Lukoszevieze, 2024)

5. Lost Opera 13 (Anton Lukoszevieze, 2024)

6. Lost Opera 6 (Anton Lukoszevieze, 2024)

7. Lost Opera 7 (Anton Lukoszevieze, 2024)

The following members of the 6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble are participating:

Yiannis Dimitroudis: synthesizer
Antonis Fotiadis: saxophone
Yorgos Holopoulos: laptop, objects
Lina Koukouli: melodica, bullhorn, slide whistle, objects
Fotis Lazidis: tablet, fx
Alexandros Ntouzas: electric guitar
Josephine Papalamprou: electric bass, objects
Chrysi Parpara: accordion, objects
Alexis Porfiriadis: piano
Ioanna Valsamara: synthesizer

🔷 6daEXIt improvisation ensemble was founded in Thessaloniki in 2007, emerging from a class led by Alexis Porfiriadis at the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It operates independently as an open collective with a fluid and changing lineup. The group is dedicated to free improvisation and to the performance of graphic and text scores by international composers alongside original works by its members. Over the years, 6daEXIt has appeared at major festivals such as the Onassis Stegi Open Day (2014, 2018, 2020), Moving Silence (2014), Multeece Festival (2017), and the 52nd Dimitria Festival (2017), as well as at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall (2019). Their activity also extends to student-led and independent initiatives, self-managed venues, and interdisciplinary performance spaces.

Panos Alexiadis / Rooms In Negative / Ioannis Savvaidis

Three sets of experimental and improvised music by Panos Alexiadis, Rooms In Negative, and Ioannis Savvaidis.

🔷 PANOS ALEXIADIS

A composer and sound artist based in Athens. He has composed music for installations, contemporary dance, films, and video games. His latest album, titled “Cestrum Nocturnum”, is released by B.A.A.D.M. (Belgium).

www.panosalexiadis.com

🔷 ANDREAS RAGNAR KASSAPIS (ROOMS IN NEGATIVE)

Born in 1981. He lives and works in Athens. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1999–2004). The range of media covered by his works includes painting, drawing, photography, text, sound, and music. He has worked as a set designer and as a professor.

www.roomsinnegative.bandcamp.com

🔷 IOANNIS SAVVAIDIS

A composer who explores composition, structure, and interaction. He has released works on Anopolis, June, Lower Parts, and Phormix. Member of UNIX SYSTEMS and ΨΥΧΥ.

www.ioaiaaii.net

“The man who passed or it interests me Roula”

…a performance entirely dedicated to the brain.

The play “The man who passed or it interests me Roula” by the Babushka theater group and directed by Reveka Tsiligkaridou, returns to KET for a third run of performances.

The play revolves around Alzheimer’s disease and progressive memory loss, as experienced within a family, through the story of a father who is ill. The disease is not merely the subject of the play, but seems to take on a stage presence, becoming a figure that constantly alters memory, speech, and relationships.

In the face of this gradual loss, the performance serves as an act of resistance against oblivion: through fragments of memory, narratives, and scenes that oscillate between the tragic and the tender, moments from the father’s life are reconstructed—moments that are joyful, intense, everyday, or even tragic.

Little by little, through this collaborative process of staging and writing, the story of a “family like any other”—yet at the same time unique—comes to light: the story of a family in Thessaloniki in the 1980s, and at the same time a portrait of memory that, even when lost, continues to exist through others.

The performance constantly balances between bitterness and tenderness, humor and emotion, transforming a deeply personal story into a shared experience of memory.

Note from the group

“Memory. The loss of memory. The role of memory in human identity, in the human soul. This is at the heart of the performance we are putting on. We explore the human being who withdraws from his memory. We record it, analyze it, dive into it with guides that are scientific, emotional, poetic, surprisingly humorous. Memory. A core of existence with multiple interpretive perspectives and implications. Who am I? The observer? The narrator? The scientist? The attendant? Who is the person who has accompanied me and is accompanying me? A chorus of narrators investigates, questions, testifies, tries to put words to their experience and observations. The person steps into roles and returns to the now and the before to continue. The aim of the performance is to question the joints of memory. To discover what it means: ‘Everything was going well until…’. What “well” means. At what point exactly “well” changed. What does “until…” mean. We focus on the small things to ask about the big things. We make conscious the fact of everyday life. We experience what memory is, what its “lack” is. We awaken to the lack. In the “something is wrong”. Is it memory that makes us who we are? Are we without it? And what? The stakes of the performance are freedom on stage: to give space to the aspects of the accidental in order to have the event, the one that will bring up a memory deeper in us and in the audience. The event will bring the deep memory. That is what we will try to do.”

— Babushka Group

*The performance is in the greek language.

Three Times Three #7

The monthly event “Three Times Three” brings together artists from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, with the aim of creating a common code of communication that remains in effect for the duration of the meeting.

Three musicians meet three dancers each time. At the beginning of the evening, three random pairs are formed by drawing lots, and they improvise for 15 minutes. The evening ends with a 30-minute collective improvisation.

“Three Times Three” is curated by composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos).

The seventh event of the season features Evangelia Chatzitzanou (dance),Aurora (dance), Tzina Kyrousi (dance),Giorgos Poulios (electronics), Stefanos Psaradakis (percussion, fx), andKonstantinos Zigeridis (accordion).

🔷 Evangelia Chatzitzanou

A dancer, dance teacher, and theater theoritician, trained in classical and contemporary dance. She has participated in dance and puppet theater performances in Greece and abroad. Her favorite word is “together,” a concept she strives to incorporate into her artistic practice.

🔷 Aurora

Aurora is a dancer and performer based in Berlin. Through her work she explores physical limits, the possibilities that open up when contrasting ideas are mixed, and how the mind and body can let go of identity.

🔷 Tzina Kyrousi

A dancer specializing in contemporary dance, improvisation, and choreographic research. She has presented her work at venues and festivals in Berlin and Athens. Her practice combines different techniques and influences. She uses improvisation as a tool to strengthen her kinesthetic identity.

🔷 Giorgos Poulios

He composes music for theatrical and dance-theater productions by artists such as Euripides Laskaridis, Dimitris Papaioannou, Christos Papadopoulos, Roula Pateraki, Katerina Evangelatou, and Dimitris Karantzas. His musical work is presented internationally at concerts, theaters, and festivals.

🔷 Stefanos Psaradakis

A graduate in classical composition, he studied classical percussion and modern drums. He has performed with groups on the local scene and with symphony orchestras. He uses conventional instruments, everyday objects, field recordings, and computers. He composes music for films and performances. He engages in free improvisation in solo or ensemble performances.

🔷 Konstantinos Zigeridis

Accordionist and bandoneonist. He has lived and studied in Greece, Germany, and Argentina. He regularly collaborates with the Greek National Opera. He is a founding member of the Oros Ensemble.

Stellage presents: De l’Angle Mort / RVDS / Nika Son & Will Guthrie

Stellage Store presents a night at KET. Three live sets meandering from brooding electronics and eccentric analogue synthesized pieces to unexpected, improvised combinations of percussion, analogue synthesis, and voices.

www.instagram.com/stellage.highlights

🔷 De l’Angle Mort (Lionel Marchetti Patrick Charbonnier) is an atypical electronic duo that experiments live with earthy, rugged, harsh, ravaged, turbulent, and mechanical music that is nevertheless metaphorical, full of breath and life. Formed in 2020, the duo has also collaborated extensively with Nina Garcia, Beñat Achiary, Claire Bergerault, Timothée Quost, and Michel Raji; but it is indeed as a duo that the alchemy they offer is most disconcerting, since it is impossible to tell whether the speakers are on fire or whether it is the two musicians who are stoking the embers. A new album has just been released by Biom Editions label based in Greece. A trio cassette tape with Claire Bergerault is also available in Greece from moremars label.

www.label-rebelle.bandcamp.com/album/de-langle-mort

🔷 RVDS is Richard von der Schulenburg and one of Hamburgs’ most versatile musicians and producers. Seemingly playfully and yet meticulously, he works his way into musical phenomena: between acid house, electro, Italo disco and sound experiments, anything can happen, but never at the same time. The result is a scramble of musical personalities that have one thing in common: they reveal pure substance and never confuse humor with irony. He has been a resident DJ at the Golden Pudel Club for many years, released music on labels such as Bureau B, It’s, Uncanny Valley, VIS and is part of the duo Cosmic Cars. In 2026 he reacted his own label „it’s“ where he released his album „Sweet Acid Lullaby“.

www.soundcloud.com/rvds

First ever live performance of duo Nika Son & Will Guthrie.

🔷 Nika Son works as a musician, artist, film composer, DJ and curator in Hamburg. In her compositions, video- and soundworks she examines multi-sensory perception, its bounderies and interaction, but also forms of manipulation and illusion. Weaving oneiric musique concrète with analog and digital synthesis, broken rhythms, voices and modulated tape, her work captures the fluid, ever-shifting nature of the night, making the familiar strange and the surreal strangely familiar. Sounds of various origin are translated into a very unusual musical language, as if one watches the audible. Her debut album was released on the label Entr’acte/Stellage in 2020. Her new album Aslope came out 2024 on V I S, as well as the soundtrack DRIFT on Futura Resistenza. Furthermore, she hosts regular art and music events at various venues, mainly at Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg. Since 2019 she is co-curator of the festival Papiripar.

www.soundcloud.com/nikacis

🔷 Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer / percussionist living in France. He plays solo using different combinations of drums, percussion, amplification and electronics, and leads the contemporary hybrid percussion / gamelan group ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH. Alongside continuing his electro-acoustic work, in the last decade, Guthrie has returned to the drums with a vengeance, developing a series of solo works marked by a radical single-mindedness, from relentless rhythmic workouts to earth-quaking explorations of the bass frequencies of gongs and other metal percussion instruments. In the crowded world of free jazz/improv percussion, Guthrie’s work is distinguished from the delicately pointillist approach of much European improvisation by its rhythmic sophistication, unashamed virtuosity and undeniable physicality, touching on aspects of world musics from Javanese gamelan to South Indian Carnatic music. His music has been released on labels such as Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Erstwhile, Clean Feed, Gaffer Records, Hasana Editions, 23five, iDEAL, Coherent States and his own label Antboy Music.

www.will-guthrie.com

Organization/production: Stellage Music

Creative Guitar: Gellért Szabó / Panú

An initiative by guitarist Giannis Arapis, the “Creative Guitar” project explores a different way of thinking about the guitar—as an instrument, but also as a field of research, listening, and creation.

The project includes concerts and seminars that bring together study, experimentation, and artistic practice, with an emphasis on sound shaped through research, improvisation, and personal exploration.

Each concert features guitarists from the international scene with a distinctive artistic identity and personal sound.

The third night features German guitarist Gellért Szabó with a solo improvisational performance. The concert opens with Panú (Panagiotis Manouilidis) presenting a sound performance for a prepared electric guitar without a guitarist.

🔷 Gellért Szabó is a composer, conductor, and guitarist based in Leipzig. Known for his orchestral works and as artistic director of the Ideal Orchester, Szabó distills the complexity of large-scale composition into a radically reduced setup: one electric guitar, two channels, and live effects. The guitar becomes an orchestra. Szabó translates influences from György Ligeti’s dense micro-polyphony to the opulent sound worlds of Richard Strauss into immersive layers of sound that shift between brutal intensity and fragile calm. The result is a powerful, highly physical concert experience where a single instrument creates the depth and scope of a full ensemble.

He studied electric guitar and improvised music at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar, completing a Bachelor of Music (2015–2020) under Prof. Frank Möbus. During his studies, he developed a strong focus on composition, experimental music, and contemporary musical structures, studying composition with Ulrich Kreppein and Stefan Schultze. His compositional work received multiple prizes in composition competitions. In addition to his formal studies, Szabó received private lessons from Gilad Hekselman, Ronny Graupe, John Schröder, Chris Potter, Joshua Fineberg, Marc Copland, Joey Baron, and Billy Cobham. In January 2026, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in Leipzig and is nominated for the German Jazz Prize.

► www.gellertszabo.com

🔷 The musician and composer Panú (Panagiotis Manouilidis) has collaborated with venues and festivals such as: Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspielhaus Graz, Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, National Theater, the State Theater of Northern Greece, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Onassis Foundation’s Stegi, and the Kalamata International Dance Festival. At the same time, he combines music, visual and performing arts, and set design, creating original musical instrument-sculptures that function as interactive open-field sound installations or as stage spaces.

At KET, he presents a sound performance featuring a prepared electric guitar without a guitarist. A lone guitar, suspended on stage, is activated remotely and resonates throughout the space. The performer is absent. Drawing on the music and instruments of the Eastern Mediterranean, Panú creates a meditative universe of randomness and absence.

► www.youtube.com/watch?v=esWAWMAmu98

► www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbB-lD6W7G4&t=17s

Anna Vs June & Nikos Veliotis

After nearly a year of recording and rehearsals, Nikos Veliotis and Anna Vs June have completed their album titled “Derma 66”. Unconventional yet familiar sounds: vocals, electronics, and cello coexist equally in the tracks, where they seek common references beyond the boundaries of musical genres.

🔷 Nikos Veliotis is a musician and composer.

In the 1980s, he formed In Trance 95 with Alexandros Machairas. The electronic duo remains active and released a new album in 2025.

In the 1990s, he turned to experimentation and avant-garde music, with the cello as his primary instrument. He formed Cranc (with siblings Rhodri & Angharad Davies).

In the 2000s, he formed Texturizer (with Coti K.) and Looper (with Ingar Zach & Martin Kuchen). He pulverized his cello (Cello Powder) and collaborated with Yannis Angelakas and David Grubbs.

In the 2010s, he formed Mohammad with ILIOS and Coti K. (renamed MMMΔ after Coti K.’s departure in 2015).

He was the organizer of the 2:13 festival in Athens (2000–2007).

www.nikosveliotis.com

🔷 Anna Papaioannou is a musician who lives and works in Athens.

In addition to her artistic collaborations, she writes her own music, which she performs live as Anna Vs June. Her work incorporates analog and digital sound production equipment, often combined with traditional sounds and personal recordings.

Her work has been presented at various festivals and music venues in Greece and abroad (Sameheads / Berlin, Boschbar / Zurich, KET / Athens).

Since 2019, she has been releasing albums and tracks on record labels (Invisible Inc, Sounds of Ogigia, Rocket Recordings, Osare! Editions, Yalanci, etc.).

www.annavsjune.com

Onda Anomala

Onda Anomala is a performance combining contemporary dance (Amélie Joannides), music (Leonidas Danezos) and live visuals (Erato Tzavara). At the core of the work lies movement, which unfolds through improvisation and embodied listening, creating a constantly evolving dialogue between sound, image, and space.

The performance is open: the audience moves freely around the space, observing or joining in the dance at any moment. The performance becomes a collective act, blurring the lines between observer and participant.

Dancer Amélie Joannides approaches choreography as an evolving practice. Her movement interacts with the environment and the audience, transforming the performance space into a fluid field of exchange, in which dance is never static but is constantly being redefined.

Composer and sound designer Leonidas Danezos creates a soundscape that combines traditional instruments (baglama and Persian santur) with analog synthesis, shaping a lively rhythm that both supports and encourages movement.

Visual artist Erato Tzavara creates ever-changing visual environments through video, moving light, and image manipulation, lending the movements of dance a cinematic dimension.

The work is structured around the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth—a recurring rhythm found in nature, mythology, and human experience. In the final phase, individual presence transitions into shared physicality, from “I” to “we.” The snake worn by the dancer refers to the ancient Greek Ouroboros, a symbol of continuity, rebirth, and infinite motion.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDryA1RZORU

🔷 Amélie Joannides is a dancer, actress, and performer. After more than a decade of dancing with the Paris Opera, she left the classical stage to focus on exploring music, movement, and ecstasy. Her work deconstructs the boundaries between dance and sound, creating ritualistic compositions where the body becomes both an instrument and an oracle. She also stars in the Emmy-winning series “Etoile” and divides her time between Athens and Paris.

www.instagram.com/amelie.joannides

🔷 Greek-British musician, composer, and sound designer Leonidas Danezos has composed original music for award-winning films, documentaries, art films, theatrical productions, and educational projects. Active since 1985, he is a founding member of bands such as Alcalica and Superwave and has released thirteen vinyl albums. His love for the London electronic scene of the ’90s, for analog equipment, and for traditional instruments is reflected in his music.

www.instagram.com/leonidas_danezos

🔷 Video artist Erato Tzavara specializes in moving images for live performances and digital set design. She creates collages from various video sources for performances and improvisational concerts. In her personal work, she explores the experience of the contemporary urban subject through photography, video essays, and texts. Her works have been presented in theaters, art spaces, and festivals across Europe, Canada, and India.

www.erato-t.com

Spoken Maik #7

Every month KET hosts Spoken Maik, a poetry and spoken word event curated by Niki Papadogiannaki and Stavros Anagnou.

Open to all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitals, performances, and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian, Japanese and Galician.

The genres are equally diverse: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and welcoming space that allows everyone to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

The seventh Spoken Maik of the season will be hosted at KET on Thursday, April 2nd, 2026.

Those who wish to participate should arrive half an hour before the start time and add their name to the list of participants. Each act may last up to five minutes.

Daniele De Santis & Dario Papavassiliou

Daniele De Santis and Dario Papavassiliou come together at KET to celebrate their recent musical encounter with a special dual concert. A meeting of two unique but complementary instrumental explorations which share a suspension between heritage and its transfiguration. Across two sets, an intimate journey unfolds at the antipodes of sound, where acoustics and electronics weave layered textures into the fabric of Mediterranean tradition.

🔷 Multi-instrumentalist Dario Papavassiliou divides his interest between traditional Middle Eastern string instruments (oud, santur and others) and electric organs; currently, he is exploring the harmonic and textural possibilities offered by Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern tuning systems using a modified quarter-tone organ as well as more traditional acoustic instruments. He contributed santur to Balm (Viki Steiri, 2024) and To Vouno (Xenophon Yfantis, Maria Vakali & Michalis Kotsirakis, 2025) and has recently performed at KET, Athens (with Omar Abozekry as Mastic), Underflow Records, Tzamia Krystalla and Pano Spiti, Athens (with Athens Arts Collective), EXA, Athens (with Soirée Keyf) and the Puppet Theatre Barge, London (with Tip The Waiter); together with Viki Steiri, he co-hosts Muddy Bless on Stegi Radio. He grew up in London, and now lives in Athens.

www.soundcloud.com/vs_dp

www.soundcloud.com/dario-omar-464971723

🔷 Multi-instrumentalist, percussionist and producer of Italian origins, Daniele De Santis is also known for his activities as sound engineer and curator, especially within the realm of Dromoscope platform. Perpetually in refinement, his peculiar musical language is enrooted in the mediterranean and middle-eastern traditions as much as in instant composition and abstract electronica, while also feeding in a spontaneous crafting of experimental sound devices and original instruments. A research particularly prominent in the augmented percussions of Prepared Drums, or in the sophisticated atavism of GRÜN’s electrical machinery. Daniele counts appearances for international festivals such as Berlin Atonal, CTM, Strøm, PHONO, Irtijal, Terraforma, SeaNaps, NUMACircuit.

www.desantisdaniele.com

www.desantisdaniele.bandcamp.com

Once Upon A Song (a performed film)

A performance between a cinematic concert and a VJ set, exploring the origins of songs and where they take us. Live music by DVSN and live video and text editing by heroshinema.

🔷 Rami el Sabagh (a.k.a. heroshinema) was born in Beirut. He is a video artist, film editor, and musician. Sabagh’s videos often blur the lines between fiction and video art.

In 2020, Sabagh co-directed “topology of an absence” with experimental musician Sharif Sehnaoui, an experimental documentary that presents a poetic and fictional interpretation of archival footage from Pathé Gaumont filmed in Beirut during the French mandate of Lebanon.

From 2013 to 2018, Sabagh contributed to the foundation and artistic direction of Dawawine, a multi-purpose space in Beirut.

In 2024, he released his first EP, “the ghost of Orson Sells”.

He lives in Greece.

www.vimeo.com/ramielsabagh

🔷 Tarek Louati (a.k.a. DVSN) is a self-taught sound artist who has been involved in a variety of electronic projects. Alongside the WFOB collective, he plays an active role in spreading bass music culture in Tunisia in the early 2010’s.

In December 2014, he launched the (now defunct) Infinite Tapes label.

In 2016, he signed the soundtrack to the film The Last of Us (Lion of the Future at the Venice Film Festival 2016). He also won the prize for best film score at the first edition of the Tunisian Film Festival.

In 2019 he co-founded the rock band/project Numb Stupor.

He lives in Greece.

www.soundcloud.com/dvsnmusic

Three Times Three #6

The monthly event “Three Times Three” brings together artists from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, with the aim of creating a common code of communication that remains in effect for the duration of the meeting.

Three musicians meet three dancers each time. At the beginning of the evening, three random pairs are formed by drawing lots, and they improvise for 15 minutes. The evening ends with a 30-minute collective improvisation.

“Three Times Three” is curated by composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos).

The sixth event of the season features:

Natalia Vagena (dance)

Pagona Boulbasakou (dance)

Themis Andreoulaki (dance)

Stefanos Zafeiradis (electronics)

Yannis Kasetas (saxophone)

Filippos Theocharidis (electronics)

🔷 Natalia Vagena
Freelance dancer and teacher, trained in aerial movement, acrobatics, ballet, and contemporary dance. Her practice focuses on floorwork, partnering, and improvisation. She has collaborated with international choreographers and groups (Jukstapoz Company, Panos Malaktos, Miller de Nobili), presenting works at festivals and venues across Europe.

🔷 Pagona Boulbasakou
Graduate of the National School of Dance (2018) and ARTWORKS scholarship recipient from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2022). She has collaborated with important creators of the contemporary scene and has appeared in theaters and festivals in Greece and abroad (Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Dansens Hus, Greek National Opera).

🔷 Themis Andreoulaki
Graduate of the National School of Dance (2018). Dancer and Pilates instructor. Starting with the Indian dance Bharatanatyam, she later trained in classical and contemporary dance. She is active in the contemporary scene, participating in international productions and tours alongside important Greek and international creators.

🔷 Stefanos Zafeiradis
Musician and composer, PhD candidate in electroacoustic music composition at the Ionian University. He focuses on transforming the sound identity of acoustic instruments through contemporary techniques, algorithmic processes, and improvisation. His compositions have been presented at festivals, theatrical productions, and films in Greece and abroad.

🔷 Yannis Kasetas
Saxophonist and composer, graduate of Berklee College of Music. He is active in the contemporary jazz scene as a performer and creator, participating in concerts and multi-themed productions in Greece and internationally. He has been recognized for his contribution to the contemporary jazz scene and was honored with the European Jazz Festival Award in 2009.

🔷 Filippos Theocharidis
He teaches at the Ionian University and has worked extensively as a sound engineer in recordings and concerts. His work, which focuses on live electronic music and improvisation, as well as sound design, large-scale sound systems, and interactive systems, has been presented at numerous festivals and conferences in Greece and abroad.

Mniestris, Moustakas, Despotakis: “A Bolt From The Blue”

Memos Moustakas (piano), Yannis Despotakis (drums), and Andreas Mniestris (saxophone) come together at KET for a concert of free improvisation with roots in free jazz. The trio was formed in April 2024. Entitled A Bolt From The Blue, their first album captures the dynamism and energy of their live performances.

www.agamemnonmoustakas.bandcamp.com/album/a-bolt-from-the-blue

🔷 Pianist Agamemnon (Memos) Moustakas is active in free improvisation and on-the-spot composition, mainly in solo or small ensembles. He studied accordion and music theory at the National Conservatory and the N. Skalkotas Conservatory. He took courses in contemporary improvisation with Markos Alexiou. His first documented recording is Exit Strategies (2017), with Spyros Mitsoulis. In Tragelaphus (2020), he appears in a trio with Perseas Rizos and Stefanos Chytiris, while On a Ledge beyond the Edge (2023) and Sketches of Resistance (2025) are collaborations with Yannis Despotakis. He has released a total of 14 albums, including 5 for solo piano.

www.agamemnonmoustakas.bandcamp.com

🔷 Drummer and percussionist Yannis Despotakis studied tabla with Satnam Ghai and Nihat Yersaloglu, drums with Nikos Kapilidis, and electric guitar with Kostas Mouzis. He met Hayden Chisholm in 2007 and they have been working closely together since 2009. Since 2013, he has been collaborating with Døn Stavrinos in the band Meating for Business. Some of his recorded releases include the solo album The Silent Cry Of An Urban Orangutan (2021), Live at Studio 9 (2018) with Antonis Anissegos and Døn Stavrinos, and Invocations Transfigured (2023) with Agamemnon Moustakas and Dimitris Pantelis. In 2025, he also participates in Sketches of Resistance.

🔷 Andreas Mniestris is Professor Emeritus of Electronic Music Composition at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University. He has been performing as a saxophonist since the mid-1980s, focusing on free jazz and free improvisation, and has collaborated with many musicians of this genre, including: N. Touliatos / A. Symvoulopoulos (Telethroon), F. Floridis, T. Rellos, S. Yannatou, S. Papadimitriou, D. Dimitriadis / J. Tornabene (trio saxo viva!), and others. For the past two years, he has been collaborating with Memos Moustakas and Yannis Despotakis, as well as with the ensemble “Genitsaroi tou Chrimatoistikiou Systimatos” (F. Theocharidis, G. Stavridis).

Sound of Color #6

A vibrant meeting place between musical improvisation and visual arts, Sound of Color offers new audiovisual encounters and different dynamics between sound and image every month at KET.

Curated by Jannis Anastasakis and Natalia Manta, over the course of eleven years it has evolved into a unique forum for artistic exchange, with a decisive influence on the Greek experimental scene.

The sixth event of the season features Jannis Anastasakis (guitar, analog synths, live electronics), Tara Cunningham (guitar), Simos Riniotis (drums), and Erato Tzavara (live visuals).

🔷 Tara Cunningham is a guitarist who operates predominantly within improvisational and experimental music. Ongoing projects as a collaborator and side person include: Modern Nature, Red Snapper, Sebastian Rochford, Liam Noble, Laura Jurd and Caius Williams.

www.tara-cunningham.com

🔶 Musician and improviser Simos Riniotis creates soundscapes with drums and various small objects, exploring the boundaries of sound and genres. He has collaborated with important musicians and artists in Greece and abroad. His work has been presented at institutions and festivals (National Theater, Onassis Foundation, Aarhus Jazz Festival, etc.).

🔷 Video artist Erato Tzavara specializes in moving images for live performances and digital scenography. She participates in performances and improvisational concerts, creating moving collages from various video sources. In her personal work, she explores the experience of the contemporary urban subject through photography, video essays, and texts. Her work has been presented in theaters, art spaces, and festivals in Europe, Canada, and India.

www.erato-t.com

🔶 One of the most distinctive guitarists and musicians on the Greek improvisational scene, Jannis Anastasakis has developed a recognizable personal sound that moves between ambient and psychedelia, balancing melody and noise. He is the founder of JAM Pedals, a company that manufactures handmade pedals used by leading musicians (Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Daniel Lanois, John Medeski, Nile Rodgers, Lee Ranaldo, etc.). He has collaborated with important artists from the Greek and international music scene, such as Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Giuseppe Doronzo, Savina Giannatou, Haig Yazdjian, Thodoris Rellos, Michalis Siganidis, Floros Floridis, Lena Platonos, Spyros Polychronopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Haris Lambrakis, and others. He is developing the audiovisual project “Sound of Color” with sculptor Natalia Manta on live visuals.

www.jannisanastasakis.com

Savina Yannatou & Michalis Katachanas

Michalis Katachanas, a virtuoso of the viola with a strong presence in the fields of improvisational, contemporary, and traditional music, meets Savina Yannatou, one of the most iconic voices of the Greek and European avant-garde.

Through an open, unpredictable, and expressive musical dialogue, they create soundscapes between silence and explosion, detail and intensity.

Their encounter is a living sound workshop, where the viola and the voice function as equal interlocutors, exploring the possibilities of the moment without predetermined forms.

Spoken Maik #6

Every month KET hosts Spoken Maik, a poetry and spoken word event curated by Niki Papadogiannaki and Stavros Anagnou.

Open to all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitals, performances, and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian, Japanese and Galician.

The genres are equally diverse: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and welcoming space that allows everyone to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

The sixth Spoken Maik of the season will be hosted at KET on Thursday, March 5, 2026.

Those who wish to participate should arrive half an hour before the start time and add their name to the list of participants. Each act may last up to five minutes.

“The Burrow” with Savina Yannatou and Thymios Atzakas

Music performance based on Franz Kafka‘s work of the same name, with Savina Yannatou and Thymios Atzakas.

Written in 1923, shortly before Franz Kafka’s death, “The Burrow” is transformed into a musical performance for the first time: two musicians, Savina Yannatou and Thymos Adenas (Thymios Atzakas), perform it as a live event of sound, speech, and body—a continuous Kafkaesque transformation.

Yannatou’s voice leads the audience into an auditory labyrinth, where words, breaths, and whispers alternate and dissolve. Along with her, digital and analog sound personas emerge—inner voices that embody the mind’s inability to transcend.

Thymos Adenas’s four-channel composition combines live electronics, rare field recordings, and processed soundscapes from ethnographic vinyl records, inviting the listener to engage in deep listening.

Maria Lappa’s stage design, in dialogue with the aesthetics of Butoh dance and live physical art, creates an environment of natural materials, where body, voice, and sound coexist, while the digital projections by Alexandros Seitaridis enhance the creation of an ever-changing interior landscape.

“The Burrow” will be presented in Athens on March 20, 21, 27, and 28 (KET) and in Thessaloniki on April 22, 23, and 24 (Amalia Theater).

A few words about the story

The central figure of the narrative is a zoomorphic creature, trapped in the underground labyrinths of its refuge and in endless, but fruitless, reflections. This creature expresses a deeply human nature and, for this reason, concerns us more than ever: it deals with the noisy mind and fearful egocentricity of modern man.

The animal in “The Burrow” encapsulates our inability to escape the delusion of a biological brain that constructs worlds, space-time, beliefs, and value systems, without being able to transcend them.

A wandering body is dominated by a mind that is resourceful but fragmented, inventive and at the same time dark. It is a being trapped in a cycle of avoiding pain and constantly seeking prosperity and pleasure. It ends up fearful and self-punishing, ready to devour anything foreign and different — anything it never accepted to know or love.

Thymios Atzakas (aka THYMUS GLAND)

Thymios Atzakas is a musician, producer, and researcher. He is involved in music composition and production, Eastern musical traditions, free improvisation, and early music. Since 1996, he has performed at international festivals and participated in or curated numerous musical performances. As a soloist or member of ensembles, he has performed in Europe, the Balkans, Japan, India, North Africa, Central America, and the United Kingdom. Since 2024, he has also been performing as THYMUS GLAND, creating electronic soundscapes and compositions inspired by his personal collection of ethnographic vinyl records. He is a professor (PhD) at the University of Macedonia and a yoga instructor. Since 2006, he has been a founding member of the “Musical Village” and the artistic forum “to avgo” in Thessaloniki.

Savina Yannatou

Savina Yannatou studied singing with G. Georgilopoulou and Sp. Sakkas at the Vocal Arts Workshop and graduated from the PCS department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, with a scholarship from “Mousigetis.” She began her professional career working with Lena Platonos on the ERT Third Programme show “Edo Lilipoupoli” (1978–81). Since then, she has collaborated with many composers in the field of ‘entexno’ and contemporary music, while since 1992 she has been active in free vocal improvisation in the field of free jazz.

Since 1994, she has been collaborating with the Primavera en Salonico ensemble, performing songs from the Mediterranean and the Balkans at festivals around the world and recording for the LYRA and ECM labels. She has composed music for theater, documentaries, and pantomime performances, and her discography includes approximately thirty albums (solo and collaborations).

Maria Lappa

Maria Lappa (Thessaloniki, 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, contemporary art curator, and producer, specializing in Japanese Butoh and Live Performance Art. She has been studying Butoh for 17 consecutive years alongside important teachers (Ko Murobushi, Atsushi Takenouchi, etc.). Since 2015, she has been the Manager–Curator of the Movement Research Project platform, collaborating in Greece and internationally. Her collaboration with Olivier de Sagazan (2018) opened up a hybrid field between Butoh and visual performance. Her works have been presented in museums, festivals, and academic settings, with grants from NEON and the Ministry of Culture. In 2025, she co-founded the Ma International Center for Performance & Embodied Research in Thessaloniki.

Alexandros Seitaridis

Alexandros Seitaridis is an interdisciplinary artist based in Agios Lavrentios, Pelion. He works at the intersection of technology and performing arts, composing image, sound, light, and human presence. He studied Computer Science, Multimedia, and Robotics and trained in theater, puppetry, and storytelling. As a video artist and lighting designer, he creates audiovisual installations, 3D projection mapping, and live visuals for theater, concerts, and site-specific actions, using lighting as a dramaturgical tool. He is a founding member of Fortunati Art & Tech Company, owner of Radio Art, and, since 2010, Production Director of “Musical Village.”

Soledad Zarka & Loup Uberto

Starting from the voice and Italian folk music, with improvisation as a means of reapproaching tradition, Soledad Zarka and Loup Uberto present a sound and dance performance dedicated to the gestures of labor.

In the same way that labor songs support physical labor, Loup and Soledad seek movements that support the voice and sounds that activate the body.

🔷 Soledad Zarka approaches everyday gestures and objects as vectors of a collective, silent memory. In the streets, in the city embrasures, she shows aporetic fables to those who pass by, seemingly banal images that soon become overwhelming, disturbingly familiar, and suspended, just like that, on the threshold of representation. By considering the familiar object and the everyday gesture as two terms of the same experience, she reveals their symmetry: the object is the appendage, the extension of the gesture, and vice versa.

🔷 Loup Uberto leads singing into ever poorer forms, far removed from the concert, using the concert as a tool of sabotage which, turned in on itself, should break the illusion of a boundary between the time of performance and that of everyday life.

🔷 Loup Uberto has already met with the KET audience on two different occasions: with a simple, stripped-down solo performance centered on his voice and his unique approach to his Italian heritage; and then with the group Bégayer, in an evening of experimental chanson that took the form of an explosive, almost ritualistic punk-vaudou performance. These two appearances highlighted different aspects of his practice — something that is also expected to happen now, through his collaboration with Soledad.

It is undoubtedly one of the most important contemporary forms of the French experimental scene.

www.loupuberto.fr/soledad-zarka-loup-uberto

“Häxan” (1922) — live soundtrack: Max Reubel & Semeli-Sophia Kostourou

Semeli-Sophia Kostourou and Max Reubel accompany Benjamin Christensen’s film Häxan (1922, 90′) with a live sound performance.

🔷 Directed by Benjamin Christensen, the silent Danish-Swedish film “Häxan” (The Witch) was released in 1922. It is a cinematic essay on witchcraft, from ancient times to the early 20th century.

From its most primitive origins to its classical depiction in the medieval world, magic is presented in detail through a collection of illustrations from medieval books and cinematic representations, which the director renders as analytically as possible, without omitting any obscure or strange elements.

From Witches’ Saturday to the harsh interrogations of the Inquisition, the images come to life through disturbing, spectral visions that make use of all the special effects available at the time (double exposures, models, abrupt cuts, stop motion, makeup, and prosthetics). The witches are sometimes presented as surreal figures and sometimes through a more documentary-like lens, which often treats them as victims of a twisted world.

The last part concludes with a parallel between medieval magic and the treatments (in the asylum but also in society in general) reserved for women suffering from various mental disorders at the time the film was made.

🔷 Max Reubel (electric guitar, synthesizer, vocals) and Semeli-Sophia Kostourou (cello) shape the film’s soundscape live, combining composed musical themes with free improvisation. As in their soundtrack for the film L’Inferno, the music is born out of direct dialogue with the images. The encounter between electric guitar, electronic soundscapes, voice, and cello gives rise to a multi-layered, dynamically changing soundscape. The music does not illustrate, but opens up a space for resonance in the visual environment.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1fMjR85X8

🔷 A graduate of the Nuremberg Academy of Music, cellist Semeli-Sophia Kostourou works in the field of classical music, while also exploring the boundaries between classical practice and experimental sound forms. She collaborates with classical and contemporary music ensembles in Greece and Germany, while also participating in performances and recordings of musical works for theater and cinema.

🔷 Having studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, visual and sound artist Max Reubel focuses on the interaction and intersections between image, sound, and performance. Using electroacoustic media and processed sound, he creates sound structures that move between experimental music and visual art.

Creative Guitar: Anton Toorell / Savvas Metaxas & evi nakou

An initiative by guitarist Giannis Arapis, the Creative Guitar project explores a different way of thinking about the guitar—as an instrument, but also as a field of research, listening, and creation.

The project includes concerts and seminars that bring together study, experimentation, and artistic practice, with an emphasis on sound shaped through research, improvisation, and personal exploration.

Each concert features guitarists from the international scene with a distinctive artistic identity and personal sound.

On the second night, Swedish guitarist Anton Toorell will perform a solo piece that blends composition and improvisation. The concert will be opened by Savvas Metaxas (guitar) and evi nakou (flute) with an improvised duet.

🔷 Anton Toorell (b. 1988) is a guitarist, producer and composer based in Stockholm, Sweden. His solo project is centered around acoustic guitars in open tunings, and explores playing-techniques with multiple instruments simultaneously. While his solo debut focused on expanding the guitar with electronic elements, the follow-up album centers on documenting the full performances and processes, emphasizing the acoustic interplay in a resonant space. His second solo album ’Solos II’ is being released on Thanatosis in March 2026.

Toorell’s practice also revolves around studio work, evident both in his own projects and in collaborations with other artists. Recent work includes collaborations with Vathres, Rotem Geffen, Joe Williamson, Bäckström/Wärnheim, Solulf, Ylva Ceder, Margaux Oswald, Propan, Tv Dinner Education, Griskmask and Hein Westgaard Trio, as well as contributions to his own groups, including Receptacles, Dammit I’m Mad, and Invader Ace.

As a guitarist, he has contributed to projects such as The Ägg, Alex Zethson Ensemble, Propan, and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, as well as being a touring musician with Viagra Boys on their latest US tour.

Toorell holds a bachelor’s degree in jazz, and master’s degree in Electro Acoustic composition from The Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm.

www.antontoorell.com

🔷 Musician and sound artist Savvas Metaxas is active in the fields of experimental music, field recordings, modular synthesizer, and electric guitar. His most recent release, “June 9–10”, was released by the French label Falt. The work “Magnetic Loops II” was used by Nine Inch Nails before their performances on their recent tour.

www.savvasmetaxas.bandcamp.com

🔷 Musician and sound artist evi nakou (akamatra) is a member of the Breakfast Club quartet and curator of the multimodal festival of sound, noise, and words Noisy Words (Goethe Institut Athen, KET). She has designed and coordinated collective improvisation and composition workshops in London, Berlin, Palestine, Argentina, U.S.A., and Greece—at the Korydallos Detention Center, OKANA, Women for Refugee Women, Melissa Network for Migrant Women, schools and hostels, social and health spaces, using sound, music, words, and field recordings as tools.

Roddy / K2 / La Claque / Smooke Fly

Brought together for the first time, artists Roddy, K2, La Claque and Smooke Fly channel their Kinshasa roots into the music they create in Athens today. Shaped by the rhythmic structures and vocal traditions of the Congo, their rap carries a distinctive percussive flow forged through diaspora and urban life.

Performing across French, Lingala, Greek and English, their multilingual delivery connects communities through rhythm, poetry and live energy — adding fresh momentum to Athens’ musical landscape.

Having arrived in Greece as refugees fleeing political violence in the Congo — a reality still intensifying today — their presence on stage stands as both artistic expression and lived resilience.

Special guest: Genesis

Tickets will be available through the more.com platform; there will be no tickets available at the door on the day of the concert.

Ticket presale: https://www.more.com/gr-el/tickets/music/roddy/k2/la-claque/smooke-fly/

Laura Agnusdei / Free Piece of Tape

Two sets of contemporary sound experimentation and instant creation, between structure and freedom, drone aesthetics and electroacoustic practices.

🔷 Laura Agnusdei

A saxophonist and electronic musician from Bologna, Laura Agnusdei combines electroacoustic composition and saxophone, balancing melody, sound experimentation, and improvisation.

She began her recording career in 2017 with Night/Lights. In 2019, she released the album Laurisilva, where imaginary landscape formed by sounds that proliferate and stratify like the living organisms in a forest. She produced the site-specific project UBICONSISTAM. She collaborated with sound designer Daniele Fabris on the Riflessi project. In 2023, she released the EP Goro, influenced by Pastoraccia’s graphic novel Almost Nobody Laughed Out Loud. She collaborated in the performance BLEAH!! with dancer and choreographer Annamaria Ajmone.

In 2025, she released the album Flowers Are Blooming in Antarctica, which explores the relationship between humans and nature through a polymorphic sound environment.

www.lauraagnusdei.bandcamp.com

🔷 Free Piece of Tape (Turbo Teeth & Bill Anagnos)

Free Piece of Tape (Giorgos Axiotis & Efthymis Theodosis) were formed in Athens in 2001. They are a musical collective working with real-time electroacoustic composition.

Their sonic palette is primarily based on analog and electroacoustic instruments. Their practice focuses on exploring the limits of musical performance while articulating a distinct musical idiom composed of free-form drone structures, multilayered sonic cut-ups, and the deliberate deconstruction of a broken drone-dub aesthetic.

They have composed music for audiovisual performances, installations, experimental films, dance works, and theatrical productions, and have performed live extensively in a wide range of spaces and conditions.

www.freepieceoftape.bandcamp.com/music

The concert is organized in collaboration with the project nual nebbia acustica (site / instagram / fb).

Three Times Three #5

The monthly event “Three Times Three” brings together artists from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, with the aim of creating a common code of communication that remains in effect for the duration of the meeting.

Three musicians meet three dancers each time. At the beginning of the evening, three random pairs are formed by drawing lots, and they improvise for 15 minutes. The evening closes with a 30-minute collective improvisation.

“Three Times Three” is curated by composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos).

The fifth event of the season features Maria Kasidokosta (dance), Dorothea Polychronopoulou (dance), Anastasia Valsamaki (dance), Giannis Notaras (drums), Dimitris Pantelias (saxophone), and Anastasia Kotsali (vocals).

🔷 Dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher Maria Kasidokosta is a graduate of the NSCD and FPSE at the NKUA. She has collaborated on contemporary dance and theater performances. She is active in teaching and choreographic research with an emphasis on physical contact and the lively connection of bodies.

🔷 Dancer and dance teacher Dorothea Polychronopoulou is a graduate of the Kontaksaki vocational school. For the past nine years, she has been working as an architect in London.

🔷 Dancer and choreographer Anastasia Valsamaki is a graduate of the NSCD and the SEAD ICE postgraduate choreography program. Her works, SYNC, Body Monologue, DisJoint, W REST L ING, and THE VERSO, have been presented at international and Greek festivals.

🔷 Drummer Giannis Notaras studied classical percussion and jazz in Greece, Belgium, and Great Britain. His artistic career, both in recording and concert performance, focuses on jazz and free improvisation.

🔷 Saxophonist and composer Dimitris Pantelias has collaborated with numerous Greek and foreign musicians, performed at music venues and festivals, and has an extensive discography. He works as a saxophone teacher at the Pallini Music School.

🔷 Opera singer Anastasia Kotsali collaborates as a soloist with the Greek National Opera, the Athens Festival, the Camerata-Friends of Music Orchestra, and others. Together with Lito Messini, she is artistic co-director of the musical theater group Rafi and the Kournos Music Festival in Lemnos.

Sound of Color #5

A vibrant meeting place between musical improvisation and the visual arts, “Sound of Color” offers new audiovisual encounters and different dynamics between sound and image every month at KET.

Curated by Jannis Anastasakis and Natalia Manta, over the course of eleven years it has evolved into a unique forum for artistic exchange, with a decisive influence on the Greek experimental scene.

The fifth event of the season brings together the vocal trio Alkanna Graeca (Dunja Botic, Alexandra Achillea, Irini Arabatzi), Fausto Sierakowski on saxophone, Jannis Anastasakis on guitar, analog synths, and live electronics, and Natalia Manta and Alexandra Niaka on live visuals.

🔷 Alkanna Graeca is a vocal trio blending raw folk traditions from the Balkans, East Mediterranean, and Black Sea with improvisation and expansive soundscapes. Formed by Dunja Botic, Alexandra Achillea, and Irini Arabatzi, the trio’s music intertwines the cultural heritage of their homelands with a bold, boundary-pushing edge. Hailed as “rising stars of polyphonic singing”, they have been selling out venues and drawing audiences in across festival stages in the UK and Greece.

🔶 Fausto Sierakowski was born in Paris and grew up in Rome. He studied classical saxophone at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Italy and contemporary improvisation at the New England Conservatory. During his stay in America, he collaborated with musicians such as Matt Moran, Anthony Coleman, Joe Morris, Matt Darriau, Satoshi Takeshi, Hayden Chisholm, and Axel Dörner. He returned to Europe and settled in Greece in 2016. Since then, he has been a member of the musical ensembles of Evgenios Voulgaris and Yannis Dionysios, as well as the Fausto Sierakowski Trio and People of the Wind.

🔷 Through interactive installations, immersive technologies, and writing, Alexandra Niaka explores the relationship between humans and technology and how it shapes our interaction with the surrounding reality. She focuses on using cutting-edge technology to create virtual, mixed, and augmented reality experiences. She has worked at The Workers (inc.) and Jason Bruges Studio production studios in London. She participates as a creative developer and new media artist in dance, music, and theater productions. In 2020, she won the SNF Artist Fellowship Award in visual arts from ARTWORKS. She is a member of the artistic group Medea Electronique.

🔶 Natalia Manta is an artist based in Athens. Although clay is her primary medium, she also skillfully uses metal, wax, photosensitive chemicals, and video. Collaboration with various artistic disciplines is an integral part of her practice. From 2017 to 2020, she taught sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the same university where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. For the past 10 years, she has been co-organizing and curating the audiovisual improvisational series “Sound of Color” with Jannis Anastasakis. Her works have been presented in exhibitions and institutions in Greece and internationally. In 2022, she was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS and has participated in important residency programs abroad. Her creations can be found in private and public collections.

www.nataliamanta.com

🔷 One of the most distinctive guitarists and musicians on the Greek improvisational scene, Jannis Anastasakis has developed a recognizable personal sound that moves between ambient and psychedelia, balancing melody and noise. He is the founder of JAM Pedals, a company that manufactures handmade pedals used by leading musicians (Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Daniel Lanois, John Medeski, Nile Rodgers, Lee Ranaldo, etc.). He has collaborated with important artists from the Greek and international music scene, such as Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Giuseppe Doronzo, Savina Giannatou, Haig Yazdjian, Thodoris Rellos, Michalis Siganidis, Floros Floridis, Lena Platonos, Spyros Polychronopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Haris Lambrakis, and others. He is developing the audiovisual project “Sound of Color” with sculptor Natalia Manta on live visuals.

www.jannisanastasakis.com

::in the middle:: / acte vide x prokne

Screening of the film “Itys, Praxithea and Me” by performer and poet prokne, live set by the duo acte vide, and collaboration between the two in short interludes of sound and speech.

🔷 acte vide is the duo project of Ioannis Kotsonis and Danae Stefanou. Active since 2006 as an experimental & improvisatory unit, they have created performances and installations in international festivals as well as in DIY contexts, most of which no longer exist. As acte vide they have also composed live soundtracks and original sound design for films, and have designed and realised original lecture-performances, workshops, educational programmes and residencies focusing on sound and listening. In the middle of everything, 2026 is acte vide’s 20th birthday.

🔷 Prokne is a housewife in despair. To communicate she uses houseware, she holds ironing spray instead of a revolver and generally she has many problems. She lives through Anna Apostolelli. She has published two poetry collections: The Same Poem, Queer Ink, 2019, and Ship Repairs, Mpataria, 2023.

www.instagram.com/prokne_/reel/Cbkr-dUgzG-/

🔷 “Itys, Praxithea and Me” (2022, 26’) is a video performance piece by prokne. It consists of three parts exploring a journey through pain to a healing space of self-worth. In the video Prokne is inhabiting three realms of reality and is contemplating on the questions: how can we deal with being socially marginalized? how can we build something new? how can we imagine new possibilities of being and feeling? “Itys, Praxithea and Me” is a dreamy queer performance, a poetic narrative deeply rooted in the body as it interacts with the landscape. Nature and demolished buildings are the stage for the performances with words being constantly present and absent..

Diretion: Vasiliki Lazaridou
Writer: prokne
Cinematography: Ilia Diakatou
Editing: prokne
Performer: prokne
Sound design: acte vide
Camera assistance: Lila Efremidou
Color correction: Areti Papaioannou
Producer: Anna Apostolelli

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiYnG8FOOr8

“VIDEO GAMES” — MPATARIA poetry slam

You start with three lives and leave behind your home, fires, a country, dead people, a planet, a princess, genocides, good movies, factory explosions, bad relationships, your mother, your father, and you search for the Boss. Along the way, you learn, hide, attack, evolve, hit, collect items, level up, break boundaries, collaborate, compromise, transform, and change form. You have one life left and you are still fighting and moving forward, flying, jumping, running, and going for the next track, the next villain.

MPATARIA invites you to an evening of poetic electronic games. A need for virtual simulation of actions and emotions that starts with PVP coin-operated games, RPGs, and puzzle games on mobile phones, and ends with the relief of completion we need to endure the violence of reality and dream of victories and defeats at no cost. Our poems, like glitches in the system, send out SOS signals, asking for respawn, restart, retry, and become summons at KET, our “Last Hospitable Home” in Kypseli.

Save και Game on.

Program:

19:30 – doors

20:00 – start

23:00 – end

*Come early to enjoy drinks and discover books, zines, and publications from the MPATARIA community.

*There will be a donation box at the door for the event expenses.

*Poets T.B.A.

Poster: ZirlarΜordΩ

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A few words about MPATARIA:

MPATARIA is an effort to establish and collect micro-publishing ventures that do not belong to large organizations and structures.

It is a communication platform that embraces and promotes autonomous actions aimed at highlighting and recording DIY creations such as: zines, publications, pamphlets, poetry collections, comics, artworks, and handicrafts by queer individuals and other marginalized groups.

The logo of MPATARIA (the handmade potato battery) symbolizes the self-illuminating artistic energy that springs from personal research, whether successful or not. It presents the project as a constantly evolving experiment that is not based on the result, but on the creators’ need to share stories, traumas, and survival strategies.

A virtual label that brings together and hosts smaller projects without a permanent home and seeks, through zine fairs, performance events, poetry slams, readings, workshops, discussions, and art exhibitions, to transform and evolve with them into something universally greater.

MPATARIA is an initiative by artist Mochi Georgiou that was born out of the Queer Ink publishing project. Focusing on the DIY aesthetic of zine culture and poetry slams, MPATARIA proposes a new creative immediacy through which individuals express themselves and exchange information.

Instagram: www.instagram.com/mpataria_

Email: info.mpataria@gmail.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100075859361495

“Closely – A Tribute to Love”: Poets Missing + Tatiana Zografou

Poets missing return to KET, with guest singer Tatiana Zografou, for a performance of improvised music contra-Valentine’s day. In our performance we will be seeking inspiration from Emily Dickinson’s poems, from artist Georgia Lale’s paintings “Pink Flag” and “Neighborhood Guilt”, as well as from musical references for which we feel deep respect and admiration. Beets’ delta harp, an instrument that reframes our relationship with the harp; Ward’s daring electronic treatments; Panagopoulou’s multifaceted piano playing; Tzavaras’ versatile guitar; and Kanellopoulos’ unorthodox treatment of the mandolin, all come together in a performance where memory and the moment shape the outcome. Improvisation is not only a technique, but a way of being together, in love with music.

Poets missing are: 

Dora Panagopoulou (piano/electronics)

Vassilis Tzavaras (guitar)

Joris Beets (delta harp/pedals)

Tim Ward (live electronics)

panos kanellopoulos (mandolin)

                           guest: Tatiana Zografou (voice)

Joris Beets is an improvising musician, designer and inventor of Delta harp, an instrument that seeks to redefine the way we think about harp. He is a member of Orchestra Elastique. He spends most of his summer time in Serifos.

Tim Ward is a sound artist with a background in electroacoustic music composition and live electronics. He is involved with a wide range of projects, most recently focusing on soundscapes, mapping and their relationship to electroacoustic composition. He is a member of the Medea Electronique collective as well as Spiza and teaches music at Deree College, Athens

Dora Panagopoulou is a composer of acoustic music who has increasingly incorporated electronic elements in her music. Much of her recent compositional activity has been linked to Spiza, an artistic society bringing together diverse artists to work on common larger-scale projects. She has a keen interest in the intersection between compositional and educational work and teaches music at Pierce College.

Vassilis Tzavaras is a musician, singer, composer, improviser, and music teacher. Active member of the Athenian music scene since 1993 with the bands Occasional Dream, Take the money and run, Project 37, 4+1, The Storyville Ragtimers, and Dear Lou. He composes music for the theater and has released seven solo albums.

panos kanellopoulos, studied the mandolin with Alison Stephens (London) and Vivi Geka (Athens). When he is not playing the mandolin he is researching and teaching creative music education focusing on the possible conjectures between education, philosophy, political philosophy and creative music making.

Tatiana Zografou is a songwriter and singer. A composer of several records of “kindie” music (but also of theatre music), which have enjoyed considerable artistic success, she works at the crossroads between music and anti-racist education. She has recently completed a PhD in multicultural music education.

Photo: Artwork by Georgia Lale, “Neighborhood Guilt”, 57″ x 38″, donated bed sheets, sewing threat and fabric ink, 2023.

MASTIC (Papavassiliou, Abozekry) + TERRAIN (Botic, Ziarkas, Atzakas)

Dario Papavassiliou (electric quarter-tone modified organ) and Omar Abozekry (ney, fx) improvise together as MASTIC, exploring overlapping and intertwining sounds, harmony, maqam and space against a background of drone and hypnotic rhythm, taking inspiration from sounds such as mahraganat, psychedelic rock, Arabic music and Sufi ritual music.

Dario Papavassiliou divides his interest between traditional Middle Eastern string instruments (oud, santur and others) and electric organs; currently, he is exploring a middle ground between the two by modifying organs to play quarter tones for use in traditional, dance and experimental music. He grew up in London, and now lives in Athens.

Omar Abozekry is a ney player from Cairo. He is trained in both Egyptian and Ottoman ney traditions and enjoys using this experience to inform his performances in several musical contexts. His musical practice encompasses collaborations in classical Arabic music, free improvisation, and beyond.

www.soundcloud.com/dario-omar-464971723

Dunja Botic (voice) and Thodoris Ziarkas (double bass), two longstanding collaborators, invite Thimios Atzakas (oud) to present a trio where ritualistic vocals meet deep, resonant drones.

Drawing from Eastern folk traditions and minimalistic improvisation, they create unsettling sound worlds—woven narratives that hover between memory, ritual, and abstraction.

LAPTOP present “Cockroach Colonies on Satellites”

LAPTOP is the duet of Jim Andreou and Basil Theodorou. Since 1995, Jim and Basil have been testing the boundaries of sound and storytelling. “Cockroach Colonies on Satellites” is a story about rule makers, ant colonies, automation and reflection of our times, featuring sound textures from a multi-year library of samples. With this concert at KET, Jim and Basil celebrate thirty years of improvising with hundreds of anecdotal songs.    

🔷 Jim Andreou initially worked in drawing, photography and collage technique. However, his interest in the visual arts focused mainly on the experimentation and expression of art forms such as electronic music, video art and digital art. In the field of music, he has taken part in selective performances both in Athens and in Amfissa, where he lives. He creates incessantly, sending his virtual and sonic concerns to the undefined universe, through platforms such as Saatchi Gallery, Bandcamp and SoundCloud

www.jimandreou.bandcamp.com

🔷 After returning with a cd player / sampler from Glasgow in 1991, Basil Theodorou has been experimenting with sampling. In the beginning improvising with a radio and a guitar, but over time with anything. Through spoken-word, field recordings and ‘broken’ instruments he wants to talk about the things that matter. Over time he has collaborated with musicians, visual artists, dancers, dramaturgs, architects, teachers, learners, researchers presenting at music venues, galleries, film festivals, schools and on the radio.  

www.basiltheodorou.com

TRIPTYCH

TRIPTYCH is a live performance of persistence, endurance, and fragile sounds. Stripped back to the essence of movement and sound, the three-part work becomes deliberately unspectacular, situating the audience at the intersection of its components. Through a rigorous engagement with movement, amplification, processing, noise, drones, and feedback, TRIPTYCH stretches time and shifts perception. TRIPTYCH unfolds through three tableaux: murmuration, cruising, and otolith.

murmuration is an immersive duet between a dancer (Eugenia Demeglio) and a sound artist (φø). The dancer’s repetitive movements are captured, amplified, processed, and diffused directly to the audience through headphones. Each listener is offered the experience of the intricate interplay between movement and sound from the microphone’s perspective.

cruising builds upon this dialogue (this time between dancer Mary Kate Sheehan and φø) with a focus on the lower body, flirting with rhythm and subtle variation. The dancer’s percussive footwork—drawing on tap and traditional Irish dancing—is captured and built into intricate textures. The focused, minimal tasks generate a hypnotic, evolving architecture of sound, where time stretches, collapses, and folds upon itself.

otolith concludes with a purely sonic tableau, performed on bagpipes by Florian Kolb and on feedback double bass by Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris. The shifting sonic environment of sustained drones and low-frequency interactions unfolds over time, in an interplay of magnitude, distance and variation

Across its three tableaux, TRIPTYCH draws inspiration from natural systems: bird flocks, insect swarms, ocean waves and the fragile negotiations between repetition and variation. The work reflects on singularity within systems, on the minuteness of human actions and their interconnectedness. By exploring persistence, the performers undergo a shift in perception: motion, sound, and vibration open from the quotidian toward the transcendent.

🔷 Eugenia Demeglio is an arts laborer based in Athens. She holds a BA in Choreography from Codarts and an MA in Art Curation from Falmouth University. Her creative practice questions the space between
disciplines, exploring diverse media and devising frameworks that foster individuality within collaboration. Her work has been presented at European institutions and festivals including ARC for Dance, Big Bang Festival, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Kalamata Dance Festival, and the Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée.

www.megdemeg.eu

🔷 Mary Kate Sheehan is a contemporary dance artist from California, currently based in Athens. She holds a BA in Performing Arts (Dance) from St. Mary’s College of California. She has performed with Yvonne Rainer, KEIGWIN + COMPANY, and Sean Curran Company at venues including MoMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and the Performa19 Biennial. A longtime collaborator with Ehrstrand Dance Collective/Julia Ehrstrand, she has performed across the USA, Europe, Taiwan, Ghana, and Mexico.

www.mksheehan.com

🔷 Fotis (φø) Rovolis (they/he/she) explores electronic music composition, blurring boundaries between sound and space through installations, soundscapes, and political, imaginative, and queer perspectives. They contributed to the soundtrack of This is Right: Zak, Life and After (2021) and the play Yvoni (2022), and presented work at the 6th Acoustic Ecology Conference and Xenakis22 Conference. A collaborator with Yusra magazine, φο studied Architecture in Thessaly and Sonology in The Hague, recently earning an MA in Music Creation for New Media at EKPA.

www.instagram.com/thisisnotfaux

🔷 Florian Kolb is a musician, performer, and curator based in Zurich. He plays percussion, double bass, violone, and various bagpipes. His work focuses on improvised, contemporary, folk, and baroque music, as well as their hybrid forms, and he frequently collaborates in theatre contexts. With the collective #workoutjazz, he organizes the Madness concert series for experimental art and Marathon3000, featuring 100 performances in one evening. The collective received the Förderpreis des Kantons Zürich.

www.instagram.com/florian_kolb_music

🔷 Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris is an Athens-based artist and researcher working across sound, feedback systems, and intermedia performance. His practice treats feedback as both method and material, generating music, durational performances, interactive installations, and collaborative works. Before returning to Greece in 2018, he studied and worked in the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. He is a member of the Music, Acoustics and Technology Lab and Assistant Professor in Music-Making and Interactive Media at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, researching cybernetics and generative performance systems.

www.thanospl.net

Spoken Maik #5

Every month KET hosts Spoken Maik, a poetry and spoken word event curated by Niki Papadogiannaki and Stavros Anagnou.

Open to all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitals, performances, and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian, and Galician.

The genres are equally diverse: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and welcoming space that allows everyone to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

The fifth Spoken Maik of the season will be hosted at KET on Thursday, February 12, 2026.

Those who wish to participate should arrive half an hour before the start time and add their name to the list of participants. Each act may last up to five minutes.

“Post-traditional Duo”: Jan Van Angelopoulos & Fotis Siotas

Exploring the archetypal form of the “zygia,” the duo of Jan Van Angelopoulos and Fotis Siotas uses rhythmic and melodic elements derived from the broader Greek musical tradition.

Improvisation, a key element of all folk music, plays a central role in their collaboration. Sonically, the coexistence of acoustic instruments with soundscapes belonging to pop/dance culture—such as effects, bass, and modular synthesizers—enriches and adds a new dimension to music with clear origins, creating a hybrid acoustic/electronic sound.

Jan Van Angelopoulos — drums, modular synthesizer

Fotis Siotas — violin, vocals

🔷 Fotis Siotas was born in Thessaloniki. He studied violin and singing at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki. He was a member of many bands and choirs in the city. Since 1993, he has been active in concerts and recordings as a musician, arranger, composer, and singer. He has collaborated with Th. Papakonstantinou, S. Malamas, G. Angelakas, D. Savvopoulos, P. Pavlidis, F. Delivorias, A. Ioannidis, B. Papadopoulos, Jan Van, D. Trypanis, and many others. He has written music for theater and dance performances, is a member of Sancho 003 and Sotires, and has released two albums with lyricist Th. Gonis, “Ta Deftera” and “Dyo Lathi.”

🔷 Giannis Angelopoulos is a drummer and composer. He presents his compositions under the pseudonym Jan Van Angelopoulos, an unorthodox Dutch translation of his name. Since his debut album “Misspent” (2010), he has released a series of albums and singles, including “Ladokolla” (2013), “YAN VAN” (2015, with lyrics by Efthymis Filippou), “Kako Poiima” (2019, featuring Pavlos Pavlidis), and “Streams” (2021, Teranga Beat). He is a regular collaborator with the Vasistas theatre company, for which he has composed music for major theatrical productions, as well as with the Stereo Nero dance company, with works that have been presented at the Onassis Foundation and the Athens & Epidaurus Festival.

Miquèu Montanaro & Vasilis Zlatanos: F.R.E.W (Folk Roots Electro Wings)

Miquèu Montanaro (Occitania) and Vasilis Zlatanos (Greece) collaborate on a set that incorporates live electronics and flutes, blending folk, improvisation, and electroacoustic elements.

🔷 Composer, musician, multi-instrumentalist, representative of the culture of Occitania, founder of the band Vents d’Est. Miquèu Montanaro collects elements from the traditional music of each place around the world. He studied saxophone before studying the traditional music of Provence and flutes. Fascinated from an early age by the intersection of cultures, both geographical and historical, his work is characterized by collaborations and encounters, both in improvisational music (Barre Phillips, Alan Vitous, Serge Pesce, Fabrice Gaudé) and in so-called world music (Carlo Rizzo, Keyvan Chemirani, Fouad Didi, Baltazar Nagy-Montanaro), in French “chanson” (Arthur H., Georges Moustaki, Sylvie Berger), new traditional music (Laurence Bourdin, Pierre-Laurent Bertolino, Estelle Amsellem), early music (Kobzos Kiss Tamàs, Kecskés, Gérard Le Vot) or chamber music (Quatuor Talich, OCTV). In Greece, he has composed music for Nena Venetsanou. He has given hundreds of concerts, from Latin America to Central Europe, from Africa to Coursegoules in the French Alps, the United States or Indonesia.

🔷 Vasilis Zlatanos is a composer, musician and sound designer. He works in film, dance, theatre and live music, mixing elements of acoustic instruments with electronic and electro-acoustic elements. 

Three Times Three #4

The monthly event “Three Times Three” brings together artists from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, with the aim of creating a common code of communication that remains in effect for the duration of the meeting.

Three musicians meet three dancers each time. At the beginning of the evening, three random pairs are formed by drawing lots, and they improvise for 15 minutes. The evening closes with a 30-minute collective improvisation.

“Three Times Three” is curated by composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos).

The fourth event of the season features Xenia Stathouli (dance), Aliki Georgiou (dance), Eva Georgitsopoulou (dance), Vasiliki Legaki (electronics), Mikes Sakelliou (clarinet) and Vanessa Kourtesi (vocals).

🔷 Xenia Stathouli is professionally active in dance and teaching contemporary dance, modern dance, hip hop, floor acrobatics, and capoeira. She choreographed the solo “Nerti” for the 28th Kalamata International Festival, with which she also participated in AVDP 13.

🔷 Dancer and performer Aliki Georgiou has participated in dance and theater performances at festivals such as the Athens & Epidaurus Festival and the Rokkas Festival. Her practice focuses on improvisation as a tool for live composition.

🔷 Dancer and choreographer Eva Georgitsopoulou is a graduate of the State School of Dance and a former member of the Aerites dance company. Since 2019, she has been collaborating with the Sasha Waltz & Guests group. Her work focuses on the female body as a subject of contemporary reality.

🔷 Vasiliki Legaki is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Music Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research and compositional work focus on the spatiality of the musical experience. She is active in areas ranging from symphonic and chamber music to acoustic music and sound installations. She is co-founder and artistic director of the Processes Festival.

🔷 Mikes Sakelliou is a composer of electroacoustic music, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist with an emphasis on musical theater. He has composed and performed live music for dance and musical theater productions. He is the co-founder and artistic director of the Processes Festival. He studied jazz clarinet at the California Institute of the Arts and music production at the London College of Music.

🔷 Musician, composer-songwriter, and singer Vanessa Kourtesi draws inspiration from Eastern Mediterranean traditions, improvisation, ambient, and jazz. In 2022, she released an EP and, in 2023, an album with the band Merem. Her first solo album will be released in 2026. She is a graduate of Codarts (Rotterdam) and the Voice Study Center – University of Wales.

Frantic Aerostat / Bears of the apartment building pipes

Since around 2006, Frantic Aerostat has been the main vehicle for musician Odysseas Grammatikakis. Starting from unconventional playing of musical instruments, building soundscapes with repetitive melodies and reciting poems or prose, he has released three printed and two digital albums to date.

In 2024, inspired by a short story by Julio Cortázar and with the help of a small FM synth, Odysseas and bassist Kostas Vlachos formed the duo Bears of the apartment building pipes. Every time they decide to venture out of the safety of their pipes and into the cities, the Bears collect texts, dress them up with strange beats, handmade noises, abstract guitars, and melodic bass lines, desperately trying to find answers in an era of planetary destruction.

Some of these answers, or at least a few interesting human stories, will be presented for the first time in Athens, at KET, on January 31.

www.franticaerostat.com
www.franticaerostat.bandcamp.com/track/–50
www.instagram.com/arkoudestwnagwgwn

Sound of Color #4

Between improvisation, electronic music, ambient aesthetics, and psychedelic influences, “Sound of Color” continues at KET, offering new audiovisual encounters and different dynamics between sound and image every month.

Curated by Jannis Anastasakis and Natalia Manta, “Sound of Color” has evolved, through eleven years of continuous presence, into a unique field of artistic research and exchange, with a decisive influence on the Greek experimental scene and with few comparable examples, both in Greece and abroad.

The fourth event of the season features Jannis Anastasakis (guitar, analog synths, live electronics),Natalia Manta (live visuals), Antonis Anissegos (piano), Simos Riniotis (drums),Irini Karagiannopoulou (live visuals), and Harris Lambrakis (ney).

🔷 Based in Berlin, composer, pianist, and electronic musician Antonis Anissegos has performed in Europe, Asia, and America. In 2024, he formed the trio Air, Bee & Tree and the duo aNo. He participates in Berlin-based groups (Potsa Lotsa XL, Home Stretch, Callisto). He composes music for small ensembles, orchestras, and theatrical productions. He has released over 70 albums.

🔶 Simos Riniotis is a musician/improviser. Using drums and various small objects, he attempts to create soundscapes, exploring the boundaries of sound and genres. He has collaborated with important musicians and sound artists in Greece and abroad. His work has been presented at various institutions and festivals, such as the National Theater, the Onassis Foundation, the Aarhus Jazz Festival, and others.

🔷 Irini Karagiannopoulou was born in Thessaloniki. She studied at the School of Fine Arts and Design in Saint-Étienne and continued her visual arts research at the School of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Her work, which includes moving images, painting, collage, and publications, has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her books are published by Kyvos Publications and Lendroit éditions. She is the editor of Janus Femzine and a founding member of the Extra-Conjugale collective. She lives and works in Athens.

🔶 Harris Lambrakis was born and raised in Athens. He studied at the Pallini Music High School and the Department of Music Studies at the University of Athens, specializing in ethnomusicology. For the past thirty years, he has participated in recordings and concerts in Greece and abroad, collaborating with important musicians from different musical fields. At the same time, he teaches the ney, passing on his experience and knowledge to younger musicians.

🔷 Natalia Manta is an artist based in Athens. Although clay is her primary medium, she also skillfully uses metal, wax, photosensitive chemicals, and video. Collaboration with various artistic disciplines is an integral part of her practice. From 2017 to 2020, she taught sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the same university where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. For the past 10 years, she has been co-organizing and curating the audiovisual improvisational series “Sound of Color” with Jannis Anastasakis. Her works have been presented in exhibitions and institutions in Greece and internationally. In 2022, she was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS and has participated in important residency programs abroad. Her creations can be found in private and public collections.
www.nataliamanta.com

🔶 One of the most distinctive guitarists and musicians on the Greek improvisational scene, Jannis Anastasakis has developed a recognizable personal sound that moves between ambient and psychedelia, balancing melody and noise. He is the founder of JAM Pedals, a company that manufactures handmade pedals used by leading musicians (Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Daniel Lanois, John Medeski, Nile Rodgers, Lee Ranaldo, etc.). He has collaborated with important artists from the Greek and international music scene, such as Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Giuseppe Doronzo, Savina Giannatou, Haig Yazdjian, Thodoris Rellos, Michalis Siganidis, Floros Floridis, Lena Platonos, Spyros Polychronopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Haris Lambrakis, and others. He is developing the audiovisual project “Sound of Color” with sculptor Natalia Manta on live visuals.
www.jannisanastasakis.com

Themis Vasiliou & Horos Duet

Themis Vasiliou (guitarist and composer) presents his works for solo classical guitar for the first time at KET. His guitar and compositional style has already been captured in works such as Solo Electric (2022, works for solo electric guitar), Vasilaraps: 4 Kamines for guitar duo (2021, as a guitar duo with Yiannis Arapis), as well as on the album Sons of Zevedeus (2018), as guitarist of the progressive rock band Sons of Zevedeus.

His new compositions for classical guitar reflect his diverse musical background and a more direct expression of his compositional thinking. The works to be presented have not been released to date.

Horos Duet, featuring Stylianos Tziritas (piano) and Michalis Karagiannis (drums), will also participate in the concert, presenting new compositions. The double live performance is also inspired by Themis’ recent collaboration with Horos on a track from their upcoming release.

www.ramblerecords.bandcamp.com/album/solo-electrique
www.ramblerecords.bandcamp.com/album/4-four-kaminetti-for-guitar-duet
www.manofman.bandcamp.com/album/a
www.manofman.bandcamp.com/album/–12

🔷 Themis Vasiliou is active in composition and free improvisation, performing in Greece and abroad as a guitar soloist and as a member of various ensembles. His work for orchestra, Apodimitikoi, was awarded by the EEM and performed by ASON in 2017. He has also composed music for cinema and dance performances.

🔷 Horos Duet is a musical collaboration between drummer and photographer Michalis Karagiannis and pianist, clarinetist, and writer Stylianos Tziritas. They have released two albums in recent years on the A Man out of A Man label. They recently completed recording a new album, with references to jazz, new age, the Greek piano school of the second half of the 20th century, aestheticism, and impressionism.

Michalis Katachanas & Harris Lambrakis

Michalis Katachanas (viola) and Harris Lambrakis (ney) perform together as a duo for the first time.

In an open musical conversation without predetermined forms, creation is guided by spontaneity, listening, and the moment. The viola and the ney, instruments with different musical origins, explore sounds and textures in real time, shaping a listening experience based on improvisation, risk, and a shared musical quest.

Harris Lambrakis — ney
Michalis Katachanas — viola

🔷 Harris Lambrakis was born and raised in Athens. He studied at the Pallini Music High School and the Department of Music Studies at the University of Athens, specializing in ethnomusicology. For the past thirty years, he has participated in recordings and concerts in Greece and abroad, collaborating with important musicians from different musical fields. At the same time, he teaches the ney, passing on his experience and knowledge to younger musicians.

🔷 Michalis Katachanas was born in Piraeus and began studying classical violin at the age of eight. He is active as a jazz violist, composer, and improviser, performing in concerts and festivals in Greece and abroad, as well as collaborating with Greek and international musicians. He composes music for the theater and, since 2014, has been teaching in the jazz department of the Athens Conservatory, while also working as a music teacher in public education.

Panos Alexiadis / Savvas Metaxas / Sister Overdrive

Three sets of experimental and improvised sound based on live composition and the use of electronic and acoustic media.

🔷 Sound artist Panos Alexiadis creates music for dance, cinema, and sound installations. His latest release, Cestrum Nocturnum, was released by the label B.A.A.D.M.
panosalexiadis.com

🔷 Musician and sound artist Savvas Metaxas is active in the fields of experimental music, field recordings, modular synthesizer, and electric guitar. His most recent release, June 9–10, was released by the French label Falt. The work Magnetic Loops II was used by Nine Inch Nails before their performances on their recent tour. At KET, he presents a composition based on the sound material of Magnetic Loops.
savvasmetaxas.bandcamp.com

🔷 Artist, sound researcher, electronic music producer, and educator Giannis Kotsonis has been active since 2009 as an independent coordinator of workshops, residencies, and concerts. He is responsible for a series of solo and collaborative podcasts and radio shows (Sound Unfolds / Stegi Radio, Resonator / Concertzender, Proschedio / Strummer Radio). He has released numerous albums and performed in numerous concerts both under the artistic pseudonym Sister Overdrive and under his own name, and since 2006 he has been a member of the artistic duet acte vide.
sisteroverdrive.bandcamp.com

Demi Spriggs / Calliope

Demi Spriggs, together with the band Friends, presents her first solo album Nights on the Folkway, released on October 10, 2025, on cassette and CD by Submersion Records. Calliope opens the evening with a solo set.

🔷 Musician Demi Spriggs is active between Athens and Essex. Her work draws on folk and country traditions, with songs that revolve around themes such as love and loss.

Her music combines a sense of the distant past with a contemporary approach: vocal loops, voice processing, and unconventional harmonies between multiple voices and instruments create a sound that is minimalist yet intensely charged.

Nights on the Folkway, her first full-length album, converses with influences from artists such as Joni Mitchell, Cat Power, Judee Sill, and Nick Drake.

Her band, Friends, functions as a flexible instrumental ensemble that accompanies her original compositions and covers, moving in an experimental jazz-pop style. Friends features Einar Stenseng (piano), Yorgos Smak (drums), Gerasimos Lorandos (bass), and Joe O’Connor (clarinet).

🔷 Musician and performer Calliope (Kalliopi Gerakianaki) spends most of her time trying to understand how to use synthesizers, loopers, and effect pedals, as well as untangling all the cables that connect them. She creates strange samples, of which she is quite proud, while trying to learn the trumpet and euphonium — instruments she treats as an extension of her voice.

Her first album, MÄDCHENBLUMEN (Submersion Records, 2023), is a collage of music, poetry, and field recordings, through which she explores issues of forgiveness, femininity, and personal identity.

She is currently working on her new album entitled LICE, as well as on the project ΟΤΙ ΜΟΥ ΣΥΜΒΑΙΝΕΙ ΤΟ ’ΧΕΙ ΠΕΙ Η ΤΖΕΝΗ.

Demi Spriggs: IG: @demispriggs | FB: @Demi Spriggs Nights on the folkway

Calliope: IG: @calllope_ | FB: @Calliope | MÄDCHENBLUMEN

Submersion Records: FB: @/SubmersionRecords | IG: @submersionrecords/ | wwww.submersionrecords.bandcamp.com/music

SHADOWS CHOIR, ACT I

In the performance “SHADOWS CHOIR”, eight non-gendered performers guide the audience through a vocal ritual.

In the dark for 60 minutes, voices breathe, slow, continuous, circling. Polyphonies emerge and dissolve into whispers, murmurs, spoken words, and melodies sung in medieval dialects. Shadows take shape: a weight on the back, a companion at your side, a mirror, a void, a multiplying presence. Lights barely touch the space. Ropes guide the audience.

Floating fabrics, and drifting forms move with a large-scale video, scattering silhouettes across the walls and bodies. Your shadow joins the others. It doubles. It lingers. This choir calls for a reconnection of bodies and voices in a world shaped by fragmentation.

Performers: Azat Minasian, Kajsa Balk-Møller, Katerina Gnafaki, Anna Papaioannou, Iro Iordanoglou, Bo Debruyne, Nefeli Kavalieratou

Artistic coordination (set design, music composition, video, choreography): Celia Stroom

Production: Kunstwollen (FR), KOKTO art space (GR)

* Two performances every evening: the first at 8:30 p.m. and the second at 10:00 p.m. Once the performance has begun, the doors will close and no further admission will be permitted.

* The performance is for a limited audience and reservations are required: www.more.com/gr-el/tickets/music/shadows-choir-act-i & 213 00 40 496

Lee Adams / Nikko

Inspired by the symbolism and iconography of Armenian poet Sayat Nova, multimedia artist Lee Adams has created a hallucinatory sonic assemblage tracing the life of the troubadour.

The first performance in October sold out almost immediately, this will be the final performance at KET.

Nikko opens the evening with an audiovisual set entitled T-error.

🔷 Based between Athens and London, Lee Adams is a multi-media artist, DJ and curator who has worked extensively with sound, film and visual installations, from re-scoring a lost David Toop soundscape for conceptual artist John Latham, to collaborating with noise violinist Mia Zabelka on the touring project Rotten Sun. For 22 years he has organised the infamous Kaos London parties, he is a core member of the Palestinian collective Exist Festival and has run Khemia records since 2016.

🔶 Nikko, active on the Athenian scene since the late 1990s, presents T-error at KET: an experimental audiovisual set of electronic music, combining dark atmospheres and abstract noise elements.

QUASI UNA FANTASIA: Noise as rupture and as form

The Quasi Una Fantasia: Philosophy of Music group is an initiative of Spyros Polychronopoulos (composer and Associate Professor in the Department of Music Technology and Acoustics at ELMEPA) and George Sangriotis (Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Patras), which aims to create a series of events focused on the philosophy of music.

Each event will be based on a different theme, focusing on contemporary questions about the nature, function, and aesthetics of music. The program will include a day of lectures and presentations by musicians, philosophers, and other theorists, as well as a concert. The event will move to a different city each time, creating a dynamic field for the exchange of ideas and experiences.

The first meeting, with the theme “Noise as rupture and as form,” will take place at KET on Friday, January 9. Participants in the discussion will include: Spyros Polychronopoulos, Thanos Polymeneas Liontiris (Associate Professor, Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and George Sangriotis. The discussion will be moderated by Leandros Kyriakopoulos (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). The discussion will be followed by a concert featuring two solo sets by Sofia Zafeiriou (electronics) and George Stavridis (percussion).

🔷 Sofia Zafeiriou is a musician and sound artist based in Athens. Part of her research focuses on transcending non-Western rhythms and modes through electronic and contemplative means, noise, improvisation, and acoustic instruments.

🔷 George Stavridis explores the inherent sonic possibilities of percussion instruments, electronic media, and objects through construction, site-specific action, and improvisation. He is a member of Trigger Happy, the BLIP duo, and the Kedimoura collective. He has presented his work in numerous concerts and festivals in Greece and abroad.

Photo: Dimitris Alexakis

*The discussion will be in the greek language.

Spoken Maik #4

Every month KET hosts Spoken Maik, a poetry and spoken word event curated by Niki Papadogiannaki and Stavros Anagnou.

Open to all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitals, performances, and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian, and Galician (Spain).

The genres are equally diverse: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and welcoming space that allows everyone to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

The fourth Spoken Maik of the season will be hosted at KET on Thursday, January 15, 2026.

Those who wish to participate should arrive half an hour before the start time and add their name to the list of participants. Each act may last up to five minutes.

“The Siege of Athens” — 1st Greek Dungeon Synth Festival

Amidst ritualistic beats, lo-fi soundscapes, and dark epic motifs, the first Greek Dungeon Synth Festival kicks off at KET on December 19, before visiting Thessaloniki the following day.

The opening night features five iconic acts of the genre: Amn, Anglachel, Budrum, Varvitos, and Ksorki.

● The musical genre dungeon synth was born on the fringes of the black metal scene of the 1990s, as a side but autonomous movement that uses synthesizers to create atmospheric and introverted soundscapes. It draws inspiration from dark romanticism, medieval castles, epic fantasy narratives, and the sense of a world lost in time.

At the heart of the genre lies lo-fi production: deliberately raw timbres, simple melodic lines, repetitive motifs, and an aesthetic that references both old video game music and dark ambient.

Over time, dungeon synth evolved into a distinct subculture, far removed from the aggressive style of black metal: a community of DIY artists releasing limited editions, tapes, zines, and illustrations that reinforce the handmade and mystical character of the genre. Today, it is a self-contained musical universe.

● Merchandise will be available at the festival venue, including T-shirts and a compilation cassette with 15 unreleased songs that capture the contemporary image of the local scene.

🔷 Combining the aesthetics of DnD and Forgotten Realms with synthesizers that sometimes lean toward fantasy and other times toward krautrock, the result is the distinctive sound of the duo Amn. Dividing their time between Athens and London, Amn have developed a consistent and rich discography since 2019. They recently completed their first international tour in the US, performing alongside Orcus, Silencio Permanente, and Flickers from the Fen, followed by live performances in England. Their participation in the festival marks their first appearance in Greece.

www.amndungeonsynth.bandcamp.com

🔷 Clearly inspired by Tolkien’s mythical world, Anglachel is the name of the dungeon synth project by Admetos (also a member of Elegos, Faunus, and Echoes of Oblivion). With a continuous discography since 2017, the project is now among the most important names in the international “second generation” revival of the genre. They have already participated in events such as the Rethymno Rocks Festival and the Dark Dungeon Festival III in Belgium.

www.anglachelds.bandcamp.com

🔷 Budrum‘s personal project (also vocals/guitar in LIKNO) began in 2024 in Kozani. With piano and various keyboards as its main focus and occasional use of vocals, the project moves in old-school aesthetic directions, while incorporating influences from medieval and ancient Greek music, as well as Balkan, Greek folk, and classical traditions.

www.budrum.bandcamp.com/music

🔷 After experimenting with different musical genres, Varvitos embarks on his personal journey from Heraklion in 2020 with the EP “The Lost Bard”. Drawing inspiration from role-playing games, fantasy films, historical themes, and comics, he incorporates fantastical elements and narrative storytelling into his musical motifs. Since 2025, he has been accompanying the Anglachel project as a drummer in its live performances. His participation in the festival marks his first live appearance as Varvitos.

www.varvitos.bandcamp.com

🔷 Ksorki sprouts in 2020 in urban dungeon synth (“Psalms from the Underworld”). The sequel finds the project on more synth-punk paths (“Necroastika,” “Land of the Great Mushrooms”). With several live performances under its belt, it is preparing for its new album (“Handshake with Satan”).

www.ksorki.bandcamp.com/music

Three Times Three #3

The monthly event “Three Times Three” brings together artists from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, with the aim of creating a common code of communication that remains in effect for the duration of the meeting.

Three musicians meet three dancers each time. At the beginning of the evening, three random pairs are formed by drawing lots, and they improvise for 15 minutes. The evening closes with a 30-minute collective improvisation.

“Three Times Three” is curated by composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos).

The third event of the season features Vasia Koutsilianou (dance), Jenny Vagopoulou (dance), Maria Pisiou (dance), Tasos Asonitis (electronics), AMR (electronics), and Dimitra Kοusteridou (electronics).

🔷 Vasia Koutsilianou is a dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher. She presents works by other artists as well as her own on stages and at festivals throughout Greece.

🔶 Jenny Vagopoulou is a professional dancer and choreographer who has been active in the field of contemporary dance for many years. She has participated in productions and festivals in Greece and abroad.

🔷 Maria Pisiοu is a performer, choreographer, and researcher. Her artistic research is based on approaching the body as a living/fluid archive, using choreographic instructions and the practices of immediate composition.

🔶 Audiovisual artist Tasos Asonitis creates immersive environments through a combination of synthetic sound and three-dimensional computer graphics.

🔷 AMR is a sound artist. Her personal work is mainly based on improvisation, while she also collaborates with choreographers.

🔶 Dimitra Kοusteridou is a composer and sound artist. Using improvisation, no-input mixing, and handmade circuits, she creates sound environments that explore materiality and noise.

Maria Berauer / φø

Maria Berauer (Germany) presents “Terrain Vagus”, a solo performance for body, voice and wire. Φø (Greece) composes on stage the electroacoustic interactive work for performer and biosensors, entitled “CYBORGUTT 2.0“.

🔷 In the performance “Terrain Vagus”, Maria Berauer, uses a stretched 15-meter-long steel string and explores the space through sound, voice, tremors, and creaking. In dialogue with the suspended sound
carrier, a sonic and physical interaction unfolds in the moment—at the intersection of inner experience and external resonance. Sounds, perceived not only as audible but also as physical vibrations, almost tactilely touch the body and generate palpable vibrational fields.

֍ Maria Berauer is a performance and media artist based in Munich. Her practice spans solo and collaborative performance, video installation, sound art and public interventions, using the body as both instrument and medium. In her work she investigates human perception, behavior, and interaction through embodied, site-specific approaches.

She is a founding member of the performance collective “The Hercules and Leo Case“, which explores in shared authorship the relationship between bodies and resonating socio- and eco-spheres.

She also performs the singing saw alongside various artists and musicians.

She lives in Munich, Germany.

🔶 “CYBORGUTT 2.0” of φø is an electroacoustic interactive composition for a performer and biosensors. The result of a research on the bridging of queer theory, cyborg bodies and the field of music, the work observes the gendered boundaries of the body, voice and sounds, which are trapped in stereotypical perceptions.

By recording all of the sounds the body can produce and with the help of an electronic stethoscope, a soundscape is constructed, which narrates the body’s liquid identity, trapped and non-existent, within a system of binary perceptions.

Breathing, heartbeat and stomach sounds, alongside brain vibrations, provide the rhythmic background while at the same time controlling the structure through biosensors, making the process of production and execution, transcendent and meditative.

Our perception traps bodies, voices and sounds, in boxes. The voice has no gender. Listening is the process that assigns gender to a voice.

֍ Φø (Fotis Rovolis) has studied Architecture and Electroacoustic Music Composition. Exploring electronic music production by blurring boundaries between sound and space, their works take the form of installations, soundscapes merging cyborg theory, queer politics and imaginative perspectives.

They have presented their works in various festivals and conferences, participated in films, theatrical plays and performances, while recently they’ve taken part in the 6th festival of Compartments Dance Project with the works “Murmuration” and “Uncovering”.

Koulentianos X Liolios: album presentation

Κoulentianos X Liolios is the duo of Dimitris Koulentianos (double bass) and Grigoris Liolios (guitar).

They introduced themselves to the public with their first live album at Romantso in September 2024, a concert that also marked the beginning of their collaboration.

Their shared love for free expression and good drinks led to the creation of the album Koulentianos X Liolios. Moving in the realms of ambient and drone with noise nuances, they have shaped a soundscape where the double bass and guitar interact in a direct and effortless way.

Their live performances, as well as the material they present, change from night to night, but their constant foundation remains communication and creative mood swings.
At KET, they present their 2024 album as well as new tracks from the album they are preparing for 2026.

Dimitris Koulentianos now lives in Athens, searching for new questions through sound.
Grigoris Liolios lives as a “guest,” using music and the guitar as a means of capturing contemporary experience.

www.dimitriskoulentianos.bandcamp.com/album/koulentianos-x-liolios

“Death Plan for a Dog and a Man”

“Thirteen years ago, the first screenings hosted at KET were two films by director Christos Karakepelis and screenwriter Natasa Segou, “Raw Material” and “The House of Cain”.

Many years of close collaboration followed through the documentary seminar they coordinated at the venue; a relationship that greatly shaped our own perception of cinema.

We are delighted to welcome the screening of their new film, “Death Plan for a Dog and a Man” (2024, 66′), which will be followed by a discussion between the filmmakers and the audience.” – the KET team

A few words about the film:

During lockdowns, an outcast, like an invulnerable superhero, takes over the empty city and delivers his heretical monologue to the disengaged bourgeoisie. A heartbreaking hymn to all outcasts, an ironic, provocative look at “health” and “normality.” Against the backdrop of daily death reports on the radio, he plans an epic escape for himself and his dog from the deadliest virus: life itself. An adventurous journey of death from the mountains to New York, from suffocating reality to freedom.

The film was shot after the director’s chance encounter with the protagonist in deserted Athens during lockdown. It was a spontaneous response to this man’s desire to express himself. His talent as a natural actor and his imaginative approach to life gave the creators an opportunity to experiment with form. The crew consisted of a small group of friends who are not film professionals. The film was shot with basic equipment (a DSLR camera, with no lighting other than the flash on mobile phones in some cases).

*The film is screened in greek with english subtitles.

“ANALOG <-> DIGITAL” by K&A

The duo K&A (Karla IsidorouAlexandra Bellon) presents ANALOG <-> DIGITAL, an immersive audio exploration off the beaten track, a unique combination of music and performance with masks, where analogue cassette sounds compete with digital ones, books burn and e-readers rise, vinyls are the new dancefloor and analogue slides are our only archive.

Inspired by ancient and contemporary games, sweetly accompanied by a tendency to escapism, the sounds of this live set question, tease and underline our relation with digital and analogue objects.

K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)

K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon) form a dazzling duo. Mixing their different backgrounds and their complex cultural roots they spread poetical & political concepts through performative acts and installations. Their mobile studio and stage fluctuates between variable combinations of latitudes and longitudes. As makers, they find inspiration in contemporary social-political realities. A driving force is their own hunger for new forms, techniques and methods. Through immersive sonic environments they challenge their audience to follow them off the beaten path.

www.ifthesunisasquare.com

www.vimeo.com/916893282?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Credits:

Concept, performance: K&A
Music composition and production: Alexandra Bellon
Mask performance: Karla Isidorou
Set design: K&A
Organization-production-copyrights: Association K&A (Switzerland)
Co-production: Stichting Public Frequencies, K&A, Theater Ins Blau
Acknowledgments: Kees van Leeuwen, Kishan Buldeo Rai, Mirjam Hensgens, Kim Vissers, Theater Ins Blau, Kaserne Blau

The composition of ANALOG <-> DIGITAL is supported by Nicati-De Luze.

Ignatz / John Also Bennett

Two sets of experimental electroacoustic sound by Ignatz (Belgium) and John Also Bennett (USA).

🔷 Ignatz is the alter ego of Belgian musician Bram Devens.

In 1910, the illustrator George Herriman created the Krazy Kat comic strip. Ignatz, a vicious mouse, was Krazy Kat’s arch enemy, and his favourite pastime was to throw bricks at Krazy Kat’s head.

Bram Devens uses Ignatz as his alter-ego, and comes armed with his own pile of bricks; sparse, emotive songs, wrapped in effects, corroded by tape, driven forth by improvisation and spontaneity. Ignatz’s songs stem from a stripped folk framework, being compared to the primitivism of V.U. or Henry Flynt – but these songs sound inverted, cast adrift, from beneath the surface. Where Devens’ fretwork is adorned, it is executed with a refined coarseness. Autonomous loops entwine each other. Songs brush past percussion, bass notes, or a scant keyboard motif. A voice recedes from the heart of the song into a dislocated, cracked drawl.

www.ignatz.be

www.krutrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-cure

🔷 John Also Bennett (b. 1987, Ohio), aka JAB, is a composer, flautist and multi-instrumentalist based in Greece who creates music that could be described as atmospheric, avant-garde, or minimalist. His work is characterized by the use of simple sonic ingredients to engage with empty spaces, time and resonance on a glacial scale to illuminate a complexity and magic inherent within everyday experience, or even apparent nothingness.

He has released albums on labels such as Shelter Press, Kranky, and Seance Centre, as well as his own label Editions Basilic, among others. He has performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia, scored short films and art installations, and published and curated the works of others, including those of his father, the avant-garde poet and mail artist John M. Bennett. 

www.johnalsobennett.com

www.johnalsobennett.bandcamp.com

The concert is held in collaboration with the project nual nebbia acustica (site /  instagram / fb).

Myrsini Kalle / As Never Before

▨ An evening dedicated to two musical universes: the atmospheric textures of Myrsini Kalle and the darkly poetic electroacoustic hybrid of As Never Before.

▨ With Submersion Records as their common ground, the two bands meet for the first time in Athens, following a successful performance in Thessaloniki.

◍ Musician and ethnomusicologist Myrsini Kalle specializes in ambient music. She combines a background in piano and choir with dense textures and captivating soundscapes, drawing inspiration from Stars of the Lid, Air, and Boards of Canada. Her first album, “Some Interesting Experiences”, is the result of more than a year of composition. It condenses different situations and emotions around the feeling of immersion.

◍ Influenced by early David Byrne, Legendary Pink Dots, Coil, and Einstürzende Neubauten, As Never Before weaves a hybrid of sparse and repetitive patterns of electroacoustic guitar and rhythms, creating an environment where words emerge and submerge. The duo hails from Thessaloniki and consists of Kyriakos Plsds (acoustic guitar, vocals) and Selfish Limbs (sensory percussion). Their first album, “Steps”, was recorded in the summer of 2023. They will be presenting material from their second release at KET.

● The Submersion Records label (Thessaloniki) began operating in October 2020. To date, it has released 29 albums. It collaborates with artists such as Giannis Arapis, Saber Rider, Giorgos Katsanos, Chrysa Tsaltampasi, Giorgos Karras, and Kalliopi Mitropoulou. In 2025, it organized the Submersion Festival at KET, which was extremely well received.

▨ Submersion Records releases will be available on the night of the concert.

Myrsini Kalle: FB: @Myrsini Kalle | IG: @myrsinikalle | Some Interesting Experiences

As Never Before: FB: @As Never Before | IG: @as.never.before | To the end of beyond

Submersion Records: FB: @SubmersionRecords | IG: @submersionrecords/ | Bandcamp

Spoken Maik #3

Every month, starting in March 2023, KET hosts Spoken Maik, a poetry and spoken word event curated by Niki Papadogiannaki and Stavros Anagnou.

Open to all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitals, performances, and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian, and Galician (Spain).

The genres are equally diverse: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and welcoming space that allows everyone to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

The third Spoken Maik of the season will be hosted at KET on Thursday, December 11, 2025.

Those who wish to participate should arrive half an hour before the start time and add their name to the list of participants. Each act may last up to five minutes.

AICHER

A set of experimental, guitar-based, and industrial sounds from AICHER.

For the past two decades, Andrews has been active in exploring amplified guitar music with the experimental post-punk group MY DISCO, and as a recent collaborator with Karl O’Connor (Regis, Sandwell District) and Boris Wilsdorf (Einstürzende Neubauten) as EROS.

His recent work, as AICHER, focuses on repurposing the incidentals within spatial recordings. Drawing on his vast catalogue of recorded material, he translates them into compositions of detailed feedback expression, seasick percussive roil and subharmonic frequencies. The results are a collection of sonic movements, an assemblage of unsettling dissonance, that remain on the wire.

“Defensive Acoustics”, his debut album under the AICHER moniker, is a collection of recordings
channeling a performance presented alongside his close collaborator R. Rebeiro in the worn basement of the Ishiguro Building, an aged and abandoned pharmaceutical store in Kanazawa, Japan. The cavernous
reverberation, structural deterioration, and the pressure of sound at the brink, is at the essence of the recording. The album is released in an edition of 300, on the honourable Downwards Records of Birmingham, England.

Andrews has performed at notable festivals including — Berlin Atonal, Dark Mofo, Unsound, Le Guess Who?, Roadburn, Donau, Supersonic, Avant Arts etc. — as well as numerous headlining tours of Europe and the British Isles, North America, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Australia.

As a contributor, he has worked with Ben Frost, on his 2024 album “Scope Neglect” (Mute Records) and Regis, on his 2020 album “Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss” (Downwards Records).

www.aicher.bandcamp.com

SaladeFriday in Athens: Akram Hajj, Shushan Kerovpyan, Thodoris Ziarkas

The SaladeFriday project was founded in Beirut in 2021 by Lebanese musician Akram Hajj.

It is organized in various European cities, with the aim of bringing together musicians from Lebanon’s experimental and underground scene with artists from other countries and other artistic backgrounds.

Following the explosion at the port of Beirut and Lebanon’s economic crisis, many musicians were forced to leave the country, seeking new places where they could live, create, and prosper.

In their original form, these gatherings combined improvisational music with a private dinner—each participant brought a fruit or vegetable of their choice, and the host mixed them together to make an improvised salad. The title of the project derives from this practice.

After small events in Cairo, Alexandria, Italy, and Switzerland, SaladeFriday found an almost permanent home in Paris, between the Middle Eastern diaspora and the local scene.

The concert at KET features Akram Hajj (percussion, electronics), Shushan Kerovpyan (vocals, u-bass), and Thodoris Ziarkas (double bass). The evening begins with three solo sets, continues with two duets (Akram & Shushan / Akram & Thodoris) and concludes with a collaboration between all three.

🔷 Lebanese musician and drummer Akram Hajj became widely known as a member of the post-rock band Kinematik. His solo work combines acoustic percussion, pedals, and a mixer without input, creating an electroacoustic, industrial, and atmospheric sound known as Daf-Noise. He lives in Paris.

🔷 Singer and multi-instrumentalist Shushan Kerovpyan was born in Paris to a family of Armenian musicians. She lives in Athens, where she continues to explore and develop her musical language. Her style combines traditional Armenian and Middle Eastern music with American folk, blues, soul, and the folk traditions of the Mediterranean, Southern Europe, and Latin America.

🔷 Co-founder of Valia Calda, double bassist and composer Thodoris Ziarkas is active in both London and Athens. He collaborates with international groups and renowned artists in the fields of jazz, improvisational, and traditional music (Nancy Mounir, Tom Sochas, Vanessa Kourtesi, London Improvisers Orchestra, Okay Temiz, Yazz Ahmed, Anna Homler, Steve Beresford, Savina Giannatou, Electric Litany, Tasos Stamou, Adam Bohman, Yuko Kaseki).

Sound of Color #3

Between improvisation, electronic music, psychedelia, and ambient aesthetics, the audiovisual series “Sound of Color” continues at KET for its eleventh year, exploring the encounters between sound and image. The third event of the season features Jannis Anastasakis (guitar, analog synths, live electronics), Thodoris Ziarkas (double bass), Fausto Sierakowski (saxophone), Giorgos Stavridis (drums), Marissa Bili (vocals), and Alexandros Seitaridis (live visuals).

🔷 Co-founder of the band Valia Calda, double bassist and composer Thodoris Ziarkas is active in London and Athens. He collaborates with international groups and renowned artists in the fields of jazz, improvisational and traditional music (Nancy Mounir, Tom Sochas, Vanessa Kourtesi, London Improvisers Orchestra, Okay Temiz, Yazz Ahmed, Anna Homler, Steve Beresford, Savina Giannatou, Electric Litany, Tasos Stamou, Adam Bohman, Yuko Kaseki).

🔶 Fausto Sierakowski was born in Paris and grew up in Rome. In 2009, he obtained a diploma in classical saxophone (Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia) and, in 2012, a master’s degree in contemporary improvisation (New England Conservatory). During his stay in America and until his return to Europe, he gave concerts and made recordings with musicians such as Matt Moran, Anthony Coleman, Joe Morris, Matt Darriau, Satoshi Takeshi, Hayden Chisholm, and Axel Dörner. In 2016, he moved to Greece. Since then, he has been a member of the musical ensembles of Evgenios Voulgaris and Jannis Dionysios, as well as the Fausto Sierakowski Trio and People of the Wind.

🔷 Giorgos Stavridis explores the inherent sonic possibilities of percussion instruments, electronic media, and objects through construction, site-specific action, and improvisation. He is a member of Trigger Happy, the BLIP duo, and the Center for Research and Rescue of Radio Music. He has presented his work in numerous concerts and festivals in Greece and abroad.

🔶 Marissa Bili is a vocal artist who works in both performance and composition. She studied classical singing at the Tyrolean State Conservatory (Innsbruck) and then focused on free vocal improvisation, extended techniques, and vocal traditions from around the world. She has performed at events such as: Borderline Festival (Onassis Stegi, 2023), Waves Festival (Vienna, 2024), From Voice to Noise (Goethe-Institut, 2024), and others. In 2025, she composed music for the works: “Elefantas” (choreography: Angelos Papadopoulos – Elefsina: Urtopias), “Autumn Youth” (directed by Anthi Founta – All of Greece One Culture) and the vocal compositions for “Faust” (directed by Aris Biniaris – National Theater of Greece).

🔷 Alexandros Seitaridis works as an internet and technology consultant, designer, and web developer. He has worked as an editor on short films, documentaries, and music videos. He was the editor of the two-page technology news section “Odos Hai-Tek” in the monthly magazine “Difono.”
 He has designed and edited videos, catalogs, posters, and flyers for music concerts, art exhibitions, and theatrical performances. As a freelance video artist, he creates original videos and installations using projection mapping.

🔶 One of the most distinctive guitarists and musicians on the Greek improvisational scene, Jannis Anastasakis has developed a recognizable personal sound that moves between ambient and psychedelia, balancing melody and noise. He is the founder of JAM Pedals, a company that manufactures handmade pedals used by leading musicians (Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Daniel Lanois, John Medeski, Nile Rodgers, Lee Ranaldo, etc.). He has collaborated with important artists from the Greek and international music scene, such as Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Giuseppe Doronzo, Savina Giannatou, Haig Yazdjian, Thodoris Rellos, Michalis Siganidis, Floros Floridis, Lena Platonos, Spyros Polychronopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Haris Lambrakis, and others. He is developing the audiovisual project “Sound of Color” with sculptor Natalia Manta on live visuals.

www.jannisanastasakis.com

“PT SI” — MPATARIA poetry slam

I fall and fly/I fly and fall/PT SI = ptHsi and ptOsi in harmony/I fly in the clouds/ A point where we neither fly nor fall/Fall into the void/Where did my nightingale fly, where did it leave me/The fall of Icarus/Flight 201/*

MPATARIA invites you to a poetry slam that explores the space-time of this increasingly scarce suspension. In a city where space is a privilege rather than a right, we, the poets of MPATARIA, like fallen angels (lol) of the social cischaos, continue to search, now imaginatively, for conditions of coexistence with harsh reality. We send out an SOS and declare a forced landing at KET.

Two years after our performances at the old Communitism building at 28 Kerameikos Street, we insist on returning with the same intensity and seeking new opportunities to externalize our internal processes.

Program:

19:30 – doors

20:00 – start

23:00 – end

*Come early to enjoy drinks and discover books, zines, and publications from the MPATARIA community.

*There will be a donation box at the door for the event expenses.

*Poets T.B.A.

*’Ptosi’ means ‘falling’ in greek, while ‘ptisi’ means ‘flying’.

Poster: ZirlarΜordΩ

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A few words about MPATARIA:

MPATARIA is an effort to establish and collect micro-publishing ventures that do not belong to large organizations and structures.

It is a communication platform that embraces and promotes autonomous actions aimed at highlighting and recording DIY creations such as: zines, publications, pamphlets, poetry collections, comics, artworks, and handicrafts by queer individuals and other marginalized groups.

The logo of MPATARIA (the handmade potato battery) symbolizes the self-illuminating artistic energy that springs from personal research, whether successful or not. It presents the project as a constantly evolving experiment that is not based on the result, but on the creators’ need to share stories, traumas, and survival strategies.

A virtual label that brings together and hosts smaller projects without a permanent home and seeks, through zine fairs, performance events, poetry slams, readings, workshops, discussions, and art exhibitions, to transform and evolve with them into something universally greater.

MPATARIA is an initiative by artist Mochi Georgiou that was born out of the Queer Ink publishing project. Focusing on the DIY aesthetic of zine culture and poetry slams, MPATARIA proposes a new creative immediacy through which individuals express themselves and exchange information.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mpataria_/

Email: info.mpataria@gmail.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/mpataria

Jules Wysocki / acte vide

Two sets of experimental sound and improvisation by Jules Wysocki (France) and the duo acte vide (Greece).

🔷 Jules Wysocki will perform at KET a set of amplified cymbalum in free improvisation. Music for mental images, selected sounds, influences from neo-traditional and field recordings.

After playing the drums, Jules Wysocki instinctively composed his first sound pieces, which quickly found an audience in the French radio production world. “Ascenseur tour Sapporo” won the Pierre Schaeffer prize awarded by the Phonurgia Nova jury in 2012. That same year, he joined the electroacoustics class of Christine Groult, Pierre Schaeffer’s assistant, and immersed himself in the history and practice of concrete music. 

There he composed a series of pieces that were broadcast on numerous occasions—Festival Futura, Banc d’Essai du INA GRM, La Gaîté Lyrique, Festival Longueur d’Onde, etc.

Since 2017, he has returned to his instrumental practice by working on a feedback device for his drums and a transformed cymbalum. This new sound palette led to a collaboration with Frédéric D. Oberland on the album Labyrinth (Nahal Recording).

His work involves record projects, musical duos, original scores for films and, most recently, the musical and sound creation for Marion Siefert’s latest play, Daddy, for the Théâtre de l’Odéon.

www.juleswysocki.bandcamp.com

🔷 Giannis Kotsonis and Danae Stefanou have been collaborating artistically since 2006 under the name acte vide (“empty act”). With improvisation and sound and intermedia experimentation as their central focus, the duo explores the boundaries between sound, music, noise, and silence through ephemeral, constantly changing actions that resist recording or creatively undermine it. They have performed numerous concerts and at international and local festivals and exhibitions (Stereoma, Borderline, Irtijal, Athens Festival, TIFF, SIFF, Festival du Film Francophone, etc.) as well as dozens of self-organized venues, most of which no longer exist. Beyond concert performances, the duo’s activity extends to the field of artistic research and critical creative practices, through the design and implementation of original curatorial and educational interventions, such as the sound improvisation workshops at Knot Gallery (Athens, 2009-2014), and Sound Meetings (Syros 2012-2022).

“L’Inferno” (1911) — live soundtrack

Semeli-Sofia Kostourou and Max Reubel accompany Francesco Bertolini’s film “L’Inferno” (1911, 70′) with a live sound performance.

🔷 The silent film “L’Inferno,” inspired by Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, is one of the first Italian feature-length films. Through impressively directed frames, symbolic images, and innovative effects, the film unfolds Dante’s journey through the Circles of Hell, guided by the poet Virgil, creating a dreamlike and nightmarish universe. The images balance between painting, theater, and vision, creating a visual composition that remains transcendent to this day. Using innovative cinematic techniques, “L’Inferno” is considered a milestone in the history of cinema—a work that moves between religious ecstasy, fantasy, and the origins of cinematic art.

🔷 Max Reubel (synthesizer, voice) and Semeli-Sofia Kostourou (cello) bring the film’s soundscape to life, combining original musical compositions with free improvisation. The meeting of their different musical backgrounds creates a union of expressive worlds, between structural clarity, intuition, and experimental expressiveness. The diverse sound sources and sound layers combine into a unified, dynamically changing sound environment, where image and sound interact.

🔷 Semeli-Sofia Kostourou is a cellist who studied at the Nuremberg Academy of Music. She works in the field of classical music, but explores the boundaries between classical practice and experimental sound forms. She collaborates with classical and contemporary music ensembles in Greece and Germany, participates in performances and recordings of musical works for theater and cinema, and performs as an onstage musician in theatrical productions.

🔷 Max Reubel is a visual and sound artist who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. His work focuses on the interaction and intersections between image, sound, and performance, exploring their relationship as a unified aesthetic experience. Using electroacoustic media and processed sound, he creates sound structures that move between experimental music and visual art.

Agile Experiments

Curated by multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave De Rose, “Agile Experiments” is an international collaborative project based on improvisational concepts. Agile Experiments brings together a diverse group of artists to create innovative and boundary-pushing experiential performances. 

With a career that has included collaborations with renowned artists like Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traore and Mark Ronson, amongst many others, De Rose has a wealth of experience to draw upon, but the focus of the performances is on the collective creativity of the ensemble and it’s interaction with the atoms of the space where it takes place.

Following his move to Rome, Dave is back in KET for a handful of select performances this season. These sporadic shows mark a new chapter, built on the foundation of his three-year monthly residency with more concentrated energy. For this performance he’s joined by Xenia Stathouli, Dimitra Kousteridou and Dimitris Foken.

Xenia Stathouli: dance, acrobatics

Dimitra Kousteridou: electronics

Dimitris Foken: violin, FX

Dave De Rose: bass

www.davederosemusic.bandcamp.com/album/agile-experiments-vol-2

With the slowness of divers

The performance “With the slowness of divers” is a silent music theatre performance for two musicians and one actress.

Its starting point is Darius Milhaud‘s Le Bœuf sur le Toit (1919) — a composition with intense irony and theatricality, which Jean Cocteau framed with a scenario of absurd theater, where the heroes resemble puppets and the scenes challenge the boundaries between music and action.

Having in their hands Cocteau’s surrealistic scenario, the duo tessera kappa set out to find the true ending to the story.

After years of research and sessions with psychologists and bartenders, political analysts, journalists and fortunetellers, it was revealed that a hundred years later a silent person and two musicians meet at the bar where Ligeti and Pasopoulos get their revenge on Milhaud.

The story continues at KET on Tuesday, November 18.

With the support of the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation.

🔷 Aris Troupakis was born in Athens in 1976 and is a graduate of the Drama School of the Art Theater, the National Theater’s Directing Workshop, and a member of the Director’s Lab at Lincoln Center Theater in New York. He has directed at the National Theatre of Greece, the Art Theatre, Theatro Kefallinias, Metaxourgeio Theatre, Theatre of Cycladon Street, Neos Kosmos Theatre, Aplo Theatro, Faust, Eler, Skrow Theater, and others. As an actor, he has participated in performances at the National Theater, the Art Theater, the Kefallinias Street Theater, the Athens Festival, the Acropolis, the Kykladon Street Theater, and others. He has also taught acting at the Drama School of the National Theater, the Athens Conservatoire, the Delos Drama School, the Praxi Epta Drama School, and the Peiraikos Syndesmos.

🔶 Amalia Tsekoura is a graduate of the Drama School of the National Theatre. As an actor, she has collaborated with directors Lefteris Voyatzis, Stathis Livathinos, Vangelis Theodoropoulos, Marianna Kalbari, Thodoris Abazis, Vasilis Mavrogeorgiou, Sofia Vgenopoulou, Stratis Panourios, Fenia Papadodima, Aris Troupakis, Nikos Mastorakis, Roula Pateraki, Takis Tzamaria, Lydia Koniordou, Eleni Georgopoulou, Dimos Avdeliotis, Giannis Paraskevopoulos, and others. She has participated in performances at the National Theater, the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the Neos Kosmos Theatre, the Art Theater, the Benaki Museum, the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, the Greek National Opera, and others. As an assistant director, she has collaborated with S. Vgenopoulou, M. Kalbari, and G. Chouvardas.

🔷 Eleni Choumou is a graduate of the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts of the University of West Attica and of the Drama School/Faculty of Fine Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, specializing in directing and theatre lighting, and of the postgraduate program “Lighting Design” at the Hellenic Open University. She has collaborated as a lighting designer with directors and artistic groups in organizations such as the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Greek National Opera, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Neon Foundation, the Onassis Cultural Center, the National Theater of Northern Greece (KTHBE), the National Theater, the Thessaloniki and Athens Concert Halls, the Thessaloniki State Orchestra, the Kalamaria Municipal Theatre “Melina Merkouri,” the Nikos Kazantzakis Theatre (Heraklion), and others.

🔶 The duo tessera kappa consists of accordionist Konstantinos Raptis and pianist Katerina Konstantourou. In 2023 they began searching the repertoire for the unusual combination of the two polyphonic instruments: concert accordion (free bass accordion) and piano. The duo explores the diversity of the instruments’ backgrounds through the interpretation of contemporary works, in which the composers use elements from folk music. At the same time, it seeks to interact with other art disciplines.

🌐 www.duotesserakappa.com

Poets Missing

The concert The Beauty of the Husband and other experiments in guided improvisation” is the meeting on stage of Joris Beets (delta harp+pedals), Tim Ward (live electronics), Dora Panagopoulou (piano/shruti/electronics) and Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (mandolin). An evening of improvised music that seeks to initiate a dialogue between improvised sound, fragments from non-narrative films, and excerpts from Anne Carson’s mind-blowing The Beauty of the Husband.

Anne Carson’s ‘husband’; you mean the poem – not the actual husband? I kind of like the confusion.

“Shall we sharpen our eyes and circle closer to the beauty of the husband – carefully, for he was on fire.

Under him the floor was on fire,

the world was on fire,

truth was on fire”

“A wound gives off its own light
surgeons say.
If all the lamps in the house were turned out
you could dress this wound
by what shines from it.”

Joris Beets, is an improvising musician, designer and inventor of Delta harp (www.delta-harp.com/delta), an instrument that seeks to redefine the way we think about harp. He is a member of Orchestra Elastique (www.orchestraelastique.com). He spends most of his summer time in Serifos. www.jorisbeets.com/live

Tim Ward is a sound artist with a background in electroacoustic music composition and live electronics. He is involved with a wide range of projects, most recently focusing on soundscapes, mapping and their relationship to electroacoustic composition. He is a member of the Medea Electronique collective as well as Spiza and teaches music at Deree College, Athens. www.medeaelectronique.com/members

Dora Panagopoulou is a composer of acoustic music who has increasingly incorporated electronic elements in her music. Much of her recent compositional activity has been linked to Spiza, an artistic society bringing together diverse artists to work on common larger-scale projects. She has a keen interest in the intersection between compositional and educational work and teaches music at Pierce College. www.spiza.gr/sound-examples , www.armuresprovisoires.com/diving.php 

Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, studied the mandolin with Alison Stephens (London) and Vivi Geka (Athens). When he is not playing the mandolin he is researching and teaching creative music education focusing on the possible conjectures between education, philosophy, political philosophy and creative music making. www.armuresprovisoires.com/mishearings.php , www.youtube.com/watch?v=AruoUSAQsLk

ION presents “Soundscapes” live

ION presents live excerpts from the albums “Soundscapes Vol. 1 & 2” for the first time in a single ambient set.

By connecting the intertwined sound paths of “Soundscapes,” he creates an auditory journey between field recordings, films, electronic instruments, and live improvisational transformations. The “soundscapes” of Soundscapes are reimagined on stage as a map of memories, in a fluid environment where sound, space, and time merge. ION reinterprets the material from the albums, combining analog instruments, electronic soundscapes, and improvisation with Dinos Zouberis on electric bass and electronics. Together, they create a unified listening environment that transforms into a living collage of soundscapes, memory, and rhythmic silence.

ION (aka Giannis Papaioannou) is an electronic music producer based in Athens. As a composer, he has also led the industrial band Mechanimal since 2011. Since 1985, he has released 21 albums under the names Rehearsed Dreams, Spider’s Web, Raw, ION, and Mechanimal. In 1991, he co-founded Elfish Records, an independent record label in Athens, focusing on new electronic sounds from local and international artists. For three decades, his sound has ranged between ambient, electronic, and “soundscape” composition. With his two albums, “Soundscapes Vol. 1 & 2”, he mapped out a world of field recordings, synthetic landscapes, and moments of silence transformed into sound.

www.ionmusik.bandcamp.com/album/soundscapes-vol-2

www.instagram.com/ion_/

Three Times Three #2

The monthly event “Three Times Three” brings together artists from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music. Three musicians and three dancers meet on stage, without rehearsal. At the beginning of the evening, three random pairs are formed by drawing lots, and they improvise for 15 minutes. At the end, everyone participates in a 30-minute collective improvisation.

The artistic curator is composer and researcher Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos), who since the late 1990s has been exploring the relationship between sound, materiality, and space — both through his discography and live performances, and as a lecturer at the Department of Music Technology and Acoustics at ELMEPA.

In the second event of the season, the following artists will meet on stage:

• Vivi Boutati, dancer trained at the State School of Dance and the Jasmine Vardimon Company (United Kingdom), with many years of experience in dance and theater productions in Greece and Europe.

• Chrysanthi Fytiza, choreographer and performer, member of the Satanellas duo, active in the field of contemporary dance as a creator and teacher, combining humor, physicality, and theatricality.

 Daphne Boukouvala, graduate of the State School of Dance, who is active in the field of physical theater and education.

• Byronas Dolas, guitarist on the improvisational and jazz scene, with three solo albums and collaborations with many musicians on the Greek scene.

• Niki Kokkoli, saxophonist with an active presence on the international free improvisation scene, with appearances at festivals and venues such as Café Oto and Fylkingen, as well as a recent solo project for saxophone and electronics.

• Spyros Polychronopoulos, on electronics.

Spoken Maik #2

Every month, starting in March 2023, KET hosts Spoken Maik, a poetry and spoken word event curated by Niki Papadogiannaki and Stavros Anagnou.

Open to all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitals, performances, and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian, and Galician (Spain).

The genres are equally diverse: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and welcoming space that allows everyone to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

The second Spoken Maik of the season will be hosted at KET on Thursday, November 13, 2025.

Those who wish to participate should arrive half an hour before the start time and add their name to the list of participants. Each act may last up to five minutes.

Almwaya (Maya Aghniadis & Wael Sami Elkholy)

Almwaya is a collaborative project by Maya Aghniadis (Flugen) and Wael Sami Elkholy, two composers with distinct yet intertwined musical identities.

They met in Switzerland in 2020, instantly connecting through sound and spirit.

Their creative dialogue began with their first composition, Bea.

After two long-awaited years, Almwaya performs in Athens for the first time. The city where their debut album “Riding a Camel in the Middle of the Sea” was born. Emerging from a two-week residency, the duo shaped an eight-track electro-acoustic work inspired by the Mediterranean and its surrounding landscapes.

Maya Aghniadis (Flugen): piano, guitar, flute, synthesizer, electronics, voice

Wael Sami Elkholy: oud, voice

🌐 almwaya.bandcamp.com/album/riding-a-camel-in-the-middle-of-the-sea

🔷 Wael Sami Elkholy is an Egyptian composer, singer, and performer whose work bridges classical training with experimental soundscapes. Rooted in theatre and contemporary performance, his music explores emotional depth through voice and improvisation. Wael’s compositions reflect a deep connection to identity, memory, and the transformative power of sound.

🌐 wael-sami.com

🔷 Maya Aghniadis (Flugen) is a Lebanese multi-instrumentalist, composer, and sound designer. Her work weaves organic and electronic elements into immersive, cinematic worlds of sound. Through evolving textures that balance structure and spontaneity, she creates sonic narratives that invite deep listening and emotional resonance.

🌐 flugenmusic.com

Budokan Boys / Eiger Drums Propaganda

The Budokan Boys (USA) duo will be performing live their new album, “THE OOZE”. Eiger Drums Propaganda (France) will open the evening with a solo set.

🔷 Budokan Boys is the trickster music project of two Americans, Jeff T Byrd and Michael Jeffrey Lee. The duo’s songs probe loneliness, trauma, delusion, and love with an auteurist vision and brutal sense of humor; their fierce and darkly comic live sets combine off-kilter electronics, bizarre narratives, seedy saxophone and squealing slide guitar. Formed in New Orleans in 2014, they’ve released albums with Tymbal Tapes, Baba Vanga, Ever/Never, and Strategic Tape Reserve.

Budokan Boys return, summoning eight tracks of surreal no-wave psychedelic folklore: creation stories, damnation stories, tales of magic and cosmic horror. The grand, wide-angle arrangements—pulsing electronics punctuated by bleating horns, hyperreal foley samples, and drunk-stumbling rhythms—conjure up a warped, dream-state sonic landscape perfectly suited to the lyrics’ bent, chimerical legends and alternate mythologies. Like a trickster apparition, “THE OOZE” leads the listener deep into the moonlit woods of the mind—full of enchanted artefacts, malicious entities, and sublime secrets—with no real intention of bringing them back.

www.budokanboys.club

🔶 Eiger Drums Propaganda is an electronic music project led by Louis Ebola, half of The Pilotwings. Formed in collaboration with various musicians, the collective has made a Triptych of 3 albums on Macadam Mambo. Those three opus lead to a psychedelic and progressive ascension melting krautrock, tribal rituals and dark experiments. This artistic journey led Louis Ebola towards the creation of a solo live set. Throughout the show, he presents original compositions, playing with his electronic gears, electric guitar, wind instruments and wide range of vocal experimentations.

2024 gave birth to the latest release of the project: Live Excerpts, a collection of favorite tracks that Eiger Drums Propaganda performed during the past 5 years – providing a few hints of what could be expected
on stage.

Live performance being just a part of the persona, Louis has also been a record collector, a DJ and a music explorer for more than 15 years. His attitude behind the decks comes with a true commitment to the dancefloor in the most creative and personal way. A knowledge acquired thru the diversity of the venues experienced, from underground experimental music gathering to massive hard dance festivals.

www.bambooshows.bandcamp.com/album/live-excerpts

“Sound Dreams of Istanbul”

Musician and director Anıl Eraslan presents the documentary “Sound Dreams of Istanbul” (2025, 70’), dedicated to Istanbul’s experimental and improvisational music community.
This is followed by an improvised set by him on the cello and Merve Salgar on the tambur — two musicians who divide their time between Strasbourg, Berlin, and Istanbul.

◍ The event offers a unique immersion into the heart of Istanbul’s contemporary experimental music scene — a vibrant ecosystem of artists who transform noise into poetry and chaos into dialogue.

“Sound Dreams of Istanbul” serves both as a valuable record of this community and as a cinematic elegy on the relationship between dreams and music; a poetic exploration of how improvisation can bridge the gap between the unconscious and reality.

◍ Between interview, performance, and ethnographic observation, “Sound Dreams of Istanbul” is a documentary about Istanbul’s experimental and improvisational music scene. Inspired by a dream the director had, the film connects bits of Zoom chats and snapshots from everyday hangouts with musicians.

The result is reminiscent of the way Jeremy Marre approached music as a living landscape — a city that dreams through its sounds.

Artists such as Şevket Akıncı, Alper Maral, Oğuz Büyükberber, Tolga Tüzün, Korhan Erel, Volkan Ergen, SAVT, Hazal Döleneken, Koi Failure, Özün Usta, Diana Petrushka and the collective A.I.D (Art is Dead) are asked to narrate and reenact their “sound dreams” in unusual urban environments.

Through this phantasmagorical journey, Istanbul is revealed as a multi-layered soundscape, where sounds accumulate, collide, and resonate.
In this polyphonic perspective, nostalgia for the city’s past—which has seen many of the film’s characters emigrate in recent years—meets a new creative energy that seeks different ways to exist and be heard.

🔗 Website: www.sounddreamsofistanbul.com
🎬 Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ47EbIN3hY

🔷 Merve Salgar and Anıl Eraslan are two musicians of Turkish origin who divide their time between Strasbourg, Berlin, and Istanbul. Their musical practices lie at the intersection of traditional and improvisational music.
Merve works both on new forms of composition for traditional instruments (such as with the SAVT trio or her duo with Zoe Hesselton) and on more classical repertoires (such as Karmanota).
As a cellist, Anıl has traveled a path that stretches from Eastern music to free music (with collaborations such as Fred Frith and Tom Malmendier), often touching on the field of contemporary music.
“Sound Dreams of Istanbul” is his first feature film.

🔗 www.mervesalgar.com
🔗 www.anileraslan.com

Sound of Color #2

The audiovisual project “Sound of Color” continues at KET for the eleventh year, continuing to explore the encounters between sound and image. Between improvisation, electronic music, psychedelia, and ambient aesthetics, this evening of “Sound of Color” brings together four artists from different fields. Jannis Anastasakis, guitarist and creator of handmade JAM Pedals, and visual artist Natalia Manta, who combines sculpture with projection and moving images, collaborate with New Zealand saxophonist Hayden Chisholm and audiovisual artist Petros Kolotouros. Together, they create an environment where sound, light, and movement function as elements of a unified, living experiment.

🔷 Hayden Chisholm is a New Zealand musician, composer, and one of the most distinctive saxophone voices in the world. His unmistakable sound and deep understanding of a myriad of musical forms have led him to perform as a soloist all over the world for more than 30 years. He studied music in Cologne, where he worked under the guidance of Frank Gratkowski and Mauricio Kagel. During his studies, he not only performed many of the most important contemporary works, such as Luciano Berio’s “Sequenza IXa,” but also began to use contemporary compositional techniques to develop his own language of improvisation. He developed a radically new microtonal system for the saxophone, which he presented on his debut solo CD, “Circe,” in 1995. After further private studies in India and Japan, he became a student of artist Rebecca Horn, with whom he continued to collaborate closely for 16 years, composing music for numerous installations around the world. After moving to Belgrade in 2019, he founded the Balkan Academy of Music Club, which has become one of the most important venues for the underground music scene in the Western Balkans.

🔶 Audiovisual artist Petros Kolotouros explores the sensory possibilities of combining image and sound. He has directed music videos, video dance and video art, as well as projections for music concerts. Documentaries he has directed or for which he has been director of photography have won awards at international festivals in Greece and abroad. He is a drummer in two active bands and a graduate of the University of the Aegean’s master’s program in “Culture and Documentary Film Production” and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Patras. In both music and cinema, he applies and explores the concept of free improvisation.

🔷 Natalia Manta is an artist based in Athens. Although clay is her primary medium, she also skillfully uses metal, wax, photosensitive chemicals, and video. Collaboration with various artistic disciplines is an integral part of her practice. From 2017 to 2020, she taught sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the same university where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. For the past 10 years, she has been co-organizing and curating the audiovisual improvisational events “Sound of Color” with Jannis Anastasakis. Her works have been presented in exhibitions and institutions in Greece and internationally. In 2022, she was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS and has participated in important residency programs abroad. Her creations can be found in private and public collections.
www.nataliamanta.com

🔶 One of the most distinctive guitarists and musicians on the Greek improvisational scene, Jannis Anastasakis has developed a recognizable personal sound that moves between ambient and psychedelia, balancing melody and noise. He is the founder of JAM pedals, a company that manufactures handmade pedals used by leading musicians (Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Daniel Lanois, John Medeski, Nile Rodgers, Lee Ranaldo, etc.). He has collaborated with important artists from the Greek and international music scene, such as Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Giuseppe Doronzo, Savina Yannatou, Haig Yazdjian, Thodoris Rellos, Michalis Siganidis, Floros Floridis, Lena Platonos, Spyros Polychronopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Haris Lambrakis, and others. He is developing the audiovisual project “Sound of Color” with sculptor Natalia Manta on live visuals.
www.jannisanastasakis.com

Leonidas Danezos feat. Petros Kolotouros & Amélie Joannides

A performance based on the convergence of three approaches: sound, image, and movement. Leonidas Danezos, musician and sound designer, draws on tradition and electronic music, combining the delicate resonance of the baglama and Persian santur with analog synthesizers and effects. Petros Kolotouros composes vivid visual environments and sound textures, transforming reality into poetic, cinematic gestures through the camera, sound, and light. Dancer Amélie Joannides, with a background in classical dance (Opéra de Paris) and physical theater, brings movement as an element of live response, transforming the stage into a place of constant negotiation between body, sound, and image.

🔷 Using analog audio devices, Greek-British musician, composer, and sound designer Leonidas Danezos has composed original music for award-winning films, documentaries, art films, theater productions, and educational projects. Active since 1985, he is a founding member of bands such as Alcalica and Superwave and has released thirteen vinyl albums. The London electronic scene of the 1990s, musical machines, and his passion for traditional instruments come together in a transformative sound experience without borders.
www.instagram.com/leonidas_danezos

🔷 Audiovisual artist Petros Kolotouros explores the sensory possibilities of combining image and sound. He has directed music videos, video dance and video art, as well as projections for music concerts. Documentaries he has directed or for which he has been director of photography have won awards at international festivals in Greece and abroad. He is a drummer in two active bands and a graduate of the University of the Aegean’s master’s program in “Culture and Documentary Film Production” and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Patras. In both music and cinema, he applies and explores the concept of free improvisation.

🔷 Amélie Joannides is a dancer, actress and performer. After more than ten years dancing with the Paris National Opera, she left the classical stage to dive into the realms of music, movement and trance. Her work dissolves borders between dance and sound, creating hypnotic rituals where the body becomes both instrument and oracle. She is also acting in the Emmy award winning serie” Etoile ” and while she works worldwide, she now establishes her base between Athens and Paris.
www.instagram.com/amelie.joannides

“Facing the Forests” — KIMI ensemble

The trio KIMI Ensemble presents “Facing the Forests”, a sonic and scenic experience at the meeting of accordion, percussion and voice. The title refers to the new work by Berlin based Israeli composer Udi Perlman exploring the forceful silencing of the Palestinian historical narrative.

How do we connect to nature and our inner self, in a world of conflict? Can silence be heard? Emerging from the poetry of Kostis Palamas, Sappho, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Refaat Alareer, the mosaic of this concert is designed upon these questions.

The concert showcases works created for the trio since their formation in 2018, by composers Christos Farmakis, Kolbeinn Bjarnason, Jeppe Ernst and Nick Martin.

🔷 A ‘kimi’ in Icelandic is a ‘small and narrow corner’. This reflects rather nicely with KIMI’s peculiar instrumentation and esoteric repertoire. Based in Copenhagen, KIMI specializes in performing new compositions and their own arrangements of folk music from their native countries, Iceland and Greece. They often engage in interdisciplinary projects, recently as part of the Nordic Pavillion in Biennale Arte 2024, Venice. KIMI’s next project will take place in Rome with the Norwegian theater company “House of Stories”.

Katerina Anagnostidou – percussion
Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson – accordion
Þórgunnur Anna Örnólfsdóttir – mezzo-soprano

www.instagram.com/kimi.ensemble
www.facebook.com/Kimi.ensemble

Creative Guitar: Kawol Samarqandi / Giannis Arapis

The “Creative Guitar” project is an initiative by guitarist Giannis Arapis to actively engage with and promote a different style and philosophy around the instrument.

The pillars of Creative Guitar consist of a series of concerts and seminars aimed at highlighting the connection between study and research and artistic practice.

The concerts will feature international guitarists with their own unique sound and style.

Guitarist Kawol Samarqandi from Japan will participate in the first concert, while Giannis Arapis will open the evening.

🔷 Kawol Samarqandi joined Tokyo’s new wave music scene at the age of 17.
He then appeared as a casual singer-songwriter in various venues.
At the age of 20, he traveled around North Africa (Tunisia) and the Mediterranean, where he studied traditional Arabic music with Ali Sriti.
After performing solo concerts in theaters, festivals, television appearances, etc., he returned to Japan, working on commercial projects (e.g., city pop) as a guitarist, arranger, composer, lyricist, and singer—in recording studios, on the radio, and on tour.
In 1997, he founded his record label PLAKA FOR EARDRUM.
In the new century, he embarked on his life’s work: creating non-ethnic, “poor” music, improvising only with his trembling guitar and voice.
He collaborates with musicians across borders (sometimes in person, sometimes online), creating works and performances in various places.
In 2007, he formed the duo REFUGEES with Mary Meacha Goldfish.
In August 2021, Ramble Records released the vinyl album “silence, notes and structures 1”.
In April 2024, he was invited by the Sharjah Art Foundation for solo concerts and workshops by REFUGEES in the United Arab Emirates.
In the same month, Ramble Records released the CD “Noli me tangere”.
In October 2025, his new vinyl album entitled “energeia” will be released, recorded in a historic venue in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

🌐 kawolsamarqandi88059347.wordpress.com
🎧 kawolsamarqandi-ramble-records.bandcamp.com/album/noli-me-tangere

🔶 Guitarist Giannis Arapis plays, composes, and improvises experimental rock and jazz music, creating a kind of melodic chaos and thus contributing to the establishment of the electric guitar as the melodic voice of avant-garde music.
Among his main influences are Béla Bartók, Dmitri Shostakovich, and the early free jazz saxophonists.
He has played and recorded with Noël Akchoté, Mats Gustafsson, Eva Lindal, and Johan Berthling.
He is currently a member of the bands Vasilaraps, Ramdat, and Mammock.

🎧 giannisarapis.bandcamp.com/music

Noisy Mics

Following the four-day workshop “Friction as Form: A Workshop on Writing, Sound, and Collaboration” (held at Goethe-Institut Athens, 9, 10, 15, and 16 October), which focuses on the ways in which “mistakes, interruptions, or misunderstandings might help us create something new,” Noisy Mics is an invitation to a collective, live, multilingual feedback loop of voice and sound.

It will take place at KET on Thursday, 16 October, and will be facilitated by E Scourti as part of the Noisy Words Festival.

Noisy Mics is a form of polyphonic refusal: a collective effort that seeks to make sense of noise both as a disruption and as a breach of communication, with political and aesthetic potential that challenges systems of coherence and control.

Holding space for diverse languages, media, and forms — poetry, spoken word, sound and music improvisation, stories — Noisy Mics welcomes both first-timers and experienced performers.

In this special edition, readings will spark impromptu sonic responses, creating a space where words glitch, echo, and resonate.

The Noisy Words Festival is a collaboration between the Goethe-Institut Athen and KET, and is curated by musician and sound artist evi nakou.

• Participation
Anyone wishing to join can sign up at the door thirty minutes before the start. Performances are limited to seven minutes each, to maintain a good flow between acts.

• Sound & Technical Setup
Artists planning to present a more sound-based or musical piece are kindly asked to contact us in advance, so that we can prepare for short setups and a brief soundcheck on the day. Deadline for sending any technical requirements: two days before the event.
For all technical enquiries, please write to: info@polychorosket.gr

• Schedule
Start ≈ 21:00
Break ≈ 22:00–22:15
Second set ≈ 22:15–23:00 (depending on the number of participants)

📍 Location: TV Control Centre (KET, Kypseli, Athens)
🧭 Facilitation: E Scourti
🕘 Date / Time: Thursday, 16 October 2025 · 21:00
💬 Language: English (mainly, but multilingual interventions welcome)
💸Admission: Free

More information about all festival events: www.goethe.de/ins/gr/el/sta/ath/ver.cfm?event_id=26986102

“Semazen” │ George Klountzos & Semazen Ensemble

The title Semazen comes from the Persian word Sama-zan (samazan), which refers to the dancer of Sama. Sama (from Arabic) means “listening,” while zan (from Persian) means “one who does.” Sama is a form of active meditation that originated in Sufi circles. Through listening to music, rotating the body, and abandoning the ego, the practitioner seeks union with the Divine, in an act that symbolizes the orbit of the planets around the Sun.

George Klountzos-Chrysidis is a drummer and producer from Thessaloniki. In his first solo album, entitled Semazen, he attempts to explore the boundaries and connections between jazz, hip hop, and house music through a broad experimental approach.

After the album’s release, Klountzos-Chrysidis founded the Semazen Ensemble. The ensemble moves in a colorful soundscape that combines elements of jazz, broken beat, house, hip hop, dub, and other musical genres, with the aim of exploring the possibilities of rhythm, improvisation, and collective musical expression.

Each live performance of the ensemble becomes a liberating experience, where music serves as a common ground for connection and authentic expression. The Semazen Ensemble was born out of the needs of the community it serves—creating a vibrant space for communication, participation, and coexistence.

The album has already been featured on major radio stations such as: Radio AlharaSoho RadioStegi RadioThe Boat Pod (Marcia Carr – Take The Con) and Comala Radio.

  • Tasos Korkovelos – keys
  • Dimitris Christonis – bass
  • George Klountzos-Chrysidis – drums

www.georgeklountzos.bandcamp.com/album/semazen

“Chants to the Moon” | Marissa Bili & Barry Yuk Bun Wan

“Chants to the Moon” is a dialogue of breath and stillness, voice and vibration, shadow and light — a duet by Marissa Billi and Barry Yuk Bun Wan.

This will be preceded by a solo set by Barry Yuk Bun Wan entitled “Human Soul”.

🔷 “Chants to the moon” – Marissa Bili & Barry Wan

Marissa Bili, whose artistry moves between classical precision and the boundless freedom of improvisation, shapes her voice into fragile echoes and luminous threads—woven through clarinet, loops, resonances, and extended colors. Barry Wan, responds with shifting soundscapes of samplers, sound objects, shakuhachi, otamatone, singing bowls, and gesture-controlled electronics.

Together they trace the contours of silence, unfolding sound like petals beneath the moon. Their improvisation evokes the essence of wabi-sab(三法印): beauty in impermanence, presence in absence, fullness within emptiness. Voice and resonance dissolve into one meditative current—inviting the audience into a space where listening becomes a quiet form of contemplation, and where every vibration fades gently into the stillness of night. 

🔶 “Human Soul” – Barry Wan (solo set)

A meditative journey into the Human Soul—the dwelling of consciousness, emotion, and personal essence. Guided by Taoist principles, this solo unfolds as a comprovisation: a structured sonic framework flows beneath live improvisation, creating a dialogue between the fixed and the spontaneous.

Using samplers, sound objects, shakuhachi, otamatone, singing bowls, and gesture-controlled electronics, Wan sculpts a living soundscape that mirrors the natural rhythms of life—fluid, cyclical, and ever-changing.

Each sound, each resonance, is fleeting—like a thought passing, a ripple on water, or the shimmer of sunlight through leaves—inviting listeners into a reflective space where presence and perception merge.

🔷 Marissa Bili is a voice artist whose work spans between performance and composition. She studied classical singing at the State Conservatory of Tyrol in Innsbruck. After her studies, she focused on free vocal improvisation, extended vocal techniques, and vocal traditions from around the world.

She has performed at events including:

Borderline Festival (Onassis Stegi, 2023),

Waves Festival (Vienna, 2024),

From Voice to Noise (Goethe-Institut, 2024) κ.ά.

In 2025, she composed music for the following works:

• “Elefantas” (choreography: Angelos Papadopoulos – Elefsina: Urtopias)

• “Autumn Youth” (directed by Anthi Founta – All of Greece, One Culture)

• and the vocal compositions for “Faust” (directed by Aris Biniaris – National Theater of Greece).

🔶 Barry Yuk Bun Wan (Hong Kong, 1983) is a Czech-based composer, sonic artist, guitarist, and versatile musician whose works span diverse genres and media, performed internationally across the USA, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

He has received numerous awards, including First Prize at Musica Nova 2018, and has been featured at prominent festivals and symposiums such as:

• PAYSAGES | COMPOSÉS (2023 & 2025, Γαλλία)

• Penn State University International New Music Festival (ΗΠΑ)

His studies include:

• Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (Brno)

• Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

• University Jan Evangelista Purkyně

• University of London

• London College of Music

• Berklee College of Music

• Arizona State University

• University of West Bohemia (Pilsen)

Three Times Three #1

The monthly event “Three Times Three” brings together artists from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, with the aim of creating a common code of communication that applies for the duration of the meeting.

Three musicians meet three dancers each time. At the beginning of the evening, three random pairs are formed by drawing lots, and they improvise for 15 minutes. The evening closes with a 30-minute collective improvisation.

“Three Times Three” is curated by composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos).

The first event of the season features Sofia Markaki (dance), Petrina Giannakou (dance), Natasa Gatsiou (dance), Simos Riniotis (drums), Fausto Sierakowski (saxophone), and Dimos Vryzas (violin).

🔷 Sofia Markaki is a dancer and dance teacher. She was born in Athens and studied at Horohronos . She specializes in contemporary dance and, in recent years, has been working as both a teacher and performer, taking part in performances and artistic projects in Athens. She has also attended workshops abroad, collaborating with international choreographers and companies, further enriching her artistic journey.

🔶 Dancer Petrina Giannakou works between Athens and Brussels. She participates in the international project “Lamenta” and presents solo performances. She has collaborated with important contemporary dance creators.

🔷 Natasa Gatsiou is a dancer and dance/Pilates instructor. She graduated from the Rallou Manou Dance School and has been teaching contemporary dance, ballet, and Pilates since 2009. She has collaborated with dance companies such as Exis Dance Company and Compagnie DK-BEL, and has participated in international festivals and workshops both in Greece and abroad. In recent years, she has been involved in European programs focusing on inclusion through dance and collaborates with organizations from France and other countries.

🔶 Simos Riniotis is a musician/improviser. Using drums and various small objects, he attempts to create soundscapes by exploring the boundaries of sound and genres. He has collaborated with important musicians and sound artists in Greece and abroad. His work has been presented at various institutions and festivals such as the National Theater, the Onassis Foundation, the Aarhus Jazz Festival, and others.

🔷 Fausto Sierakowski received a Diploma in Classical Saxophone from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia and in 2012 obtained a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory. During his stay in America and until his return to Europe in 2014, he performed and recorded with musicians such as Matt Moran, Anthony Coleman, Joe Morris, Matt Darriau, Satoshi Takeshi, Hayden Chisholm, and Axel Dörner. In 2016, he moved to Greece and since then has been participating in the musical ensembles of Evgenios Voulgaris and Yannis Dionysios, as well as in several bands, such as: the Fausto Sierakowski Trio (with Panagiotis Kaitatzis and Stratis Skourkeas) and People of the Wind (with Alexandros Rizopoulos and James Wylie).

🔶 Dimos Vryzas is a violinist, improviser, sound artist, and performer born in Thessaloniki. His work focuses on free improvisation and experimental music. His sound has been influenced by classical and traditional music, as well as rock, noise, and ambient. His current interests lie in exploring the sonic limits of the violin, experimenting with the contrast between acoustic and electronic sound, and searching for new modes of musical expression. Creating podcasts, soundscapes, working with noise, and composing music for film and theater are also at the core of his work.

Sound Subjects – S.t.m.C x Stellka

S.t.m.C. and Stellka present an experimental live audio performance based on field recordings. Through a back-to-back flow, they weave two parallel bodies of sound that converse and collide. Gradually, their sonic worlds intertwine, unfolding a shared narrative of shifting landscapes, textures, and rhythms. As the entanglements deepen, unexpected encounters emerge that invite into an open field of exploration.

🔷 S.t.m.C (Athens) is a musician, sound artist, and field recordist. With a background in architecture and urban culture her work explores the sonic identity of urban and natural environments, the timbres and rhythms of everyday life, inviting audiences to experience sound as a transformative, spatial, illuminating and emotional encounter.
🔗 www.instagram.com/jimmyhacka

🔶 Stellka (Athens) is an artist with a background in Informatics and Media Art. Her work consists mainly of electroacoustic and ambient compositions based on experimentations using electronics, field and voice recordings, percussion, string instruments, synths, toys, voice messages and more. In her practice she is interested in improvisation, intuitive playing and variations.
🔗 www.instagram.com/stelloid

Inside the minefield, they told me I would learn to dance

What time did you go to his house?

Did he invite you there?

What color was the sofa in the living room?

Where was the bedroom?

Are you sure it was on the right side of the hallway?

Did you resist?

What did you say?

Did you say it loudly?

Are you sure he heard you?

A performance about sexual trauma as a turning point in the subject’s biography and its imprint on the body, sexuality, psyche, memory, and relationships. A monologue that focuses on the system of power that evaluates, grades, and classifies victims as “ideal victims,” “lesser victims,” or “non-victims,” shaping the terms of their symbolic extermination. A monologue about strategies for empowering individuals who have suffered sexual abuse and about the transition from the identity of victim to that of survivor.

The work is inspired by a real event: the rape of a gay boy, which came to light in the context of the Greek #MeToo movement. With his consent, his testimony is dramatized through a fictionalized transcription. This allows for a broader socio-political reflection on the limits and violations of the body, as well as the processing and transformation of traumatic events, with a critical eye on systemic gender, class, and sexual power relations.

*The title of the work comes from Ocean Vuong’s poem “Tell Me Something Good” translated by Dimitris Mavros (Gutenberg Publications).

*We would like to thank Antipodes Publications for granting us permission to use excerpts from Édouard Louis’ book “History of Violence”.

*The performace is in the greek language.

*The performace is suitable for people over 17 years old.

Edvina Fahlqvist – “A Thousand Windows” | The Deep Ends

Following her first two releases, “Augury” (2020) and “Heart of Target” (2022), Swedish electroacoustic experimental musician, singer, and sound artist Edvina Fahlqvist presents her new, first full-length album, “A Thousand Windows” live for the first time.

Edvina Fahlqvist is a Swedish electronic music producer and electroacoustic experimental musician, vocalist, and sound designer based between Spain and Berlin. In her work she creates ambient and noise soundscapes, using elements of hyper processed organic found sounds and field recordings. She combines elements of drone, noise, texture and tone color, creating a complex, living sonic world that is at the same time synthetic yet with very human elements.

The evening opens with the new quartet The Deep Ends, making its first public appearance. It consists of Penny Giannorou (electric guitar), Giorgos Karoumpalos (classical guitar), Sofia Alamani Nathanailidou (flute), and Myrsini Kalle (synthesizer). The Deep Ends create improvised soundscapes where acoustic and electronic worlds meet. Drawing on ambient, classical, and minimalist influences, their music balances spontaneity with space, listening closely to each other to shape evolving textures and moods.

🔗 www.edvinafahlqvist.bandcamp.com

📷 Photo: Maria Louceiro

Mermaids Are Real

The duo Mermaids Are Real presents material from their debut album of the same name, released in April 2025 by Adventurous Music (Leipzig), as well as tracks intended for future releases.

🔷 Mermaids Are Real is a collaboration between Niki Dimitriadi (vocals, live-looping, fx) and Selfish Limbs (analog synthesizer, fx), both based in Thessaloniki. Their album explores themes such as loneliness, love, and death—striking a balance between existential tension and moments of playful innocence.

Niki Dimitriadi combines spoken word vocals and live looping, while Selfish Limbs creates soundscapes with analog synthesizers and effects.

The compositions are characterized by drone atmospheres, repetitions, and improvisational interventions, where fairy tales and storytelling meet dark soundscapes—a musical landscape where magic and reality challenge each other.

🔗 www.adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/mermaids-are-real

🔗 www.instagram.com/mermaids_.are_.real

🔗 www.selfishlimbs.bandcamp.com

🔗 www.adventurousmusic.com

UNDERTHUMBS

After a first series of sold-out performances in May 2025, Underthumbs returns to KET for two unique performances.

How many bpm does it take to break the stone? How many feet below the ground do you do your most frantic dance? How many thumbs do you have to lift to catch your breath?

Underthumbs is a handmade choreographic work for those who live, work and have fun underground. A work dedicated to subterranean human activity – invisible, but absolutely essential to the functioning of the ‘above world’ as we know it.

Approaching the term underground both aesthetically and realistically – through the reality of work and fun underground – the two choreographers create an underground world where bodies vibrate from the impact, while thumbs always remain raised. Bodies that claim their space, bodies that fall but continue. Between shovels, breaths and beats, the boundaries of the real and the imaginary blur and the fatigue of work gives way to a strange, crouching, crazy dance.

We would like to thank Mavra Gidia for kindly providing the short film “Canary”.

Many thanks to: Lia Hamilothori, Margie and Ioanna Trikka, George Dimopoulos, Anna Nikolaou, Angelos Kottas, Spyros Kouvaras, Korina Kotsiri, Fotini Banou, Dimitris Alexakis and all the contributors without whose valuable contribution this project might have remained just an idea.

A smoke machine and strobe lights are used in the performance.

Škrijelj / Malmendier / Vryzas & Viki Steiri

Two sets of experimental sound and free improvisation: the trio Škrijelj / Malmendier / Vryzas and Viki Steiri present their own separate projects, while at the end of the evening all the musicians come together on stage for a collective improvisational composition.

🔷 The Škrijelj /Malmendier/ Vryzas trio was formed in 2023 in France. Since then, the 3 improvisers have performed numerous concerts in experimental music venues and international festivals in Europe. Their sound is characterized by a lively dialogue between acoustic and electronic, where traditional techniques overlap and transform into new textures, ensembles and intensities. The Škrijelj /Malmendier/ Vryzas trio appears for the first time in Greece and specifically in Athens and the stage of the TV Control Center, where they will present a set of electroacoustic free improvisation.

Emilie Škrijelj: accordion, electronics
Tom Malmendier: drums, percussion
Dimos Vryzas: violin, FX

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYHl3YbhMu0&t=477s

Emilie Škrijelj: explores the accordion in its smallest folds and uses it both as a percussion instrument and a generator of electroacoustic materials. Inspired by her research around the turntable, modular synths and field recording, she brings the accordion to the abstract territory of electronics by manipulating the bellows, rubbing its contours and exploring its extremities.
www.emilieskrijelj.com

Tom Malmendier: born in 1984, he started playing music very late and completely by accident, believing that with a guitar in hand, you looked (a little) cooler. Nothing serious came of it until 2006, when a very good, somewhat tired friend accidentally left his drum kit in Tom’s living room. Today, Tom is mainly active in experimental and improvisational music. What interests him most are musical and human encounters and the mixing of scientific disciplines.
www.tomalmendier.com

Dimos Vryzas: is a violinist, improviser, sound artist and composer from Thessaloniki, Greece. For several years now his focus in music has moved toward free improvisation. With a unique approach that comes out of a comprehensive spectrum of influences, from classical and folk music to rock, noise and ambient music, he is interested in exploring the limits of his instrument, working with the contrasts of acoustic / electric sound and exploring new ways of expression within music. While the violin is the main source of his sound, he often uses his voice as well as other instruments. Creating various soundscapes, podcasts, working with noises, composing music for film and theater are also at the core of his work.
www.dimosvryzas.com

🔶 Viki Steiri: is a composer, cellist and interdisciplinary artist with an interest in experimental electronic music, free improv and composition for other media. Her first solo LP ‘Βalm’ was released digitally by Alien Jams and on vinyl by Rekem Records in 2024. She is a member of the improvised music/art group Ectopia and has collaborated with visual artists such as Monster Chetwynd, Urara Tsuchiya, musicians including Saint Abdullah, Sofia Jernberg and on releases such as ‘Future Chorus’ with Eleni Ikoniadou and ‘sex robot’ with Sidsel Meineche Hansen. In the past she has co-hosted a radio show on NTS radio with Chloe Frieda and performed with the Eddie Prévost improvisation workshop. She has performed at Le Guess Who? Festival, Cafe OTO, ICA (London), New Museum (New York), KW (Βerlin), among others. She is based between London and Athens.

www.instagram.com/vikisteiri

Takimi / Asifeh

From Athens to Ramallah and Gaza, the sounds of Takimi and Asifeh intertwine with testimonies, samples, and voices that transform pain and injustice into creation. Hip hop, improvisation, electronic textures, and Mediterranean references compose a space where art becomes a tool for survival and solidarity, an act of resistance and collective memory.

🔷 Takimi
Takimi is a Dutch-Greek artist based in Amsterdam and Athens. He studied Sonology in The Hague and has an art background. In his productions he moves freely through different styles and genres.

He is currently a resident at Fade Radio with his show Many Voices—which is also the name of the sound system and platform/label he started in Amsterdam.

Last year he self-released the EP Let it be a tale—a personal outcry against the ongoing atrocities committed in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine.

The music serves as an act of sonic resistance, built from samples of Mediterranean (activist) songs and social media posts by independent Palestinian journalists documenting the military aggression in Gaza and the West Bank.

In this performance, Takimi reconstructs the EP, improvising and reshaping it into new textures.

🌐 www.takimi.bandcamp.com/album/let-it-be-a-tale
* All proceedings from the EP on Bandcamp are donated to the non-profit organisation founded by Ghassan Abu Sittah, supporting traumatised children in Gaza.

🔶 Asifeh (Stormtrap)
Asifeh (also known as Stormtrap) is a producer/rapper based between Vienna and Ramallah. His music consists of rap vocals, sampled material, and original compositions using modern and abandoned technologies.

He is co-founder of the former Ramallah Underground collective, who laid the foundations for a booming underground music scene in Palestine, active during the years 2003-2009.

Asifeh is 1/3 of the AIWA Collective, who organized a series of hip hop events in Berlin. He is also co-founder of the NOISE&BEATS collective, who organized experimental music events and workshops in Vienna.

Asifeh has released four solo albums “Iradeh” (2012), “Datura” (2017), “Makhazen Bukra” (Well Gedacht – 2020) and “Tasalul” (Ghost Dance Tapes – 2022). In addition to those albums, Asifeh self-released two experimental synth-based projects in 2020 on his Bandcamp, “Hideout” and “2003”.

He has performed around the world in different cities such as Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona, Brussels, Melbourne, Beirut, Amman, London, Ramallah, Istanbul, Rome, and many more.

He regularly releases singles on his SoundCloud page, which includes collaborations with local and international artists (such as Akhenaton, Grup Ses Beats, Firas Shehadeh, She3rap to name a few).

🌐 www.asifeh.bandcamp.com

Spoken Maik #1

Every month, starting in March 2023, KET hosts Spoken Maik, a poetry and spoken word event curated by Niki Papadogiannaki and Stavros Anagnou.

Open to all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitals, performances, and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian, and Galician (Spain).

The genres are equally diverse: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and welcoming space that allows everyone to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

The first Spoken Maik of the new season will be hosted at KET on Thursday, October 9, 2025.

Those who wish to participate should arrive half an hour before the start time and add their name to the list of participants. Each act may last up to five minutes.

Dim Goblin / Ksorki

Moving between abstract, experimental, and psychedelic hip hop, producer Dim Goblin presents his first album, Cakes, which was recently released, and the EP Muffins.

For the occasion, he invites Ksorki to a joint live performance that brings together two explosively different worlds.

On the one hand, a production that flirts with the aesthetics of B-movies, old game consoles, VHS glitches, and unconventional hip hop—a colorful, dark, and ironic world.

On the other, a ritual of chants, feedback, and broken pedals.

Two seemingly incompatible worlds and a shared spirit of experimentation.

🔷 Dim Goblin is a geek turned supervillain who creates enhanced cakes that will make everyone grotesque, geekish, horrific… like him. It’s his revenge plan. Will he succeed? This will be his second ever live performance presenting the Cakes album and the Muffins EP. Dim Goblin is a hip-hop producer, making beats since 2024. He released his debut album Cakes in May 2025 and the follow-up EP in August 2025. He loves cartoons, comics, MF Doom, Madlib, pop culture in general, vintage samplers and analog synths.

🔗 www.dimgoblin.bandcamp.com/album/cakes
🔗 www.instagram.com/dim_goblin

🔶 Ksorki grows and brings with it psalms from the sewers, satanic panic, and odes to new flesh. It follows the slippery fog and ominous sounds—the red eyes and yellowed teeth.

🔗 www.instagram.com/ksorki666
🔗 www.ksorki.bandcamp.com

Free for Five #4

Free for Five returns to KET, bringing together five musicians from different fields of the improvisational and experimental scene. With no predetermined structures, apart from the duration of each set, the artists interact live, shaping the final sound result on stage.

Free for Five #4
Savina Yannatou (voice)
Giorgos Kokkinaris (double bass)
Alexis Porfiriadis (piano)
Joe Tornabene (saxophone)
Stephanos Chytiris (drums)

🔷 Savina Yannatou studied singing with Gogo Georgilopoulou and at the Vocal Art Workshop with Spyros Sakkas. She graduated from the PCS department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with a scholarship from “Mousegeti”. She began her professional career singing in the ERT’s Third Programme emission “Edo Lillipopoli”, in collaboration with Lena Platonos (1978-81). She has collaborated with many Greek composers. Since 1994, with the band Primavera en Salonico, she has been performing songs from the Mediterranean and the Balkans at festivals all over the world. Since 1992 she has been involved in vocal improvisation in the field of free jazz. She has composed music for the National Theatre, the Larissa Theatre and the Theatre of Neos Kosmos. Part of her collaboration with the theatre is also teaching free vocal improvisation. Her discography includes around thirty albums (Lyra, ECM) with compositions by Greek and foreign composers, traditional songs from various countries, free improvisations and her own songs.

🔶 The double bassist Giorgos Kokkinaris composes, improvises and collaborates with people from the fields of composition, visual arts, poetry and dance. His art is based on the physicalization of music through voice and movement and the use of new technologies. He gives concerts abroad and organizes seminars on improvisation. He is part of the editorial team of the magazine “NewMusic.gr” which aims to strengthen the local music community. He is a member of the contemporary music group àktapha.

🔷 Alexis Porfyriadis is a composer and pianist/improviser. He studied composition at the University of Bath-Spa/England (PhD) and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz/Austria (Magister and Postgraduate). Among the awards he has received are First Prize at the Franco Evangelisti International Composition Competition 2020 Rome/Italy and Third Prize at the Molinari Quartet International Composition Competition Montreal/Canada (2004/05). His compositions have been performed in Europe, USA, Mexico and Canada. He has been involved in improvisation since 2005. He teaches improvisation, experimental music and unconventional performing arts at the Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia. He is a member of the 6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble (Thessaloniki) and WHI ensemble (Athens).

🔶 Joe Tornabene is an award winning international multimedia musician, stage and film actor, sound designer, composer and sound therapist. He has taught experiential workshops concerned with the relationships of performance, somatic embodiment, movement, voice, sound, music and improvisation in 11 countries.

🔷 Stephanos Chytiris is a drummer and improviser from Athens. He has worked on a wide range of works from avant-garde jazz to contemporary classical music. Maintaining a balance between tradition and modernism in drums and cymbals, his works serve as a free base for musicians to explore and interact with the personal and collective unconscious, with the aim of reaching a cathartic experience.

Sound of Color #1

Combining improvisation, electronic music, psychedelic and ambient aesthetics, with live images and analog techniques, the audiovisual events of Sound of Color returns for an eleventh season at KET.

Jannis Anastasakis (guitar, analog synths, live electronics) – known for his use of atmospheric effects and the creation of handmade pedals with the internationally renowned company JAM pedals – and Natalia Manta, a visual artist whose work combines sculpture, projections, and moving images, collaborate with distinguished trumpeter, composer, and curator Peter Knight and visual artist Erato Tzavara.

🔷 Peter Knight is a composer, trumpeter, and curator whose practice thrives in the spaces between genres, categories, and cultures. His recent solo work extends the possibilities of his instrument with innovative approaches that interweave acoustic preparations, extended techniques with electroacoustic processing via laptop, vintage delays, and tape machines. Peter is interested in the use of repetition, rhythmic overlapping, slow harmonic evolution, and subtle timbral evolutions to shift our perceptions of linear time. As Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra (2013–23) Peter commissioned over 100 works and collaborations with a diverse range of artists including Alvin Lucier, Senyawa, Nicole Lizée, Anthony Braxton, Erik Griswold, and Jules Reidy, and led performances by the ensemble in over a dozen countries. Peter’s first solo release on ROOM40, Shadow Phase, was included in Headphone Commute’s Best of 2022, which described it as, “a carefully curated exercise in reflective restraint, dreamy atmospherics, ebbing dynamics.” His new solo, For a Moment the Sky Knew My Name, is available now for pre-order on ROOM40 on September 11.

www.peterknightmusic.com

🔶 Erato Tzavara is a video artist specialized in moving image techniques for live performance and digital scenography. Through collaborations in dance, theater, and music improvisation she works with the plasticity of the digital image in physical space and mixes analog aesthetic and digital compositing tools to create moving collages from different sources of video (live feed, pre-recorded, archival, graphics). In her personal work she draws on photography, video essays, and writing to capture the experience of the contemporary urban subject. She has presented work in theaters, off-scene artistic spaces, music venues, and festivals in Germany, UK, Canada, India, Greece, and France.

www.erato-t.com

🔶 Natalia Manta is an artist based in Athens. Although clay is her primary medium, she also skillfully uses metal, wax, photosensitive chemicals, and video. Collaboration with various artistic disciplines is an integral part of her practice. From 2017 to 2020, she taught sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the same university where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. For the past 10 years, she has been co-organizing and curating the audiovisual improvisational events “Sound of Color” with Jannis Anastasakis. Her works have been presented in exhibitions and institutions in Greece and internationally. In 2022, she was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS and has participated in important residency programs abroad. Her creations can be found in private and public collections.

www.nataliamanta.com

🔷 One of the most distinctive guitarists and musicians on the Greek improvisational scene, Jannis Anastasakis has developed a recognizable personal sound that moves between ambient and psychedelia, balancing melody and noise. He is the founder of JAM pedals, a company that manufactures handmade pedals used by leading musicians (Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Daniel Lanois, John Medeski, Nile Rodgers, Lee Ranaldo, etc.). He has collaborated with important artists from the Greek and international music scene, such as Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Giuseppe Doronzo, Savina Yannatou, Haig Yazdjian, Thodoris Rellos, Michalis Siganidis, Floros Floridis, Lena Platonos, Spyros Polychronopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Haris Lambrakis, and others. He is developing the audiovisual project “Sound of Color” with sculptor Natalia Manta on live visuals.

www.jannisanastasakis.com

“The Color of Pomegranates”: live soundtrack by Lee Adams

In 2025, multimedia artist, curator, and DJ Lee Adams presented a new soundtrack for Sergei Parajanov’s masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates (1969, 80′) at the closing ceremony of the Judgement Hall Festival in London. The film, which departs from conventional biography, narrates the life of the troubadour Sayat-Nova through symbolic tableaux, religious images, rituals, and pictorial motifs, and is considered one of the director’s most poetic works. Adams’ composition, inspired by the musical traditions of Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Turkey, creates a lively dialogue with the film’s images.

Nikko opens the evening with a new experimental electronic set.

🔷 Sergei Parajanov, born in 1924 in Tbilisi to Armenian parents, studied cinema in Moscow and developed a poetic, non-linear narrative style, far removed from the traditional biographical form. The Color of Pomegranates, filmed in historic locations in Armenia, is famous for its visual power and almost complete absence of dialogue.

🔷 Based between Athens and London, Lee Adams is a multi-media artist, DJ and curator who has worked extensively with sound, film and visual installations, from re-scoring a lost David Toop soundscape for conceptual artist John Latham, to collaborating with noise violinist Mia Zabelka on the touring project Rotten Sun. For 22 years he has organised the infamous Kaos London parties, he is a core member of the Palestinian collective Exist Festival and has run Khemia records since 2016.

🔶 Nikko is a dark-electronics DJ based in Athens, who has been making appearances in various venues since the late 90’s. For this special event he is presenting for the first time a project that is very dear to him called “Error”. Error can be described as an experimental electronic wave of sounds, that moves through dark ambient sonics to abstract-noise elements.

Leaving / Anna Vs June

Two distinctive voices of contemporary electronic music come together at KET for an evening dedicated to atmospheric and experimental sounds.

🔷 Leaving (Perth, Australia) is Rupert Thomas’ electronic project. He presents compositions from his recent album Hidden View (Moon Glyph / Pouring Dream, 2024), as well as new, unreleased material. His work, which moves between melancholy, contemplation, and hypnotic tension, has received international recognition and has been included in Bandcamp’s Best Ambient Music and Acid Test columns. With performances in the UK and Europe alongside artists such as Actress, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Outer Space, Leaving creates soundscapes with drones, atmospheric synthesizers, and drum machines.

www.leavingsounds.bandcamp.com

🔶 Anna Vs June (Greece) presents a new electronic set based on her work 5 Balkan Lullabies, a contemporary reinterpretation of five Balkan lullabies. With a musical language that combines analog and digital media with traditional elements and personal recordings, Anna Papaioannou has appeared at international festivals such as Sonar (Barcelona), Reworks (Thessaloniki), Red Bull Music Festival (Berlin), and Hidden Door (Edinburgh). Her music has been released by labels such as Rocket Recordings, Osare! Editions, and Yalanci, and she often collaborates with artistic organizations and collective projects. In 2019, she was selected as one of the rising talents of the We Are Europe platform.

www.annavsjune.bandcamp.com/album/5-balkan-lullabies
www.annavsjune.com

Floudia (Mihas, Konstantourou, Karydis) ǀ Florence Cats

The 14th season of KET begins on Thursday, October 2, with a special evening of experimental sound and free improvisation, featuring beloved musicians from New York, Athens, and Brussels.

🔷 With Stelios Mihas on electric guitar, Katerina Konstantourou on piano, and Nikos Karydis on trumpet and double bass, the Floudia trio moves between free and structured improvisation. In its second appearance at KET Floudia develops patterns and techniques inspired by Morton Feldman and John Cage, with microtonal tuning and sonic passages that balance between static and flow.

Stelios Mihas: guitarist and composer active in experimental, improvisational, and electroacoustic music. He has presented his work at festivals and venues in Greece and abroad, exploring the sound of the electric guitar with an emphasis on timbre and microtonality.
www.steliosmihas.com

Katerina Konstantourou: pianist that focuses on contemporary music and music theatre and works together with various musical ensembles and composers, as well as creators in the fields of theater, dance and the cinema. She is a member of the music ensemble TETTTIX and duo tessera kappa. She has premiered many new works for solo piano and chamber orchestra in Greece and abroad.
www.katerinakonstantourou.com

Nikos Karydis: trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist, active in the Athenian improvisation scene. He experiments with alternative playing techniques, the use of voice and electronic media, while his interest lies in the creation of hybrid soundscapes.
www.soundcloud.com/dasos_paraxeno

🔶 Florence Cats (Brussels) is an experimental artist, theremin improviser and acupuncturist. She plays the theremin in a minimal and experimental way, interfering with various elements such as a needle, a pendulum, a ring, a string, a bowl, water, and the voice. Florence Cats’ work draws inspiration from nature, travel, light, time, energy, and fragility. She released the field recording-based albums “We are now approaching Mo i Rana” on the Japanese label Ftarri/Hitorri (2024), ‘YS’ and ‘shell I’ on Ediçoes CN (2022/2025), and the eclectic ‘Correspondances’ on Frissons (2021). She was selected as an Emerging sound artist (Be, 2023).

www.florence-cats.com | https://florencecats.bandcamp.com/ | https://hitorri.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-now-approaching-mo-i-rana

Spoken Maik #9 feat. Dave De Rose

For the ninth and final Spoken Maik of the season, multi-instrumentalist Dave De Rose is invited to accompany 10 performers with improvisational drums and bass in the second part of the evening. For the first part, entries are registered as in previous Spoken Maik evenings, i.e. at KET half an hour before the start (19:30). Each act can last up to 5 minutes.

Spoken Maik is a meeting of poetry and spoken word. Open to all poetic forms and all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitations, performances and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian and the Galician language of Spain. The genres are equally varied: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories, news clips shaped in the manner of documentary poetry.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and intimate space that allows all individuals to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

🔶 Dave De Rose is a percussionist, bassist and multi-instrumentalist, member of Electric Jalaba and Rave At Your Fictional Borders. With his independent label DDR Records, he explores improvisation and experimental music, and his Agile Experiments project has been included in the British Library’s Sound Archive.

TOTEMTANZ

Totemtanz is a contemporary reinterpretation of Stimmung (Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1968), conceived and directed by Celia Stroom, with five non-gendered bodies moving among us in a fabric installation space. Combining wooden costumes, video art, polyphony and choreography, the performance activates space through scents, movement and spoken memories.

It is the second act of Into a Wandering Night, a cycle of immersive rituals inviting audiences into a multisensory journey on Grief.

Freshly developed during a two-week workshop, Totemtanz draws on personal narratives, therapeutic practice, and deep vocal exploration rooted in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s iconic work Stimmung — performed here for the first time in Athens.

At the heart of the piece are sculptural, 10kg wooden costumes, crafted by the performers and inspired by Picasso’s The Bathers and their totemic figures. These extended bodies transforme the performers’ shape, weight, and presence, for a potential rebirth. What emerges is a Totem Dance, a dance of death to transcend the living, with expressionist processions inspired by Mary Wigman “TotenTänz” (1917).

About Stimmung:

Composed in 1968, Stockhausen’s Stimmung was the first major Western work built entirely on overtone singing — a collective act of tuning body, voice, and spirit. In German, Stimmung means not only “tuning” or “mood,” but a deeper alignment of inner and outer states.

Since 2015, artist Celia Stroom has reimagined Stimmung across cathedrals, forests, and ruins. In this Athenian iteration, each performer co-creates the ritual live, guided by the work’s 51 “moments”: overtone melodies that evolve through layered repetition, until the group reaches sonic identity. A gesture passes leadership to the next, and the score continues — organic, alive.

● Two performances every night: the first at 20:30 and the second at 22:00. After the performance, the doors are closed and no admission is allowed.

● The performance is open to a limited audience (up to 35 people) and reservations are required: more.com & 213 00 40 496

Phúimms!

🔷 Following the release of his second album, Ithaca, lullahush (Daniel McIntyre) reimagines this ornate fusion of traditional Irish music and contemporary electronica with an ensemble of musicians. Amid echoes of his debut A City Made of Water and Small Love and hints of his work-in-progress, an abstracted yet intimate music emerges, tending towards collapse.

Praise for Ithaca:

“A creative act of peculiar genius” — The Quietus.
“A brazenly multi-layered piece of work” — Irish Times.
Ithaca opens up an enchanting space of its own” — The Times.

www.lullahush.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca-2

🔶 The concert opens with a spoken word performance by Kevin Breathnach. 100 years after the first public performance of Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate, a sequence of intricately recurring syllables, sustained in no way by symbolic meaning but rather by tone, rhythm and structure; the Irish non-performer Kevin Breathnach — previously of Tunnel Vision (2019) and Morphing (2020) — will reinterpret the first movement of the sound-poem.

Kevin Breathnach: vocalisations

Daniel McIntyre: electronics

Kelvin Barr: tapes, synths, feedback

Jason McNamara: drums, percussion

“APOPEIRA” of a performance

“We will open the book in many dimensions so that everyone can see, hear and feel the poetry.”

On the occasion of the publication of her new poetry collection, Apopeira (published by Smili, 2024), Efi Chrysou organizes at KET a special poetic performance that combines spoken word, video art, live music and an after punk ‘n’ roll party.

Apopeira is her second poetic work, after Apotipoma (published by Ars Nocturna, 2021), and focuses on loss and death.

Experiential, free of forms, contemporary and politicized, her poetry is inspired by lyricism, punk and symbolism. She creates with free verses and spontaneity.

At KET, Efi Chrysou is accompanied by musicians Nefeli Lysimachou (drums), Michalis Chrysos (guitar) and Jason Leontidis (bass), and Peni Theodosiou on video art.

Born in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Efi Chrysou has been writing poetry since her teenage years and considers poetry to be completely accessible and a constant means of inner and social expression. She is already working on her third collection entitled Mazi.Pote, marking a new creative path.

🔹 Nefeli Lysimachou: drums

🔹 Jason Leontidis: bass

🔹 Michalis Chrysos (aka Mike Montezuma): guitar

🔹 Spoken word: Efi Chrysou

🔹 Video art / lights: Peni Theodosiou

🔹 Cover photo: Efi Chrysou

🔹 Posters / social media banners: Jason Leontidis

Sound of Color #8

Between improvisation, electronic music, psychedelic and ambient aesthetics, with live images and analogue interventions, the Sound of Color audiovisual performances return with the eighth appointment of the year.

Jannis Anastasakis (guitar, analogue synths, live electronics), known for his use of atmospheric effects and the creation of handmade pedals (JAM pedals), and Natalia Manta, an artist with a body of work combining sculpture, projections and moving image, collaborate with Haig Yazdjian, an oud and voice virtuoso, of Syrian and Armenian origin and an active presence in the Greek and international music scene.

They are joined by Orestis Benekas (piano, keyboards), with experience in composition and collaborations with artists of alternative Greek music, Lefteris Andriotis (Cretan lyre), who connects traditional and contemporary musical practice, and Dimitris Economou (drums), with a background in alternative bands and personal projects, who brings rhythmic textures between organic and electronic sound.

Their collaboration does not aim at the union of the genres, but at their coexistence, their conflict or even their coordination, in a stage action where sound and image evolve live, in front of the audience.

Agile Experiments / The Coal feat. Thodoris Ziarkas

Two sets of experimental sound and improvisation: The Coal in collaboration with Thodoris Ziarkas, and Dave De Rose, Sofia Zafeiriou and Fotis Siotas as part of the Agile Experiments project.

🔷 Percussionist, bassist and multi-instrumentalist, Dave De Rose is the creator of the Agile Experiments project, which has released 11 albums in 5 years and caught the attention of the British Library’s “Sound Archive”, which listed it as part of the country’s sound and cultural heritage. Agile Experiments is a collaborative improvisational project that brings together diverse groups of artists to create innovative and experiential performances.

🔶 While they are in the process of recording their fourth album, the duo The Coal of Dimos Vryzas and Simos Riniotis returns to KET and shares the stage for the first time with their chosen friend and musician Thodoris Ziarkas on double bass. With influences ranging from ambient and folk to noise and free improvisation, the group focuses on ‘on-the-spot’ composition and live communication between its members.

🔷 Agile Experiments:

Fotis Siotas: violin, fx, voice
Sofia Zafeiriou: violin, electronics
Dave De Rose: bass, drums

🔶 The Coal:

Dimos Vryzas: violin, fx
Simos Riniotis: drums, objects
Thodoris Ziarkas: double bass

/ er.me.o /

A kinetic performance about love that can crumple and drift the structure of the individual.

A rhythmic score of words, intertwined with the pulse and the pain of the body and the incessant contradiction of thought.

With the tools of instant composition and structured, kinetic and physical improvisation, three different means of expression – speech, movement and sound – attempt to converse, narrate and capture images, moments and inner nuances of a love that was questioned before it was experienced in its entirety.

Three expressive media compose a character who consciously chose to sink and transform into an “ermeo”.

Based on an original text, a two-way and three-way dialogue shapes in real time the dynamics, the explosions, the speeds and the rhythm of the narrative composition.

“Odette is not dead”

“Odette is not dead”, the new choreographic performance by Satanellas (Sofia Pouchtou, Chrysanthi Fytiza), approaches adulthood as a path that seems to have no specific destination – a path from the unknown to the even more unknown.

The common field created by their coexistence is shaped against the backdrop of the collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, which is predicted to occur in about five billion years. The two galaxies are likely to merge, but the stars are unlikely to collide directly due to the large distances between them. The two performers, sometimes together and sometimes apart, are going through their third decade of life negotiating the distance between them, with the possibility of an imminent collision that might create a “new galaxy”.

They reveal their fantasies, realizations, imaginary friends, podcasts, movies, librettos and songs that have defined their path. Their most ridiculous and most beloved moves reveal their secrets and pave the way for them to find pleasure with the goal of sharing it.

Sofia Pouchtou and Chrysanthi Fytiza started their collaboration three years ago with the performance “WHY DON’T YOU LIKE ME?” and they return with their second joint work.

We would like to thank Semiramis Abatzoglou, Aphrodite Pouchtou, George Bougioukos, Anna Kalogera for their support and valuable help.

Three Times Three #8

Three musicians and three dancers meet on stage without rehearsal and without a predetermined framework. At the beginning of the evening, three random pairs are formed and improvise for 15 minutes each; the evening ends with a collective improvisation lasting 30 minutes.

The eighth edition of the “Three Times Three” series features Myrto Petrochilou, Vasiliki Bega and Kostas Phoenix, with a common axis of physical expression through dance and performing arts. Myrto combines contemporary circus, dance and visual arts with a focus on aerial movement; Vasiliki is active in contemporary dance and improvisation, teaching both children and adults; Kostas draws inspiration from myths, traditions and fictional narratives, collaborating with groups in Greece and abroad.

On the music side, three musicians with a diverse background in composition, improvisation and music education participate: Orestis Tsichlakis (oud), who combines eastern music, improvisation and artistic intervention in hospital structures; Michalis Katachanas (viola), who moves between jazz, contemporary, Greek traditional and classical music; and the composer and musician Spyros Polychronopoulos (electronics), who is also the curator of this series of performances.

Myrto Petrochilou, Vasiliki Bega, Kostas Phoenix — dance

Orestis Tsichlakis — oud

Michalis Katachanas — viola

Spyros Polychronopoulos — electronics

“Dave De Rose presents…” #7

Dave De Rose continues his artistic residency at KET, forming a vibrant series of performances where music and movement meet through improvisation. For the seventh session of the season, he teams up with dancers Elina Vafeiadi and Xenia Stathouli and drummer Daniele De Santis.

As in previous versions of “Dave De Rose presents”, the meeting is based on the participants’ ability to respond to the present by creating a shared time and space.

◍ Tap dancer Elina Vafeiadi received an early training in various dance styles before turning to percussive forms such as tap dance and body music. Her work focuses on sonic experimentation and improvisation, using the body as a rhythmic instrument. She participates in music and dance projects in the jazz, blues and free improvisation scenes, and curates events such as Athens Tap Jam, exploring the dynamic interplay between movement, rhythm and sonic expression.

◍ Multi-instrumentalist, percussionist and producer of Apulian origins, Daniele De Santis is also known for his activities as sound engineer and curator, especially within the realm of Dromoscope platform. His musical language is enrooted in the mediterranean and middle-eastern traditions as much as in instant composition, jazz, abstract electronica and dub, while also feeding in the spontaneous crafting of experimental sound devices and original instruments. A research particularly prominent in the augmented percussions of Prepared Drums, but also in the sophisticated atavism of GRÜN’s electrical machinery. Daniele counts appearances for international festivals such as Berlin Atonal, CTM, Strøm, PHONO, Irtijal, Terraforma, SeaNaps, NUMACircuit.

Xenia Stathouli is a professional dancer and teacher of contemporary dance, modern dance, hip hop, acrobatic ground dance and capoeira. She has collaborated with choreographers such as Antonia Economou, Daphne Antoniadou, Anastasia Valsamaki, Stella Fotiadi and the group “Ki omos kineitai”. She has choreographed the solo “Nerti” as part of the 28th Kalamata International Festival, with which she also participated in AVDP 13.

Dave De Rose is a percussionist, bassist and multi-instrumentalist, member of Electric Jalaba and Rave At Your Fictional Borders. With his independent label DDR Records, he explores improvisation and experimental music, and his Agile Experiments project has been included in the British Library’s Sound Archive.

🔷 Elina Vafeiadi – tap dance, body music

🔶 Xenia Stathouli – dance, acrobatics

🔷 Daniele De Santis – prepared drums 

🔶 Dave De Rose – prepared electric bass

“Sur le chemin” – musical performance dedicated to Vassilios Maggos

Entitled “Sur le chemin”, the sound performance by French musician Mathieu Goust is based on an extensive testimony by Yannis Maggos, father of Vassilios Maggos. Vassilios Maggos was arrested in June 2020 after participating in a protest against the operation of the Lafarge factory in Volos, suffered abuse in custody and died a few weeks later.

The performance starts from the path that Yannis created in memory of his son — a path named after Vassilios and connecting the city of Volos with the village of Stagiates.

With the assistance of Dimitris Alexakis (KET) and Solal Goust, Mathieu visited Stagiates in 2023, recorded Yiannis’ testimony midway and collected natural sounds from the environment of the area. Using this audio material as a starting point, he creates a live narrative, combining Yannis’ raw voice, nature sounds and live music with percussion, objects and synthesizers.

Contribution box and judicial development

A contribution box for donations will be on site to cover the legal costs of the family of Vassilios Maggos.

In early 2025, the first trial was completed in three sessions, in which three police officers were convicted in the case and appealed, which is expected to be heard at a later date. Meanwhile, a date is expected to be set for the second trial, which involves felony charges and torture, against six police officers.

About Mathieu Goust:

“From the age of 7, I loved to play percussion.

I started with barrels of detergent, made of cardboard, using wooden spoons… and little by little, my instrumentation was enriched.

Completely self-taught, my musical world was expanded through my travels and meetings. I started playing electronic music around the age of 19, while pursuing drums and percussion.

Today, after over thirty years of practice, I am more interested in the artistic form than the musical style.

That’s why I work in such diverse fields, such as singing, street theatre, circus, literary readings, children’s audiences, jazz, electronic music and dance.”

In recent years, he has regularly collaborated with the singer-songwriter Yoanna, with the women’s group Les Clandestines, with the Mediterranean music ensemble Electrik GEM, with the electro-jazz group Notilus or with the Choreographic Centre of the city of Strasbourg, where he lives.

Photos: Dimitris Alexakis

Demetrio Cecchitelli / Simon Hansson

Musician and sound artist Demetrio Cecchitelli (Italy) presents the project “Stillness of Fragility”, a multimedia-live collaboration between photographer Chiara Benzi, video artist Vladimir Bertozzi and himself. Crossing the oceans of deep states, upside down layers, non-realistic and hyper-imagery borders, the work investigates the dialogue between visuals and sound, within a specific real time intervention. 

Simon Hansson (Sweden) presents an immersive sound environment based on feedback improvisation and generative synthesis. It will be slow burning, brutal and minimalistic, inviting attentive presence of the situation and the room. 

🔷 Demetrio Cecchitelli is a musician and sound artist whose practice is applied in the contexts of live performance, installation, radio, and the audiovisual. Over the last decade, Cecchitelli’s works have been published worldwide and have been presented in venues, festivals, platforms, and centers for art and sound. Focused on principles of semantic interpretation, ontology, and imaginative poetics, his research is based on various methods of electronic transformation and instrumentation that coexist as a device of the creative and compositional process, giving a strong combination of sonic memory and deep listening as an integral part of a spontaneous plastic language.

www.demetrio-cecchitelli.bandcamp.com

🔶 Simon Hansson is a composer and sound artist based in Stockholm. His work revolves around slowly unfolding musical forms, feedback processes, and the exploration of the site or room as a sonic material. He creates site-responsive works and long-duration pieces that invite active presence and shared experience, working across installation and performance. He runs the platform A Sudden Point of Balance, which focuses on collaborative sound explorations through concerts in modernist church environments in Stockholm. The platform has also released his debut EP Tela and recordings of live concerts from the A Sudden Point of Balance editions on cassette.

www.simonhansson.net

Photo: Chiara Benzi

Spoken Maik #8

Since March 2023, KET hosts Spoken Maik, a monthly poetry and spoken word meeting curated by Niki Papadogiannaki and Stavros Anagnostopoulos. Open to all poetic forms and all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitations, performances and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian and the Galician language of Spain. The genres are equally varied: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories, news clips shaped in the manner of documentary poetry.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and intimate space that allows all individuals to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

The eigth Spoken Maik of the season is hosted at KET on Thursday 8 May.

Those who want to participate should come half an hour before the start time (19:30) and add their name to the list of participants. Each act can last up to 5 minutes.

UNDERTHUMBS

How many bpm does it take to break the stone? How many feet below the ground do you do your most frantic dance? How many thumbs do you have to lift to catch your breath?

Underthumbs is a handmade choreographic work for those who live, work and have fun underground. A work dedicated to subterranean human activity – invisible, but absolutely essential to the functioning of the ‘above world’ as we know it.

Approaching the term underground both aesthetically and realistically – through the reality of work and fun underground – the two choreographers create an underground world where bodies vibrate from the impact, while thumbs always remain raised. Bodies that claim their space, bodies that fall but continue. Between shovels, breaths and beats, the boundaries of the real and the imaginary blur and the fatigue of work gives way to a strange, crouching, crazy dance.

We would like to thank Mavra Gidia for kindly providing the short film “Canary”.

Many thanks to: Lia Hamilothori, Margie and Ioanna Trikka, George Dimopoulos, Anna Nikolaou, Angelos Kottas, Spyros Kouvaras, Korina Kotsiri, Fotini Banou, Dimitris Alexakis and all the contributors without whose valuable contribution this project might have remained just an idea.

A smoke machine and strobe lights are used in the performance.

“Moi, Markos”

book presentation + Babis Papadopoulos & Fotis Vergopoulos Live

18:30 | bookstore “O Meteoritis”

21:00 | TV Control Center (KET)

The independent French publishing house Les Fondeurs de Briques has included the Autobiography of Markos Vamvakaris in the collection “Instrumental” dedicated to the popular music of the world. The series includes iconic works – often with an accompanying CD – for blues, flamenco, folk and rock music.

The book “Moi, Markos” was published in 2024 in France, translated by Nicolas Pallier, also known for the anthology Rébétiko – Chants grecs des bas-fonds (published by Aéora).

On the occasion of this publication, the bookstore “O Meteoritis”, KET and the French house co-organize an evening in two spaces of Kypseli – a journey from speech to music.

18:30 | Bookstore “O Meteoritis”

Presentation of the book Moi, Markos

free entrance

Translator Nicolas Pallier, editor Jean-François Bourdic and publisher Virginie Girard present the French translation of the book.

More than 50 years after its first publication, this text remains one of the most vivid documents on the history of rebetiko: from the life of the young Vamvakaris in Syros and Piraeus, in the tequettes and his recording success, to the years of the Occupation, the Civil War and his personal adventures.

Mark’s words – simple, bitter and self-deprecating – shed light on both the popular experience and the darker aspects of a rare journey.

more information on the French version:

www.fondeursdebriques.fr/livres/moi-markos-markos-vamvakaris-autobiographie

21:00 | TV Control Center (ΚΕΤ)

Vamvakaris Jam SessionBabis Papadopoulos – Fotis Vergopoulos

10€

reservations required: www.more.com/gr-el/tickets/music/moi-markos & ☎ 213 00 40 496

Babis Papadopoulos (guitar) and Fotis Vergopoulos (bouzouki) meet for the first time on stage and improvise on the music of Markos Vamvakaris.

Babis Papadopoulos

Babis Papadopoulos first became known as the main guitarist of the band Trypes (1984-2001). He has composed key songs for the band, while since 2008 he has been following a personal path with eight albums, combining rock, experimentation and Greek musical traditions. He has collaborated with artists such as Thanasis Papakonstantinou, Socrates Malamas and Floros Floridis. He has composed music for theatre and cinema, winning an award from the Greek Film Academy. He presents his work live with rotating projects such as Electric Solo and Acoustic Set.

Fotis Vergopoulos

He was born in 1988 in Melbourne. He lived his childhood in Koroni, Messinia. He started to be involved in music from a very young age. After high school he returned to Australia to study Civil Engineering and at the same time started to play bouzouki professionally. Since the end of 2012 he has been living permanently in Athens. He has collaborated with Babis Goles, Agathon Iakovidis, Dimitra Galani and others, and was a member of the band Rebetien. For the last five years he has been participating in the “Vassilis Tsitsanis Orchestra” under the direction of Manolis Pappos, as well as in Stavros Xarchakos’ performance “Rebetiko – 40 years later”.

Organised by Les Fondeurs de Briques, KET & Bookstore “O Meteoritis”

Photos: Panos Koutrouboussis / copyright: Kate Koutrouboussi

**The concert at KET is sold out.**

Future Folk #4: “Filoi-STAY!”

The original concert series FUTURE FOLK, curated by the electroacoustic composer Tasos Stamou, continue with the Arabic oud soloist Dimitris Mikelis as guest. Stamou and Mikelis explore the roots of Arabic music. They create a soundscape with an emphasis on the Palestinian tradition, as both have personal and family ties to this region of the southeastern Mediterranean.

With improvisational, acoustic and electronic elements, as well as some new compositions by the duo, they compose a musical narrative inspired by – and dedicated to – Palestine.

Focusing on the “traditional music of the future”, the monthly FUTURE FOLK concerts are a meeting point between folk tradition and contemporary experimental music. A researcher of sound, Tasos Stamou invites soloists from different musical traditions, creating with them an on-stage conversation where their music is combined with live electronic processing.

Dimitris Mikelis: oud, buzuk
Tasos Stamou: live electronic signal processing, synthesizers, Arabic keyboards

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tVr5HxG5EA&ab_channel=TasosStamou

🔷 Dimitris Mikelis is an oud player and pianist. He has performed at festivals in Greece, Italy, Switzerland, France, Turkey, USA, Palestine, Kuwait, Bahrain, Morocco and he organizes the Oud Festival in Athens.

He has released two personal albums.

In Greece he has toured with Socrates Malamas, Melina Kana, Alkinoos Ioannidis, Savina Giannatou, Lizeta Kalimeri, Petros Dourdombakis, Stelios Vamvakaris and others. He is a member of the band Occasional Dream.

In the USA he collaborates and records with the Arabic music and dance group Zikrayat. In Palestine he teaches at the Al Kamandjati Association and the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, and participates in activities to promote music education in the framework of European Union and United Nations programmes.

He is also a member of the Palestinian National Arab Orchestra and founder of the Ramallah Jazz Quartet, with participations in local festivals. He has been honoured for his contribution to Palestinian music education.

🔷 Tasos Stamou initially became widely known in the field of avant-garde experimental music, through the improvised, processed electronic instruments he built and used. During his long stay in the United Kingdom (London), he began to tinker not only with electronics, but also with the local Greek musical traditions he grew up with.

His “folkloric” work has been very well received by international avant-garde music media, such as The Wire, The Vinyl Factory, The Quietus, Soundohm etc. He has also been featured in articles and radio specials that focus on the contemporary evolution of rebetiko in today’s era.

www.tasosstamou.com

Thalassa Neon Julia

Canadian artist, musician and curator Steve Bates presents his film “Thalassa Neon Julia”, shot on the island of Tinos. The film is followed by a solo set based on sounds collected from the quarries and radio signals collected around the island, and samples from the choir and an organist as well.

“Thalassa Neon Julia” (2023, 40′) is an acoustic study of three decommissioned marble quarries on the island of Tinos, Greece. Working with members of a local women’s choir, a church organist, clarinetist Daphne Mengou, and ILIOS and Nikos Veliotis, of the Greek experimental music duo, MMMD (Mohammad), “Thalassa Neon Julia” listens to the resonances left behind after decades of marble extraction.

Through his work, Steve Bates listens to thresholds, boundaries and borders, points of contact and conflict. The history of ideas, experiences, and materials are an influence on his work and often lead to a research-heavy path resulting in suites of work around a theme. His work has been shown and exhibited in Canada, USA, Europe, Chile and Senegal. His personal release “All The Things That Happen” was released by Montreal’s Constellation Records.

www.stevebates.info

“Dave De Rose presents…” #6

Dave De Rose continues his artistic residency at KET, forming a vibrant series of performances where music and movement meet through improvisation. For the sixth meeting of the season, he teams up with composer, cellist and pianist Viki Steri and dancer and performer Petrina Giannakou.

As in previous versions of “Dave De Rose presents”, the meeting is based on the participants’ ability to respond to the present by creating a shared time and space.

Viki Steiri is a composer, cellist, pianist and interdisciplinary artist. She has written music for installations, performances, video art and cinema and is a member of the group Ectopia. In 2024 she released her first solo album, “Balm”.

◍ The dancer Petrina Giannakou is active between Athens and Brussels. She participates in the international project “Lamenta” and presents solo performances. She has collaborated with important creators of contemporary dance.

Dave De Rose is a percussionist, bassist and multi-instrumentalist, member of Electric Jalaba and Rave At Your Fictional Borders. With his independent label DDR Records, he explores improvisation and experimental music, and his Agile Experiments project has been included in the British Library’s Sound Archive.

🔷 Viki Steiri – cello, organ

🔶 Petrina Giannakou – movement

🔷 Dave De Rose – bass, drums

Sound of Color #7

From free jazz and free improvisation to ambient and psychedelic music, the audiovisual series “Sound of Color” continues to push the boundaries of sound and image, creating live encounters every month.

In the seventh session of the year, Jannis Anastasakis (guitar, analog-synths, live-electronics) and Natalia Manta (digital & analog visuals) join forces with Evi Filippou (vibraphone, percussion), Marilena Kranioti (sound sculptures) and Antonis Anisengos (piano).

🔷 Evi Filippou has studied percussion, piano and conducting, and has attended seminars with distinguished soloists. She has worked with major orchestras such as the Camerata, the Bolshoi Ballet Orchestra and the Zbigniew Preisner Ensemble. Since 2011 she has been living in Berlin, where she studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler and collaborates with contemporary music ensembles, composers, directors, as well as jazz and pop ensembles.

www.evifilippou.com

🔶 A graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts with a specialization in sculpture, the artist Marilena Kranioti creates installations with metal, light, sound and other materials, focusing on the study of natural phenomena and metaphysical concepts. Her works have been exhibited in museums and festivals in Greece and Italy. Since 2022, she maintains the collective studio CK45 in Neos Kosmos, organizing exhibitions and workshops.

www.instagram.com/ck45_studio

🔷 Based in Berlin, composer, pianist and electronic musician Antonis Anisegos has performed in Europe, Asia and America. In 2024, he formed the trio Air, Bee & Tree as well as the duo aNo. He participates in Berlin-based groups (Potsa Lotsa XL, Home Stretch, Callisto). He composes music for small ensembles, orchestras and theatre productions. His releases exceed 70 albums.

www.enstase.com

🔶 The visual artist Natalia Manta lives and works in Athens. She studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, where she completed her master’s degree. Her work, which has been exhibited internationally, explores memory, time and myth, using metal, clay, photosensitive chemicals and video projections. She has collaborated with visual artists, musicians and theatre artists, and taught sculpture at ASFA (2017-2020). In 2022 she was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s ARTWORKS Fellowship.

www.nataliamanta.com

🔷 Known for his unique approach to effects and his atmospheric playing, Jannis Anastasakis has created a personal sound that combines ambient and psychedelia, melody and noise. He is the founder of JAM pedals, a company that makes handmade pedals. He has collaborated with Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Giuseppe Doronzo, Thodoris Rello, and Savina Yannatou, among many others.

www.jannisanastasakis.com

Three Times Three #7

The monthly performances “Three Times Three” bring together artists from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, with the aim of creating a common code of communication, valid for the duration of the meeting.

Three musicians meet three dancers at a time. At the beginning of the evening, three pairs are randomly decided and improvise for 15 minutes. The evening ends with a 30-minute collective improvisation.

“Three Times Three” is curated by the composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos).

The seventh edition of the season features Katerina Kaima (dance), Zoe Mpogea (dance), Anna Angelakou (dance), Stelios Giannoulakis (electronics), Panagiotis Kostopoulos (drums) and Michalis Moschoutis (guitar).

🔷 Katerina Kaima, a graduate of the Aktina Professional School of Dance, has participated in performances and festivals such as the Athens Video Dance Project and the Patras Art Festival, while she has worked in educational movement programs for disabled people and children. She has performed in theatre performances such as: Chorevete?, Asteroid 2467K and Alysodemenos Elefantas. She has presented works at the 13th and 14th Athens Video Dance Project and is a member of the ANTAMA group.

🔶 Zoe Mpogea, who studied in Greece and Italy, has participated in festivals such as ARC FOR DANCE, Vignale Monferrato Festival and Athens Dance Video Project. She has collaborated with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, and has received support from the Athens Concert Hall for the development of artistic programmes. She has been in charge of movement in theatre productions and is a member of the performing arts group ΡΑΔΙΑΤΕΡ, with which she has presented works in various theatres in Athens.

🔷 Anna Angelakou, a graduate of the Rallou Manou Dance School and the University of Piraeus, is active in the teaching and research of movement. She has participated in the Athens Video Dance Project (2023) and has collaborated with choreographers such as Aliki Kazouri, Rania Fovou, Angelos Antonakos, Io Spiliotopoulou. She is a member of the newly formed group Almost there dance project, while she also takes care of movement in theatre productions and teaches dance.

🔶 Stelios Giannoulakis (Schema Musicalis), composer and researcher of creative music technology, focuses on electroacoustic research and sound design for theatre, video art, choreography and games. He teaches at CMRC (Athens Conservatory) and is known for his approach to electronic music and interactivity.

🔷 Panagiotis Kostopoulos, a drummer who studied at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York, has worked with leading international jazz artists such as Billy Harper and Jazzmeia Horn. His quintet performed at the Onassis Panorama. He is a member of the trio MOb whose album “MOb I” received international acclaim.

🔶 Michalis Moschoutis, known for his exploration of the sound spectrum of the classical guitar, has released the album “Nylon”, which transforms the guitar into a means of producing intense acoustic noise. Founder of Holotype Editions, he curated Borderline and Tectonics Festival. In recent years, he has been working in the Educational and Social Activities Department of the National Opera House, designing programmes for vulnerable social groups.

Mathieu Sylvestre / Giovanni Di Domenico

Two musicians, two approaches to sound: Mathieu Sylvestre (France) and Giovanni Di Domenico (Italy) meet for an evening of acoustic and electronic music. A concert that does not narrate but shapes listening spaces and textures.

🔷 Mathieu Sylvestre uses field recordings and analog synthesizers as the main sources of his sound. Noises and natural sounds are interwoven and articulated in electrified sound narratives between aural synaesthesia and spatial vibrations. With origins in the rock and experimental scene, he lives in Berlin and tours constantly since 2010 in Europe and worldwide, drawing inspiration from the different environments and places he visits.

www.mathieusylvestre.bandcamp.com

🔷 Giovanni Di Domenico, a pianist with roots in jazz and contemporary music, composes and improvises in a way that seems both simple and enigmatic. His melodies emerge, deconstruct and reconnect, creating a sense of constant flow. With jazz piano studies and influences from Debussy, Luciano Berio, Borah Bergman, Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, he shapes a sound that balances simplicity and complexity. He was born in Rome, grew up in Africa and lives in Brussels.

www.giovannididomenico.bandcamp.com

Hypothetical Fluid – “Light as Remembrance: Spells for the future”

Hypothetical Fluid creates exploratory improvised performances in which music, dance, lighting and cinema collaborate and enter into dialogue. The group invites artists Celia Stroom and Sofia Zafeiriou to perform with them in “Light as Remembrance: Spells for the future”

“Light as Remembrance: Spells for the future” is an invocation to enter a microcosm exploring memory, legacy and collective wisdom as an antidote to an era marked by dangerous individualism.

In a time where solitude is often seen as a path to freedom, this performative act poses one answer to the challenge of imagining a future more deeply shaped by interconnected generations. What wisdom from the past, that flows through the present, can we cast into the future?

This work asks us to consider survival and thriving through collective memory and magical thinking, illuminated not by sight, but by the act of observation: instant composition sensed through deep time.

Nefeli Papaioannou: image
Celia Stroom: movement
Isidora Vincentelli: movement
Marissa Bili: sound
Melina Lasithiotaki: lights
Fernanda Balcells: lights
Dave De Rose: sound
Sofia Zafeiriou: sound

Spoken Maik #7

Since March 2023, KET hosts Spoken Maik, a monthly poetry and spoken word meeting curated by Niki Papadogiannaki and Stavros Anagnostopoulos. Open to all poetic forms and all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitations, performances and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian and the Galician language of Spain. The genres are equally varied: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories, news clips shaped in the manner of documentary poetry.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and intimate space that allows all individuals to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

The seventh Spoken Maik of the season is hosted at KET on Thursday 10 April.

Those who want to participate should come half an hour before the start time (19:30) and add their name to the list of participants. Each act can last up to 5 minutes.

Kolida Babo

On the occasion of the release of their new album, “Spirits of Mauronoros”, Kolida Babo present a musical journey dedicated to the deserted village of Old Mauronoros (Pogoni) and its people. They transport the audience to an indefinite time and place, without cultural or geopolitical references, leaving the audience to dream of a freer and more authentic way of life.

The duo Kolida Babo consists of Socrates Votskos and Charidimos Pappas – two musicians specialized in wind instruments, with different geographical origins, Pella and Athens respectively.

Their self-titled debut album (2019, MIC Records, UK) was recorded in improvisational live sessions that began during the Kolida Babo celebrations in northern Greece in the winter of 2013. These sessions continued for three years, exploring the ancient music of Armenia and the traditional music of Epirus and Thrace, combining it with experimental electronic music and free jazz.

Their musical palette reflects the immediate reality of contemporary Greece: its relationship with traditions, urban centres and humanitarian and economic crises. It is rooted in traditional forms, but also detached from them, creating harmonies and contrasts, characteristic of their compositions and their particular sound. They wish to offer a sonic exploration into unexplored territories through friendship, collective expression and creativity.

Their first album received excellent reviews and was remixed by British musician Coby Sey. A 7″ single followed in 2020, released via Jazzman Records. In 2021 they created the music for the documentary “Gospel of Michiel” and in 2024 they created the music for the documentary “Loxi”. The album “Spirits of Mauronoros” was released in 2024 through Veego Records.

Their music has been heard on BBC6, NTS, Soho Radio, WorldWide FM and ERT. They have performed in various locations in Greece and Europe, participating in major festivals such as CTM Festival, Archipelago Festival, Vinterjazz Festival and Reworks Festival in Thessaloniki.

Three Times Three #6

Since last year, the “Three Times Three” performances have been bringing together artists from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, with the aim of creating a common code that is valid as long as the meeting lasts.

Three musicians meet three dancers at a time. At the beginning of the evening, three random couples are drawn by lot and improvise for 15 minutes. The evening ends with everyone working together in a 30-minute improvisation.

“Three Times Three” takes place every month at KET, curated by the composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos).

The sixth event of the season involves the dancers:

🔷 Katerina Gevetzi, dancer, choreographer and teacher of contemporary dance with international collaborations, as well as coordinator of educational artistic programmes, such as the intercultural opera nursery of the National Opera House.

🔶 Margarita Kostoglou, dancer and choreographer with special emphasis on improvisation, member of the National Opera, where she has performed soloist roles.

🔷 Elena Rangou, dancer, musician and member of the bijoux de kant group, with collaborations in Greece and abroad.

and the musicians:

🔶 Giannis Arapis, guitarist, composer and improviser, who promotes the establishment of the electric guitar as a melodic voice in avant-garde music.

🔷 Tasos Stamou, electroacoustic composer and improviser, who explores traditional music through modern means, as well as the function of contemporary electronic music.

🔶 Manolis Manousakis, composer and sound designer with extensive experience in the field of interactive and immersive media, as well as in cinema, television and theatre.

Spectacular Little Corners

In the Spectacular Little Corners concert, improvisational music meets instrumental composition through two unique performances.

Lambros Psomas – Solo double bass

Lambros Psomas presents an acoustic set that moves in a wide range of improvisational music, with the music of Barre Phillips, Henry Grimes and Charlie Haden as main influences. His sound explores the dynamics of the instrument, creating soundscapes that balance between the abstract and the melodic.

Room Conductor – “Spectacular Little Corners”

Room Conductor (Odysseas Tziritas, Giorgos Karoubalos) present “Spectacular Little Corners”, a collection of eight compositions for classical and electric guitar. The initial inspiration for the project came from the albums of Daniel Santiago and Pedro Martins (Simbiose, Movement), while influences from artists such as Fabiano do Nascimento and Shin Sakakubo were subsequently incorporated. These compositions seek new ways of coexistence between acoustic and electric guitar, combining different musical idioms and approaches.

 🔹 Odysseas Tziritas

He was born in Athens and graduated in 2021 from the Conservatory of Music Practice with studies in electric guitar. He studies at the Department of Music Studies of the Athens University of Music and Performing Arts. He has released two personal albums (Butterflies, 2019 / Gonzo Bliss, 2020) and in 2023 he recorded his third album with the band Midwives. He collaborates with artists such as Stella, Dimitris Mitsotakis (Endelechia) and Amalia & the Architects.

 🔹 Giorgos Karoubalos

A musician based in Athens, he deals with composition and orchestration. He graduated from the Department of Music Studies of the Athens University and holds a diploma in classical guitar (class of G. Mouloudakis). He has written music for theatre, dance and cinema, and regularly collaborates with the composers Th. Ampazis and Al. Livitsanos. He has collaborated with the National Theatre, the Onassis Cultural Centre and the Athens Epidaurus Festival. He is an active member of Room Conductor and Midwives.

🔹 Lambros Psomas

Double bassist based in Corfu, where he studies at the Department of Music Studies. He specializes in jazz and improvisational music and participates in projects and performances all over Greece. He is an active member of the Kaki Melissa Trio and the Midwives.

🔹 Room Conductor

Room Conductor (Odysseas Tziritas & Giorgos Karoubalos) is a duo based in Athens. They draw influences from electronic music, ambient, jazz and avant-garde. Through free improvisation and organized composition, they search for new sounds and idioms, seeking the combination of acoustic and electronic timbres. Spectacular Little Corners is their new acoustic project.

Photo: Konstantinos Zirganos – Kazoleas

Bio Resonances

Four performances that move around interaction, body and sound, creating a meditative framework of auditory experience.

1. Rhoēs (20’)

(Pinelopi Bekiari – cello: Semeli Sofia Kostourou)

Performance for cello, electronics and bio-feedback. It explores the fragile interplay between human physiology and sound, combining acoustic and electronic elements in a dynamic dialogue between the performer and their body.

2. Cyborgutt (20’)

(φø)

Electroacoustic interactive composition for a performer and biosensors. The result of an investigation into the bridging of queer theory, cyborg bodies and the field of music, the work focuses on the gendered boundaries of body, voice and sound. Using an electronic stethoscope, it constructs a soundscape that narrates the fluid identity of the performer.

3. Hypertension (10’)

(George Edmondson)

The performance is divided into five parts that trace anger, exhaustion, anguish, nostalgia, and reverie. The clarinet acts as the main sound source, while bio-music methods transform breathing and resonance into internal soundscapes.

4. Hypno (10’)

(laptop: Orestis Karamanlis – voice: Anna Pangalou)

Exploring the biosensory condition through voice, heartbeat and a laptop.

🔶 Pinelopi Bekiari

Sound artist and researcher exploring the dynamic relationship between sound and body. She has presented her work at international festivals and conferences such as Ultima (Oslo), EASTN-DC (Cardiff), CIME/ICEM (Montpellier), MA/IN Festival (Rome), National Opera House and Athens Concert Hall.

🔷 George Edmondson

Composer, performer, researcher and educator. He explores the sonic rendering of lived experience through collaborative, electroacoustic ethnography.

🔶 φø (Fotis Rovolis)

They studied Architecture (Thessaly), Electroacoustic Music Composition (The Hague, Athens University). They exploresthe boundaries of sound, body and space through installations, soundscapes and alternative identities. Participations in ICMC (Seoul), SMC (Porto) and Latent Space (SNFCC) conferences.

🔗 www.instagram.com/thisisnotfaux

🔷 Semeli Sofia Kostourou

Semeli-Sofia Kostourou is a cellist. In 2024 she finished her postgraduate studies in cello at the University of Music in Nuremberg. She has collaborated with orchestras in Greece and Germany, she participates in classical and contemporary music ensembles, with which she has given concerts in Greece and abroad.

🔶 Orestis Karamanlis

Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Arts & Film at the University of Athens. He focuses on combining acoustic instruments with laptop, algorithmic synthesis and multichannel sound processing.

🔗 www.orestiskaramanlis.net

🔷 Anna Pangalou

Vocal and sound installation artist. Explores the boundaries of classical vocal practice with experimental sound forms.

“Dave De Rose presents…” #5

Multi-instrumentalist Dave De Rose continues his artistic residency at KET, creating a new encounter each time where music and movement converse through improvisation. For the fifth session, he invites musician and sound artist Sofia Zafeiriou, drummer and sound experimenter Giorgos Stavridis, dancer Io Katsimicha and dancer Nikos Grigoriadis.

As in previous versions of “Dave De Rose presents”, the meeting is based on the participants’ ability to respond to the present by creating a shared time and space.

Dave De Rose, with collaborations that include Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traoré and Mark Ronson, is the creator of the experimental project Agile Experiments, which has been recognised by the British Library as part of the UK’s sound and cultural heritage.

Sofia Zafeiriou investigates the connection between sound and the environment, combining acoustic instruments, electronic media and field recordings. She has performed, apart from Greece, in Nantes, Diyarbakir, Tirana, Beirut, Slemani, Berlin and Cyprus.

Giorgos Stavridis, a member of Trigger Happy, the duo BLIP and the Centre for Research and Rescue of Music Radio (ΚεΔιΜουΡα), experiments with percussion, installations and improvisational structures.

Io Katsimicha, with a Greek and international career, has participated in works by Olia Dramitinou, Jeremiah Day and Katerina Gevetzi. Her personal works (Diadromes, Ceci n’est pas une Crise, Even Cowgirls get the Feels, Trata) have been presented in Greece and abroad.

Nikos Grigoriadis has collaborated with Antonis Foniadakis, Anastasia Valsamaki, Konstantinos Rigos and Katerina Evaggelatou, and has also participated in the Tanzbiennale of Heidelberg.

🔷 Io Katsimicha – movement

🔶 Nikos Grigoriadis – movement

🔷 Sofia Zafeiriou – violin, electronics

🔶 Giorgos Stavridis – drums

🔷 Dave De Rose – bass, fx

“Tell her”

“Sometimes, when the light dims and the shadows grow, it seems to me that I’ve been walking these streets for years and years without end, a whole century, that I know every tree, every puddle, every house, I walk with my eyes closed, I’m a street now, too, now empty, now full, now light, now dark, to find the street you have to become a street, yes, but is a street a street if you don’t walk it, is a candle a candle if it doesn’t light, is a knife a knife if it doesn’t cut?

Tell her I love you very much and I won’t do it again.”

A courier wanders around the modern city.

From one delivery to another, she roams snow-covered mountains and silver seas, in parks, squares and endless streets. She goes in and out of maisonettes, villas, apartment buildings. She makes deliveries to good and bad people, rude and kind, tortured and pampered – to people who seem ready to cry and others who seem not to know what crying is.

How much pain and how much loneliness can modern man bear?

Very often, she sits next to them and listens to them. Other times it is as if she is listening to the city itself. Every tree, every puddle, every house, every street, every door that opens seems to hold a new story.

Following his heroine on her races, entering houses and courtyards with her, listening to and recording the stories she listens, Christos Economou composes a mosaic of hundreds of micro-narratives – a multifaceted portrait of contemporary Athens, through the eyes of a worker in the modern delivery economy and applications.

But where does reality begin and fantasy end?

*The performance is in the greek language.

Future Folk #3: “AR-MANIA”

With the concert “AR-MANIA”, the FUTURE FOLK concerts curated by the electroacoustic composer Tasos Stamou continue at KET. Shushan Kerovpyan (vocals, u-bass) and Tasos Stamou (electronics, live sound processing) retrieve memories, sounds and stories from the rich tradition of Armenian music.

Dedicated to the traditional music of the future, the monthly FUTURE FOLK concerts are a meeting point between traditional folk and contemporary experimental music. A researcher of sound, Tasos Stamou invites soloists from different musical traditions and creates an on-stage conversation with them, combining their music with live electronic processing.

Exploring lesser-known aspects of traditional music, such as mysteries and rituals, which often remain on the margins of contemporary revivals, FUTURE FOLK also functions as a living workshop.

Tasos Stamou has dedicated his musical career to the connection between tradition and contemporary creation. His trilogy (Musique Con Crete, DAD and Antiqua Graecia), which reflects this approach, has received international acclaim.

www.tasosstamou.com

◍ Born in Paris to a family of musicians, Shushan Kerovpyan was introduced from an early age to the traditional music of Armenia and the Middle East. She grew up listening to the rehearsals of her parents, Aram and Virginia Kerovpyan, who sang Armenian folk music and Armenian chants. Influenced by these sounds, she has carried these traditions in her own way, either in their original form or in combination with other musical influences such as American folk, blues, soul music, as well as the sounds of Latin America, Southern Europe and the Mediterranean.

Shushan participates in the bands Collectif Medz Bazar (French-Armenian-Turkish ensemble), Djiv Djiv (oriental rhythms), Watermelon Stories, Akn Ensemble (Armenian church music), Kerovpyan Ensemble (Armenian traditional and troubadour music) and other musical groups in France and Greece.

Mara / Radio Hito / Yorgia Karidi

Three experimental artists with different musical backgrounds present live compositions that focus on the possibilities of the voice, synthesizers and the creation of soundscapes.

🔹 Mara (Mara Schwerdtfeger) is a composer and curator based in Eora / Sydney. She plays the viola and collaborates with her laptop to create live performances and recorded pieces for film, dance, and gallery spaces. Informed by interactions and perspectives within environments, her work questions the coexistence and understanding between those who inhabit them.

In 2019 she graduated from RMIT with a Bachelor of Design (Digital Media) and went on to attend LungA School (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland) in early 2020.

Her work has been commissioned by organisations and festivals such as SIGNAL, Avantwhatever Festival, Constellations Podcast, Open House and Mpavilion. She currently works with the Powerhouse Museum as a researcher and sound producer.

www.maraschwerdtfeger.com

🔹 Radio Hito is an artist originally from Italy and Vietnam and based in Belgium. With voice, a Casio synthesizer and a piano as her main means of expression, her Italian-language music combines sonic experimentation with more recognizable melodies. Minimalist and introspective, with an expressive voice and simple, contemplative compositions, she balances between intensity and softness, creating an atmosphere that combines awkwardness and hospitality.

Her last two albums, “Non Solo Sole” and “Voce Lillà”, were released on the Belgian labels Midi Fish and Kraak. Her new album draws inspiration from Claude Royet-Journoud’s L’Usage et les attributs du cœur (P.O.L., 2021), promising a work influenced by poetry and literary reflection.

He is a member of SHAPE+ 24/25, which supports emerging artists in the field of experimental music and sound arts.

Among her accolades, the British magazine “The Wire” reported that “Radio Hito’s set is great. Sitting on the altar steps with a synthesizer, her fantastically expressive voice colors unadorned and thoughtful compositions.”

www.radiohito.bandcamp.com

🔹 Yorgia Karidi is an Athenian artist, musician and performer. Her compositions focus on vocals and her intermedia practice includes painting, sculpture, video, verbal scores. Her collaborations cover a wide range of artists and genres. She has curated live radio shows, lent her voice to radio spots, and worked on experimental, feature and documentary films, both as composer and performer.

Her research is focused on the last century’s impact of popular art & music on today’s societal structure and collective memory. Her artistic practice raises interest in unmeasurable human qualities which she acesses through close listening and re-enacting a wide range of pop vocal traits & presentational methods in the form of audio narratives and performances called Live Sets.  Currently working under the general title A Place To Hang Out dealing with the impact of lived time in public, so called spent, yet substantial. 

Karidi’s work has been presented at: Benaki Museum, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Onassis Stegi, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, National Theater, French Institute, Goethe Institut, Greel National Opera, Hyle, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, 2023 Elevsis European Capital of Culture, Knot Gallery, Romantso, KET, Theocharakis Foundation and elsewhere. Her material has been published among others on the labels: Nutty Wombat, Inner Ear Records, Seagrave, Orila Records, Ecstatic, Bokeh Versions.  Most recently, she participated in the ensemble Athens3000, for Jazz@Megaron.

www.instagram.com/yorgiakaridi

Dave Rempis – George Kokkinaris Duo

The double bass of George Kokkinaris and the saxophone of Dave Rempis meet in an improvisational dialogue of live composition.

Their music does not come from pre-existing forms, but from the dynamics of the moment. Rempis, with his long career in free improvisation and avant-garde jazz, brings the physicality of his saxophone to the limits of expression. Kokkinaris, with the depth and rhythmic flexibility of his double bass, shapes a landscape where texture and space become equal elements of the music.

The result is an encounter that highlights the conversation between two musical worlds: Chicago jazz and European contemporary improvised music, in a search for sound that is born and transformed in real time.

● Known for his unique sound and the expressive intensity of his saxophone, Dave Rempis is one of the most important figures in the Chicago jazz and improvisational scene. His music balances free improvisation and extreme sonic textures. His studies in ethnomusicology and his Greek heritage have influenced his creative approach.

As a leader of groups such as The Rempis Percussion Quartet, Ballister and Kuzu and collaborator of legends such as Roscoe Mitchell, Joe McPhee, Peter Brötzmann and Hamid Drake, he has left his mark on the contemporary jazz scene. He is also active in the organisation of concerts and events such as the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. He is also the founder of Aerophonic Records, through which he supports and disseminates independent improvisational music.

www.daverempis.com

George Kokkinaris is a double bassist, performer, writer and producer based in Athens and Berlin. He performs contemporary music and improvisation, focusing on 20th and 21st century repertoire that utilizes new notational and compositional techniques. He has collaborated with composers from Europe, the USA and Canada.

He is a member of the contemporary music ensemble àktapha and the editorial team of NewMusic.gr. His discography and videography include improvisational music, new compositions and works combining poetry, dance and theatre. He has collaborated with acclaimed choreographers and dancers such as Julyen Hamilton, Konstantinos Michos and Maya Carroll, creating performances that explore the connection between music and movement.

www.kokkinaris.com

www.newmusicnow.substack.com

Production:

àktapha ensemble – www.aktapha.com

NewMusic.gr – www.newmusic.gr

Scenius Series – www.scenius.gr

“I have never known a closeness like that”

Joris Beets (delta harp), Tim Ward (live electronics), Dora Panagopoulou (piano), Vassilis Tzavaras (guitar, loops) and Panos Kanellopoulos (mandolin) return to KET for an open musical encounter, where sounds are interwoven and deconstructed in real time.

Without predetermined rules, music is formed through interaction and listening. The instruments become voices in a living dialogue: Beets’ delta harp, an instrument that reinvents our relationship with the harp; Ward’s electronic treatments that transform sound into fluid textures; Panagopoulou’s piano, where elements of electroacoustic and improvisational music come together; Tzavaras’ guitar and loops, which create soundscapes; and Kanellopoulos’ mandolin, which seeks its role in this free conversation.

The exploration is collective. The musicians come together in a constantly changing field, where memory and the moment shape the outcome. Improvisation is not only a technique, but a way of being together, of listening and responding, of discovering our “together”, our “close”, our “within”.

The title of the concert refers to the work “Nox” by Anne Carson (New Directions Publishing, 2009).

Joris Beets – delta harp

Tim Ward – live electronics

Dora Panagopoulou – piano

Vassilis Tzavaras – guitar, loops

Panos Kanellopoulos – mandolin

● Joris Beets plays the harp and improvises. He is the designer and inventor of the Delta Harp, a musical instrument that redefines the way we perceive the harp. He is a member of the improvisational music ensemble Orchestra Elastique, performs frequently at improvised music venues in London and in recent years has spent his summers in Serifos, improvising with mandolinist Panos Kanellopoulos.

www.jorisbeets.com

Tim Ward is a sound artist with a background in electroacoustic music composition and live electronics. He is involved with a wide range of projects, most recently focusing on soundscapes, mapping and their relationship to electroacoustic composition. He is a member of the Medea Electronique collective as well as Spiza and teaches music at Deree College, Athens.

www.medeaelectronique.com/member-tim-ward

Vassilis Tzavaras is a singer, composer, improviser and music educator, active in the Athens music scene since 1993 as a member of Occasional Dream, Take the money and run, Project 37, 4+1, The Storyville Ragtimers, and Dear Lou. He composes music for the theatre and has published seven solo albums.

www.vassilistzavaras.com

Dora Panagopoulou is a pianist and composer of acoustic music who has increasingly incorporated electronic elements in her music. Much of her recent compositional activity has been linked to Spiza, an artistic society bringing together diverse artists to work on common larger-scale projects. She has a keen interest in the intersection between compositional and educational work and teaches music at Pierce College.

www.spiza.gr/sound-examples

Panos Kanellopoulos studied the mandolin with Alison Stephens (London) and Vivi Geka (Athens). When he is not practicing, he is researching and teaching creative music education focusing on the possible conjectures between education, philosophy, political philosophy and creative music practices.

www.armuresprovisoires.com/mishearings.php

www.armuresprovisoires.com/diving.php

a drunk man’s next step

Two duos, three musicians, a common passion for cybernetics and improvisation as ways of interacting with sound. Anton Lambert, Adriaan de Roover and Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris meet on stage for two sets, where haunting field recordings, intricate feedback loops, and deconstructed textures form an acoustic experience that unfolds in real time.

In the first set, Anton Lambert and Adriaan de Roover while embracing chance and feedback, will explore a common language, for the first time as a duo. Drawing from their personal sonic archive, Adriaan & Anton will integrate acoustic and electronic sources into amorphous, indefinably textured shapes, ranging from pure field recordings to heavily granulated and uncanny sonic textures.

In the second set, Anton Lambert collaborates with Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris. Anton and Thanos first crossed paths in Athens in the fall of 2023, through their shared passion for experimental and innovative sound. With Anton’s practice in live electronics and Thanos’ expertise of feedback-augmented instruments, particularly the halldorophone, they started improvising together. This creative synergy sparked a series of recordings, weaving diverse sonic worlds into feedback loops and giving birth to an album set to release in spring 2025 on the Italian label Kohlhaas.

Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris is an Athens-based artist, educator and researcher. His practice focuses on different creative uses of feedback systems, resulting in music compositions, audiovisual installations, interactive and participatory work and durational performances. Before returning to Greece in 2018, he studied and worked in the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. He is currently working as Assistant Professor on Music Creativity with Interactive Media, Department of Music, at the University of Athens.

www.thanospl.net

Adriaan de Roover is a Brussels-based musician who has been forging a singular path in electronic music. In 2024, Adriaan released his second solo album, Other Rooms, through Pieter Dudal’s acclaimed Dauw imprint. Stepping back from rhythm-oriented motifs, this latest work is a concise but varied collection of weightless melodies and expertly sculpted, computerized soundscapes.

www.adriaanderoover.net

Anton Lambert is a Brussels-based sound artist and improviser. His work focuses on improvisation through the use of live electronics and how an acoustic instrument can sculpt the electronic sounds, based on chance and generative algorithms. Anton is active in various music ensembles as a double bass player and works on interdisciplinary projects as a sound artist; by contributing to theater or dance performances and multi-media artworks.

www.antonlambert.bandcamp.com

“Lecture on Nothing”

John Cage‘s “Lecture on Nothing” is a verbal score that is one of the central texts of 20th century experimental musical notation, but also a deeply thoughtful artistic manifesto. In an age of unbridled economicism such as ours, Cage’s text highlights non-possession as the highest value of art and life, and the present unrepeatable moment as our only possession.

Katerina Iliopoulou, Alexis Porfyriadis and Anna Tzakou transform Cage’s work into a figurative event and invite the viewer to a practice of deep listening. Using Cage’s humour, wit and iconoclastic mood as a vehicle, they remain open to chance and change and grapple with language and its endless internal commentary. The three artists explore word and silence as ephemeral elements of space, time (or as sound, body and environment) and perform a framework of reflective contemplation of the present.

This is the first presentation of the work in Greek.

The team would like to thank the John Cage Trust and Wesleyan University Press for granting the rights.

Organisation & production: ArtForm Culture Platform.

With the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.

Bios:

Katerina Iliopoulou is a poet and translator. She has published five books of poetry, a collection of short stories and her first novel is currently being published. She has translated into Greek the works of Sylvia Plath and Walt Whitman in collaboration with Eleni Iliopoulou. Since 2013, she has been editing the bi-annual journal FPMK (FarmaKo) on poetry, poetics and visual arts.

The composer and pianist/improviser Alexis Porfyriadis studied composition in England and Austria. Since 2005, he has been working on improvisation and the relationship between improvisation and composition. He is a founding member of the improvisation ensembles 6daEXIt and WHI ensemble. He teaches non-conventional performing arts for ensembles and improvisation at the PAMAK’s TMET.

Anna Tzakou is a performer, director and theorist. Her work integrates epistemologies of space and place with contemporary performance practices. With the group Geopoetics, she devises toposcopic and peripatetic performances in natural and urban landscapes. Since 2019, she teaches directing, acting and performance at the Department of Performing and Digital Arts of the University of Peloponnese.

*The performance is in the greek language.

Spoken Maik #6


Since March 2023, KET hosts Spoken Maik, a monthly poetry and spoken word meeting curated by Niki Papadogiannaki and Stavros Anagnostopoulos. Open to all poetic forms and all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitations, performances and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian and the Galician language of Spain. The genres are equally varied: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories, news clips shaped in the manner of documentary poetry.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and intimate space that allows all individuals to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

The sixth Spoken Maik of the season is hosted at KET on Thursday 13 March.

Those who want to participate should come half an hour before the start time (19:30) and add their name to the list of participants. Each act can last up to 5 minutes.

Sound of Color #6

From free jazz and free improvisation to ambient and psychedelic music, “Sound of Color” continues to explore the boundaries of sound and image, creating unique live encounters every month.

In the sixth meeting of the year, Jannis Anastasakis (guitar, analog-synths, live-electronics) and Natalia Manta (digital & analog-visuals) join Anna Linardou (vocals), Dimitris Ventourakis (piano) and Eva Vaslamatzi (live visuals).

Anna Linardou deals with the diversity of the voice, studying and combining vocal qualities of contemporary, classical and traditional singing and extended vocal techniques. She has sung as a soloist in musical performances all over Greece (Herodeion, Athens and Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Onassis Stegi, etc.), in concerts and festivals in Europe (Punkt Festival, Big Bang) and in America. She has collaborated with Lena Platonos, Martha Mavroloidis and Thanos Mikroutsikos, Andrea Molino, Ko Ishikawa, Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang, Gareth Davis, Chris Cutler, Haris Lambrakis, Giorgos Varoutas, Haig Yazdjian, Vangelis Katsoulis. Her discography includes the albums “Heterotopia” (2019), “Ano Vythos” (2020), “Etidorhpa” (2021) and participations in dozens of others. Since 2021, she has been conducting the Intercultural Choir of the National Opera Orchestra.

Dimitris Ventourakis works on music performance and music teaching. His main instrument is the piano, and he is involved in improvisational composition, performance and discography, as well as in written composition. He is a founding member of Athens Arts Collective, which focuses on developing environments suitable for artistic creation, teaching and research. He has completed studies in musicology, music theory, classical piano, improvisational and non-improvisational ensembles, and jazz performance, composition and theory.

Eva Vaslamatzi is an exhibition curator and writer based in Athens. During her studies at the theoretical department of the Athens School of Fine Arts she worked on analogue photography and the darkroom and then on Super 8 film. She has theoretically researched the significance of the reuse of family album photography in visual art works on the importance of collective trauma. Her works have been presented at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Video Dance Festival and ANALOGICA Festival, among others. She works as a curator in collaboration with public and private institutions for the realization of group exhibitions with an emphasis on new productions. She has edited publications for private collections, arts organisations and festivals. As a writer, she contributes to magazines and exhibition catalogues as well as textual exhibitions.

◍ The artist Natalia Manta lives and works in Athens. She studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, where she completed her MA in Fine Arts. Memory, time and myth are at the heart of her visual creation. She uses metal, clay, photosensitive chemicals and video projections. She collaborates with visual artists, musicians, theatre or performance artists. Her work has been exhibited internationally in various solo and group exhibitions. During the period 2017-2020, she taught sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her works are in private collections. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artists’ Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).

www.nataliamanta.com

◍ One of the most outstanding guitarists and musicians of the Greek improvisational scene, Jannis Anastasakis (born 1984) is known for his unique approach to effects and his atmospheric playing. He has created a personal sound that combines ambient and psychedelia, balancing between melody and noise and often crossing the “permissible” boundaries. He is the founder of JAM pedals, a company that manufactures handmade pedals used by top musicians (Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Daniel Lanois, John Medeski, Nile Rodgers, Lee Ranaldo, etc.). He has collaborated with important artists of the Greek and international music scene, such as Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Giuseppe Doronzo, Savina Giannatou, Haig Yazdjian, Thodoris Rellos, Michalis Siganidis, Floros Floridis, Lena Platonos, Spyros Polychronopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Haris Lambrakis and others. In addition, he has made musical contributions to theatre and choreographic works, collaborating with Thodoris Abazis, Androniki Marathaki and the La Coja Danca group. He is developing the audiovisual project “Sound of Color” with sculptor Natalia Manta on live visuals.

www.jannisanastasakis.com

“Sound of Color #6” is co-produced with Dolce films.

Submersion Festival 2025

Record label Submersion Records is organizing the first-ever “Submersion Festival,” a two-day music festival taking place on March 28 & 29 at TV Control Center (KET).

The lineup features artists whose music has been released through Submersion Records, making the festival a label showcase that highlights the label’s diverse catalog from 2020 to today. From the atmospheric post-pop of Kalliopi Mitropoulou and Nikos Veliotis, to the experimental rock/metal of SPINELESS (Chrysa Tsaltampasi), who for the first time and especially for the Submersion event will appear as a duo presenting different versions of their tracks. To explore this diversity, audiences will experience: Emi Path‘s experimental soundscapes, created with vocals and synthesizers, CALLIOPE‘s electronic ambient music, featuring vocals, trumpet, and field recordings, a special collaboration between Saber Rider & Giannis Arapis, merging their distinct musical worlds and As Never Before, blending electronic ambient elements with acoustic guitar and songwriting

A pop-up Submersion Shop will also be available, offering the label’s releases and merchandise.

♫ www.submersionrecords.bandcamp.com

Friday 28 March:

SPINELESS

EMI PATH

SABER RIDER & GIANNIS ARAPIS

Saturday 29 March:

KALLIOPI MITROPOULOU & NIKOS VELIOTIS

CALLIOPE

AS NEVER BEFORE

*Due to limited capacity, only 20 two-day passes will be available.

“The Velvet Underground & Nico” Live

The Velvet Underground is one of the most important bands in rock history, and the album “The Velvet Underground & Nico” (1967) is one of the top albums of the genre. Without it, the indie and alternative rock scene would not be the same. The album established a sound that became a standard: noise and feedback, lo-fi production, dark themes, literary references.

The recording was done in eight hours, in an abandoned studio, under the influence of various substances. Andy Warhol put all the sound layers on the same level during the mixing, giving the album a raw, almost amateurish sound. The result seems to come out of a damaged radio, with Nico‘s voice getting lost at points, as on Femme Fatale.

Tracks like Sunday Morning, with its dreamy, melancholic atmosphere, perfectly capture the theme. I’m Waiting for the Man brings to the surface the harsh, dirty world of the city. Nico’s otherworldly voice becomes ironic in Femme Fatale, ritualistic in All Tomorrow’s Parties, sensitive and direct in I’ll Be Your Mirror. Lou Reed, on tracks like Venus in Furs and the epic Heroin, takes rock beyond precedent.

This album changed rock forever. It inspires and will continue to inspire. Many musicians played their first chords influenced by these songs and as many others discovered its charm through improvisations and new interpretations.

At KET, Vassilis Tzavaras, Stefanos Psaradakis, Alexandros Mylonas and Angelos Mastrantonis dive for the second time into the noisy, atmospheric world of the Velvet Underground and Lou Reed. The band takes an improvisational approach to the songs of the infamous “banana” album and tracks from Lou Reed’s solo career, maintaining their unconventional, raw character and highlighting the timeless power of this sound.

Angelos Mastrantonis – violin

Alexandros Mylonas – bass

Stefanos Psaradakis – drums, electronics

Vassilis Tzavaras – guitar, piano, voice

Spacing Time Timing Space

Is music still the art of time? Are the visual arts still arts of space? This classic distinction seems to be crumbling under the weight of technological developments and the erosion of stereotypical dichotomies. Today, the contrast between space and time is no longer a standard, but is becoming a field of internal tension and a starting point for artistic creation – both within each art form individually and in the collaboration between them.

The new postgraduate programme “Philosophy and Sociology of Arts and Culture” explores this dynamic, in conversation with creators about the new delimitation of the relationship between space and time in artistic practice. Participating artists share how these two axes shape their personal inspiration and practice, while opening up the dialogue through a performance of electronic music, video installation and dance.

Program:

🔹 Introduction & Presentation of the new postgraduate programme “Philosophy and Sociology of Arts and Culture” – George Sagriotis (Department of Philosophy, University of Patras)

🔹 Discussion: Space and time in artistic practice – Petros Kolotouros, Chara Kotsali, Danae Stefanou, Spyros Polychronopoulos

🔹 Free improvisation set: Petros Koloturos (live visuals), Chara Kotsali (dance), Danae Stefanou (piano), Spyros Polychronopoulos (electronics)

*The presentation and discussion will take place in the greek language.

Frédéric D. Oberland Solo

Frédéric D. Oberland is a Paris-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist who explores the relationship between image and sound through an emotional approach. For over ten years he has been leading the collective OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE, which moves between avant-rock, free jazz, repetitive and electronic music. He is a founding member of FOUDRE!, Le Réveil des Tropiques and FareWell Poetry, as well as co-curator of the NAHAL Recordings label. He also performs solo and composes soundtracks for cinema and art installations.

For his live at KET, Frederic D. Oberland will play some very special A/V performance including extracts from Super8 material he’s working on alongside his upcoming first photobook to be published by Sun/Sun. His visual work is willingly itinerant, modulating between the ripples of dreams, watching the points of incandescence and the bursts of electricity that act as revelations of our presence in the world, here and now, its mystery and its blowup.

His music, with strong secular and ritualistic dimensions, has been described as:

🔹 “a veritable tempest that groans like a giant waking from slumber” (The Quietus / Rockfort)

🔹 “incising, incendiary, a feast of heavy synths and desert heat” (FreQ)

🔹 “a sonic quest resonating with the echoes of our contemporary chaos” (Cast The Dice)

🔹 “a journey that hooks you in and lures you to its overwhelming embrace time and time again”(Everything Is Noise)

Collaborating with a wide range of versatile talents (Jerusalem In My Heart, Irena Z. Tomazin, Mondkopf, Grégory Dargent / Tony Elieh & Wassim Halal, Saåad, Christine Ott, Richard Knox, Gaspar Claus, Bérangère Maximin…), his work and featurings have been released by international labels such as Sub Rosa, ZamZamRec, Hallow Ground, NAHAL Recordings, IIKKI, Gizeh Records, Miasmah, Constellation Records, Flau and Ruptured.

In 2022/2023, Frédéric D Oberland has been part of Creative Europe’s Shape + Platform for innovative music and audiovisual art.

www.fredericdoberland.com

Bégayer

On the occasion of the release of their new album “Évohé Bègue” (March 2024, Murailles Music – Via Parigi – Le Saule), Bégayer are touring Europe, with a stop in Athens.

Evohé, the song of the bacchants, is multiple and dangerous, its cult is not based on any catechism. Bacchanalian song is about intrusion, it knows neither beginning nor end, and refuses to take the stage that is set for it. Evohé is thus a permanent discipline of aggression of the ritual by the real. A cult of the dangerous object, of time gnawing at flesh, of redemption through intoxication.”

“Évohé bègue” moves towards an open, highly improvised composition, somewhere between the patterns of Morton Feldman, the Nigerian Ogene orchestral bands, the post-punk pleas of New York no-wave, the laughing insolence of northern Italian folk music, the ritual yodelling of the monks of Java, contemporary poetry, improvised music.

French Chanson, Noise, echoes of music from faraway and long ago, modified radio transistors and other old electronic gear.Bégayer is looking for a gesture for those without folklore, for the offspring of this culture of lack, born as much from the twilight of popular habitus as from noisemakers’ howling, from village squares as from the swarming of digital streams, for an unprecedented kind of rapsod-aliens.

Loup Uberto : voice, lutes, begena, bagpipes

Alexis Vinéïs : drums, percussion (sati, qraqeb, gardon)

Lucas Ravinale : voice, begena, tamburelli, sound objects

Jean-Philippe Curtelin : drums, percussion (surdo, sati, qraqeb, gardon)

Loïc Verdillon : 16mm films, sound

www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/begayer

“The systemic nature of police violence in Greece”

On the occasion of the recent publication of the book “The systemic nature of police violence in Greece” (Topos Publications), Anastasia Tsoukala presents her years of research on this issue and discusses with lawyer Annie Paparrousou and the audience.

The book analyses police violence from a perspective that has not yet been explored by the Greek or international academic community. Taking an interactive approach, it focuses on a multifactorial field, constituted by a web of police, governmental and judicial relations, to show how its dynamics reinforce police violence, undermine attempts to control it, and create political and legal disorder.

The intersection of the motives of police behaviour with institutional public discourse or silence, the rationale of disciplinary and prosecutorial investigations or the absence of investigation, judicial decisions and police practices of avoiding accountability shows how their interaction results in the securing of a regime of effective impunity that leads to the perpetuation of police violence.

The analysis of the manifestation and management of police violence in 136 incidents is based, inter alia, on 128 interviews conducted with complainants – parliamentarians, journalists, lawyers, protesters, ordinary citizens, members of socially vulnerable groups – or their advocates and eyewitnesses.

Anastasia Tsoukala is a Principal Researcher at Université Paris Cité. She was Associate Professor of Criminology at Université Paris-Saclay and Vice President at the Centre for Security Studies. She works on the design and implementation of homeland security policies in Europe, as well as on the social construction of threat.

A lawyer in Athens, Annie Paparrousou has dealt with issues of police violence and arbitrariness at the criminal level.

* The presentation and discussion are conducted in the greek language.

Three Times Three #5

Since last year, the “Three Times Three” performances have been bringing together artists from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, with the aim of creating a common code that is valid as long as the meeting lasts.

Three musicians meet three dancers at a time. At the beginning of the evening, three random couples are drawn by lot and improvise for 15 minutes. The evening ends with everyone working together in a 30-minute improvisation.

“Three Times Three” takes place every month at KET, curated by the composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos).

In the next meeting, “Three Times Three” welcomes Dimitris Klonis, drummer based in Athens, known for his collaborations with artists such as Giorgos Kontrafouris and Femi Temowo; Jannis Anastasakis, acclaimed guitarist and founder of JAM pedals, whose unique sound has gained international recognition; and Phivos-Angelos Kollias, Berlin-based composer whose work combines electroacoustic music with classical orchestration and has won international awards.

The dancers of this fifth event are Thenia Antoniadou, a choreographer who explores the intersection of landscape and body; Loukiani Papadaki, a dancer and voice performer who incorporates transformative practices such as shamanic breathing into her work; and Eugenia Demelio, a choreographer whose performances have been presented at major festivals, including the Athens & Epidaurus Festival and the Kalamata Dance Festival.

Thenia Antoniadou: dance

Eugenia Demelio: dance

Loukiani Papadaki: dance

Jannis Anastasakis: guitar, fx

Dimitris Klonis: drums

Phivos-Angelos Kollias: electronics

Sound of Color #5

This year we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the monthly audiovisual performances “Sound Of Color”, curated by Jannis Anastasakis and Natalia Manta at KET: 10 years that resemble a journey through the history of improvisational and experimental music, from free, Scandinavian or New York jazz music and free improvisation to ambient and psychedelic music, from contemporary mixes between electronic and traditional sound to entire in situ installations where space itself becomes a musical instrument.

These 10 years have left an indelible mark on the space and programming of KET, which has not ceased since 2014 to open itself to musical experimentation, improvisational encounters and the live interaction between image and sound.

In the fifth session of the year, Jannis Anastasakis (guitar, analog synths, live electronics) joins forces with Harris Lambrakis (ney), Nikos Sidirokastritis (drums) and Deniz Angelaki (live visuals).

🔹 Harris Lambrakis

He was born and raised in Athens. He studied at the Music High School of Pallini and at the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens, specializing in ethnomusicology. He has collaborated in Greece and abroad with Haig Yazdjian, Savina Giannatou, Michalis Siganidis, Ross Daly, Stefano Battaglia, Bijan Chemirani, Michel Doneda etc. He participates in recordings and concerts around the world, while teaching ney.

www.harrislambrakis.com

🔹 Nikos Sidirokastritis

He was born in Athens in 1963. He studied percussion at the Athens Conservatory with Nikos Korantzinos, music theory and counterpoint with Vangelis Kokkoris, and drums with Yannis Floros. An active member of the Greek improvisation scene for 40 years, he has collaborated with international and Greek renowned musicians.

🔹 Deniz Angelaki

She was born in 1987 in Athens. As a visual artist, she has participated in experimental live performances in Greece, Cyprus and internationally (Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany). She creates improvised abstract visual environments, interacting live with musicians, using a variety of materials, lights and reflections to enrich the viewer’s experience. She has collaborated with artists such as Jannis Anastasakis, Thodoris Rellos, Andreas Polyzogopoulos, Savina Yannatou, Harris Lambrakis, Arve Henriksen, Nikos Sidirokastritis, Zoe Efstathiou, Spyros Polychronopoulos and others. Today she lives and works in Amorgos, where she continues to work with visual arts and musical improvisation.

🔹 Jannis Anastasakis 

He is considered one of the most outstanding guitarists and musicians of the Greek improvisational scene. Known for his unique approach to effects and his atmospheric playing, he has created a personal sound that balances between ambient, psychedelia, melody and noise.

Founder of JAM PEDALS, the Greek company of handmade pedals used by artists such as Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Daniel Lanois, John Medeski, Nile Rodgers, Lee Ranaldo, he has collaborated with important musicians, including Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Giuseppe Doronzo, Savina Giannatou, Haig Yazdjian, Thodoris Rellos, Michalis Siganidis, Floros Floridis, Lena Platonos, Dionysis Savvopoulos.

He has also contributed musically to theatre and choreographic works, collaborating with Thodoris Abazis, Androniki Marathaki and the group La Coja Danca. At the same time, he is developing the audiovisual project “Sound of Color” with sculptor Natalia Manda on live visuals.

www.jannisanastasakis.com

“Dave De Rose presents…” #4

Multi-instrumentalist Dave De Rose continues his artistic residency at KET. Acting as the connecting link, this time he gives us the opportunity to discover live the music of Tara Cunningham, known in the London music scene for her collaboration with the acid-jazz band Red Snapper and the alt-rock trio COOL QUIET, the movement of choreographer Mary Giannoula and the rhythms of Dimitris Economou.

As in previous versions of the monthly meeting “Dave De Rose presents”, the result of the collaboration of artists with different experiences and artistic references will be equally unpredictable for both the audience and the performers themselves. It will all be based on the ability of each and every one of them to welcome the unpredictable and respond to it directly, on the creation of a shared time and space, on the musical conversation that is the essence of any improvisational event.

The kind of encounter that makes us understand, perhaps more than any other, that playing and performing means, above all, listening to the other person.

◍ Known in the London music scene for her collaboration with acid-jazz band Red Snapper and alt-rock trio COOL QUIET, English guitarist and composer Tara Cunningham focuses on improvisation, exploring the sonic boundaries of the guitar, highlighting the potential of repetition and combining elements of jazz and avant-rock. She has formed an improvisational duo with bassist Caius Williams, recently recorded for Jack Cooper’s album Modern Nature and collaborated with drummer Seb Rochford on his new six-guitar project. She is also composing for film.

Mary Giannoula, choreographer of the duets “They claim the wolf was crying” and “Another teen series” (with Marina Kladi) as well as the solo “I found you exploding”, selected choreographer at the U(R)TOPIAS Choreography Academy with the work “Fight or Flight” (“2023 Elefsis European Capital of Culture”), collaborates with the Gervasi group (Vienna) and the mixed dance group Dagipoli.

Dimitris Economou plays drums and composes electronic music. He worked with bands like Super Stereo and Tau, played in concerts with Pavlos Pavlidis, took part in tours and various festivals. As an electronic musician he has played in many festivals in Athens. He is currently working on new material for his personal electronic project.

Dave De Rose is a percussionist, bassist and multi-instrumentalist, former or current collaborator of Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traoré or Mark Ronson and member of Electric Jalaba and Rave At Your Fictional Borders. His record label, DDR Records, has 25 independent releases ranging from ambient and funk, to free improvisation, jazz or electroacoustic techno. He is the creator of the Agile Experiments project that released 11 albums in 5 years and attracted the attention of the British Library’s flagship Sound Archive project: it was annexed to the institution’s catalogue as part of the country’s sound and cultural heritage.

Tara Cunningham: guitar, fx

Μαίρη Γιαννούλα: movement

Δημήτρης Οικονόμου: drums

Dave De Rose: bass, fx

Future Folk #2: “PONTO-PONTO”

With the concert “PONTO-PONTO“, the FUTURE FOLK concerts continue at KET, curated by the electro-acoustic composer Tasos Stamou. Christos Navrozidis (pontian lyre, singing) and Tasos Stamou (electronics, live sound processing) seek the meeting of the ancient with the modern, the acoustic with the electronic.

Dedicated to the traditional music of the future, the monthly FUTURE FOLK concerts are a meeting point between traditional folk and contemporary experimental music. A researcher of sound, Tasos Stamou invites soloists from different musical traditions and creates an on-stage conversation with them, combining their music with live electronic processing.

Exploring lesser-known aspects of traditional music, such as mysteries and rituals, which often remain on the margins of contemporary revivals, FUTURE FOLK also functions as a living workshop.

Stamou has dedicated his musical career to the connection between tradition and contemporary creation. His trilogy (Musique Con Crete, DAD and Antiqua Graecia), which reflects this approach, has received international acclaim.

🔗 www.tasosstamou.com

With roots from Kotyora of Pontus, Christos Navrozidis studies Pontian music, without excluding new approaches. He started playing the lyre at the age of 8 and since the age of 14 he has been performing as an instrumentalist and singer at festivals and concerts. He has participated in seminars in Greece, France and Cyprus. Shortly before the departure of Vangelis Papathanasiou, he took part in the performance “The Thread / To Thread”, bringing the Pontian music tradition in a modern artistic context.

“MAR” — Athens sessions (Miquèu Montanaro – Vassilis Zlatanos)

Miquèu Montanaro, composer, multi-instrumentalist and representative of the culture of Occitania, presents a multimedia performance on the occasion of his latest album “MAR”. Video, playback, live improvisational music, electronic effects and poetry make up an experience that draws on tradition, contemporary art and improvisational creation. In the second part of the evening, he collaborates with composer and sound designer Vassilis Zlatanos in a set that incorporates live electronics and flutes in a marriage of folk, improvisation and electroacoustic elements, a product of their joint artistic quest that began in Hungary.

● Composer, musician, multi-instrumentalist, representative of the culture of Occitania, founder of the band Vents d’Est. Miquèu Montanaro collects elements from the traditional music of each place around the world. He studied saxophone before studying the traditional music of Provence and flutes. Fascinated from an early age by the intersection of cultures, both geographical and historical, his work is characterized by collaborations and encounters, both in improvisational music (Barre Phillips, Alan Vitous, Serge Pesce, Fabrice Gaudé) and in so-called world music (Carlo Rizzo, Keyvan Chemirani, Fouad Didi, Baltazar Nagy-Montanaro), in French “chanson” (Arthur H., Georges Moustaki, Sylvie Berger), new traditional music (Laurence Bourdin, Pierre-Laurent Bertolino, Estelle Amsellem), early music (Kobzos Kiss Tamàs, Kecskés, Gérard Le Vot) or chamber music (Quatuor Talich, OCTV). In Greece, he has composed music for Nena Venetsanou. He has given hundreds of concerts, from Latin America to Central Europe, from Africa to Coursegoules in the French Alps, the United States or Indonesia.

Vassilis Zlatanos is a composer, musician and sound designer. He works in film, dance, theatre and live music, mixing elements of acoustic instruments with electronic and electro-acoustic elements. He is a member of the collective Club Zothique.

Pantelis Lykoudis / Mislav Režić

Saxophonist Pantelis Lykoudis and guitarist Mislav Režić invite us to a musical evening dedicated to contemporary music creation, where the sounds of saxophone and guitar acquire new dimensions.

Pantelis Lykoudis, saxophonist, educator and improviser from Athens, brings to the fore three contemporary works that highlight the multi-dimensional nature of the saxophone. Having studied at HKU Utrechts Conservatorium, Kunstuniversität Graz and UMass Amherst, and having worked with renowned composers and soloists, Pantelis has performed at leading festivals and conferences such as the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and the Noto Musica Festival. The works he presents – “Micrographia” by Samuel Andreyev, “Asphyxia” by Aaron Cassidy and “Komposition für Altsaxophon in Es und Tonband” by Isabel Mundry – explore the possibilities of the instrument through innovative techniques and multi-layered sound narratives.

Mislav Režić, one of the most distinguished Croatian guitarists, presents the project “IN LOOP (Music for a Film)”, where he combines his rich experience in contemporary music and film composition. With an international career as a soloist and chamber musician, founder of ensembles such as Ensemble Machetes and Tetttix, and artistic director of the festival “Glazbene večeri kod sv. Jeronima”, Mislav incorporates new work commissions, first performances and groundbreaking recordings such as the award-winning AUBURN into his artistic career.

www.mislavrezic.com

www.pantelislykoudis.com

Notes on the three works performed by Pantelis Lykoudis:

Micrographia” (2010, 7’) by Samuel Andreyev

Samuel Andreyev is a Canadian-French composer based in Strasbourg. His orchestral, chamber and vocal compositions are performed, broadcast and recorded throughout the world. Also highly in demand as a lecturer, public speaker and teacher, his work often focuses on highly atypical instrumental combinations, always searching for the greatest possible expressive intensity. For “Micrographia”, his first work for the instrument, he writes: “The title of the work refers to a pioneering book published in the 17th century containing sketches of various miniature objects, greatly enlarged and rendered in a considerable degree of detail. The word is also used to describe a rare condition in which the handwriting becomes excessively dense and small.”

Asphyxia” (2000, 10’) by Aaron Cassidy

This early work by the American composer Aaron Cassidy introduced unprecedented and influential notational innovations for the saxophone, where the mouth and fingers are written in separate pentagrams. The composer experiments with what he calls the polyphonicity of performative elements, which results in the production of ‘acoustic by-products’ through the interaction of disconnected layers. Thus, many of the elements of the score are often almost impossible to hear. The inherent physicality of the work ultimately creates a visual correspondence between sound that can be heard and action that cannot be heard.

Komposition für Altsaxophon in Es und Tonband” (1992, 10’) by Isabel Mundry / Diffusion: Giorgos Mizithras

The German composer Isabel Mundry constantly explores through her work the relationships between space, time and perception. She is the first guest composer of the Staatskapelle Dresden, and her composition for saxophone and tape was premiered by Johannes Ernst. Organ sounds, closing doors, city noises and numerical sequences are just some of the elements that appear on the tape in concrete form, not to hint anecdotally at extramusical things, but to mirror in their procedural development the paths that the live saxophone with its own tonal means will also follow. Thus, all tonal elements, whether played by the saxophone or produced by the tape, form part of a pattern that fundamentally moves, changes or destroys its structures.

Spoken Maik #5

Since March 2023, KET hosts Spoken Maik, a monthly poetry and spoken word meeting curated by Niki Papadogiannaki and Stavros Anagnostopoulos. Open to all poetic forms and all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitations, performances and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian and the Galician language of Spain. The genres are equally varied: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories, news clips shaped in the manner of documentary poetry.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and intimate space that allows all individuals to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

The fifth Spoken Maik of the season is hosted at KET on Thursday 13 February.

Those who want to participate should come half an hour before the start time (19:30) and add their name to the list of participants. Each act can last up to 5 minutes.

Superwave

Using the Indian Bul bul Tarang, the Persian santoor, the Greek baglamas, voice, analog electronic hardware, canvas, colors, mirrors and various other objects, Superwave (Tasos Sotiriou, Leonidas Danezos and Deniz Angelakis) create audiovisual performances that combine traditional Eastern music with break beats, jungle, Drum N’ Bass or IDM.

www.facebook.com/superwavesound

www.super-wave.bandcamp.com/album/mytilenoise

Tasos Sotiriou is a Greek-British musician/multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer and audio manipulator. He studied audio engineering and music production in the UK where he lived and worked as a live Sound Engineer for over two decades. During this period he worked with a vast array of UK and international artists including Mr Scruff, Soul 2 Soul, Gabrielle, Amadou & Mariam and PFunk to name but a few. Six years ago he decided to focus on creating and performing his own music. He returned to his native Greece and influenced by the myriad sounds and styles experienced in his life, began blending traditions and genres to create psychedelic mystical sound scapes and melodies. He now travels the world spreading the joy of his creations, whether it’s his solo live looping project TAS or collaborating with various international artists he meets on his travels.

Leonidas Danezos is a Greek-British musician, composer and sound designer. He has produced original music for award-winning movies, documentaries, art film, theatre performances and didactic material using hardware analog devices. In music groups since 1985, Leonidas is the founder member of popular music groups such as Alcalica & Superwave and has released 13 vinyl albums. London electronica scene of the ’90s, music machines and a passion for traditional instruments merge to create a transformational sound experience in a world without borders.

Deniz Angelaki was born in 1987 in Athens. As a visual artist, she has participated in experimental live performances in Greece, Cyprus and internationally (Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany). She creates improvised abstract visual environments, interacting live with musicians, using a variety of materials, lights and reflections to enrich the viewer’s experience. She has collaborated with artists such as Jannis Anastasakis (Elektronik Meditation project), Thodoris Rellos, Andreas Polyzogopoulos, Savina Yannatou, Harris Lambrakis, Arve Henriksen, Nikos Sidirokastritis, Zoe Efstathiou, Spyros Polychronopoulos and others. Today she lives and works in Amorgos, where she continues to work with visual arts and musical improvisation.

j u s t b e i n g

An improvisational dialogue between dancer-performer Marina Tsapekou and oudist Thomas Meleteas, the performance “j u s t b e i n g” explores the connection between sound and movement, seeking ways of coexistence and interaction. The work draws inspiration from external stimuli that appear in real time, creating a living experience where the environment becomes an organic part of the creation. The first presentation took place at Athens Arts Collective’s Vanguard Festival in 2023.

Marina Tsapekou is a graduate of the professional dance school “Aktina” and the Department of Philology of the University of Athens (EKPA). Her practice focuses on improvisation and contact improvisation. As a dancer, she has collaborated with artists such as Agni Papadeli-Rossetou, Jenny Argyriou, Eliane Roumie, Teti Nikolopoulou, Thanos Papakonstantinou, Romeo Castelucci and Marina Mascarell. She has participated in productions of the National Opera (2021, 2025), the Bayreuth Baroque Festival (2023) and the Istanbul ImproDance Festival (2022). Since 2017, she has been teaching in dance studios and drama schools. At the same time, she has participated in international festivals and seminars in Greece and abroad, collaborating with artists such as Thomas Hauert, Julyen Hamilton, Nitta Little, Urs Stauffer, Salva Sanchis and Stavroula Siamou. She is a member of the dance collective M54_Underscore.

Thomas Meleteas is an oud player, composer and PhD candidate at the Department of Music Science and Art of the University of Macedonia. His research and artistic practice focus on the synthesis and interaction of the musical language of Eastern Mediterranean tropicality with contemporary musical approaches. He has released three albums of his own compositions, as well as several singles and EPs. He has toured extensively in Greece and abroad, either with his own groups or collaborating with artists such as Petros Klampanis, Christos Kaliontsidis and Kenneth Dahl Knudsen. Since 2018, he teaches oud, tropical music theory, composition and improvisation.

Free for Five #3

Free for Five returns for the third time at KET, bringing together five musicians from different backgrounds in the improvisational and experimental scene. With no pre-agreed structures, except for the duration of each set, the musicians interact live, shaping the final sonic outcome on stage.

Free for Five #3 features:

Artemis Vavatsika (accordion)

Giorgos Varoutas (live sound processing)

Dimos Vryzas (violin)

Anna Linardou (voice)

Alexis Porfyriadis (piano)

Artemis Vavatsika plays and teaches accordion, improvises, sings, orchestrates and seeks new forms of expression. Her personal language is distinguished by physicality, narrative, sometimes minimalism. She is influenced by baroque music and modernism.

Giorgos Varoutas deals with the art of sound. His method is based on the live processing of acoustic instruments and voice. He has participated in international projects that incorporate the music of various traditions into electronic music and collaborates with important artists of contemporary creative music.

With a wide range of influences, violinist, improviser, sound artist and performer Dimos Vryzas focuses on free improvisation, exploring the sonic limits of the violin, experimenting with the acoustic/electronic sound contrast and searching for new ways of musical expression.

Anna Linardou explores the versatility of the voice, combining modern, classical, traditional vocal qualities and extended vocal techniques. She has sung as a soloist in Europe and America, Her discography includes the albums “Heterotopia”, “Ano Vythos”, “Etidorhpa”. She is the director of the Intercultural Choir of the GNO.

The composer and pianist/improviser Alexis Porfyriadis studied composition in England and Austria. Since 2005 he has been working with improvisation and the relationship between improvisation and composition. He is a founding member of the improvisation ensembles 6daEXIt and WHI ensemble. He teaches non-conventional performing arts for ensembles and improvisation at the PAMAK’s TMET.

Granny Records Showcase

Granny Records is a unique and valuable label that, since 2008, has been exploring the fields of electronic, electro-acoustic and experimental music and today presents a coherent and selective catalogue of artists, collaborations and projects. It returns to KET with three sets by Savvas Metaxas, Eventless Plot and Marco Paltrinieri.

● The independent record label Granny Records aims to promote the sound of artists from the local and international scene, focusing on free improvisation, noise, electroacoustic composition and contemporary electronic music. Granny Records was founded in 2008 in Thessaloniki by Savvas Metaxas, Spyros Emmanouilidis and Vassilis Liolios, while its visual identity is curated by Giorgos Vourlidas. Since 2008 until today, Granny Records constantly presents new audio releases and organizes musical events, exhibitions and workshops, constituting a multicultural channel of expression and exchange of artistic ideas.

www.grannyrecords.bandcamp.com

● Musician and sound artist Savvas Metaxas works in the fields of experimental music, field recordings and modular composition. Counting more than 15 releases, his music has been released by many labels (LINE, Superpang, Granny Records, Orila, Glistening Examples, More Mars, Cronica, Phinery, Flaming Pines, Coherent States, Falt). He has performed in numerous concerts. In 2008, he co-founded Granny Records. He co-organized and co-curated events in various venues in Thessaloniki, inviting numerous European and Greek artists. His other works include the creation and composition of sound for installations and site-specific performances, as well as music for animated films. His most recent release is a cassette entitled ‘Folk Tales and the Rain’ on the French label Wabi-Sabi Tapes.

● Eventless Plot (Vassilis Liolios, Yannis Tsirikoglou) were formed in 2002 in Thessaloniki. They borrow elements from various aesthetics to build their own hybrid sound, paying great attention to the sonic details. They use a variety of instruments, analog sources, field recordings and Max/MSP patches. They have curated music for art installations, dance performances and films. Their compositions have been released on some of the most prestigious labels in the experimental field (Another Timbre, Edition Wandelweiser, Dinzu Artefacts, Moving Furniture Contemporary Series, Tsss Tapes, Granny Records, Dasa Tapes, Archive officielle, Never Anything records, etc.). They have presented their work live at venues and festivals in Greece and abroad.

● Visual artist, sound artist and educator Marco Paltrinieri lives and creates in Milan. He is a founding member of the visual research collective Discipula (2011-2020), with which he exhibited internationally, and of LL Edizioni, a curatorial platform for artistic and cultural productions. His solo music, mainly centred around sampling and looping and the use of guitar, voice and field recordings, has been released by Canti Magnetici and Granny Records.

Sound of Color #4

This year we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the monthly audiovisual performances “Sound Of Color”, curated by Jannis Anastasakis and Natalia Manta at KET: 10 years that resemble a journey through the history of improvisational and experimental music, from free, Scandinavian or New York jazz music and free improvisation to ambient and psychedelic music, from contemporary mixes between electronic and traditional sound to entire in situ installations where space itself becomes a musical instrument. These 10 years have left an indelible mark on the space and programming of KET, which has not ceased since 2014 to open itself to musical experimentation, improvisational encounters and the live interaction between image and sound.

In the fourth date of the year, Jannis Anastasakis (guitar, analog-synths, live-electronics) and Natalia Manta (digital & analog-visuals) join Maria Dybbroe (saxophone), Nicky Kokkoli (saxophone), Simos Riniotis (drums) and Alexandra Niaka (live visuals).

◍ Improviser, composer, saxophonist and clarinetist Maria Dybbroe lives in Oslo and Copenhagen. She has released 9 albums and contributed to more than 20 albums by other artists. She leads the trio Caktus. She creates music in the experimental field of the Scandinavian jazz scene. She is dedicated to collaborative work in bands such as Køs, Maraton, Dynastiet, Orsa, JUMP, Sidechains and Coriolis. She is also an active freelance improviser. She travels all over Europe playing solo or in adhoc-formations.

www.soundcloud.com/maria-dybbroe

◍ Nicky Kokkoli was born in 1996 in Athens. An active member of the Greek jazz and free improvisational music scene, she has performed in venues such as Fylkingen (Stockholm) and Cafe OTO (London). She has collaborated with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Sofia Jernberg, Maggie Nicols, Lisa Ullén, Christer Bothén, Martin Küchen, Bram De Looze, Sharif Sehnaoui and others. She is a member of the Swedish-Greek band Ahanes whose first album, “Petrichor”, was recently released by the renowned Clean Feed label. In recent years, she has been studying Middle Eastern music and Greek traditional music in order to create a personal musical style.

www.nickykokkoli.wixsite.com/website

◍ The musician and improviser Simos Riniotis is a member, with Dimos Vryzas and Giannis Arapis, of the trio The Coal and, with George Varoutas and Harris Lambrakis, of the avant garde group Skraut. Using drums with various small objects, he attempts to create an intermediate space, a meeting place for the other voices. He has collaborated with important musicians and sound artists in Greece and abroad.

Alexandra Niaka is an interactive media artist. She holds a Master of Architecture in Design for Performance and Interaction from the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and a diploma of architecture from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She expresses herself through interactive installations, immersive technologies, and written text. Through her work, she tries to provide creative answers to questions concerning the relation between human and technology and explore the way in which this relation determines how we perceive, and interact with, our surrounding reality. To that end, she focuses on the use of cutting-edge technology to create Mixed, Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences. She worked for London-based creative studios, like The Workers (inc.) and Jason Bruges studio. As creative developer and new media artist, she collaborates at dance and music performances, and theatrical plays as well. In 2020, she obtained the SNF Artist Fellowship Award on Visual Arts, from ARTWORKS. She is also a member of the artists’ collective Medea Electronique

◍ The visual artist Natalia Manta lives and works in Athens. She studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2011 – 2017), where she also completed her MA in Fine Arts. Memory, time and myth are concepts at the heart of her visual creation. She uses different materials (metal, clay, photosensitive chemicals and video projections). She collaborates with visual artists, musicians, theatre or performance artists. Her work has been exhibited internationally in various solo and group exhibitions. During the period 2017-2020, she taught sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts in Athens. Her works are in private collections. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artists’ Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).

www.nataliamanta.com

Jannis Anastasakis (born 1984) is considered one of the most distinctive guitarists and musicians in the Greek free-improv music scene. Known for his unique approach to effects and atmospheric playing, he has created a personal sound that blends ambient and psychedelia, balancing between melody and noise, often pushing the “acceptable” boundaries. He is the founder of JAM pedals, a company that manufactures handmade guitar pedals, which are used by some of the greatest musicians such as Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Daniel Lanois, John Medeski, Nile Rodgers, Lee Ranaldo, and many others. He has collaborated with significant artists from both the Greek and international music scenes, including Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Giuseppe Doronzo, Savina Yannatou, Haig Yazdjian, Thodoris Rellos, Michalis Siganidis, Floros Floridis, Lena Platonos, Spyros Polychronopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Haris Lambrakis, and others. Additionally, he has contributed music to theatrical and choreographic works, collaborating with Thodoris Abatzis, Androniki Marathaki, and the La Coja Danca group. He is also developing the audiovisual project “Sound of Color” with sculptor Natalia Manta, handling live visuals.

www.jannisanastasakis.com

Apparition of a Triple Resonance

Three electroacoustic musicians, Nicholas Valsamakis, Marios Moras and Dimitris Barnias, present at KET an evening dedicated to electroacoustic composition and sonic exploration. With their personal aesthetic and technical approaches, they highlight the contemporary music scene of Crete.

Nicholas Valsamakis: He composes electroacoustic music with emphasis on microacoustic (microsound) composition. Researches proprietary algorithms for the composition, processing and articulation of sound material. He is a founding member of the Hellenic Association of Electroacoustic Music Composers (ESSIM).

Marios Moras: musician and producer, founder of the label Moremars. He has collaborated with artists such as Philip Corner and Lionel Marchetti, and has composed music for theatre performances. In 2024 he released the album Non Living Nature: Compositions For Dictaphone, based on field recordings. He uses loops, tape recorders, effects and analogue synthesizers. He is a member of ESSIM.

www.moremars.org

Dimitris Barnias (tokeno): focuses on algorithmic systems based on field recordings and sound synthesis. As a PhD candidate, he investigates the use of natural phenomena in sound. At the same time, he is working on improvisation through hybrid electronic media. His works have been presented in festivals in Greece and abroad. He is a member of ESSIM since 2022.

www.tokeno.net

Curation: Undertow, a platform for defiant arts

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“Temp/era” by àktapha + Julyen Hamilton

The contemporary music group àktapha presents “Temp/era”, an original collaboration of music and poetry with the participation of the iconic dancer, poet and musician Julyen Hamilton who, for 45 years, has been dedicated to instant and on-the-spot composition, i.e. improvisation.

The words tempo (time) and era (era) make up the title of the show, inspired by old painting techniques. In tempera, colours are mixed with basic, everyday materials such as egg or animal glue, creating unique shades and textures. In a similar way, “temp/era” explores the synthesis of speech and music, seeking new forms and textures of emotion.

Julyen Hamilton – poetry, piano

Giannis Psarakis – percussion

Giorgos Kokkinaris – double bass

Iason Maroulis – trumpet

Orestis Tsekouras – guitar, electronics

Julyen Hamilton is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer and musician. Born and raised in England, he trained in London in the 1970s, a time of radical experimentation, and has been a spokesperson for innovative practices ever since. His work is primarily based on improvisation: he composes dance works and texts on the spot, combining his long experience as a writer with his dance skills. Since the 1980s, he has worked closely with major musicians and improvisers, including Barre Phillips, Fred Frith, Tristan Honsinger and Michael Moore. He has performed over 100 solo performances, as well as numerous collaborations with dancers, musicians and theatre artists.

www.julyenhamilton.co

● The Athenian music group àktapha has managed to present an impressive number of musical productions within a year. Rejecting the idea that new music requires an educated audience, it seeks to establish honest ways of communication based on the expressive power of young creators, regardless of predetermined styles. Believing that music can help people explore themselves, the group collaborates with artists to create and foster an artistic community that enhances self-awareness and cultivates sensitivity, vulnerability and empathy.

www.aktapha.com

Yorgos Dimitriadis Solo LP Presentation “14 20 22” / Dimitriadis & Lambrakis Duo

“The voice of my grandmother Evdoxia, the first thing you hear on the album, sets the tone. The numbers refer to years, from when she left her home in Eastern Thrace in 1914 for Thessaloniki, her return in 1920 and her final forced emigration in 1922. “14 20 22” is a very visual album. The compositions are influenced by cinematic “instants”, newspaper clippings and images of Greece from my childhood. The visual elements trigger sounds which in turn trigger images. Recordings from tapes I made some 30 years ago found their way into this work, along with field recordings and improvisations with percussion and electronics.”

On the occasion of the release of the LP “14 20 22” by Trouble In The East Records (Berlin), Yorgos Dimitriadis presents a solo set with compositions and improvisations for percussion and electronics.

In the second part of the evening, he improvises with Harris Lambrakis on the ney.

● Drummer, percussionist, electronic musician and improviser Yorgos Dimitriadis lives and works in Berlin. He performs as a soloist and in collaboration with some of the most important representatives of the international improvisational music scene (Axel Dörner, Andrea Parkins, Achim Kaufmann, Tobias Delius, Alex von Schlippenbach, Paul Dunmall, Lori Freedman, Berlin Improvisers Orchestra…). He is co-founder of Grix, Glue, Fabric and The 0hz. Using a small jazz drum set and two microphones, Dimitriadis composes real-time electroacoustic soundscapes, emphasizing timbre, materials – metals and skins – and their vibrations. The other hidden sounds of percussion come to the fore.

www.yorgosdimitriadis.com 

www.yorgosdimitriadis.bandcamp.com/album/14-20-22

Harris Lambrakis was born and raised in Athens. He started playing music at a young age, next to remarkable teachers. He graduated from the Music Gymnasium of Pallini and the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens, majoring in ethnomusicology. He has had the good fortune to collaborate, in Greece and abroad, with Haig Yazdjian, Savina Yannatou, Michalis Siganidis, Ross Daly, Kostas Tatsakis, Pericles Papapetropoulos, Christos Tsiamoulis, Antonis Apergis, Stefano Battaglia, Bijan Chemirani, Michel Doneda, among others. For the last 30 years, he has participated in recordings and concerts around the world, while teaching ney.

www.harrislambrakis.com

The concert is supported by Goethe-Institut Athen.

On 23 January, on the eve of the concert at KET, Yorgos Dimitriadis will hold a workshop of free musical improvisation at Goethe-Institut Athen. More information: www.goethe.de/ins/gr/el/sta/ath/ver.cfm?event_id=26321659.

Three Times Three #4

For a year now, the “Three Times Three” performances have been bringing together artists from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, with the aim of creating a common code of communication that is valid as long as the meeting lasts.

Three musicians meet three dancers at a time. At the beginning of the evening, three random pairs are drawn at random and improvise for 15 minutes. The evening ends with all participants collaborating in a 30-minute improvisation.

“Three Times Three” takes place every month at KET, curated by the composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos).

The fourth meeting of the season features:

Harris Lambrakis – ney

Danae Stefanou – piano

Thimios Atzakas – oud

Anna Kalogera – dance

Iro Vasalou – dance

Katerina Giannouli – dance

Harris Lambrakis was born and raised in Athens. He started playing music at a young age, next to remarkable teachers. He graduated from the Music Gymnasium of Pallini and the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens, majoring in ethnomusicology. He has had the good fortune to collaborate, in Greece and abroad, with Haig Yazdjian, Savina Yannatou, Michalis Siganidis, Ross Daly, Kostas Tatsakis, Pericles Papapetropoulos, Christos Tsiamoulis, Antonis Apergis, Stefano Battaglia, Bijan Chemirani, Michel Doneda, among others. For the last 30 years, he has participated in recordings and concerts around the world, while teaching ney.

Danae Stefanou makes improvised sounds and texts. Since 2007, she teaches critical history and philosophy of music, sound epistemologies, media arts and experimental artistic research at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she coordinates the Ensembles of Experimental and Improvised Music (s.p.A.M.*) and other interdisciplinary research initiatives. Musically active since the 1990s, she has co-created and implemented hundreds of actions and participatory events in public & self-managed spaces, art galleries and cultural institutions. Together with Giannis Kotsonis, she is a founding member of the acte vide group (since 2006) and the Sound Meetings initiative, based in Syros (since 2011). In recent years, her practice combines text scores, ephemeral poetry and sound fiction with original participatory and performative methodologies.

Thimios Atzakas is a musician, producer and researcher. He studied music in Cologne, Leipzig and Berlin and completed his doctoral thesis at the Department of Cultural Communication and Technology of the University of the Aegean. He is systematically engaged in oud and the application of various tropical music systems on contemporary music writing, modal, electroacoustic composition and free improvisation. Since 2023, he has been performing as a DJ under the name THYMUS GLAND, creating soundscapes inspired by his personal collection of ethnographic vinyls. He has played at many international festivals. He has taken part in hundreds of musical performances. Professor at the Department of Music Art and Science of the University of Macedonia, he is also a founding member of the international event ‘Music Village’ that takes place every summer in Agios Lavrentios, Pelion, as well as the artistic forum ‘the egg’ in Thessaloniki.

Anna Kalogera is an honors graduate of the Professional Dance School of Rallou Manou, a graduate of the Psychology Department of the University of Athens and a graduate of the Postgraduate Training in Psychodrama – Social Therapy at the Open Psychotherapy Center. She has participated as a dancer and creator in Athens Video Dance Project (2018) and Breaking Art II (2019). She has collaborated with A. Kazouri, E.Goro, Χ. Mandafouni, Ch. Kotsalis, S. Mavraganis, A. Marathakis, M. Karaleka, L. Kardouss, C. Laraaz. In 2019, she continued her studies in contemporary dance and improvisation at the LaFaktoria Choreographic Center in Spain, where she explored other movement tools. She thus collaborated with M. Coronado, M. Tompkins, L. Ayguade and others. She has curated movement in theatrical performances and has worked as a dance teacher in dance schools in Attica.

● Dancer, choreographer and dramatist Iro Vasalou studied dance at The Place (LCDS) in London and drama at Utrecht University. Her choreographies have been featured in European festivals and platforms such as the 7th Festival of Young Choreographers of the House of Arts and Letters, Nuevos Valores de la Danza, MAF (Malaga), Seasoning (Eindhoven), 8th You Better Move (Dansmakers, Amsterdam). Since 2020, she lives and creates in Athens where she works as a dance dramaturg, continuing her personal choreographic work. She presented her latest work, “Symposium”, at the Athens Concert Hall. She teaches the original method for improvisational movement “Gestures” with K. Chairetis in workshops for professional dancers and actors.

Katerina Giannouli studied dance and psychology. She is a member of the dance group Underscore and co-founder of the art space M54. As an independent artist she has created/co-created the works “Lamento”, “Moving sound”, “Red Ghost”, “The other things that you say”, “Having One No Idea”, “Stay,Stay,Stay” and the publication “Pieces of us”. In recent years she has been teaching dance and improvisation classes to adults.

“Into a wandering night”

“Into a wandering night”, a multisensory performance, lament choir, an olfactory textile and hair installation. Six women artists invite you to collectively dive deep into an experimental show that was created from their stories and memories on death. 

Their performance is a flow, an errance, a peregrination, a procession by six women, the voices of every one, that recall the voices of ancestors. It starts with a naive improvised call from the forest. Vulnerable voices shivering sing Meredith Monk (1973, “Dark ost”). Then they slide into a song about the last days of someone who passed away, a composition by Guillaume de Machaut (1350, “Puisque ma douleur”). Later, Hildegard Von Bingen’s spirit slides in their bodies and they discover an improvised “vocalscape”, an experimental lament landscape is composed live by them, following the method of Morton Feldman (“Three Voices”, 1982) based on rhythmic breaths to regenerate and mourn. The wandering journey also goes through three poetic psalms of dark days, written by Eleni Kastanioti, Dina Koumouli, Maria Isadora Vincentelli and Celia Stroom. They end the ritual with a Funeral song by Josquin Des prez “Thousands of regrets, I mourn then die to join you” from the Mass “Mille regretz” performed in Holy Week in 1510.

The performance takes place inside a spider net of fabrics, tapestry of hair, by the textile artist Celia Stroom, with drawings of Elianna Otta on shrouds, infused with a perfume by the artist Elektra Stampoulou. The audience follows the ritual guided by a large scale video installation that maps the space. They are part of the performance themselves, wandering inside the spider net to all connect to past memories. 

This show was first created in 2015, in residency in the ancient laboratory of Marie Curie, Paris. A second version was born again in the Delphi Theater in Berlin in 2017. A third one was created in the Writers’ house in Tbilisi in 2019. This new version was created in Athens in 2024, at KOKTO Art space, and will be transformed according to the aura of KET in January 2025. 

“Into a wandering night” is constantly transformed and is based on stories on Death from the performers and some members of the audience. In this context, we aim to see performing arts not as an entertainment but a way to heal, share, care and transform all together.

Perfume: Elektra Stampoulou

Tapestry of crystal & hair: Elsa Stroom

Drawing on shrouds: Eliana Otta

Voices and poetry: Dina Koumouli, Eleni Kastanioti, Maria Isidora Vincentelli, Celia Stroom

Textile installation, lights, video, dramaturgy: Celia Stroom

● Two performances take place every night: one at 20:30 and one at 22:00. After the performance, the doors close and admission is not possible.

● The performance is addressed to a limited audience (up to 25 people) and reservations are required: more.com & 213 00 40 496

Future Folk #1: “KAR-PATHOS”

With the concert “KAR-PATHOS”, KET inaugurates “Future Folk“, a series of concerts curated by the electroacoustic composer Tasos Stamou. Dedicated to the traditional music of the future, “Future Folk” brings together once a month two seemingly opposite music styles: modern experimental and traditional folk music.

Tasos Stamou invites to KET soloists representing different musical traditions – not only Greek ones. With them, he will create an on-stage conversation, combining their music with the live electronic sound processing he has developed. The aim of this musical research is to show how traditional music can be transformed and evolve into something new. “Future Folk” will function as a live workshop, exploring the lesser-known aspects of traditional music, such as mysteries and rituals, which often remain on the margins of modern revivals.

The series begins with the musical tradition and the sound memory of Karpathos, in collaboration with Thodoris Ziarkas, who learned to play the local lyre and tsampouna from an early age, before distinguishing himself as a double bassist, improviser and composer.

● Tasos Stamou has been involved for several years with the research and promotion of traditional music through modern means, as well as with in relation to modern electronic music. The works in his Musique Con Crete / DAD / Antiqua Graecia trilogy reflect this musical intention and have received very positive comments internationally for their use of authentic traditional elements with respect but also with a strong willingness to revise.

www.tasosstamou.com

● Thodoris Ziarkas studied jazz, improvisation and composition in England and the Netherlands, where he lived until recently. Today, he lives and works in Athens, and is particularly popular in both traditional and avant-garde music circles. He is distinguished by his ability to move comfortably between these two worlds. He first presented this project on ERT radio, as part of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of its operation, in a composition by Tasos Stamou, with Ziarkas assuming the role of the folk instrumentalist.

“Dave De Rose presents…” #3

The versatile sound artist Dave De Rose (Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traoré, Mark Ronson…) created last season at KET a monthly cycle of live performances that was embraced by the city’s artistic communities and the audience of the space.

For the third night of the season, he collaborates with Dimitris Chatzizisis (aka Foken), Vasia Koutsilianou and Theano Xydia.

Dimitris Chatzizisis: violin, loops, fx

Vasia Koutsilianou: dance, movement

Theano Xydia: dance, movement

Dave De Rose: drums

Dimitris Chatzizisis (Foken)

Born in Thessaloniki, he studied violin at the Music College and the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki, as well as composition at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has collaborated as a performer and composer with groups of various musical genres playing violin and guitar, as well as with artists such as: Alkinoos Ioannidis, Fotis Siotas, Lefteris Moumtzis, Dave De Rose, Stella etc. In 2020 he released his first solo album “Delfon”. He has been involved in free improvisation and music for theatre.

Vasia Koutsilianou

A graduate of the Athens Conservatory and the Physics Department of the Athens University of Music and Performing Arts, she has collaborated with the National Museum of Contemporary Art and with artists such as Grace Schwindt and Lila Zafeiropoulou. She has presented her works at festivals such as Dance Days Chania and Athens Video Dance Project. In 2024 she presented “Right Eye’s Truth”, a duet based on the distortion of truth. As a dance teacher she has worked with the NGO All Special Kids in Geneva and with dance schools in Athens.

Theano Xydia

She studied dance at the National School of Dance. She was trained in improvisation techniques starting with instant composition (Julyen Hamilton) and continuing with teachers and different approaches such as Ermis Malkotsis, Daria Fain, Meg Stuart. In recent years she has been collaborating as a dancer with Griffon dance co (Ioanna Portolou). As a choreographer, she searches for the meaning of experience in a performance for both the viewer and the performer. Her latest personal work is “Raw”, a performance on relationships. She has been a member of the Underscore collective and the M54 space. Some of the choreographers she has collaborated with are Anastasia Lyra, Christos Papadopoulos, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Sophia-Danae Varvila, Apostolia Papadamaki, etc.

Dave De Rose

With a career that has included collaborations with renowned artists like Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traore, and Mark Ronson, among many others, Dave De Rose is a drummer, bassplayer and a producer who has spent the past 15 years pursuing underground music projects. He’s a core member of the space-age Gnawa project Electric Jalaba, Rave At Your Fictional Borders, is the director of  international improvisation collective Agile Experiments (2018-present) as well as a prolific producer and dedicated music educator.

www.davederosemusic.com

Spoken Maik #4

Since March 2023, KET hosts Spoken Maik, a monthly poetry and spoken word meeting curated by Niki Papadogiannaki and Stavros Anagnostopoulos. Open to all poetic forms and all languages, Spoken Maik has so far hosted recitations, performances and readings in Greek, English, Norwegian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, French, Serbian, Ukrainian and the Galician language of Spain. The genres are equally varied: slam, spoken word, poetry, rap, manifestos, personal stories, news clips shaped in the manner of documentary poetry.

The Spoken Maik community is always supportive, offering a safe and intimate space that allows all individuals to try, often for the first time, to share their poetry in public.

The fourth Spoken Maik of the season is hosted at KET on Thursday 16 January.

Those who want to participate should come half an hour before the start time (19:30) and add their name to the list of participants. Each act can last up to 5 minutes.

Flugen

Originally from Lebanon and Greece, music composer, performer and multi-instrumentalist Maya Aghniadis (aka Flugen) combines acoustic and electronic sound to create a musical narrative that changes form over time, without ever losing the element of intimacy. Her sound is shaped through beats, melodies and vocal harmonies mixed with neoclassical and ambient elements.

Her first release, “Lost Banjo” (2017), combined the sound of a custom-built guitar with Marie Caparros’ cello. Merging her second release, “Ondes” (2018), and her third EP, “Dreams & Colors” (2018), she created a performance that brought dancers, singers and musicians to the stage. Her fourth EP, “Meshwar” (2019), was the result of these collaborations. “Poupayee” (2020) focused on her approach as a storyteller, with more intense rhythms, deeper atmospheres and more subversive sounds. The album was voted one of the best albums of 2020 by Arab News. After moving to Greece, Maya discovered her Greek roots and her connection to rebetiko and indigenous experimental music, elements that inspired her recent album, “Penté” (2023).

www.flugen.bandcamp.com

Participants:

Alexis Bolosis – saxophone

Omar Abuzekry – ney

Wafaa’ Aghniadis – voice

Fotini Banou – voice

Dimitris Ventourakis – piano

Mia Zabelka / Andreas Yakovlev

From the experimental violin of Mia Zabelka, a prominent figure of the contemporary electroacoustic scene, to the field recordings and modular synths of Andreas Yakovlev Michaelides, KET hosts two sets of electronic and experimental music with elements of noise, drone and improvisation.

● Mia Zabelka

Austrian violinist-vocalist-composer Mia Zabelka is considered to be a leading figure in the international scene of electroacoustic music, known for her innovative and boundary-pushing approach to sound, incorporating elements of noise, drone and improvisation into her compositions. Her performances involve the use of extended techniques on the violin, electronic effects, and a range of other unconventional methods to create unique and immersive sonic experiences.

She has released multiple albums and has performed at various festivals and venues around the world. She has also worked with a variety of artists and collaborators, including the ensemble ‘Zeitkratzer’, John Zorn, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Elliott Sharp, Maggie Nicols, John Russell, Fred Frith, Johannes Frisch, Pavel Fajt and Zahra Mani.

In 2009, Mia Zabelka founded Klanghaus, a center for sound art and interdisciplinary art in Southern Styria, which launches the Klangzeit festival four times a year. Since 2009 she has been the artistic director of phonofemme Vienna, an international festival in the field of experimental music and sound art by women. Mia Zabelka has been Vice President of the Austrian Composers Association (ACOM) since 2019.

www.miazabelka.com

● Andreas Yakovlev Michaelides

Andreas Yakovlev Michaelides is a designer and music producer under the name Yakovlev. He mixes field recordings, acoustic instruments and modular syntheses, exploring the grey zones between dreams, consciousness, patterns in nature and modern life. His units being energy, frequency and vibration, he extracts sound from news broadcasts and video footage, transforming them into transcendental soundscapes. He has composed music for performances, films, virtual realities & has been performing live in Europe since 2018.

The concert is curated by Lee Adams.

With the support of the Embassy of Austria.

TELESCOPIO

The audiovisual and electronic group TELESCOPIO was recently created by three artists already established in the fields of music production, film soundtracks and animation: Leonidas Danezos, Vesta 4 (a.k.a. Michail Chalk) and VJ Maestro Komikern.

The aggressive sounds of the analogue machines meet the delicate sounds of the baglamas, the santoor and the trumpet. Under astral projections, the artists’ transition from planet to planet often results in their falling into black holes that release them from the norm and propel them into a spiral of Dionysian improvisation.

Leonidas Danezos is a Greek-British musician, composer and sound designer. He has produced original music for award-winning movies, documentaries, art film, theatre performances and didactic material using hardware analog devices. In music groups since 1985, Leonidas is the founder member of popular music groups such as Alcalica & Superwave and has released 13 vinyl albums. London electronica scene of the ’90s, music machines and a passion for traditional instruments merge to create a transformational sound experience in a world without borders.

Vesta 4 (a.k.a. Michail Chalk), is a Greek music composer and producer with a diverse range of music projects. In the 1980s, he was the founder of the post punk group Headleaders, featured in the recent documentary film “Return of the Creeps” by Creep Records in 2023. He has composed a multitude of pieces for various mediums including movies, theatrical shows, documentaries, and TV series. His latest project, Vesta 4, was created entirely through experimental means using a Doepfer modular system. Vesta 4 is a concept album that invites listeners to immerse themselves in dream-like, trippy melodies, providing a space for the mind to wander. Michail has also contributed as a music composer and producer to bands such as Headleaders, Folder#9, Jelly Groove, (pH)2, Ordinary Victims, and The Selfie Project Band.

Maestro Komikern was born on a bright day of June 1982 in Athens. He studied art in Ioannina, Bremen and Manchester and since then he has been involved in a wide range of visual and performing arts such as painting, video, new media, multimedia installations, music and VJing. He has numerous collaborations with theatre companies and music groups and his work has been exhibited at galleries and festivals such as the 5th International Art Triennial (Istanbul), FutureEverything and Analogue is the New Digital (Manchester), the National Media Museum (Bradford), Kunstlerhaus (Vienna) and the Supersport events in Athens.

Vault of Blossomed Ropes + Nikos Sidirokastritis feat. Deniz Angelaki

With Nikos Fokas on modular electronics, Stelios Romaliadis on flute and Giorgos Varoutas on guitar and electronics, Vault of Blossomed Ropes open paths and create narratives between repetition and stillness, noise and silence, with influences from experimental music, ambient, avant-garde and electroacoustic sound. For the concert at KET, they appear for the first time with Nikos Sidirokastritis on drums and Deniz Angelaki on visuals.

Within the last decade, Vault of Blossomed Ropes have left their own mark on the local independent music scene. Drawing on contemporary experimental electroacoustic music, free improvisation and ritualistic traditions, they compose vibrant timeless soundscapes. Their debut self-titled album (2014) featured Steve Jansen, drummer of the legendary Japan, while the album’s release was the occasion for the first English translation of Andreas Embiricos’ poem ”The Immortals”. Their second album, “Etidorhpa”, was released in 2021 by Tadoma Records and is inspired by the book “HITIDORFA, or the Edge of the Earth”, by JU Lloyd (1890). The musicians that make up Vault of Blossomed Ropes have collaborated with Steve Jansen (Japan/Nine Horses), Jang Bang, Arve Henriksen, Andrea Molino, Ko Ishikawa, Chris Cutler (Henry Cow), Thanos Mikroutsikos, Lena Platonos, David Jackson (Van Der Graaf Generator), Kraig Grady, Andria Degens (Current 93), Lisa Isaksson, Attila Csihar (Mayhem, SunnO))), Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ) and have released recordings on labels: Recommended records (ReR), Underflow records, Musea, Experimedia, I,Voidhanger, Midira, Triple Bath.

www.vaultofblossomedropes.bandcamp.com

Nikos Sidirokastritis was born in Athens in 1963. He studied with Nikos Korantzinos at the percussion school of the Athens Conservatory, music theory and counterpoint with Vangelis Kokkoris and drums with Yannis Floros. He has participated in the improvisational scene of Greece for the last 40 years and has collaborated with international and local renowned musicians.

Deniz Angelaki: live visuals

Nikos Sidirokastritis: drums

Nikos Fokas: modular electronics

Stelios Romaliadis: φλάουτο

Giorgos Varoutas: guitar, electronics

AMR + Echo Canyon + 132 Hertz / evi nakou

AMR, Echo Canyon and 132 Hertz present the improvisational set “Triangle Error”, with evi nakou opening the night with a solo set. AMR creates site-specific compositions for live performance that combine noise and electroacoustic elements. 132 Hertz (Renaud Guy-Rousseau) is a multi-dimensional clarinetist who combines classical music, ambient electronics and jazz experiments, while Echo Canyon, a project by Dimitris Patsaros, explores abstract dance structures and noise soundscapes. evi nakou, musician and sound artist, has developed a multidimensional activity in improvisational workshops and collaborative compositions.

Sound artist and electronic music composer AMR creates site specific compositions for live performance. Her work has been released, among others, by the Parisian label Vice de Forme. Her sound is characterized by noise and electroacoustic elements. She uses analogue equipment as well as programming languages to produce sound and process live sound sources derived from semi-artificial synthesizers, acoustic instruments and field recordings.

www.annamariarammou.com

evi nakou is a musician, sound artist and member of the Breakfast Club quartet. She has designed and facilitated improvisation and collaborative transdisciplinary composition workshops in Greece and abroad, including La Sonora in Argentina, Beit AlMusica in Palestine and Drum Works in London, as well as at the Korydallos Detention Centre, OKANA, Women for Refugee Women, Melissa Network for Migrant Women, in schools and community centres, and healthcare spaces. She is based in Kypseli and loves making sound with people from different life paths and places.

Principal bass clarinet of the French National Orchestra for 10 years, Renaud Guy-Rousseau (aka 132 Hertz) divides his time between classical orchestral music, teaching (at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp) and musical exploration with Les Dissonances and the TM+ contemporary music ensemble. He is a member of several chamber music ensembles, including the Cocteau Trio. He works on a multitude of projects ranging from baroque music with Gli incogniti to jazz experiments, ambient electronics and interdisciplinary projects (with his group Maât and the ensemble Design Default). He lives between Athens and Paris, developing collaborations with artists from each local scene.

Echo Canyon is the project of Dimitris Patsaros, sound artist, producer & sound designer and a proud member of Kooba Tercu from Athens Greece. He materialises abstract dance structures while casting polyrhythmic spells through field recordings and noise soundscapes upon a dissolving and uncertain dance floor.

www.echocanyon.bandcamp.com

Photo: Renaud Guy-Rousseau

Samebito Project: A journey to Lafcadio Hearn

Consisting of Alexandros Dandoulakis (guitar), Grigoris Theodoridis (double bass), Michalis Katachanas (viola), Dimitris Klonis (drums) and Natalia Mantas (live visuals), the artistic group attempts, through the character of Samembito*, to bring to life the work of Lafcadio Hearn, a great writer of Irish-Greek origin who became a Japanese citizen in 1896.

Half man – half shark, Samebito is exiled to land due to a mistake, forced to live next to humans, escapes the tale’s narrative and embarks on a life journey to discover the work of its own creator. In an age when inclusion is imperative necessity of modern society, Samebito is transformed into a symbol of diversity.

Through these two musical-visual performances, the artistic team maps the life of Lafcadio Hearn and introduces us to his multicultural work.

The audiovisual material of the performances will then travel to primary and secondary schools throughout Greece, in collaboration with music and visual arts teachers. Through practices of free expression and improvisation, children will thus be introduced to the life and work of Lafcadio Hearn.

* Lafcadio Hearn, The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Tales, Published by Estia in 2022, 3rd edition

Credits:

Curated by Rallou Avramidou

Participating artists: Alexandros Dandoulakis (guitar), Grigoris Theodoridis (double bass), Michalis Katachanas (viola), Dimitris Klonis (drums), Natalia Manda (live visuals).

Poster design: Panagiotis Andrianos

Production: Kratiras

Line Production: Diadromes Politismou

Communication: connective

Under the auspices and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.

In the framework of the celebrations of the Embassy of Japan for 2024: Year of Culture and Tourism between Japan and Greece.

The space does not have a wheelchair ramp.

Ghone + Larry Kagel / KOSTADIS / Giannis Arapis

Three different artistic manifestations of the Athenian experimental scene, from the modular synths of Ghone to the multidimensional sound of KOSTADIS and the deconstructed playing of guitarist Giannis Arapis.

On the occasion of the live at KET, Ghone collaborates with Larry Kagel.

Ghone (Giannis Kontandreopoulos) has been working since 2011 with electroacoustic music, drones of the Asian tradition, field recordings, prepared instruments, modular synthesizers and pure noise, without specific stylistic obsessions or boundaries. He has toured or collaborated with Nadja, Rita Mosss, Friki Crux, Panos Profitis, Despina Charitonidis, This Darkness Of Mine. He has taken part in the Ametric Festival in Chania in 2022, which hosted Pan American and Rashad Becker in the same year. He has collaborated with various labels (Coherent States, Submersion Records, Catch The Soap and Somehow Ecstatic). Most of his work is self-published in digital format and limited handmade packaging. He is a founding member of the instrumental post/prog rock band Afformance. He began exploring noise in 2005 with the band M5x6 and then with the bands Yassa and Holt. Under the name Catch The Soap Productions, he has been involved in concert production and poster, cover and clothing design since 2007.

www.ghone.bandcamp.com

Self-taught multi-instrumentalist Athens-based composer and producer KOSTADIS uses his guitar as the primary source for sound design, improvisational solo electroacoustic workouts & spiritual escape. He has shared the stage with numerous musicians and bands (Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Son Lux, Father Murphy, Id M Theft Able, Turbo Teeth, Panos Alexiadis, Bill Anagnos…). He is an active member of Sclavos, Wham Jah and Lost Bodies. Apart from his participations in albums of other artists (Acid Baby Jesus, In Trance 95…), he has released five personal albums: “UNLEASH” (Phase! Records), “SLUMBER”, “FRAGMENTS” (Sweetohm Recordings), “Holy Cactus” and “Emerald” (Orila).

www.kostadis.bandcamp.com/album/emerald

Guitarist Giannis Arapis plays, composes and improvises experimental rock and jazz music, creating a kind of melodic chaos and thus contributing to the establishment of the electric guitar as the melodic voice of avant-garde music. Among his main influences are Bella Bartók, Dmitri Shostakovich and the early free jazz saxophonists. He has played and recorded with Noël Akchoté, Mats Gustafsson, Eva Lindal, Johan Berthling. He currently participates in the bands Vasilaraps, Ramdat and Mammock.

www.giannisarapis.bandcamp.com/music

Sound of Color #3 – KET Anniversary Session

Within 12 years, KET has become a reference point for the experimental and improvisational music community in Greece and beyond, thanks to the artists who have loved and trusted the space from its very first steps.

To celebrate our 12th year, we proposed to Jannis Anastasakis and Natalia Manta to organize a special version of the audiovisual concerts that they have been curating at KET for 10 years. Besides Jannis (on guitar, analog synths and live electronics) and Natalia (digital & analog visuals), the third “Sound Of Color” of this season will host Fausto Sierakowski (saxophone), Thodoris Ziarkas (double bass), Dave De Rose (drums), Petros Kolotouros (visuals) and Marissa Bili (vocals) for an improvisational, groovy and festive birthday set.

Fausto Sierakowski was born in Paris and grew up in Rome. In 2009, he obtained a diploma in classical saxophone (Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia) and, in 2012, a master’s degree in contemporary improvisation (New England Conservatory). During his stay in America and until his return to Europe, he performed and recorded with musicians such as Matt Moran, Anthony Coleman, Joe Morris, Matt Darriau, Satoshi Takeshi, Hayden Chisholm and Axel Dörner. In 2016, he moved to Greece. Since then, he has participated in the ensembles of Eugene Voulgaris, Yannis Dionysiou, as well as in the “Fausto Sierakowski Trio” and “People of the wind”.

Between London and Athens, co-founder of the group Valia Calda, the double bassist and composer Thodoris Ziarkas collaborates with international groups and renowned artists in the field of jazz, improvisation and traditional music (Nancy Mounir, Tom Sochas, Vanessa Kourtesi, London Improvisers Orchestra, Okay Temiz, Yazz Ahmed, Anna Homler, Steve Beresford, Savina Giannatou, Electric Litany, Tasos Stamos, Adam Bohman, Yuko Kaseki).

With a career that has included collaborations with renowned artists like Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traore, and Mark Ronson, among many others, Dave De Rose has spent the past 14 years pursuing underground music projects. He’s a core member of the space-age Gnawa project Electric Jalaba and the Athenian newborn Rave At Your Fictional Borders, as well as the director of Agile Experiments (2018-present). Agile Experiments has been well received by the underground experimental jazz community worldwide, releasing 11 LPs in 5 years. Catching the attention of the British Library’s “Sound Archive” project early on, they requested to have it in their catalog to archive and preserve the music as part of the nation’s audio and cultural heritage. Dave’s own label, DDR Records, boasts 25 independent record releases encompassing anything from ambient, songwriter-funk, free improv, jazz, and electro-acoustic techno.

The audiovisual artist Petros Koloturos explores through his work the sensory possibilities of the combination of image and sound. He has directed music video-clips, video-dance and video art as well as projections for music concerts. Documentaries that he has directed or participated have won awards at international festivals in Greece and abroad. He is a drummer in two active musical groups and a graduate of the postgraduate program “Culture and Documentary Film Production” of the University of the Aegean and the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Patras. Both in music and cinema he applies and explores the condition of free improvisation.

The vocal artist and musician Marissa Bili has studied classical singing with Maria Erlacher Forster at the Konservatorium Innsbruck (Austria) and advanced music theory courses in Athens. As a classical singer, she has worked as a soloist and vocal ensemble artist in numerous performances in Greece and Austria. In recent years, she has been exploring music through instant compositions. She uses extensive vocal techniques and improvisational vocal music in the context of interdisciplinary performances, which has led her to collaborate with many artists from different areas of the Athenian art scene.

The visual artist Natalia Manta lives and works in Athens. She studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2011 – 2017), where she also completed her MA in Fine Arts. Memory, time and myth are concepts at the heart of her visual creation. She uses different materials (metal, clay, photosensitive chemicals and video projections). She collaborates with visual artists, musicians, theatre or performance artists. Her work has been exhibited internationally in various solo and group exhibitions. During the period 2017-2020, she taught sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts in Athens. Her works are in private collections. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artists’ Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).

www.nataliamanta.com

Jannis Anastasakis (born 1984) is considered one of the most distinctive guitarists and musicians in the Greek free-improv music scene. Known for his unique approach to effects and atmospheric playing, he has created a personal sound that blends ambient and psychedelia, balancing between melody and noise, often pushing the “acceptable” boundaries. He is the founder of JAM pedals, a company that manufactures handmade guitar pedals, which are used by some of the greatest musicians such as Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Daniel Lanois, John Medeski, Nile Rodgers, Lee Ranaldo, and many others. He has collaborated with significant artists from both the Greek and international music scenes, including Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Giuseppe Doronzo, Savina Yannatou, Haig Yazdjian, Thodoris Rellos, Michalis Siganidis, Floros Floridis, Lena Platonos, Spyros Polychronopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Haris Lambrakis, and others. Additionally, he has contributed music to theatrical and choreographic works, collaborating with Thodoris Abatzis, Androniki Marathaki, and the La Coja Danca group. He is also developing the audiovisual project “Sound of Color” with sculptor Natalia Manta, handling live visuals.

www.jannisanastasakis.com

“Dave De Rose presents…” #2

The versatile sound artist Dave De Rose (Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traoré, Mark Ronson…) created last season at KET a monthly cycle of live performances that was embraced by the city’s artistic communities and the audience of the space.

For the second night of this season, he is joined by Julyen Hamilton, Maria Pisiou and Dimitra Kousteridou.

Julyen Hamilton: dance, movement

Maria Pisiou: dance, movement

Dimitra Kousteridou: electronics

Dave De Rose: bass, fx

Julyen Hamilton is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer and musician. Born and brought up in England he trained in London in the 1970’s, a time of radical experimentation, he has been an exponent of innovative performance since that time. His work is mostly improvised : he composes dance works instantly as well as the texts which often accompany them. His work with text is unique. It fuses naturally his long-term writing practice with his refined skills in dancing. Since the 80’s he has performed constantly in close collaboration with many of the highest quality musicians from all over Europe (Barre Phillips, Fred Frith, Tristan Honsinger, Michael Moore…). He has made over 100 solos as well as 25 years of Company pieces and numerous collaborations with dancers and musicians and theatre performers.

Based in Amsterdam, Maria Pisiou is a performer, choreographer and researcher. Her artistic research is based on an approach to the body as a living/fluid archive, the use of choreographic instructions and the practices of direct composition. She has presented works at the Stedelijk Museum, BUDA Art Centre (BE), 4bid Gallery (NL), MUDA kunsecundair (BE), CODEdans (BE), Athens Video Dance Festival (GR). She has collaborated with Julyen Hamilton, Marina Abramovic, Helena Byström & Anna Källblad, Fenia Kotsopoulou, daz disley, Iris Woutera, Eleonora Siarava, VestAndPage, Sakis Papadimitriou, Agency of Noise, etc.

Dimitra Kousteridou is composer, researcher and sound artist, currently lives and works in Athens, GR. Her work is driven by a desire to invent a language in composition that examines tactile and sound aspects within site-specific installations and performances, originating from improvisation. Through multidisciplinary forms that include ephemeral situations and fractures of objects, she creates a space for research while using the sound and natural attributes of materials in time. Recently working on improvised sound compositions with handmade instruments (interactive sound circuits). 

With a career that has included collaborations with renowned artists like Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traore, and Mark Ronson, among many others, Dave De Rose is a drummer, bassplayer and a producer who has spent the past 15 years pursuing underground music projects. He’s a core member of the space-age Gnawa project Electric Jalaba, Rave At Your Fictional Borders, is the director of  international improvisation collective Agile Experiments (2018-present) as well as a prolific producer and dedicated music educator.

www.davederosemusic.com

SIBiLIMA

After a first sold out concert, the musical ensemble SIBiLIMA presents a program with the Cretan lyre and the classical string quartet. Through original compositions and elements of improvisation, its approach balances between Western European and Eastern influences, creating an original soundscape.

SIBiLIMA performs three new works: the “String Quartet + Cretan Lyra” and “Cretan Lyra” by the American composer Coleman Zurkowski and “ORFURO” by Giorgos Tamiolakis. With the contrasts and connections created between the traditional and the contemporary, through the dynamics of different musical idioms, the concert at KET promises surprises.

Credits:

Lefteris Andriotis – cretan lyre

Charalambos Karasavvidis – violin

Kalliopi Mitropoulou – violin

Stelios Papanastasis – viola, artistic direction

Giorgos Tamiolakis – cello & composition

Coleman Zurkowski – composition

Coleman Zurkowski is a composer based in New York.  He received a Bachelor’s in Music Composition from DePaul University in 2012 and an MFA in Music Composition from the California Institute of the Arts in 2014.  In 2015, he was chosen to be a resident composer of the Syros Sound Meetings in collaboration with the Syros Film Festival in Syros, Greece. In 2017, he organized an international tour of his album ZERO, which was later released by Dangerbird Records in Los Angeles in 2018.  In 2019, he released his follow up album INSTRUMENTAL with a US tour through New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, and Miami. In 2022, Zurkowski released Music for No One which toured internationally featuring performances in Athens (at KET), Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Minneapolis. Zurkowski currently works in New York composing music for film, TV, commercials, podcasts, and theatre as well as presenting music of his own.

www.colemanzurkowski.com

Cellist and composer Giorgos Tamiolakis was born in Crete in 1986. A graduate of the Music Lyceum of Pallini, the National Conservatory of Halandri and the “Fryderyk Chopin” Music Academy in Warsaw, he won the 1st Prize in the National String Competition of the H.O.N. (2010). He has taken part in seminars on music interpretation with Julius Berger & Umberto Clerici and on music composition with Rafal Janiak, Aleksander Kosciow & Minas Borboudakis. He has performed as a soloist with the K.O.A. at the Athens Concert Hall (2011). He has collaborated as a composer, sound designer and performer with groups of all musical genres, as well as with theatre and contemporary dance groups, in live performances and video art projects. His compositions are characterized by melodic and geometric structures, often influenced by folkloric elements.

The music group SIBiLIMA is a kind of mosaic of different sound textures. They collaborated in 2021 with the National Opera House, creating two short films: ‘Bridget Planets’, with music composed by Giorgos Tamiolakis, directed by Margarita Gerogianni, and ‘Getaway’ directed by Pantelis Makkas. In the summer of the same year, they took part in the production ‘Wanderings’ directed by Konstantinos Hatzis and originally composed by Giorgos Tamiolakis, in collaboration with the actresses Sofia Pappa and Rubini Vasilakopoulou, as part of the event ‘The Revolution through the eyes of others’. In the summer of 2022, the group collaborated with Sophia Hill, in a production by Konstantinos Hatzis, at the Ancient Theatre of Delphi, on the occasion of the performance ‘EKAVI STRINGS’. In 2022 and 2023, they presented three classic silent cinema films with original music: ‘Battleship Potemkin’, ‘Lights of the City’ and ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’. The group has recorded and performed music by young Greek and foreign composers, most recently recording works by Christos Xenakis. Their last performance was in December 2023 at Romantso in a collaboration with sound artist Jeph Vanger.

www.instagram.com/sibilima

www.facebook.com/SIBiLIMA

Three Times Three #3

Curated by composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos), the monthly shows Three Times Three bring together people from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, in order to create a code between them, a language of communication that is valid as long as the meeting lasts.

Three musicians meet three dancers at a time. At the beginning of the evening, three random couples are drawn by lot and improvise for 15 minutes. The evening ends with all participants joining together for 30 minutes.

The third meeting of the season involves:

Giorgos Moraitis – electronics

Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou – double bass

Phoebus-Angelos Kolias – electronics

Konstantina Barkouli-Gavri – dance

Christina Skoutela – dance

Elpiniki Saripanidou – dance

Giorgos Moraitis uses different practices (sculpture, robotic and interactive installations, participatory actions, actions in public space, drawing, texts, etc.). Exploring the creative and reflective process through sound and a broader range of media, he co-constructs sound-iconoclastic situations as a mixture of specificities of perception, technology and materials. His strong interest in sound is focused on his engagement with issues of acoustics and psychoacoustics, as well as with themes related to the body, sculpture, video and a range of other subjects related to contemporary trends in science that intersect with the visual arts.

Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou is a composer, performer and researcher based in Athens. She has composed over 50 works for theatre, dance, film and independent works, exploring the relationship between sound, movement and dramaturgy through a personal system of notation. A multi-instrumentalist, she plays double bass, electric bass, piano, electronics and experiments with the limits of the voice. Her works have been performed at venues such as the Athens Concert Hall, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Grotowski Institute (Poland) and the Odin Teatret (Denmark), and she has received awards for her compositions as well as for sound editing in films. A graduate of the Royal School of Music and the Ionian University in composition, specializing in film and performing arts, she continues as a PhD candidate and teaches seminars at the Ionian University and internationally. She has collaborated with important international artists and is the founder of the artistic groups Ov Off and Spooky Redrum, as well as of Ov Off Studio, actively contributing to the contemporary and electroacoustic music scene in Athens.

Dr. Phoebus-Angelos Kollias is a seriously unorthodox composer-researcher of interactive music, who studied in England and France and is based in Berlin. His aesthetic temperament remains awkwardly rooted between electroacoustic music and classical instrumentation. His musical approach is utterly corrupted by artificial intelligence technologies and constantly disoriented by an unwarranted obsession with heavy sound and noisy textures. He has received nine awards and nine distinctions in international competitions. He has collaborated with international organizations such as ZKM (Karlsruhe), the National Opera (Athens), the German Music Council, Musikfonds (Berlin), Dell Computers (USA), Transmediale (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Leeds), IMPAKT (Utrecht).

Konstantina Barkouli-Gavri, a graduate of the National School of Dance and Deree (Harvey C. Krentzman Scholar), has worked as a dancer with: Anastasia Valsamaki, Dance Association, Chto Delat collective, Athanasia Kanellopoulou, Nanti Gogoulou, Dimitris Mytilineos, Maria Koliopoulou, Mariella Nestora, Madeleine Hollander, etc. She has been awarded by ARTWORKS (Artists’ Support Programme of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation). She teaches contemporary dance and has curated movement in theatre. As a creator, she has presented the solos ‘Nobody Wants Your Dance’ (M54) and ‘POOL’ (exhibition “A Scattering of Salts” at the American College) as well as the research DIO: a 2K experience (Duncan Center) together with Nanti Gogoulou. She held residencies at: K3 Centre of Choreography (Hamburg) and at the Duncan Centre (‘hyle-as a point of view’- Delta Pi).

Christina Skoutela is a dancer and performance maker. She studied at the National School of Dance and completed the postgraduate programme Embodied Artistic Research at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Antwerp. Her personal choreographic work approaches the body as a text, carrying memories and stories. Using improvisation and direct composition as tools, as well as her love of literature and language, her practice integrates movement, writing and reading, seeking intersections between the personal and the political. In 2023, she created the dance installation “desire is a place” at Yali Tzamisi, Chania, and in 2024 the solo performance YAKUZUSI, in Athens. In recent years, she has collaborated with Hara Kotsali, Konstantinos Papanikolaou and Sophia Danae Vorvila. She is part of the ensemble in Romeo Castellucci’s “Requiem”.

The performer and dancer Elpiniki Saripanidou is a graduate of the National School of Dance. She has participated in artistic productions as a dancer and movement curator. Her practice focuses on imagery, the creation of imaginary characters through disguise and the interaction of body, voice, sound and objects. In 2023, she presented “Burst Forth” in Athens, a solo work based on metamorphosis.

Birdology

A lively and spontaneous conversation with the natural world… Soundscapes, chirps, croaks, the voice of air and water in conversation with human creativity.

The trio Birdology consists of Nikos Sidirokastritis (drums), Agapi Zarda (live electronics) and Andreas Papagiannakopoulos (guitar, fx). It is based on free improvisation and processes recordings of birdsong, leaves rustling, water sounds and other natural elements to create an experience where natural and artificial sound meet.

Nikos Sidirokastritis was born in Athens in 1963. He studied with Nikos Korantzinos at the percussion school of the Athens Conservatory, music theory and counterpoint with Vangelis Kokkoris and drums with Yannis Floros. He has participated in the improvisational scene of Greece for the last 40 years and has collaborated with international and local renowned musicians.

Andreas Papagiannakopoulos is a graduate of the Conservatory of Utrecht (specializing in jazz guitar and music education) and a graduate of the Department of Theatre Studies of the Athens School of Philosophy. He runs his own jazz music school in Athens and is an active member of the Greek jazz scene, composing, recording, as a sideman and with his personal project “leoforio”.

www.andreaspapagiannakopoulos.com

Agapi Zarda is a graduate of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Science (EKPA) with specialization in “Instrumental Art” (Creative Dance) and the Department of Early Childhood Education (PTH) with research interest in Creative Music Pedagogy and Sound Technologies. She graduated from the MSc “Arts and Technologies of Sound” of the Department of Music Studies and Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University. She focuses on Electroacoustic Composition, Sound Installations Construction, Music with Code and Free Improvisation. Since 2023, she is a member of the Hellenic Association of Electroacoustic Music Composers (ESSIM).

Free for Five #2

Savina Yannatou (voice), Giorgos Kokkinaris (double bass), Alexis Porfyriadis (piano), Joe Tornabene (baritone saxophone) and Stephanos Chytiris (drums, percussion) meet for two sets of free improvisation.

Savina Yannatou studied singing with Gogo Georgilopoulou and at the Vocal Art Workshop with Spyros Sakkas. She graduated from the PCS department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with a scholarship from “Mousegeti”. She began her professional career singing in the ERT’s Third Programme emission “Edo Lillipopoli”, in collaboration with Lena Platonos (1978-81). She has collaborated with many Greek composers. Since 1994, with the band Primavera en Salonico, she has been performing songs from the Mediterranean and the Balkans at festivals all over the world. Since 1992 she has been involved in vocal improvisation in the field of free jazz. She has composed music for the National Theatre, the Larissa Theatre and the Theatre of Neos Kosmos. Part of her collaboration with the theatre is also teaching free vocal improvisation. Her discography includes around thirty albums (Lyra, ECM) with compositions by Greek and foreign composers, traditional songs from various countries, free improvisations and her own songs.

The double bassist Giorgos Kokkinaris composes, improvises and collaborates with people from the fields of composition, visual arts, poetry and dance. His art is based on the physicalization of music through voice and movement and the use of new technologies. He gives concerts abroad and organizes seminars on improvisation. He is part of the editorial team of the magazine “NewMusic.gr” which aims to strengthen the local music community. He is a member of the contemporary music group àktapha.

Alexis Porfyriadis is a composer and pianist/improviser. He studied composition at the University of Bath-Spa/England (PhD) and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz/Austria (Magister and Postgraduate). Among the awards he has received are First Prize at the Franco Evangelisti International Composition Competition 2020 Rome/Italy and Third Prize at the Molinari Quartet International Composition Competition Montreal/Canada (2004/05). His compositions have been performed in Europe, USA, Mexico and Canada. He has been involved in improvisation since 2005. He teaches improvisation, experimental music and unconventional performing arts at the Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia. He is a member of the 6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble (Thessaloniki) and WHI ensemble (Athens).

Joe Tornabene is an award winning international multimedia musician, stage and film actor, sound designer, composer and sound therapist. He has taught experiential workshops concerned with the relationships of performance, somatic embodiment, movement, voice, sound, music and improvisation in 11 countries.

Stephanos Chytiris is a drummer and improviser from Athens. He has worked on a wide range of works from avant-garde jazz to contemporary classical music. Maintaining a balance between tradition and modernism in drums and cymbals, his works serve as a free base for musicians to explore and interact with the personal and collective unconscious, with the aim of reaching a cathartic experience.

Spoken Maik #3

Spoken word, a form of oral poetry with experiential, political or satirical elements, focuses on the words themselves, their dynamics, the tone of voice, the gestures and expressions that accompany the utterance of the speech. It draws its roots from gospel, jazz, soul, Beat Generation poetry, the Harlem Renaissance movement. Today it is a global and diverse artistic medium of expression.

Curated by Stavros Anagnostopoulos and Niki Papadogiannaki, the third multilingual “open mic” evening of the season will be hosted at KET on Thursday 12 December.

Those who want to participate should come half an hour before the start time (19:30) and add their name to the list of participants. Each act can last up to 5 minutes.

KOHMA (MIZI, Kokkinaris) / Orestis Tsekouras

The duo KOHMA consists of Giorgos Mizithras (MIZI) on electronics and Giorgos Kokkinaris on double bass. It has been active in Athens since 2017 and has released a live recording on cassette, KOHMA live at chimeres.space (2018). Focusing on free improvisation, the group combines acoustic sound with electronic textures, composing works that move between noise, spectral and musique concrète. After a hiatus, the duo returns for a rare performance at KET. Guitarist Orestis Tsekouras opens the evening with a solo set.

www.kohma.bandcamp.com/album/kohma-live-at-chimeres-space

The musician and creative programmer Giorgos Mizithras (MIZI) is active as a composer and performer in acoustic music, free improvisation, live electronic music, music for theatre and audiovisual installations. His artistic research focuses on media archaeology and the creative reconstruction of old devices, transforming them into contemporary tools of expression. He is a member of the ensemble Trigger Happy, co-founder of the collective KE.Di.Mu.Ra and curator of the online radio station loskop.radio. His discography includes the albums Music Behind Music (2022) and Watch Paint Dry (2023).

www.mizi.media

The double bassist Giorgos Kokkinaris composes, improvises and collaborates with people from the fields of composition, visual arts, poetry and dance. His art is based on the physicalization of music through voice and movement and the use of new technologies. He gives concerts abroad and organizes seminars on improvisation. He is part of the editorial team of the magazine “NewMusic.gr”, which aims to strengthen the local music community. He is a member of the contemporary music group ‘àktapha’.

www.kokkinaris.com

Musician and guitarist Orestis Tsekouras focuses his artistic work on contemporary music and improvisation. His current creative research explores the sonic dialogue between electronic and organic elements, seeking the textures and dynamics that emerge at the boundaries of these two worlds. He is a member of the contemporary music ensemble ‘àktapha’ and teaches at the music workshop of Ikaria, contributing to the dissemination of music education and practice.

Spyros Polychronopoulos | solo for blindfolded audience

Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos) presents an unpublished work which will be released in February 2025 by the Australian label Room40. This famous label counts major releases from Keiji Haino, William Hooker & Phill Niblock, Ken Ikeda, Chris Abrahams, David Toop, Norman Westberg, Chihei Hatakeyama, Janek Schaefer, John Chantler, David Shea, Ross Manning, Tim Hecker, as well as by its founder, Lawrence English, and recently published the original album and interactive music box by Spyros Polychronopoulos and Jannis Anastasakis entitled “Nyfida”.

As in the previous two solo performances of Polychronopoulos at KET, the audience receives at the entrance black masks that allow them to listen to the concert blindfolded.

The work is presented in a quadraphonic system: coming from four directions, the sounds compose a multidimensional sound experience that is enhanced by the fact that the audience cannot see.

The audience will also receive free Bandcamp codes to download and listen to this new release.

“Working on this album was an exploration of merging high-end audio precision within narrow frequency bands, where the excluded frequencies form the void itself. From this void, new sounds are born, filling the frequency gaps and shifting to form yet another void in other frequencies. These transitions form my sonic journey into the hidden layers of sound. This project emerged from a fascination with minimalism and a curiosity about what’s possible within narrow frequency bands. I wanted to see how much depth I could reveal from sounds that, on the surface, may seem almost invisible. Each tone here holds something restrained yet powerful, allowing me to uncover delicate details and textures that might otherwise be missed. I found myself drawn to tones that twist and sway, yearning to break free, yet remain tethered to the confines of the crafted void. This album pulses with a tension between control and release, immersion and isolation. Depth, patience, and curiosity guide the way as each layer peels back, revealing something both grounded and almost ethereal.” – S.P.

www.spyrospolychronopoulos.bandcamp.com

Cityphonic Walks — listening beneath the silent skin

** In case of rain the walk will take place next Sunday (8 December). **

How does the public space sound? Who has a right to the city? Can sound create and shape democratically accessible spaces and how? What happens when the body interacts with them?

The artistic project Cityphonic Walks by Irini Kalogeropoulou explores the voice of the city through a soundwalk that starts from Kypseli (KET), passes through Patissia and ends at KET for a short discussion. Through a score based method of walking, active listening and sound production, this participatory action invites people of all ages to discover the invisible and silent sides of the city. Everyday life becomes a canvas of observation and a field of action where one can listen to a house, a street, a city as one listens to a symphony or an opera.

Starting from text scores by Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, David Helbich or the artist herself, the participants reflect on the political and poetic dimension of sound, share listening experiences, play the city as an expanded instrument, and together imagine practices of care, resonance, solidarity and reappropriation of public space. Cityphonic Walks invites us to listen and expand the voice of the city, balancing between presence and absence, silence and noise, movement and stillness of bodies living and breathing together.

Irini Kalogeropoulou was born and raised in Athens. She studied at the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens and obtained an MA in Performing Public Space from Fontys Academy of the Arts (Tilburg, Netherlands). She holds a Diploma in Piano from the Hellenic Conservatory of Maroussi. Her artistic practice focuses on sound art and public space, exploring themes such as mourning, absence, memory and the performativity of everyday life. She recently held an art residency at the Temporary Art Centre in Eindhoven where she presented her artistic research entitled “Cityphonic Walks” through a solo exhibition, soundwalk and live art performance. She is also active as a theatre educator in art spaces, schools and organisations, designing contemporary art workshops and participatory activities for people of all ages.

www.irinikalogeropoulou.myportfolio.com/irini-kalogeropoulou

Reservations required: www.more.com/music/cityphonic-walks & press@polychorosket.gr

Anna Solecka / Richard Hronský

Born in Poland, intermedia artist Anna Solecka experiments with sound, broadly understood writing, performative activities, photography and short film, constantly searching for and trying new techniques. She creates soundscapes from collected field recordings with subtle synthesizer compositions. She mixes and filters extremes and contrasts, combining exploited and apparent silence with obvious noise in the pieces. Anna Solecka’s album “Soundscapes of Attikis” was released in June 2024. It features a collection of field recordings and sound collages collected from various locations in Greece, with a focus on urban and rural contrasts.

www.annaasolecka.myportfolio.com

A versatile artist from Slovakia, Richard Hronský is interested in visual arts, drawing, photography, field recordings, experimental sound and playing the fujara (a large traditional Slovakian wind instrument almost two metres high). He has released two albums (“Konspekt”, 2022 & “CLOSURES”, 2023) and several singles. He also plays in a duo with Krištof Krupa. In his live performances, he focuses on decomposing the sound of the fujara through electronic processing, shaping compositional harmonies into dreamscapes.

www.linktr.ee/richardhronsky

Erik Klinga / Shakeeb Abu Hamdan

Erik Klinga, born in Sandviken, Sweden, is a composer and musician. Klinga is known from the bands Simian Ghost, Light Vibes and Horse Show and has played in multiple projects as a drummer including acts such as Solen, Dolce and Mi von Ahn. He has a studio based practice and creates electronic music with an interest in developing works focusing on timbre, melody and harmony in repetition based form structures. Driven by curiosity in finding new sound relations he’s mainly working with synthesized and acoustic sources together with field recordings. A substantial part of his work involves working with modular synthesis in the Buchla format, on which he composes and performs live. His music moves between ambient and more multilayered and rhythmically driven pieces. In relation to the upcoming release his next album “Elusive Shimmer”, he will perform at Mengi (Reykjavik), Ekko festival (Bergen), KET (Athens), Organ Sound Art Festival (Copenhagen), Inkonst (Malmö) and Skaiv (Stockholm). In recent live performances at Norberg Festival and Konstmuseet Malmö, Erik Klinga reimagined his compositions in tandem with the historic church organs and his primary instrument, the Buchla synthesizer.

www.erikklinga.bandcamp.com/album/elusive-shimmer

Shakeeb Abu Hamdan is a Lebanese/British artist, musician and recording engineer living in France. His performances centre around the use of drums, collected metals, bells and cymbals which he augments and amplifies with surface transducers, microphones, pitch and rhythmic modulation effects, adapted megaphones and other electronics. He has toured and exhibited his work internationally. Solo exhibitions at Beirut Art Centre (2021), Cité Internationale des Arts (2023). His Graphic novel “A Life Like Mine, That’s Impossible” was published by Samandal Comics (2021). He was Composer in Residence at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) Stockholm (2021).

www.shakeebabuhamdan.com

Noisy Words

As part of the “Noisy Words” festival – an event organized by the Goethe-Institut Athen and curated by Evi Nakou -, KET hosts two concerts that reflect the research developed in the workshops “Noisy Writings” (15/11) and “Noisy Writings II” (16/11).

On Friday 15 November, artists who participated in the “Noisy Writings” workshop present individual and group experimental compositions of analogue and electronic sound, words and noise. Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) presents an individual solo set of soundscapes, noises, spoken words, deconstructed beats and fragmented melodies.

On Saturday 16 November, artists who participated in the workshop “Noisy Writings II”, present individual and group experimental compositions of sound, words, noise, analogue and electronic sound. In the second part of the concert, Cedrik Fermont (C-drík) presents an individual solo set that traces sound and textual noise as a means of narration, expression, communication of the audible and the unheard, of stories, voices and bodies that escape, are silenced and assimilated. Electronic sounds, ambient noise and non-linear rhythmic patterns compose a complex sonic and textual grid.

Antye Greie-Ripatti aka AGF is a digital songwriter, sound artist and curator, composer, poet, feminist networker. She is also known as AGF, Laub, and poemproducer. Born in 1969, and raised in East Germany, she has lived and worked in Hailuoto, Finland since 2008. She works with language, sound, listening, voice, and communication, expressed in mixed media, audiovisual live performances, digital communication, sound installations, commissions for radio, movies and theater, exhibitions and conceptual works. Greie-Ripatti has released 30 long player records, and has been engaged in numerous collaborations under such aliases as AGF, AGF/Delay (with Vladislav Delay), Greie Gut Fraktion (with Gudrun Gut), and The Lappetites (with Kaffe Matthews and Eliane Radigue), among them – for a long term – with the award-winning classical composer Craig Armstrong. She runs the production company and music label AGF Producktion and has produced records for other artists, most famously for Ellen Allien (Sool, 2009, BPitch). In 2011, Greie-Ripatti founded the arts organization Hai Art in Hailuoto, where she serves as artistic director, executive producer, and workshop leader. Hai Art has organized a conference on remote art, more than ten artist-in-residencies, extensive sound program with children in Hailuoto, the iPad Orchestra Hailuoto, the Organum, the Hailuoto (mini) MediaLAB, and numerous artists camps. Since 2011 she works as independent sound curator.

https://poemproducer.com/info.php

Cedrik Fermont aka C-drík aka Kirdec is a composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, radio host and concert promoter who has been working in the fields of noise, electronic and electroacoustic music since 1989. His compositions and installations vary from sound art and electroacoustic to noise to industrial to more conventional “dance” music. He was born in Zaire (DR Congo), grew up in Belgium and now lives in Berlin. He studied electroacoustic music in Belgium with Annette Vande Gorne. Cedrik Fermont has been active internationally since 1989 in various musical projects such as Črno Klank, Axiome and Tasjiil Moujahed as well as a solo artist. He has collaborated with several musicians of the free improvisation scene, especially in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Cedrik Fermont is the founder of Syrphe, an online platform for alternative musicians from Asia and Africa.

www.syrphe.bandcamp.com

More info: www.goethe.de/athen/noisy_words

No shape no shadow

Androniki Marathaki (dance), Vassilis Tzavaras (music) and Argyris Tsepelikas (Tai Chi) meet at KET for an improvisational set, exploring “no shape no shadow”, a phrase that comes from the world of Tai Chi and expresses the moments when all possibilities are open. Seeking silence in movement, sound and form in stillness, they gradually form a universe that resists change and leaves room for an alternative contemplation of what is happening around us.

Choreographer, performer and dance teacher Androniki Marathaki began her artistic research on choreography and choreographic improvisation with the support of the State Scholarship Foundation. Treating the very concept of dance with flexibility, she is interested in the various ways in which humans perceive movement and how they shape cultural forms and social relations in different environments. She has presented her research on movement flows, kinetic landscapes, landscapes shaped through relationships, the regulating mechanisms of the body and the sensory communication of self and communities. Some of her work was presented at TWIXTlab: art, anthropology & the everyday in collaboration with the Duncan Center for the Study of Dance. Her lecture is part of the electronic archive on art research in Greece.

www.andronikimarathaki.com

Argyris Tsepelikas teaches Tai Chi and Qigong. At the same time, he films and directs documentaries. Since the age of seven he has dedicated himself to martial and healing arts. He founded the Wuji Center to share through Tai Chi his love of body, mind, movement and expression. Many documentaries in which he participated have been awarded in Greek and international festivals.

The musician, composer and improviser Vassilis Tzavaras is a founding member of Occasional Dream, Take the Money and Run, Project 37, 4+1, Silent Move, the theatre group Atonal, the artistic and educational group Gnous and AMKE weave. He has composed music for theatre performances and has performed in concerts in and outside Athens, with the groups Occasional Dream, Take the Money and Run, Silent Move and Storyville Ragtimers, among others. He has released 7 personal albums.

www.vassilistzavaras.com

“Time Capsules” — Danai & Io | Live Album Presentation

Danai & Io present their first album, “Time Capsules”, 11 original compositions with accordion, synth and voice. An atmospheric live with “capsules of poetry set to music”, compositions born during the first quarantine, in 2020, a year that limited the ways of escape and reinforced the need for sensation, recording and remembrance.

In the KET concert, Danae and Io also present some unpublished songs and are accompanied on vocals by Rosie Diamantaki.

Voice: Danai Tezapsidou

Bayan, piano: Io Le Moller

Second voice: Rosie Diamantaki

Photos: Marleno

Illustration: Maita Chadjiionannidou

Graphic design: Loopo Studio

Digital booklet of the album: https://issuu.com/danai.io/docs/capsule-digital-booklet-170

Video: www.youtube.com/@danaiio

The album was recorded in January and February 2022 at Lotus Studio Athens. The harpsichord was recorded at the Chatziargyris mansion in Portaria, Pelion.

Production and mixing: Vasilis Dokakis

Copyright (C) (P) 2024, 1dB BnW (Black n White), all right reserved

RETE / Millions Of Dead Tourists

RETE consists of Savvas Metaxas (Inverz / Good Luck Mr. Gorsky) and Vassilis Liolios (Eventless Plot), both members of Granny Records. Using modular synthesizers, tapes, samplers, field recordings, objects and sounds from drum and cymbal surfaces, they create electroacoustic compositions, exploring similarities and contrasts between physical and electronic sound. So far they have performed in various venues and released three albums: “Ακινησία” (Granny, LP), “Temporal” (DasaTapes, CS), “RETE” (Granny Records, CS).

www.grannyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/-

Millions Of Dead Tourists is a four-piece band based in Athens and Thessaloniki. They use and tinker with two basses, a drum machine, various synthesizers, pedals, a laptop and, most recently, a microphone. Their music is characterized by the unholy marriage of dark technoid basslines, rhythms and noises with an “in your face” punk approach. However, they themselves describe it as bass class electronics. They have released three albums: “Yγιείς” LP/CD (1000+1 Tilt / Won Ton, 2023), “Helicoide” LP/CD (1000+1 Tilt, 2019), “Millions Of Dead Tourists” CD (1000+1 Tilt, 2016).

www.millionsofdeadtourists.org

www.millionsofdeadtourists.bandcamp.com

Sound of Color #2

This year we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the monthly audiovisual performances “Sound Of Color”, curated by Jannis Anastasakis and Natalia Manta at KET: 10 years that resemble a journey through the history of improvisational and experimental music, from free, Scandinavian or New York jazz music and free improvisation to ambient and psychedelic music, from contemporary mixes between electronic and traditional sound to entire in situ installations where space itself becomes a musical instrument. These 10 years have left an indelible mark on the space and programming of KET, which has not ceased since 2014 to open itself to musical experimentation, improvisational encounters and the live interaction between image and sound.

In the second concert of the season, Jannis Anastasakis (guitar, analog-synths, live-electronics) joins Marius Mathiszik (guitar), Simos Riniotis (drums) and Alexandros Seitaridis (live visuals).

Experimental composer, musician and producer Marius Mathiszik grew up in Germany, in the industrial area of the Ruhr, and has been living in Athens for 5 years. He is involved in various music projects such as Forest Binary (Fortune Cut), I work in communications (DDR Records & tier.debut), Jan Matiz etc. His work ranges from avant-garde guitar compositions to free improvisation, sound manipulation and Kraut.

The musician and improviser Simos Riniotis is a member, with Dimos Vryzas and Giannis Arapis, of the trio The Coal and, with George Varoutas and Haris Lambrakis, of the avant garde group Skraut. Using drums with various small objects, he attempts to create an intermediate space, a meeting place for the other voices. He has collaborated with important musicians and sound artists in Greece and abroad.

Alexandros Seitaridis is an artist specializing in lighting design, video art and 3D projection mapping. With studies in computer science (master’s degree in robotics), video and multimedia production, video editing, theatre pedagogy – theatre play and puppetry, he combines technological knowledge with artistic expression to create unique works. As Production Manager at the Music Village and a founding member of the Fortunati artistic group, he implements interactive performances that incorporate new technologies and enrich the audience experience. He is the owner of the international online radio station Radio Art. He is co-producer of the International Clown Residency in Pelion and since 2022 he has been chairing the Agios Lavrentios Development Association, promoting art and culture with the aim of creating a centre for artistic creation and expression. With an extensive presence in international festivals, he applies innovative lighting and projection techniques, while his professional philosophy focuses on the constant search for new forms of expression. He combines technology with art, creating audiovisual works that redefine the boundaries and possibilities of contemporary artistic creation.

www.seitaridis.com

Jannis Anastasakis is characterized by his special approach to the guitar, as a generator of original and atmospheric sounds, as well as by his in-depth involvement with effects and live-sampling technique (he is also the designer and manufacturer of JAM pedals). He has collaborated with great artists such as Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Gilad Atzmon, Thodoris Rellos, Savina Giannatou, Floros Floridis, Michalis Siganidis, Lena Platonos, Haris Lambrakis, Haig Yazdjian, etc.

www.jannisanastasakis.com

FRAGILE (ΙΙ)

After an international cycle of presentations, the performance “FRAGILE (II)” by Alegia Papageorgiou returns to Athens for two unique performances, performed and choreographed by Christos Strinopoulos.

A handmade costume made from pieces of white porcelain. A performer plays, suffers and falls in love. A performer trapped, trying to escape. An unconventional channel of communication with all those social stereotypes that may or may not fascinate us. All the things that test us. Is desire suppressed? The performance “FRAGILE (II)”, is a visual composition that deals with the paradox of archetypal symbols. The confinement-limitation of the self within an uncanny-unexpected soundscape that shapes the costume itself. An open dialogue between the structural relevance of materials, necessity and the body. Attention! Your attention please – Attention, Fragile!

The video dance “FRAGILE”, the first version of the this performance, was performed and choreographed by Eddie Lame with original music by Alexandra Mikrooutsikou. It premiered at the Athens Video Dance Festival (Athens, 2022) and continued its course in festivals in Greece and abroad. It was distinguished and awarded (best performance and best costume) by the Croatia Fashion Film Festival (2023). At the same time, it was presented as a Live Performance in Pamplona, Spain in 2024, as part of the Danzad Festival, Danzad Malditos. It was also presented at In Shadow Festival (Portugal, 2023), Larnaca Biennale (Cyprus, 2023), Thessaloniki International Cinedance Festival (Thessaloniki, 2023), Flatlands Dance Film Festival (USA, 2023), Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival (2023), FIVC International Film festival of Chile (Chile, 2023), The Music & Dance Screening Film Festival Consonance (Tbilisi, Georgia, 2023), among others.

Alegia Papageorgiou was born and raised in Athens. She studied BA Interior design at the University of Derby (UK), MA Scenography at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama – University of London (UK) and MA Artscience at the Royal Academy of Art – The Hague (NL). She works in theatre, film, performance and visual arts. Her artistic activity includes the world premiere of Edward Bond’s “Dea” (Sutton Theatres, UK) as well as collaboration with institutions such as Comedie de Reims (France), Athens Biennale, National Theatre, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Swedish Opera, etc. She has participated in exhibitions and festivals in Greece and abroad such as Larnaca Bienale, In Shadow Festival, Art Thessaloniki, Kalamata International Dance Festival, Dance Laboratory Rhodes, Téchne festival (Berlin), Lebanon International Dance festival, Contemporary Venice (Venice), De Fabriek (Netherlands). At the same time, he has collaborated with: G. Kakleas, G. Koutlis, A. Mpiniaris, Κ. Markoulakis, Κ. Rigos, P. Dentakis, V. Papavasiliou, Α. Bennett, G. Papageorgiou, ROOTLESSROOT, Ε. Laskarides etc.

www.alegiapapageorgiou.com

Many thanks for the valuable contribution and assistance to: Eddie Lame, Alexandra Mikroutsikou, Grigoris Panopoulos, Miltiadis Christidis, Achilleas Chariskos, Grigoris Bekos, Alexandros Logos, Maria Breyanni, Giannis Nikolaidis, Giannis Papachristos, Christos Simeonidis and Sakis Birbilis.

“Dave De Rose presents…” #1

The versatile sound artist Dave De Rose (Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traoré, Mark Ronson…) created last season at KET a monthly cycle of live performances that was embraced by the city’s artistic communities and the audience of the space.

The first season brought together artists from the fields of improvisational music, dance and video art: Savina Yannatou, Saber Rider, Petrina Giannakou, Erato Tzavara, Niki Kokkoli, Nikos Papavranousis, Nefeli Papaioannou, the music group Rave At Your Fictional Borders, Candy Karra, Dimitra Kousteridou, Iakovos Pavlopoulos, Dimitris Chatzizisis (Foken), Dimitra Alibinisi, Eva Stavrakaki, evi nakou, Simos Riniotis, Elpiniki Saripanidou, Ismini Slijper, WERA, Panagiotis Kostopoulos, Natalia Baka and Sofia Zafeiriou.

For the first night of the second season, he performs with Tasos Stamou, Elpiniki Saripanidou and Petros Kolotouros.

Elpiniki Saripanidou: dance / movement

Tasos Stamou: electronics

Petros Kolotouros: video

Dave De Rose: μπάσο / ντραμς

The performer and dancer Elpiniki Saripanidou is a graduate of the National School of Dance. She has participated in artistic productions as a dancer and movement curator. Her practice focuses on imagery, the creation of imaginary characters through disguise and the interaction of body, voice, sound and objects. In 2023, she presented “Burst Forth” in Athens, a solo work based on metamorphosis.

Tasos Stamou is a composer of contemporary electroacoustic music and improviser. His relocation to the UK shaped his music towards the assimilation of new innovative currents and the search for an imaginary and nostalgic Greekness. In recent years, he has turned towards the confluence of these two trends through a trilogy of electroacoustic music influenced by Greek musical tradition (Musique Con Crete / DAD / Antiqua Graecia). His CV counts over 300 live performances and recordings. He has collaborated with numerous musicians from the field of improvisation and experimental music (Adam Bohman, Anna Homler, Steve Beresford, Sharon Gal, Mike Cooper, etc.).

The audiovisual artist Petros Koloturos explores through his work the sensory possibilities of the combination of image and sound. He has directed music video-clips, video-dance and video art as well as projections for music concerts. Documentaries that he has directed or participated have won awards at international festivals in Greece and abroad. He is a drummer in two active musical groups and a graduate of the postgraduate program “Culture and Documentary Film Production” of the University of the Aegean and the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Patras. Both in music and cinema he applies and explores the condition of free improvisation.

With a career that has included collaborations with renowned artists like Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traore, and Mark Ronson, among many others, Dave De Rose has spent the past 14 years pursuing underground music projects. He’s a core member of the space-age Gnawa project Electric Jalaba and the Athenian newborn Rave At Your Fictional Borders, as well as the director of Agile Experiments (2018-present). Agile Experiments has been well received by the underground experimental jazz community worldwide, releasing 11 LPs in 5 years. Catching the attention of the British Library’s “Sound Archive” project early on, they requested to have it in their catalog to archive and preserve the music as part of the nation’s audio and cultural heritage. Dave’s own label, DDR Records, boasts 25 independent record releases encompassing anything from ambient, songwriter-funk, free improv, jazz, and electro-acoustic techno.

www.davederosemusic.com

Artwork: Tasos Stamou

“plugged-in/alternating currents”

Alexandros Georgiadis presents a series of original works of electroacoustic music, composed between 2006 and 2015. These works (“Lamento elettronico”, “Virtual world”, “Electronic etudes I+II”, “P-Lock”, “WaterMusic” and “The City”) embrace a wide range of musical influences, from atonal organ music and avant-garde to ambient and new age, from the works of Stockhausen, Feldman or Xenakis to the compositions of Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre.

In the second part, Georgiadis improvises with the band “The Abstract Guitarist & friends” with influences from ambient, 70s rock, Tangerine Dream and noise.

The evening concludes with a short improvisational electronic noise set with configurations and structural variations.

Participants:

Christos Papakonstantinou: electric guitar

Evmorfia Kontioti: acoustic guitar

Christos Karapiperis: electric guitar

Yannis Karachristos: ney, electronics

Valia Kouvaki: bendir

Alexandros Georgiadis: synthesizer

The composer and performer Alexandros Georgiadis was born in Athens in 1976. He studied piano and theory in the class of Yannis Ioannidis and composition with York Höller (Cologne Music Academy). His works have been premiered in Greece and abroad (Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, etc.) and are published by the music publishing house Universal Edition in Vienna.

Spoken Maik #2

Spoken word, a form of oral poetry with experiential, political or satirical elements, focuses on the words themselves, their dynamics, the tone of voice, the gestures and expressions that accompany the utterance of the speech. It draws its roots from gospel, jazz, soul, Beat Generation poetry, the Harlem Renaissance movement. Today it is a global and diverse artistic medium of expression.

Curated by Stavros Anagnostopoulos and Niki Papadogiannaki, the second multilingual “open mic” evening of the season will be hosted at KET on Thursday 14 November.

Those who want to participate should come half an hour before the start time (19:30) and add their name to the list of participants. Each act can last up to 5 minutes.

Three Times Three #2

Curated by composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos), the monthly shows Three Times Three bring together people from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, in order to create a code between them, a language of communication that is valid as long as the meeting lasts.

Three musicians meet three dancers at a time. At the beginning of the evening, three random couples are drawn by lot and improvise for 15 minutes. The evening ends with all participants joining together for 30 minutes.

The second meeting of the season involves:

Giorgos Stavridis – drums

Antonis Anisegos – piano

Thodoris Ziarkas – double bass

Natalia Mpaka – dance

Mairi Yannoula – dance

Maria Pisiou – dance

Giorgos Stavridis explores the inherent sonic possibilities of percussion instruments, electronic media and objects, through construction, on-site performances and improvisation. He is a member of Trigger Happy, the duo BLIP and the Centre for Research and Rescue of Music Radio. He has presented his work in numerous concerts and festivals in Greece and abroad.

Based in Berlin, composer, pianist and electronic musician Antonis Anisegos has performed in Europe, Asia and America. In 2024, he created the trio Air, Bee & Tree as well as the duo aNo. He participates in Berlin-based groups (Potsa Lotsa XL, Home Stretch, Callisto). He composes music for small ensembles, for orchestra as well as for theatre. His releases exceed 70 albums.

Between London and Athens, co-founder of the group Valia Calda, the double bassist and composer Thodoris Ziarkas collaborates with international groups and renowned artists in the field of jazz, improvisation and traditional music (Nancy Mounir, Tom Sochas, Vanessa Kourtesi, London Improvisers Orchestra, Okay Temiz, Yazz Ahmed, Anna Homler, Steve Beresford, Savina Giannatou, Electric Litany, Tasos Stamos, Adam Bohman, Yuko Kaseki).

A dancer and dance teacher, Natalia Mpaka is a graduate of the National School of Dance and the Physiotherapy Department of the P.D.A. She has worked as a dancer and choreographer’s assistant with Jenny Argyriou, Iris Karayan, Paulina Kremasta, Zoe Efstathiou, Eleonora Siarava, Nefeli Gioti and Dimitris Mytilineos. She has participated in performances and seminars in festivals in Greece and abroad. She is a founding member of the dance collective “underscore” with which she co-manages the artistic space “M54”.

Mary Yannoula is a graduate of the National School of Dance and a selected choreographer at the Academy of Choreography of the dance group Aerites (in the framework of the cultural capital-Elefsina). She has collaborated with the choreographers Yannis Mandafounis, Persa Stamatopoulos, Reiner Behr, Jacqueline Fischer, Kosmas Kosmopoulos, Katerina Gevetzi, Apostolia Papadamaki, Jenny Argyriou, Ilias Hadjigeorgiou, Zoe Efstathiou. She collaborates with the dance group Gervasi (Vienna) and the mixed dance group Dagipoli. She has choreographed two duets which have been performed at the Athens Concert Hall. Her solo work “I found you exploding” has been presented at festivals in Greece, Germany, Poland and Hungary.

Based in Amsterdam, Maria Pisiou is a performer, choreographer and researcher. Her artistic research is based on an approach to the body as a living/fluid archive, the use of choreographic instructions and the practices of direct composition. She has presented works at the Stedelijk Museum, BUDA Art Centre (BE), 4bid Gallery (NL), MUDA kunsecundair (BE), CODEdans (BE), Athens Video Dance Festival (GR). She has collaborated with Julyen Hamilton, Marina Abramovic, Helena Byström & Anna Källblad, Fenia Kotsopoulou, daz disley, Iris Woutera, Eleonora Siarava, VestAndPage, Sakis Papadimitriou, Agency of Noise, etc.

“Nights on the folkway” — Demi Spriggs & friends

Accompanied by Gerasimos Lorandos (bass), George Smak (drums), Einar Stenseng (piano) and Yannis Chatzistavris (violin), Demi Spriggs (voice, guitar) presents a blend of singings and melodic structures from the British isles and US country-folk mixed up with fx and textured vocal loops, taking ‘folk’ soundings and reshuffling them. Demi usually plays alone, using scarcity to create a sense of the uncanny that she calls ‘tales for and of the weary’, but for the concert at KET, she is integrating a full band with a (bore) jazz, prog, and noise aesthetic, taking the legacy of UK folk music to a different energetic sphere. Influences lead to Bill Faye, Bohren and der club of gore, Aldous Harding, and other champions of slow-evolving weirdings. Running parallel with her November single: To Miroloi (the lament) this concert is the first in a series of shows running to the March release of her full album “Nights on the Folkway”. The full album and her EP, ‘A Boy called Ear’, are both on the small indie label Team Love (NY) and produced at Electricity Sound Studio (Athens, GR).

Becka Wolfe opens the concert with a solo set.

● Demi Spriggs works at the interface between art and anthropology, and is concerned with what ethnography can be as a performative modality. She makes interactive and mixed media installations that play between the ‘fake’ and the ‘real’. Her current interest is sound as a way of knowing-feeling.

She has participated in a number of arts collectives between Athens and London, and is a member of a rolling performance group based in Vienna.

Contested Editing is her publishing platform where she helps authors develop their volumes.

www.demispriggs.squarespace.com

● All players compose their own projects. Gerasimos Lorandos is the lead guitarist for the cabaret kitsch band Wild Flora, has his own solo project, and an electro pop duet Zwepps (album out in spring). Einar Stenseng is a pianist and composer, and has written and released three full albums. Yorgos Smak deals with his own musical theatre project and has released two folk-pop albums, and Yannis Chatzistavris is the co-composer of Demi’s EP ‘A Boy Called Ear’. 

● Originally from the UK, Becka Wolfe started her traditional music journey in Scotland, learning jigs and reels in the bars of Edinburgh. The violin slowly transformed into a fiddle, arias into murder ballads and sea shanties. Although this is where she began, it is not where she stayed, straying far from the British Isles into the Balkans, France, the Appalachians and the Mediterranean, particularly Greece, Ottoman music and the Arab world.

www.becka-musica.com

Photo: Giorgio Zavos

“Iphigenia in Kos” — musical reading

According to a new oracle, there is no alternative. Avlida Beach. The landscape looks hostile, signs of exploitation everywhere. A huge industrial complex dominates the view, the Cement Factory of Chalkida. A woman walks on the seashore. A man approaches her to ask for a light. She’s talking to ghosts. According to legend, the young Iphigenia had to be sacrificed here so that a strong wind would rise and the ships could set sail for Troy. So far so good. But Avlis? Why was she sacrificed? How can this land be inhabited now? A polyphonic monologue unfolds to the rhythm of the waves coming and going like a loom weaving with the wind sending a message: Violence, solidarity, affection.

The KET hosts a reading of Maria Kakoyannis‘ new book, “Iphigenia in Kos”, the Greek version of which is published in November by Keimena Publications. The reading will be accompanied by live music by Vincent Gueillet. A discussion with the audience will follow.

Maria Kakoyanni is a text-worker. Writing, translation, performance, editorial adventures, writing workshops are all part of her non-hierarchical approach to working with words. She feels close to Toni Morrison’s words, “We do langage.” She has lived and worked in France for twenty years. After a PhD in philosophy, she began teaching philosophy at several French universities, notably Paris 8. Slowly she began to shift towards literature, drama and performing arts although she still cultivates the weed of philosophy.

Vincent Gueillet is a musician (guitar, bass) and sound artist. He has participated in various rock, reggae, funk bands and worked for several years as a programmer in Art Cinemas in France. He is a self-taught musician and tries to maintain a childlike approach, i.e. experimenting with what he doesn’t know.

The book “Iphigenia in Kos” was published in France by Excès. Maria Kakoyanni and Vincent Gueillet, in collaboration with Kala Neza and Chantal Raffanel (production théâtre Isle 80), created a performance of the same name that was presented at the Avignon off festival for two consecutive years (2023-2024) and continues to be presented at festivals and alternative venues.

www.keimenabooks.gr/books/ifigeneia-stin-ko

*The reading is in the greek language.

Anna Vs June / inni moon

Focusing on live looping and editing her personal recordings, Anna Vs June presents at KET a mainly vocal journey inspired by the Greek musical tradition and ending with her own original compositions. inni moon presents an improvisational live set based on analogue synthesizers.

The musician Anna Papaioannou lives and works in Athens. Alongside her artistic collaborations, she writes her own music which she performs and sings live as Anna Vs June. Her musical research includes analogue and digital sound production equipment which is usually combined with traditional sounds and her personal recordings. Her work has been presented at various festivals (Electric Nights/Athens, Sonar/Barcelona, Reworks/Thes/Venice, Red Bull Music Festival/Berlin, Data Stories/Volos, Hidden Door/Edinburgh) as well as in music scenes in Greece and abroad (Sameheads/Berlin, Boschbar/Zurich, Romance/Athens). Since 2019 she releases music albums and tracks on record labels (Rocket Recordings, Osare! Editions, Yalanci etc.). She collaborates with arts organisations for personal or group projects (EMST, Goethe Institut, 25 AV, Aberdeen City Council, etc.). She participated in the last Red Bull Music Academy in 2018 and was one of the 64 emerging talents of the We Are Europe platform for 2019.

www.annavsjune.com

inni moon is the name of the personal music project of Agamemnon Krasoulis. He likes soft sounds and soft colours, mountains, the sea bottom and arpeggiators. His music combines elements of ambient, electronic and contemporary classical music. In the past, he has released music as a member of The Place Within and Paint on Silence and in collaboration with Thaddeus on various compilations (piano day, Pianodrome), among others.

www.soundcloud.com/innimoon/albums

Sound of Color #1 featuring GRIX

This year we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the monthly audiovisual performances “Sound Of Color”, curated by Jannis Anastasakis and Natalia Manta at KET: 10 years that resemble a journey through the history of improvisational and experimental music, from free, Scandinavian or New York jazz music and free improvisation to ambient and psychedelic music, from contemporary mixes between electronic and traditional sound to entire in situ installations where space itself becomes a musical instrument. These 10 years have left an indelible mark on the space and programming of KET, which has not ceased since 2014 to open itself to musical experimentation, improvisational encounters and the live interaction between image and sound. Considering the unknown continents yet to be discovered, 10 years is ultimately a short time.

10 years of “Sound Of Color” at KET and the journey continues.

In the first “Sound of Color” of the year, Jannis Anastasakis (guitar, analog-synths, live-electronics) and Natalia Manta (digital & analog-visuals) collaborate with the GRIX trio consisting of Floros Floridis (clarinet), Antonis Anisegos (piano) and Giorgos Dimitriadis (drums).

The GRIX trio was formed in Berlin by three musicians from Thessaloniki. It blends melodies, noise and rhythms in a contemporary way, with free improvisations and electronics. It proposes an open approach to the melody, timbres and rhythms of Greek music, based on the experiences of its three members in the field of improvisational jazz.

Jannis Anastasakis is characterized by his special approach to the guitar, as a generator of original and atmospheric sounds, as well as by his in-depth involvement with effects and live-sampling technique (he is also the designer and manufacturer of JAM pedals). He has collaborated with great artists such as Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Gilad Atzmon, Thodoris Rellos, Savina Giannatou, Floros Floridis, Michalis Siganidis, Lena Platonos, Haris Lambrakis, Haig Yazdjian, etc.

www.jannisanastasakis.com

Natalia Manta is a visual artist. She lives and works in Athens. She studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2011-2017), where she also completed her MA in Fine Arts. Memory, time and myth are the concepts at the heart of her visual creation. She uses different materials (metal, clay, photosensitive chemicals and video projections). She collaborates with visual artists, musicians, theatre or performance artists. Her work has been exhibited internationally in various solo and group exhibitions. During 2017- 2020, she taught sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts in Athens. Her works are in private collections. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artists’ Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).

www.nataliamanta.com

SIBiLIMA

The musical ensemble SIBiLIMA presents a program with the Cretan lyre and the classical string quartet. Through original compositions and elements of improvisation, its approach balances between Western European and Eastern influences, creating an original soundscape.

SIBiLIMA performs for the first time in Greece three new works: the “String Quartet + Cretan Lyra” and “Cretan Lyra” by the American composer Coleman Zurkowski and “ORFURO” by Giorgos Tamiolakis. With the contrasts and connections created between the traditional and the contemporary, through the dynamics of different musical idioms, the concert at KET promises surprises.

Credits:

Lefteris Andriotis – cretan lyre

Charalambos Karasavvidis – violin

Kalliopi Mitropoulou – violin

Stelios Papanastasis – viola, artistic direction

Giorgos Tamiolakis – cello & composition

Coleman Zurkowski – composition

Coleman Zurkowski is a composer based in New York.  He received a Bachelor’s in Music Composition from DePaul University in 2012 and an MFA in Music Composition from the California Institute of the Arts in 2014.  In 2015, he was chosen to be a resident composer of the Syros Sound Meetings in collaboration with the Syros Film Festival in Syros, Greece. In 2017, he organized an international tour of his album ZERO, which was later released by Dangerbird Records in Los Angeles in 2018.  In 2019, he released his follow up album INSTRUMENTAL with a US tour through New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, and Miami. In 2022, Zurkowski released Music for No One which toured internationally featuring performances in Athens (at KET), Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Minneapolis. Zurkowski currently works in New York composing music for film, TV, commercials, podcasts, and theatre as well as presenting music of his own.

www.colemanzurkowski.com

Cellist and composer Giorgos Tamiolakis was born in Crete in 1986. A graduate of the Music Lyceum of Pallini, the National Conservatory of Halandri and the “Fryderyk Chopin” Music Academy in Warsaw, he won the 1st Prize in the National String Competition of the H.O.N. (2010). He has taken part in seminars on music interpretation with Julius Berger & Umberto Clerici and on music composition with Rafal Janiak, Aleksander Kosciow & Minas Borboudakis. He has performed as a soloist with the K.O.A. at the Athens Concert Hall (2011). He has collaborated as a composer, sound designer and performer with groups of all musical genres, as well as with theatre and contemporary dance groups, in live performances and video art projects. His compositions are characterized by melodic and geometric structures, often influenced by folkloric elements.

The music group SIBiLIMA is a kind of mosaic of different sound textures. They collaborated in 2021 with the National Opera House, creating two short films: ‘Bridget Planets’, with music composed by Giorgos Tamiolakis, directed by Margarita Gerogianni, and ‘Getaway’ directed by Pantelis Makkas. In the summer of the same year, they took part in the production ‘Wanderings’ directed by Konstantinos Hatzis and originally composed by Giorgos Tamiolakis, in collaboration with the actresses Sofia Pappa and Rubini Vasilakopoulou, as part of the event ‘The Revolution through the eyes of others’. In the summer of 2022, the group collaborated with Sophia Hill, in a production by Konstantinos Hatzis, at the Ancient Theatre of Delphi, on the occasion of the performance ‘EKAVI STRINGS’. In 2022 and 2023, they presented three classic silent cinema films with original music: ‘Battleship Potemkin’, ‘Lights of the City’ and ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’. The group has recorded and performed music by young Greek and foreign composers, most recently recording works by Christos Xenakis. Their last performance was in December 2023 at Romantso in a collaboration with sound artist Jeph Vanger.

www.instagram.com/sibilima

www.facebook.com/SIBiLIMA

Filippos Raskovic: “Understone” solo piano

On the occasion of the release of his latest LP, “Understone”, composer and pianist Filippos Raskovic improvises on the piano, mixing styles that may initially seem disparate. His interpretations focus on harmonic and repetitive patterns. They are inspired by free improvisation, jazz, contemporary classical music as well as by Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen or Reich.

Filippos Raskovic is a composer and improviser from Athens, Greece, based in Vilnius, Lithuania. He often collaborates with visual artists, focusing on the acoustics of objects, sculptures, and spaces. In 2021, he completed the performative installation “Echo Chambers” in collaboration with the sculptor Dimitris Tampakis. He has also co-created “Post-European Rage Room” with the UnProcessed Reality collective, a performance shown at Centrum Berlin. He is a founding member of illucid trio, and in 2019, he co-founded the KRAMA collective and festival.

www.filipposraskovic.com

Photo: Alexandra Bondarev

Jack Wright / Giorgos Kokkinaris / Stephanos Chytiris

As part of his European tour, American saxophonist Jack Wright joins Giorgos Kokkinaris (double bass) and Stephanos Chytiris (drums) for a concert of improvisation and instant creation. Wright visits Greece for the presentation of the Greek translation of his book “The Free Musics: the improvisational side of jazz in America from the counterculture of the 60’s to today”, translated by Fotis Nikolakopoulos (Idyphon Publications).

One of the pioneers of free improvisation, Jack Wright lived some diverse lives, as activist and academic, until settling into music full-time in 1979. Now 81 years old, he tours again in Europe and the US, where he is still the “Johnny Appleseed of free improvisation”, as guitarist Davey Williams called him. His playing consists of distorted pitches, precise timing, intrusive multiphonics, sudden changes of direction, obscene animalistic sounds, and occasional “real” notes. He collaborates with Zach Darrup, Ben Bennett, Evan Lipson and Ron Stabinsky, and his most recent groups include Wrest, Minimal Disturbance, Roughhousing and Never.

www.springgardenmusic.com/jackbio.html

The double bassist Giorgos Kokkinaris composes, improvises and collaborates with people from the fields of composition, visual arts, poetry and dance. His art is based on the physicalization of music through voice and movement and the use of new technologies. He gives concerts abroad and organizes seminars on improvisation. He is part of the editorial team of the magazine “NewMusic.gr”, which aims to strengthen the local music community. He is a member of the contemporary music group àktapha.

www.kokkinaris.com

Stephanos Chytiris was born in Athens and started to play music from a young age. He studied in Athens and New York. He has participated in groups of the New York free jazz scene with Daniel Carter, Ingrid Laubrock, Pascal Niggenkemper, Billy Mintz, Tony Malaby, Bram De Looze, Luca Rosenfeld and Todd Neufeld. Recorded in 2014 and produced by drummer Michael Carvin, “Flux Project – Pyr|n” is his first solo album. He subsequently released the double vinyl “Egata”, in which seven musicians improvise on specific tonalities, typically featuring short intermittent phrases and coordinated outbursts.

www.stephanoschytiris.com

Yann Gourdon — solo for hurdy-gurdy with wheel

Hurdy-gurdy in English (vielle à roue in French) is a stringed instrument that produces sound by rubbing the strings on a wooden wheel instead of a bow. The wheel is turned by a crank in the right hand, while the left hand plays the melody on a keyboard. Most hurdy-gurdys have strings that act as equalizers, giving a steady accompaniment to the melody and creating a sort of drone. As a traditional instrument, the hurdy-gurdy is found mainly in the music of Occitania, Aragon, Asturias, Galicia, Hungary and in Slavic folk music. It also appears in medieval, Renaissance or Baroque European music.

Starting from traditional music and folk dances, Frenchman Yann Gourdon is one of the musicians who use the electroacoustic hurdy-gurdy with wheel.

Playing solo or in various ensembles, he showed, together with the twelve musicians of the La Nòvia collective, how tradition can be reinvented, opening new paths for immersive and hypnotic sonic explorations.

His father was a musician, a fiddler, and played mostly traditional Irish music. The wheeled hurdy-gurdy is one of the instruments with which Yann came into early contact. He started at the age of twelve, having previously studied classical piano.

He quickly became interested in opening up the instrument to other musical areas and in the development of the electroacoustic hurdy-gurdy.

Between 1993 and 2003, he played with the band Djal (“From One Day to the Next”), a traditional band with repertoire from many regions of France.

In 1999, he turned to experimental music. He studied at the National School of Music in Villeurbanne until 2003, where he took courses in electroacoustics, composition, free improvisation and analogue composition.

With Jérémie Sauvage on bass and Mathieu Tilly on drums, he founded the band France in 2005.

His music is based on continuous sounds, drones and a very particular management of time that demonstrates his elasticity. It thus creates an immersive feeling, a loss of orientation. He immerses himself in a continuous sound, trying to stay in it. “There are many things you can listen to on a drone, it opens up new worlds, new directions, little corners to explore.” His music seeks out border zones, fuzzy and intangible areas. His work has led him towards musicians like Tony Conrad, La Monte Young or Phill Niblock. He was also influenced by the works of Alvin Lucier, an American composer who was particularly interested in the sonic and acoustic dimension of sound.

His hurdy-gurdy has peculiarities that distinguish it from the traditional versions of the instrument. It is soprano and is made with a motor on the wheel. Yann nevertheless retains the option of using the crank.

He uses minimal effects. After trying them all, he kept only the delay, which allows him to create repeating patterns.

He still plays traditional music today, mainly within the La Nòvia collective, a hotbed of thought and experimentation around traditional and experimental music.

He has about forty albums to his credit, with solo or collaborations, but above all he desires the live condition of the concert and the closeness with the audience.

www.ygourdon.net

www.la-novia.fr/yann_gourdon.php

YGRA, an oral opera for the end of identity politics

The conceptual duo FYTA and the composer and musician Giorgos Dousos present an immersive spectacle that explores humanity’s relationship with the liquid element.

The narcissism of millennial defeatism goes into the blender and becomes a probiotic smoothie. We lose track of time. We become a post-Internet soup of associations and sighs. Can caring become something monstrous? Can we fit ourselves into woke words? Can we find collective hope in a sea of distracted attention? Does it make sense to talk to our therapists about the climate crisis? Is there even a little something arousing about artificial intelligence? Can we make a new language out of blood, saliva and urine?

Narrator / Millennial Snowflake: Foivos Dousos (tenor)

God / Trapper / Robot / Poetress: Fil Ieropoulos (baritone / soprano)

Master of audio ceremonies: Giorgos Dousos (flute, saxophone, clarinet, keyboards, samples, glasses)

Dramaturgy consultant: Marianna Tzani

Lighting design and videography: Thanos Pantsos

Production Assistant: Petros Antoniou

*The performance is in the greek language.

Spoken Maik #1

Spoken word, a form of oral poetry with experiential, political or satirical elements, focuses on the words themselves, their dynamics, the tone of voice, the gestures and expressions that accompany the utterance of the speech. It draws its roots from gospel, jazz, soul, Beat Generation poetry, the Harlem Renaissance movement. Today it is a global and diverse artistic medium of expression.

Curated by Stavros Anagnostopoulos and Niki Papadogiannaki, the first multilingual “open mic” evening of the season will be hosted at KET on Thursday 17 October.

Those who want to participate should come half an hour before the start time (19:30) and add their name to the list of participants. Each act can last up to 5 minutes.

Mike Nigro / Matthew D. Gantt / Lula Asplund / Babak Ahteshamipour

Four sets of electronic sound by Mike Nigro (USA), Matthew D. Gantt (USA), Lula Asplund (USA) and Babak Ahteshamipour (Iran/Greece).

Mike Nigro is an electronic musician and label operator based in Sydney, Australia (previously Brooklyn, NY and Newark, Delaware). His solo practice and collaborations draw inspiration from the minimalists, early synthesizer pioneers, and contemporary experimental underground. His work explores the spaces between musicality and noise; movement and stasis; synthetics and organics.  He’s released music with stalwart champions of underground experimentalism such as Constellation Tatsu, Lillerne Tapes, Phinery, A Giant Fern, and his own Oxtail Recordings. Oxtail Recordings is a record label focusing on “ambient noise and broken songs,” which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2024 with showcases in Australia, USA, and EU.  The label has been featured in The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, NPR, SPIN, Tiny Mix Tapes and A Closer Listen, among others.

www.mikenigro.bandcamp.com

www.oxtailrecordings.bandcamp.com/music

Matthew D. Gantt is an artist, composer and educator from Troy, New York. His practice focuses on sound in virtual spaces, generative systems facilitated by idiosyncratic technology, and digital production presets as sonic readymades He worked between 2016 and 2018 in the studio of electronics pioneer Morton Subotnick. He participates in the international creative community by presenting his work at venues such as Pioneer Works, Issue Project Room, Roulette, Babycastles, SVA Visible Futures Lab, Feral File, IRCAM, ICST Zurich and countless DIY venues. Gantt releases music with Orange Milk and Oxtail Recordings. He is a member of the NEW INC group at the New Museum and has taught experimental composition in both institutional and DIY contexts. His work has been featured on The Wire, Pop Matters, Exclaim!, Tiny Mix Tapes, Bandcamp New and Notable, and more.

www.orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/diagnostics

Lula Asplund is an experimental composer and performer of electroacoustic music working between Chicago and the Bay Area. Asplund’s work brings together visceral sonic elements of psychoacoustics and spectral synthesis to explore dream worlds, memory palaces, alchemy, and wonder. Whispers are disguised and latticed together into an intimate web, hoping to extend a glimpse into a vignette barely held together by strings. Somewhere among ambient, psychedelic, spectral, and experimental, Asplund works with sound as raw material.

www.lulaa.bandcamp.com/album/a-matinee

Babak Ahteshamipour is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and musician based in Athens, Greece. His works expand across many disciplines such as 3D, graphic design and music that collide into unison exploring topics from cyberspace to ecology and politics to identity via gaming and internet culture. His work has been presented across festivals, venues & spaces such as Centre Pompidou and Milan Machinima Festival, and has been featured on magazines and platforms such as Bandcamp daily and CTM festival’s magazine.

www.babakahteshamipour.com

www.daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/babak-ahteshamipour-violent-violins-exposed-review

“Athos: Echoes from the Holy Mountain” – presentation and concert

The independent publishing house and music label FLEE presents its latest release, “Athos: Echoes from the Holy Mountain” at two venues in Kypseli: at the bookstore “O Meteoritis” and, later that evening, at KET.

• 19:00 | presentation of the artbook at “Meteoritis” | free entrance

Discussion with contributors and authors about the process of creating the work.

• 21:00 | concert with Jay Glass Dubs & Daniel Paleodimos at ΚΕΤ | 10€

The artists will present specially crafted live sets inspired by the musical landscape of Athos.

“Athos: Echoes from the Holy Mountain” focuses on the vocal tradition of the monks of Mount Athos, inviting contemporary artists and researchers to approach and revisit its contemporary implications. Authentic recordings made in the monasteries of Athos are presented alongside contemporary compositions inspired by this tradition.

Between documentation and review, the FLEE label counts important releases dedicated to the Circassian tradition, to the musical heritage of fishermen searching for pearls in the Gulf waters, to Pichika, ancient and therapeutic music from southern Italy, to Benga, a typical Kenyan musical genre, or to the processions of Portuguese fishermen.

Approaching each musical genre with a new and innovative perspective, each issue is a visual and aural tribute to the tradition in question. The project “Athos: Echoes from the Holy Mountain” includes a double vinyl album (2xLP) and an art book in English, Greek and French.

Founded by Olivier Duport, Alan Marzo and Carl Åhnebrink, FLEE is an independent publishing house, record label and curatorial platform dedicated to the documentation and artistic reinterpretation of hybrid cultural phenomena. Defending a transdisciplinary practice, the platform explores and creatively highlights the contours of globalization from a historical and critical perspective. Oscillating between different subjects and disciplines, from music to architecture, the collective pursues an inclusive working method, privileging diverse and varied points of view.

www.fleeproject.com

Dimitris Papadatos is a composer, musician and sound artist. He deals with issues such as copyright, spirituality and originality. His project Jay Glass Dubs is an exercise in style that focuses on a contradictory historical approach to dub music, reduced to its basic form (drum/bass/vox/effects). His work has been presented at Berlin Atonal, Meakusma Festival, documenta14, Terraforma, and at venues such as Macao (Milan), Portikus (Frankfurt), Kraftwerk, HkW (Berlin), Cafe OTO and Corsica Studios (London).

www.linktr.ee/jgdath

Daniel Paleodimos’s drumming cosmos is found at the intersection of jazz and eastern music, rooted firmly in a background of improvisation whilst drawing from a wide pallet of global rhythms and grooves.
His introduction to music came at age 12, via his first involvement with local punk rock bands and studies that later followed at music schools such as Nakas Music Conservatory. Later moving to London for an undergraduate degree in music, Daniel sought to expand his musical horizons by joining Tomorrow’s Warriors, a music workshop largely responsible for the UK’s ongoing resurgence in jazz. This led to a stint in both session work for other artists as well as being a part of the contemporary jazz circuit in London. Currently, Daniel is based in Athens and is involved in various projects and collaborations that combine both performance and production elements. More recently, he has joined the touring band for the pop artist Σtella, and has released his own EP under the moniker El Din.

Iku Sakan / Anders Lauge Meldgaard / AMR

Three electronic sound sets by Iku Sakan (Japan), Anders Lauge Meldgaard (Denmark) and AMR (Greece).

Iku Sakan is an electronic musician and dj from Osaka, Japan. In his richly textured organic music, he searches for soulful moments from soulless materials, through a constantly shifting collection of sound sources, melding improvisation and dj’ing practices. Sakan mixes various waves from machines & uniquely modified gear like the Omnichord, an MC-303 and oscillators, creating repetitive rhythmic patterns, rotating harmonics and detailed resonating melodies. He has collaborated / played with e.g. Pekka Airaksinen, Anders Lauge Meldgaard, Maher Shalal Has Baz, Sun Araw, and Michael Northam. his recent works incl. a remix for the French composer Yann Tiersen (via Mute Records) and musique-concrète-inspired tone poem LP “OMNITOPOEIA”.

www.ikusakan.bandcamp.com/album/human-wave-music

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Anders Lauge Meldgaard presents a solo set of free-from electronic music featuring EWI (Electronic Woodwind Instrument) and modular synthesizer. He engages in a wide spectrum of musical expressions, encompassing modern composed music, free improvisation, orchestral MIDI collages, and eclectic electronic explorations. His work reflects a deep versatility, blending traditional and contemporary elements to create innovative and captivating soundscapes. Whether composing intricate scores or experimenting with new electronic textures, he consistently pushes the boundaries of musical creativity. The tension between composition and improvisation is often used as a motivating force for his musical adventures. His recent works include the release “The Art of Playing the Fantasia,” an electronic music work released by Sun Ark in Los Angeles in 2023.

www.sunarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-art-of-playing-the-fantasia

Sound artist and electronic music composer AMR creates site specific compositions for live performance. Her work has been released, among others, by the Parisian label Vice de Forme. Her sound is characterized by noise and electroacoustic elements. She uses analogue equipment as well as programming languages to produce sound and process live sound sources derived from semi-artificial synthesizers, acoustic instruments and field recordings.

www.annamariarammou.com

Noisy Words

On October 17, 18 and 19, between 15:00 and 18:00, KET hosts the voice and electronic sound workshop “From Voice to Noise”, coordinated by the singer PÖ, as part of the NOISY WORDS festival, organized by Goethe-Institut Athen and curated by Evi Nakou.
The registration cycle for this workshop has already been closed.

While the second workshop of the festival, dedicated to the collaborative composition of sound and words, will be completed, other activities will take place in the coming days within the framework of NOISY WORDS, all at the premises of GOETHE-INSTITUT ATHENS (14-16 Omirou Street):

● The performance discussion “Aftersound [aftersound, aftermath]” between Salomé Voegelin and Athena Athanasiou (in English with simultaneous Greek translation)
🗓 Thursday 17 October 🕗 20:00
🎫 free entrance
📍 GOETHE-INSTITUT ATHEN

● The showcase of the workshop “From Voice to Noise”, under the guidance of PÖ, during which 5 artists (M. Mpili, A. Charisis, Th. Karampatzias, V. Georgiou, E. Kalogeropoulou) present personal and collective works created at KET during the three-day workshop.
🗓 Friday 18 October 🕘 21:00
🎫 free entrance
📍 GOETHE-INSTITUT ATHEN

● The only concert of PÖ (Ghana/France)
🗓 Saturday 19 October 🕘 21:00
🎫 free entrance
📍 GOETHE-INSTITUT ATHEN

For more information ➤ www.goethe.de/ins/gr/el/kul/kue/nwf.html

Gregory Dargent — “Soleil d’hiver” / opening set: Fausto Sierakowski

After an opening set by saxophonist Fausto Sierakowski, French musician Gregory Dargent presents at KET the audiovisual composition “Soleil d’hiver” (“Winter Sun”), with oud solos, electronic effects, magnetic films and images.

Contemporary but also perfectly rooted in the expression of the oud, the solo “Soleil d’hiver” is a search on memory, loss, and a creation that goes back to its history: the story of the son of a man who left Algeria at a young age, during the war, and who for years had buried his history.

Grégory Dargent is preparing this project by carrying out numerous residencies and concerts throughout 2024 in France, the Middle East, Greece – at the Cité de la Musique in Marseille, the IRTIJAL festival and the Palais Boutros in Beirut, Algiers, Istanbul, Cairo, Tunis, Berlin and Strasbourg, the city where he lives and from which he regularly leaves for long musical journeys.

The “Winter Sun” is supported by the City of Strasbourg and the Grand Est Region of France.

The oud player, electric guitarist, composer, director and photographer Gregory Dargent cultivates his music and identity through improvisational music, Tuareg trance, jazz, Turkish makam, minimalist music, pop, African-American songs or French chansons. From Hijâz’Car to Babx, from singer Houria Aïchi to Camelia Jordana, from Electrik GEM to Rachid Taha, from the “H” trio to Manu Théron’s Sirventés, from contemporary music to contemporary choreography, from acoustic oud to the hardest electric guitars, Gregory directs, accompanies, composes, reflects, questions, digs, makes mistakes, orchestrates and tirelessly shares his musical and photographic passions.

www.gregory-dargent.com

Fausto Sierakowski was born in 1988 in Paris and grew up in Rome. In 2009, he obtained a diploma in Classical Saxophone (Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia) and, in 2012, a Master’s degree in contemporary improvisation at the New England Conservatory. During his stay in America and until his return to Europe in 2014, he performed and recorded with musicians such as Matt Moran, Anthony Coleman, Joe Morris, Matt Darriau, Satoshi Takeshi, Hayden Chisholm and Axel Dörner. In 2016, he moved to Greece to study classical Ottoman music and oud with Eugene Voulgaris. Since then, he has participated in the ensembles of Eugene Voulgaris, Yannis Dionysiou, as well as in the Fausto Sierakowski Trio (with Panagiotis Kaitatzis and Stratis Skourkeas) and People of the wind (with Alexandros Rizopoulos and James Wylie).

www.faustosierakowski.eu

Ming Beck feat. Sabina Andrea Allen

Ming Beck is an Athenian instrumental group born out of the collaboration between Dimitra Kousteridou (live electronics), Dave De Rose (bass & fx), and Demian Gomez (drums & percussion). The trio explore and implement a minimalistic and highly repetitive style, blending elements of krautrock, noise, groove, and electronic music to create hypnotic, trance-like pieces, evolving in flow. Their music focuses on rhythmic intensity and otherworldly evolving textures rather than traditional melodies or song structures. Drawing from both electronic and live instrumentation, the trio crafts simple, looping patterns that gradually build, placing heavy emphasis on rhythm with Demian’s precise drumming and Dave’s raw basslines forming the backbone of their sound. Dimitra’s live electronics add layers of pulse and abstraction, creating a “techno-like” groove that weaves through their music.

For this debut live show at KET they will be collaborating with choreographer and performer Sabina Andrea Allen.

Dimitra Kousteridou is composer, researcher and sound artist, currently lives and works in Athens, GR. Her work is driven by a desire to invent a language in composition that examines tactile and sound aspects within site-specific installations and performances, originating from improvisation. Through multidisciplinary forms that include ephemeral situations and fractures of objects, she creates a space for research while using the sound and natural attributes of materials in time. Recently working on improvised sound compositions with handmade instruments (interactive sound circuits). 

With a career that has included collaborations with renowned artists like Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traore, and Mark Ronson, among many others, Dave De Rose is a drummer, bassplayer and a producer who has spent the past 15 years pursuing underground music projects. He’s a core member of the space-age Gnawa project Electric Jalaba, Rave At Your Fictional Borders, is the director of  international improvisation collective Agile Experiments (2018-present) as well as a prolific producer and dedicated music educator.

Demian Gomez describes himself as a pure noisemaker. He is an Argentinan/Native-American percussionist and drummer who was born into a working musicians family in Bueno Aires. In the early days of his musical journey he played everytype of musical styles his environment had to offer: chacarera, andina, tango, milonga, flamenco, cumbia, gypsy music, rock n roll and even metal. Since moving to Greece 19 years ago he’s been influencing the Athenian music scene with his infectious groove styles playing in original bands such as Los Petralonicos and renoun singersongwriter Maraveyas amongst many others.

Sabina Andrea Allen is a Greek-American choreographer and performer with a background in Contemporary Dance Practice. She was selected as an Artist-in-residence at U(R)TOPIAS – Academy of Choreography, Mystery 59, Eleusis Festival ’23-’24, She is the co-founder of the Corpus Franca company and has served as co-director and choreographer of many projects, She has a strong background in street-style dance and conducts improvisation workshops.

Artwork: Demian Gomez