
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.