ORIA (live electronics)
Eight acts from the underground electronic scene of Athens gather for a two-day mini-festival with the common denominator of electronic experimentation, expanding the boundaries of what we call live electronics. With a desire to discover new ground between entertainment and the need for expression, the partnership of the musicians has its foundations based on improvisation but also on the constant push of the possibilities offered by technology.
Days and acts:
Friday 12/1: Olla Via, Zevla, Schema Musicalis, Impedance
Saturday 13/1: Stylianos Ou, Rcrender, Taylor Savage, AMR
Stelios Papagrigoriou (aka Stylianos Ou) lives and works in Athens. He is a writer, and a visual and sound artist. His different skills and capacities are in constant conversation in his practice, as evidenced in his use of various media such as painting, sculpture, installations, literary text, sound, digital video, etc. His work tackles issues revolving mainly around the theme of the human form, as well as the deformations which the latter may suffer.
www.fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/rififi-ston-epitafio-an-oral-history-of-extinction
www.instagram.com/stylianosou/?hl=el
Olla Via (Jiannis Papadakis) is an audio and visual artist based in Athens. His main interest is on the interactive and performative experiences of sound and human element. As a musician, his focus is on primary sources of sound that can be shaped on the premises of experimental electronic music genres, and expose them to the audience.
www.kenryoufutile210.wixsite.com/jiannispapadakis
www.facebook.com/jianniollavia
Rcrender is Adrianos Zacharias’ latest musical incarnation, following desert squirt: a literal drum and bass duet in which he played the bass and sang and Sclavos a post-punk quartet where he serves as a frontman and lyricist.
Born and raised in Athens Taylor Savage has been djing for more than a decade. Performing around Athens, in bars, underground events and parties he has developed his own bold and eclectic sound. Out of his habit of still performing with his Cdjs 100s comes this live.
www.soundcloud.com/dj-taylor-savage/lovers/s-Ea4MO4BmuFg
Stelios Giannoulakis (aka Schema Musicalis) is a composer, sound designer, improvising sonic artist, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, music technology researcher, and educator. Electroacoustic music, live electronics, cross-genre stylistic studies, soundscape recording, music and sound design for theater, moving images, dance, and games. Circuit bending, editing, sound diffusion, game mechanics, interactivity, transformations of form and abstraction, interdisciplinary practical research.
AMR is a sound artist and electronic music composer. She creates site specific compositions for live performance and her work has been released on cassette, among others, by the Parisian Vice de Forme. Her sound is characterized by noise and electro-acoustic elements. It uses analog equipment as well as programming languages to produce sound and process live sound sources derived from semi modular synthesizers, acoustic instruments and field recordings.
www.annamariarammou.bandcamp.com
Zevla, aka KOKETAMC, is a producer, DJ and visual artist from Athens. She is the founder of net label Zela Archives.
www.soundcloud.com/zelaarchives
Producing, playing hardware live sets as Impedance, 1/2 of Krats and djing as Complex Resistance. Developed in the diy, electronic scene of Crete as part of the diy crew BA 2037. Deep drones agglomerated with aggressive electro/techno beats as elements of a noisy industrial environment. Some Impedance tracks can be found in VA compilations released by Phormix, Craton and Modified Boredom.