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