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