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Sound of Color #4

Program:
Thursday 30 January 2025 | 21:00
Tickets:
8€
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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