The Missing Word Revisited
“The music on this CD is the result of a musical as well as an emotional journey through my work in theater so far. Fragments, fingerprints and images linked together with the word that is missing”.
Starting with the material of the album “The Missing Word”, Vassilis Tzavaras will present at KET the musical performance titled “The Missing Word Revisited”, along with Yiannis Iliakis (drums) and Erato Tzavara (live visuals). Vassilis Tzavara’s compositions converse with improvised drumming, guitar and live visuals.
Vassilis Tzavaras – guitar, loops
Yiannis Iliakis – drums
Erato Tzavara – live visuals
Philippos Marinelis – sound engineering
Vassilis Tzavaras
Vassilis Tzavaras was born in Paris in 1973. He has been a professional musician, music teacher, songwriter and singer since 1993. He is a founding member of Occasional Dream, Project 37, 4 + 1, Silent Move, LYD Quartet, the Atonal Theater Group and the Gnous Artistic Training Group. He has composed music for a variety of theatrical shows, painting exhibitions, films and more. Since 1993 he has performed in concerts inside and outside of Athens, mainly with the bands Occasional Dream and Take the Money and Run. As a member of Silent Move he organized the festival “Improvisation & Cinema” (TRIANON Cinema 2013), collaborated with Japanese photographer Haruna Kawanishi (Art Space Between, 2014), participated in the 2015 “Cinema and Dadaism” festival (Dimitria 2015). He has been a regular contributor – columnist – for the online music magazine TaR (2009-2013) and a radio producer on the Radiobubble online radio station (2011-2013). He organized and edited the “Last Phrase Project” festivals with the participation of many young artists (artists, musicians, etc.), “Guitar day” and “Impro day” (Open C.A.S.E. 303 2013, 2014, 2015). With Gnous (Michalis Moschoutis, Erato Tzavara, Vassilis Tzavaras) in the framework of the Education Program of Onassis Cultural Center they created the children’s sound performance “Hrats Bam” (2014-2015, 2015-2016, Big Bang Festival 2) “Listen to a Picture” (animasyros 8, 2015 Syros) and the school program “My Landscape in Sounds” (2015-2016, 2016-2017, Big Bang Festival 2).