For the fifth consecutive year, once a month, Jannis Anastasakis invites at KET various musicians and visual artists to improvise and create an in situ audiovisual project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the March session he invites Savina Yannatou (voice), Elena Kakaliagou (french horn), Yiannis Despotakis (drums) and Natalia Manta (live visuals).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Savina Yannatou
Savina Yannatou began her professional career in 1979 with the broadcast of ERT’s Third Program “Lilipoupolis”. She has since collaborated with many great composers (M. Hadjidakis, L. Platonos, M. Grigoriou, D. Maragopoulos, V. Katsoulis, N. Mamagakis, N. Kypourgos, etc.). Her discography includes over twenty records and participations in other musicians’ recordings. She has been a member of the Antique Music Lab and shas composed music for documentary, video-art and theater, collaborating with S. Stago, M. Santorineos, A. Kralis and the National Theater. She has collaborated with choreographer N. Zouka on the production of two dance-theater performances. For the last ten years she has been working on free improvisation in collaboration with jazz and traditional musicians. With the group Primavera en Salonico, she has released the albums: “Spring in Salonika”, “Mediterranean Songs”, “Virgin Maries of the World” and “Terra Nostra”. She has performed in Europe, America, Australia, Morocco, Taiwan and Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elena Kakaliagou Yiannis Despotakis Natalia Manta
Elena Kakaliagou, raised in Volos, is active in the contemporary and improvisational music scene, mainly in Berlin and in other central European locations. She is influenced by classical and traditional music, which she applies to the needs of her basic instrument, the french horn. She is a member of PARA (AT), Rank Ensemble (FI), zeitkratzer (DE) & Zinc & Copper (DE).
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He was born in Athens. From an early age he was drawn to percussion. He has received lessons from a number of notable people. He has been taught tabla by Satnam Ghai (India) and Nihat Yersaloglu (Turkey), drums by Nikos Kapilides and electric guitar by Costas Mouzis. He has attended seminars by Joe Zawinul, Lenny White, Rashid Ali, Steve Gadd, Garry Novak, Jeff Berlin, Paul Vertigo, Clarence Penn, Kostas Anastasiadis. For the past 10 years he has been involved in Mongolian traditional singing (also known as overtone singing – ultrasound singing) because it acts as the crystalline water that opens and cleans all internal energy channels also known as chakras. In 2007 he met the notable Hayden Chisholm (NZL) with whom they have been working closely since 2009. Through the constant change of form, he remains an explorer of true sound and he participates in various music groups. Since 2013 he has been collaborating with Antonis Stavrinos, either as a duo or in larger musical ensembles, giving concerts of free improvisation. The source of their inspiration is the road and the reality. The name of this collective is Meating for Business. With the Agios Lavrentios Brass Band musicians – the only brass band in the world without any brass – they are bombarding unsuspecting audiences on earth with big doses of global Balkan-New Orleans music. With the artist, composer and pianist Vago Tedosio (GR) they have created the duo Free Thraz (piano, voice, drums) through which they exemplify how chaos theory, quantum theory, heart and improvisation are closely related. He delivers workshops on traditional Mongolian song (hoomi), vocal release, and free improvisation. He has collaborated with: Antonis Anisegos (Berlin, GR), Savina Yiannatou (GR), James Wylie (Nzl), Zakary Frantz (Can), Sebastian Gramms (Ger), Philip Zoubec (Aus), Stathis Diamantidis (GR), Dimitris Pantelias (GR), Norbert Stammberger (Ger), Markus Krispel (Aus), Mathias Guerra (Chile), Chrysoula Kehayioglou (GR), Andrew Strain (USA), Katerina Maniou (GR), Bastian Duncker (Ger), Athina Kyrousi (GR), Stelios Michas (New York, GR), Michalis Katachanas (GR), Moritz Koether (Ger), Markos Damianos (GR), Kyriakos Hatziioannou (Bassel – GR), Panos Athanasopoulos (GR) , Petros Michalas (Berlin, GR), Yangos Chairetis (GR).
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Natalia Manta was born in 1994 in Athens. She was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in the category \u201cTalents\u201d, where she studied during the period 2011 \u2013 2016. Entering the School in 2011, at the age of 17, she wins the second prize in a sculpture competition in Italy titled \u201cStudy of Public Space\u201d. She studied with professor George Lappas in the Second Sculpture Lab. She completed her studies and curated her undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Aphrodite Liti. Graduated with a Bachelors Degree of 9.5 (nine and five). She has participated in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad and made her first solo exhibition in October 2017 at the Kappatos Gallery in Athens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n