by yiorgis sakellariou:

Obviously London is generally a very loud place. Heavy traffic, trains and constructions create a chaotic and noisy soundscape. However, there are parts of the city which are, most of the time, surprisingly –and pleasantly– quiet. Dulwich village, located in the southeast, is one of those places. The sonic environment is pretty different than in more centralized areas: a soft hum from the distant traffic, a bird that breaks the silence, someone closing a door and the most intense, dominating and charming sound of airplanes passing by over my head.

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Tags: dulwich, field recording mini-series, london, yiorgis sakellariou

με την Ανθή Θάνου

Η αφήγηση παραμυθιών αποτελεί ένα συστατικό στοιχείο τόσο της ιστορίας του ελληνικού λαϊκού πολιτισμού όσο και της ζωντανής ελληνικής πραγματικότητας του παρόντος. Οι συμμετέχοντες στο σεμινάριο θα πειραματιστούν και θα ανακαλύψουν το δικό τους τρόπο να αφηγούνται, γιατί κάθε αφηγητής δεν είναι απλός μεταδότης της παράδοσης, ασκεί ελεύθερα την τέχνη του. O αφηγητής μπαίνει στο κέντρο και αναλαμβάνει την ευθύνη της παραμυθίας, της παρηγοριάς, αλλά και της ψυχαγωγίας και της διασκέδασης. Είναι αυτός που θα μιλήσει για τα αληθινά πράγματα της ζωής με ένα μη πραγματικό τρόπο. Θα τολμήσει να πει για τη ζωή, για το θάνατο και για τον έρωτα, για τις αξίες και τα όνειρα που κάθε άνθρωπος θέλει να έχει. Θα τολμήσει να αφυπνίσει τις ναρκωμένες συνειδήσεις μας. Είναι αυτός που θα ζωντανέψει τις εικόνες της ιστορίας μέσα απο τη φωνή, τη κίνηση, το συναισθημά του…

οι ενότητες του σεμιναρίου είναι:
26-27 Οκτωβρίου εισαγωγή στη τέχνη της αφήγησης: βιωματικές ιστορίες, όνειρα, μύθοι και παραμύθια, ο αφηγητής δίνει πνοή στην ιστορία.
14-15 Δεκεμβρίου το σώμα του αφηγητή: χειρονομίες, γκριμάτσες, μιμική, λόγος σωματικός σώμα σχεδόν αόρατο.
11-12 Ιανουαρίου ρυθμός-μουσική: ρυθμός της αφήγησης, παρτιτούρα, μουσική συνοδεία κατά τη διάρκεια της αφήγησης.
1-2 Φεβρουαρίου μυθοπλασία: φτιάχνω τη δική μου ιστορία, φτιάχνω τη δική μου παραλλαγή παραμυθιού.
1-2 Μαρτίου πειραματισμοί στη αφήγηση: αφηγήσεις πάνω διαφορετικά είδη λαϊκού λόγου (παραμύθια, παραδόσεις, ταχταρίσματα, νανουρίσματα κ.λ.) με διαφορετικούς τρόπους, πειραματισμοί στο χώρο.

Οι ώρες του σεμιναρίου είναι Παρασκευή 5:00-9:30 και Σάββατο 10:30-3:00 και το κόστος είναι 60 ευρώ η κάθε ενότητα. Κρατήσεις θέσεων -πληροφορίες: Ανθή Θάνου 6972904362 – 2310357184. Περισσότερες πληροφορίες: http://puppetryanimation.blogspot.gr/p/blog-page_4.html 

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a new project by noise, a few a decks below -along with new friends- has found its home at:

http://eutyxia.tumblr.com/

the idea, expanding on previous efforts in the research of happiness, and reflections on location (ie: outside my window), started out initially as a one-off catalogue of works. It was then took on the appearance of a short exhibition at a house in athens, and is now documented online on the blog you can reach through the above link.

it is our hope that this will not signal the end of this search, but that our research will continue to grow, gathering contributions from all over the world on these pressing concerns.

you are welcome to send in your own contributions at: eytuxia.okosmosmou /at/ gmail com

Tags: happiness, my world, outside my window

στο tumblr του νικόλα (tileskopio.tumblr.com) ανέβηκαν τις τελευταίες ημέρες μια σειρά από συνεντεύξεις, που όπως λέει ο ίδιος “έγιναν με φίλους κάπου μεταξύ 2005 και 2006 για ένα φάνζιν που για διάφορους λόγους το πρωτόλειο του έμεινε στο ράφι ή για την ακρίβεια μαζεύει σκόνη κάπου στο υλικό αρχείο του absurd…”. Επειδή οι φίλοι που αναφέρονται εδώ, όλο και κάτι ενδιαφέρον να πούνε για τα θέματα με τα οποία καταπιανόμαστε εδώ πέρα, δίνω ένα ευρετήριο με τα τελευταία ποστ, για όσους θέλουν να πάνε κατευθείαν στο ψητό και να διαβάσουν συγκεκριμένα κάποια από αυτές τις πολύ ενδιαφέρουσες κουβέντες.

ΤΑ ΑΕΡΟΠΛΑΝΑ ΑΡΧΙΣΑΝ ΠΑΛΙ ΝΑ ΚΑΝΟΥΝ ΜΑΝΟΥΒΡΕΣ ΨΗΛΑ ΚΑΙ Ο ΗΧΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΚΙΝΗΤΗΡΩΝ ΜΠΗΚΕ ΣΤΟ ΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΠΑΡΑΘΥΡΑ : ΠΡΟΛΟΓΟΣ

ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS

HOWARD STELZER

KLIMPEREI

MARTIN KÜCHEN

MICHEL HENRITZI

RON LESSARD

UTON

Tags: ashtray navigations, howard stelzer, klimperei, martin küchen, michel henritzi, ron lessard, tileskopio, uton

Andrew Raffo Dewar/Danae Stefanou/Christos Chondropoulos @ Knot Gallery 29/6/12 Part 2 from Chris Chondropoulos on Vimeo.

liberal doses of FREE playing during this trio’s first meeting at the Knot Gallery space in Athens last week

Tags: andrew raffo dewar, chris chondropoulos, danae stefanou, knot gallery

by yiorgis sakellariou:

In April 2012 I was in Rotterdam for a mini-residency at Worm studio, in collaboration with sound artist Roel Meelkop. The “concept” was really simple: We had to compose and perform a piece based on field recordings of Rotterdam, combined with sounds from the analog synthesizers that are available at Worm. We started from the environmental recordings, and since Roel is a Rotterdam resident he already had in mind many interest places to sonically explore.
Among others was the Maastunnel, which is dug under Nieuwe Maas river. The tunnel connects the two sides of the city and it plays a very important part in the transportation network. Regarding the sounds it offered, we were not disappointed at all. On the contrary, we were able to hear and record the  tunnel’s static ambience, the squealing of the escalators placed at the end of both sides, distant thumps, people walking by and even the security woman that came at some point and asked for explanations about what the hell we were doing there for such a long time. My apologies but that encounter is omitted from the selected recording that’s uploaded.
Edited sounds from the tunnel were used in the final studio piece we prepared which was also performed live a few days later at concerts in Rotterdam, Den Haag and Nijmegen.

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Tags: field recording mini-series, mecha/orga, rotterdam, yiorgis sakellariou

Rema alimou

Tags: frogs

Official video of the song “Γεύση” by Betty Loop Loop as appears on the split double cassette “Betty Loop Loop / Άγγελος κυρίου / Κτίρια τη Νύχτα” on Phase!Records. Shot by Mafia. Directed by Panagiotis Spoulos. [footage comes from the recent Phase! 10-years anniversary -ed]

http://phasemag.blogspot.co.uk/
http://bettylooploop.blogspot.co.uk/

Tags: betty loop loop, phase!

ok, a weird post this one, but you’d be doing our friends at orila a big favour if you could identify the stage-lights pictured below. Affectionately known as the “ET” stage-lights, they are often used in concerts, but we have no clue what make or model they are:

you can see them from different angles here: flickr photoset

if you have any clues, please contact ‘info at orila net’. A selection of Greek islands are available for trade

Tags: orila

last friday at knot gallery in athens, unan (chris chondropoulos) and nikos kyriazopoulos celebrated the release of their split tape on organized music from thessaloniki/a question of re_entry. Though the bill for the night listed nikos and chris’ band xysm, the two of them didn’t miss the opportunity of an unrehearsed duo set. Featuring a percussion and synth blowout, the duo was not exactly aligned to the more pastoral contents of the tape but was nevertheless a thrill for artists and audience alike. Documents of the set are already online for your listening and viewing pleasure:

Nikos Kyriazopoulos & Chris Chondropoulos Live @ Knot Gallery by Nikos Kyriazopoulos

more info on the cassette edition here

Tags: a question of re_entry, chris chondropoulos, knot gallery, nikos kyriazopoulos, organized music from thessaloniki, unan

by yiorgis sakellariou For the past four months I’ve been living in this rather small (population: 180.00 and decreasing) city in the west of Lithuania, right on the shore of the Baltic Sea. Almost since Day 1, I’ve been exploring and recording my new sound environment and I dare to say that the place is, perhaps surprisingly, a sonic paradise. Forests, beaches, harbors, ferry boats, plus the fact that the city has an extended industrial area, provides me with a great variety of sounds and I still find myself -pretty often I might add- walking around with the recorder at hand. For this post I used the more compositional approach of an audio montage, instead of presenting one recording from a specific location. Nonetheless, the recordings are untreated. The aim is to give a more wide-ranging feeling of Klaipeda’s splendid soundscape.

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Tags: field recording mini-series, mecha/orga, yiorgis sakellariou

hey, we’ve mentioned before xysm as one of the more promising new projects coming out of greece haven’t we? [Yes, we have: case in point -though that one was in greek, sorry]. Anyway, they now have a bandcamp up, with three of their past cdr releases up for download. I suggest you indulge yourselves, I myself have ‘yagna’ on my shelves and it’s not half bad, no it’s not. Apparently, they have a new one coming up soon as well…

http://xysm.bandcamp.com/

Tags: xysm