noise, a few decks below » dimitra lazaridou-chatzigoga http://blog.noise-below.org is a hub for experimental music & its by-products. it aims to promote the activities of the greek experimental/underground (or whatever one might call it) music scene, as well as its various links internationally. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:07:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Jason Kahn is touring the uk and Dimitra Laziridou-Chatzigoga will be opening for him in Oxford http://blog.noise-below.org/2012/01/29/jason-kahn-is-touring-the-uk-and-dimitra-laziridou-chatzigoga-will-be-opening-for-him-in-oxford/ http://blog.noise-below.org/2012/01/29/jason-kahn-is-touring-the-uk-and-dimitra-laziridou-chatzigoga-will-be-opening-for-him-in-oxford/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:15:17 +0000 kostis http://blog.noise-below.org/?p=2044

ok, most of the people in the uk who give a damn about this kind of music have heard by now that jason kahn will be touring the land for the better part of february, playing in most of the obvious places, and some other ones a bit out the way as well. One of those other ones is the city of oxford, where he will be joined by the Albion Players, i.e. Stephen Cornford, Patrick Farmer, Sarah Hughes. Opening for the same bill, will be oxford’s Lawrence Dunn on laptop, and our very own Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga in a solo zither set.

Sunday, February 5
7:30 pm; £5/£4
Art Jericho
King Street, Oxford; OX2 6DF

with the collaboration of the Oxford Brookes Sonic Art Research Unit (http://sonicartresearch.com/)

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ok, this is what a proper label headquarters looks like when you’ve got new releases coming up (and probably much worse, mind you). You definitely have no space for yourself to sleep on the bed (let alone your dog, cat, or, god-forbid, your girlfriend). And this is apparently what more mars‘ hq looks like these days, as they have not one but two new editions on their 3″ nous series. All the better for us!

these two, very lovely, quite limited (120 each), 3″ releases are:

Chris Heenan + Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga – Der schlaue fushs [web] [excerpt]
Yiannis Tsirikoglou – Dust [web] [vimeo]

the first one being an improvised duo from US-born, Berlin-based sax/clarinet player Chris Heenan and our very own zither player, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, while the second one is a construction that resulted from an audio/visual collaboration that Yiannis Tsirikoglou had with artist Mariska De Groot.

Chris is an improviser/composer/promoter/member in various groupings. Dimitra is best known for her collaboration with Ferran Fages in ap’strophe, but more and more these days as a solo artist as well. Yiannis is known for his part in the Thessaloniki-based band, eventless plot, but has been lately spending time on his own in The Hague.

more here:
http://www.moremars.org/news.html

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at the opportunity of Berlin-based Tisha Mukarji’s visit to London, a trio performance featuring Mukarji (inside piano), Angharad Davies (prepared violin), and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (zither) – a meeting of three sensitive musicians in music of delicate poise and warm elegance. Bookending the programme, the legendary sound of John Butcher, and the spoken word of Carol Watts.

solo Carol Watts (spoken word)
trio Tisha Mukarji (piano) / Angharad Davies (violin) / Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (zither)
solo John Butcher (saxophone)

Tuesday 13 December 2011
7.30 pm, £6 entry
St Anne’s and St Agnes church
Gresham Street, London EC2V 7BX

]]> http://blog.noise-below.org/2011/12/01/solo-trio-solo-_-dec-13-london/feed/ 0 two new editions on ‘organized music’ http://blog.noise-below.org/2011/07/19/two-new-editions-on-organized-music/ http://blog.noise-below.org/2011/07/19/two-new-editions-on-organized-music/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:43:55 +0000 kostis http://blog.noise-below.org/?p=1702 dimitra lazaridou-chatzigoga | stroke by stroke
organized music from thessaloniki #14
cd edition, 400 copies
http://thesorg.noise-below.org/2/?p=487

 

sister overdrive | honey
organized music from thessaloniki #15
c40 edition, 100 copies
http://thesorg.noise-below.org/2/?p=482

 

electronics musician Giannis Kotsonis presents an electroacoustic/noise suite under his ‘Sister Overdrive’ alias, while zither player Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga “graduates” from her duo with Ferran Fages, ‘ap’strophe’, to give us her uncompromising solo debut in the form of ‘Stroke by Stroke’.

digging deeper, Sister Overdrive’s ‘Honey’ is made out of electroacoustic and concrete sources, thickly processed through Kotsonis’ laptop to produce and unfold a most engaging sequence of events. On ‘Honey’, his work thrives on harsh textures and elemental qualities of sound, offering in the process a most immersive and rich abstract work.

‘Stroke by Stroke’ is not for the faint of heart either. Those expecting gentle plucking to emerge from her zither will be surprised, to say the least. Chatzigoga uses objects, preparations, e-bows and other tools to extract large and confronting soundscapes from her instrument, and here she lays down, track by track, different combinations of techniques, contrasted with each other in the context of the album while at the same time laying them against the ambient sounds of the city -which she sublty allows to slip through to the recording. What results is a poetic and suggestive work that serves as the best introduction yet to Chatzigoga’s soundworld.

 

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Henrik Olsson / Δήμητρα Χατζηγώγα / Αναστάσης Γρίβας
Johannes Bergmark / Tippi Tillvind
Reynaldo Young / Νίκος Βελιώτης

knot gallery athens
02/06/2011, 21:00

Βρέθηκαν όλοι τους τυχαία στην Αθήνα και θα παίξουν / συμπράξουν και με κάποιους που έχουν την τύχη να ζούν στην Αθήνα. Όλα αυτά στις 2 Ιουνίου στην KNOT Gallery.

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Henrik Olsson: Γεννήθηκε στην Σουηδική εξοχή το 75. Παίζει αυτοσχέδια κρουστά. Μετρά αναρίθμητες συνεργασίες (Τetuzi Akiyama, Keith Rowe κ.α.) καθώς και κυκλοφορίες σε εταιρίες όπως οι Monotype Records, BombaxBombax, Kning Disk κ.α. Στο Random Festival θα συμπράξει με την Δήμητρα Χατζηγώγα στο Zither και τον Αναστάση Γρίβα στην κιθάρα.
http://bjornbergborg.blogspot.com/p/henrik-olsson.html

Reynaldo Young: Συνθέτης και κιθαρίστας, γεννημένος στην Ουρουγουάη. Ιδρυτής του cardboard citizens new music ensemble του μοναδικού Βρετανικού συνόλου σύγχρονης μουσικής που απαρτίζεται από άστεγους. Στο Random Festival θα συμπράξει με τον Νίκο Βελιώτη.
http://www.reynaldoyoung.com/

Johannes Bergmark: Γεννημένος στην Στοχόλμη, ειδικεύεται στην ενίσχυση κάθε έιδους παραφερνάλια αλλά κατασκεβάζει επίσης δικά του πειραματικά μουσικά όργανα όλα από φτηνά υλικά και found objects. ‘Εχει μία απόλυτη D.I.Y. προσέγγιση στον ήχο η οποία τον έχει ταιδέψει σε 23 χώρες. Στο Random Festival θα συμπράξει με την Tippi Tillvind.

http://www.bergmark.org/

Tippi Tillvind: Μία Σουηδή που δεν έχει καμία φιλοδοξία να γίνει επαγγελματίας καλλιτέχνης αλλά ούτε και να κάνει μουσική από χόμπυ μιας και πιστεύει πως και οι δύο περιπτώσεις την περιορίζουν καλλιτεχνικά! Συνήθως δημιουργεί ηχτικά/λεκτικά κολάζ. Στο Random Festival θα συμπράξει με τον Johannes Bergmark.

 

KNOT Gallery

Mιχαλακοπούλου 206 & Πύρρου (εις. από Πύρρου)
πλησιέστερος σταθμός Μετρό: Αμπελόκηποι
Λεωφορεία: Α5, Β5 (στάση ΖΑΓΟΡΑ)

http://knotarts.blogspot.com/

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dimitra plays here (see picture below) this sunday, and she might also do something more, but that’s yet to be confirmed

while ILIOS plays is part of this fantastic line-up @ NK on friday:

FRIEDER BUTZMANN
ILIOS
VALERIO TRICOLI
DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE

Friday 12/11/2010 Doors 21:00 Concerts 22:00
@ NK Elsen str 52 2HH Neukoelln 12059
PAN presents:
Concerts

www.pan-act.com

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Παρασκευή 24 και Σάββατο 25 Σεπτεμβρίου
Ώρα: 22.00
Είσοδος: 10 ευρώ
Μουσείο Μπενάκη, Πειραιώς 138 & Ανδρονίκου

Το σετ αποτελεί μέρος των δρώμενων που θα εναλλάσονται στους χώρους της έκθεσης, για την οποία θα στηθεί ειδική κατασκευή, όπου θα εκτίθενται έργα καλλιτεχνών που σχετίζονται με/ εμπνέονται από το έργο του Raymon Roussel, Locus Solus.

Στα πλαίσια της εγκατάστασης στο μουσείο Μπενάκη θα υπάρχει επίσης από την ίδια και το ηχητικό υλικό ‘temporary landscapes’, το οποίο θα μπορεί να το ακούσει κανείς καθ’όλη τη διάρκεια της έκθεσης (24 σεπτεμβρίου-10 οκτωβρίου).

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http://www.apstrophe.net/dimitra.html
http://outoftheboxintermedia.org/

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[ed. the installation might or might not be named 'inflate your fun']

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tot 1.0 evolved from the coinciding visits of ferran fages and grundik kasyansky in athens, greece. of course it grew up to be a lot more than that, it will feature performances of said musicians together and with local musicians, a solo performance of nikos veliotis on piano, a sax and electronics set from ilan manouach & george axiotis and a kind-of “dj set” from members of this site opening the festival

hopefully the first in a series of many rich weekends

25.06.2010, 20:00, 8 Euro
FERRAN FAGES, DANAE STEFANOU,
DIMITRA LAZARIDOU CHATZIGOGA //
GRUNDIK KASYANSKY, SYRRACUSE TRIO //
NN+ //

26.06.2010, 20:00, 8 Euro
GRUNDIK KASYANSKY, FERRAN FAGES
ILAN MANOUACH, GEORGE AXIOTIS //
NIKOS VELIOTIS //

KNOT Gallery

Mιχαλακοπούλου 206 & Πύρρου (εις. από Πύρρου)
πλησιέστερος σταθμός Μετρό: Αμπελόκηποι
Λεωφορεία: Α5, Β5 (στάση ΖΑΓΟΡΑ)

http://knotarts.blogspot.com/

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mohammad
(coti k./nikos veliotis/ilios)
friday, feb 5 20:15

mecha/orga & giwrgos poulios
saturday, feb 6 20:30

ΔΔ
(danae stefanou, dimitra lazaridou-chatzigoga)
sunday, feb 7 20:00

at knot gallery
Mixalakopoulou 206 & Pyrrou
Athens

more info here: http://knotarts.blogspot.com/

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