Kostis Kilymis: Mixing board, effects, Flower Electronics Jealous Heart, microphones, four-track cassette recorder, lloopp, samples, field recordings, anticipation
Recorded and mixed June 2011 – January 2012 in Thessaloniki, Milan and Oxford. ‘Tiny Vices’ was recorded live at Bios Cinematheque, Athens, June 2011.
Mastered by Jacques Beloeil
Co-published by Entr’acte and Organized Music from Thessaloniki
t20 / e147
cd edition
200 copies
more info and direct purchase here
as the editor for this site, i sometimes (more often recently, truth be told) get to write bits about my own activities as well. It always feels strange, i tell myself i shouldn’t be taking the spotlight, but then usually i just say fuck it. Well this one of the better times to feel like that, as i have four good gigs to announce coming up during this month. All of them special, and all very different. So, if you’re around london or oxford in any of these dates:
June 14th
Kostis Kilymis/Sarah Hughes
[performing George Brecht's 'Exercise 2' from his Water Yam series]
also on: Allen Fisher / ’Her Regime’ group performance and film work
POLYply > 20 RE-FLUX: The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
June 23rd
DAMA + Kostis Kilymis ‘Play Light Down’ [dance performance]
also on: Evangelia Kolyra / Katsura Isobe & Fumi Tomioka / Tara Silverthorn
Agony Art: Chisenhale Dance Space
64-84 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ
June 28th
Radu Malfatti, Jürg Frey, Angharad Davies, Dominic Lash, Sarah Hughes, Kostis Kilymis
sextet scores by Malfatti & Frey, duos from Davies/Lash and Hughes/Kilymis
Oxford: St Columba’s United Reformed Church
Alfred Street Oxford OX14EH
July 1st
Kostis Kilymis/Phil Julian
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga/Daichi Yoshikawa
Jiada: Olive Café Bar Restaurant
18 Stoke Newington High St, London N16 7PL
see you there!
kostis
[SULLY MONTHLY EVENT – April 2012 - Find out more about what is Sully]
Where: The Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk 40, London N1 6EU
Next event: Monday 23rd April 2012
Time: 7:30pm-11pm
Entry is free
For this month’s Sully, Kostis Kilymis will be presenting some of his recent video work. The pieces shown are built through a detached relationship between seeing and listening, and investigate issues of place and our experience of it. There will also be a short audio presentation, demonstrating how this approach has emerged as a result of earlier forays into sound and installation work.
syndromes (Kostis Kilymis), is performing live in milan this tuesday, january 10, at ‘the lift’
>> milano, the lift; 10/1/12, 9pm; by reservation only: liftthe1 [at] gmail com
Kostis Kilymis is an artist focusing on electroacoustic phenomena and the place these find within the auditory process. He creates sound using feedback systems, filtering the input of his surroundings as well as the sounds of electronic equipment under various levels of misuse. He also amplifies their effects through traditional mixing and recording techniques. He performs solo and in collaboration (with Lucio Capece, Nikos Veliotis, Leif Elggren, Patrick Farmer amongst others) and has exhibited installation work in Athens, Greece. He has been active since 2006 and on his spare time he runs the ‘organized music from thessaloniki’ label.
http://syndromesrandomcontent.blogspot.com/
http://soundcloud.com/syndromesuploadcloud
http://thesorg.noise-below.org/2/
remember the bye-bye butterfly fest in Xanthi last december? if you recall, there were some ups and downs in the end regarding the line-up, largely due to the large disruption of flights over europe during those days. well, one thing this led to was a last minute pairing for the last slot of the night, which brought Leif Elggren -who had only brought his voice and his presence to the festival, together with local electronics manipulator Kostis Kilymis (aka: syndromes) for a one-off set that lasted a brief 14 minutes, but was such a blast that no one really asked for more.
well, seeing that the particular set signalled the last actual sounds to come out of the legendary absurd carcass, and seeing of course that the music was so good, a triple handshake took place the very next day agreeing to press the whole thing on some trusty old vinyl. Leif’s firework edition records and Nicolas Malevitsis’ excrete music decided to do the honours, Kostis did some micro-editing to remove unwanted detrius, Giuseppe Ielasi took up the mastering and a half a year after the day, here it is:
IF OTHER PEOPLE EXIST then they are totally sealed secrets
KOSTIS KILYMIS LEIF ELGGREN
1-sided 12″
edition of 200
Kostis Kilymis – electronics, objects
Leif Elggren – voice, text and dance
“I now feel – when listening to the recording – like we opened a dark negative window in that respectful old event hall, for the 14 minutes we played. Like corpses and spirits marching through, only to be sucked back at the press of a pause button.” Kostis Kilymis
Recorded live at ‘spiti politismou – f.e.x.’ on december the 4th 2010 during absurd’s farewell edition (absurd #84) ‘bye bye butterfly’
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Thanks to Nicolas Malevitsis
www.syndromesrandomcontent.blogspot.com
www.leifelggren.org
www.fireworkeditionrecords.se
excrete music copies to be available through distributors worldwide
(metamkine, rrr, a-musik, tochnit aleph…)
firework edition records to be available through firework edition records and its distributors
Από τις 17 Μαΐου και για δυο εβδομάδες, το ελculture θα φιλοξενεί στην είσοδο του νεοκλασικού κτιρίου του, επιλεγμένα έργα της εικαστικού Γρηγορίας Βρυττιά.
- Στο ισόγειο της Μιλτιάδου. Από 17 μέχρι 31 Μαΐου, 17:00-22:00
Παράλληλα, στον πρώτο όροφο και για τις τρείς πρώτες ημέρες, ο Κωστής Κηλύμης θα παρουσιάσει την ηχητική περφόρμανς με τίτλο: Perspectives [Athens].
- Στον πρώτο όροφο της Μιλτιάδου. 17,18 και 19 Μαΐου, 17:00-21:00
Στην ταράτσα του ελculture, oι Άγγελος κυρίου και κτίρια τη νύχτα -κατά κόσμον Betty Loop Loop- θα εμφανιστούν την Τρίτη 17 Μαΐου για τα εγκαίνια της έκθεσης, ενώ το τριήμερο θα κλείσει με την συναυλία των Egsun και των πρωτοεμφανιζόμενων Mother Tree.
- Τρίτη 17 και Πέμπτη 19 Μαΐου, 21:00.
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ελculture
μιλτιάδου 18, αθήνα
good stuff happening in athens in the next few days, other than the noise-below extravaganza called ‘infinity’ (http://blog.noise-below.org/2010/08/29/infinity/)
dead gum / angelos kyriou + kostis kilymis /kerkville
monday, nov 8
@ six d.o.g.s project space
http://www.sixdogs.gr/
21:00, free entrance
Francisco Meirino, Mecha/Orga
wednesday, nov 10
@ knot gallery
http://knotarts.blogspot.com/
20:30, 5 euro
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also a Danae Stefanou solo concert
@ knot on sunday, nov 14.
but no poster available for that one yet..
human perception. 4 studies on the experience of self, space, surroundings. featuring a variety of concrete and synthesized sound
a new album by kostis kilymis [thessaloniki 1963, .accumulated, just another daily bummer]
cd edition, on organized music from thessaloniki. available now
http://thesorg.noise-below.org/2/?p=288
cd preview:
‘temporary perspectives’ by syndromesuploadcloud
three upcoming dates in greece, featuring the first time meeting between Lucio Capece [bass clarinet], Nikos Veliotis [cello] and Kostis Kilymis [electronics]. the three of us will get together in Thessaloniki for one night in the company of the local label/collective granny records who will perform a special turntable-based set. Next, we’ll head over to Xanthi in the east and finally finish off the tour in Athens with much style and aplomb.
this will be Lucio’s second time in greece [he visited athens almost a year ago as part of the Vladislav Delay Quartet] and the first time he will be performing alongside Nikos Veliotis.
the dates are:
Friday October 1st, Thessaloniki; Facta Non Verba
+members of Good Luck Mr. Gorsky
Ionos Dragoumi 65
21:00
Saturday October 2nd, Xanthi; Spiti Politismou FEX
old city of Xanthi, opposite the city hall
21:00, 5 eu
Sunday October 3rd, Athens; Knot Gallery
Michalakopoulou 206 & Pyrrou, Ampelokipoi
20:30, 8 eu
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http://luciocapece.blogspot.com/
http://www.nikosveliotis.com/
http://syndromesrandomcontent.blogspot.com/
maybe you remember how a couple of months ago the noise-below crew participated as “nn+” in the tot festival that took place at knot gallery in athens (related posts here, here and here). well, nicolas already wrote about the whole thing, and today i wrote about it on my own blog (because you can never have enough of those…) here:
http://syndromesrandomcontent.blogspot.com/2010/08/nn-soundcheck.html
i also put up a recording of myself fumbling with the available equipment during the soundcheck. i ended up with a charming piece of noise + room ambience
enjoy,
kostis
thanks to the knot crew
nothing but a short post to mention a small fragment of the nn+ set that took place during the tot festival held in knot gallery on the 26th & 27th of june.
nn+ turned to be the ‘line-up’ of nektarios (a strange attractor record store), nicolas (πτώματα κάτω από το κρεββάτι records), kostis kilymis (organized music from thessaloniki). with nektarios we feel grateful somehow to mihalis kyratsous & dimitra lazaridou-hatzigoga as they dropped the idea for this set and turned to be great chacnce to do finally a duo we longed nearly 18 years to do since the last days of the greek grind/noisecore scene’s heyday back in early 90′s. back then he as a member of the grind group ‘industry of crashed conceptions’ i as ‘sickness’. then wishing a kinda whitehouse tone generator noise thing that never materialized now something we liked much more to be honest as we had a host of participants like otomo hava, ilan manouach, e.a.
also just for the history and the arhives of absurd completists…during the set were smashed some 150 looper cds. for the record the cd was to be an edition of 500, i ordered back then some 600 sleeves and anastasis (of the small music theatre fame) helped w/ the cd order/ manufacturing. well i only left athens for a 4 days visit to budapest upon landin’ back the 500 cd ordered had turned to a 1000 cd one and luckily instead of 600 sleeves approx for the first time in absurd’s history had some close to 700 printed. not sure how the final edition was however some 20-30 were smashed during the old fashioned donkeys electrograph performance 4 years ago. some 100-150 were thrown into a recycle bin outside my house and some 100-120 more or less left were smashed during the nn+ thing. since then was too bored to print again sleeves for the remaining copies you see.
same holds for the tasos stamou ‘infant’ cd. by the time it was out some 60 – 70 copies were left without sleeve. if am not mistaken when the sleeves we initially bought were some 400-450 for an edition of 500-520 cds. so for 4 years too they were collecting dust in my bedroom and as i need room now for more records of my collection i simply recycled them. guess there’s more tasos stamou to be recycled sooner or later….
enjoy
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