634 Minutes Inside a Volcano

Fifteen charismatic, young Greek artists meet musically for the first time and improvise for 10 hours and 34 minutes. In this unprecedented experiment, fifteen musicians will take part at the heart of a unique natural landscape, at the base of an enormous volcano crater, 300 meters in diameter, in Nisyros, one of the most remote places in Greece. Together they will create a musical composition based on many hours of improvisation on site. The event will start at sunset, on Thursday, 18 August at 19:58. It will be completed 634 minutes later, at sunrise at 6:32, on Friday morning, 19 August. This is not just an original musical endeavor. It is also a test on stamina, and a literally unique life experience.

With the moon as the only source of light and without any previous rehearsal, fifteen artists will create a perfect shape: a circle. They will enter this circle all together, playing music at the same time. However, they may go out of the circle and return to it, depending on each one’s stamina and reaction to this pagan work in progress, taking place around them. Spectators are the lucky ones, daring to become witnesses to this unusual soiree, orchestrated by the volcano itself.