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Stamatis Pasopoulos (b. 1986), apart from being an accordionist and a contemporary music composer, has studied Byzantine music and has come a long way as a folk musician. In his compositions he looks at Greek traditional music from the viewpoint of contemporary art. He wrote “Havasí” (mean. “tune,” “melody” in the music of the Macedonian zurnas) for flute and ensemble, having in mind the sound of the kaval and the zurna with the intention of transmuting the music of his hometown (Serres).

The Swiss-Austrian composer and conductor Beat Furrer (b. 1954) is the founder of Klangforum Wien, for two members of which, Eva Furrer and Uli Fussenegger, he composed “Ira-Arca.” Furrer’s music is characterized by its virtuosic demands, its psychological innerness, its shadowy sonorities and the dominant role of silence and breathing. The title “Ira-Arca” (Spanish: “Ire-Ark”) refers to a particular technique of playing the Peruvian Pan Flute that alternately combines inhalation and exhalation.

“Kassandra” was written for Spyros Sakkas and Sylvio Gualda, longtime collaborators of Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), on the ancient Greek text of Aeschylus, in order to be incorporated in the incidental music of “Oresteia” that Xenakis composed in 1966 but also to be performed independently. “Kassandra” was premiered in Gibellina, Sicily, in 1987 as part of “Oresteia,” staged by Yannis Kokkos. It is performed by TETTTIX according to its original, “Eastern” conception, without the percussionist using mallets and without amplification of the voice.

Nikos Galenianos (b. 1985) has lately been very active as a composer in the theater and music theater world. Remaining a metalhead nonetheless, he accepted the challenge of revisiting the particulars of the genre by arranging a heavy metal song for TETTTIX.

“Inside the movement” of the Russian Dmitri Kourliandski (b. 1976) deals, as the title denotes, with the inner movement of music as it unfolds through a mysterious succession of repeated sounds.

The Israeli Ofir Klemperer (b. 1982) is a composer and songwriter, and “A Love Song” is “a punk song for a classical ensemble,” as he notes. The composer appears on stage with TETTTIX, holding the crucial role of the singer.