Big Bang Festival 6

Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 May

Windrose for piano, harp, bassoon, trombone, and narrator’s voice | Esthir Lemi

• Galaxy Studio, 2, Galaxia street | 11:30, 13:00, 18:30 | Duration: 20 minutes | Ages: 7+
  Free admission with entry pass | Reservation is required

Soñar Escape | Giorgos Gargalas and Spiros Tsigos

• Dourgouti Park (benches zone) | 12:00, 14:00, 19:30 | Duration: 25 minutes | Ages: 5+
  Free admission | Reservation is required

Sounderella | Thalia Ioannidou, Persefoni Miliou

• Galaxy Corner, 2, Galaxia street | 13:30, 14:30, 18:00, 19:30 | Duration: 20 minutes | Ages: 5+
  Free admission with entry pass | Reservation is required

MakeSomeNoiz | Social-music project “MakeSomeNoiz”

• Dourgouti Park, round space | Saturday 28 May 2022 at 14:30, 17:30, 19:00 & Sunday 29 May 2022 at 13:00, 14:30, 17:30 | Duration: 30 minutes | Ages: 3+
  Free admission | Reservation is required

Mad Scientists’ Circus | Andreas Monopolis, Giorgos Gargalas

• Onassis Stegi, 4th Floor Foyer | 11:00, 13:00, 18:30 | Duration: 35 minutes | Ages: 5+
  Free admission with entry pass | Reservation is required

The Garden or The Invisible Rope | Kornilios Selamsis

• Onassis Stegi, -1 | Saturday 28 May at 13:00, 14:00, 19:00 & Sunday 29 May at 12:30, 14:00, 19:00 | Duration: 40 minutes (no interval) | Ages: 5+
  5 € Ticket, People with disabilities, Companions, Unemployed & Friend 4 €

Wires, Strings & Other Things | Andreea Banciu, James Allsopp, Ed Devane

• Onassis Stegi, Upper Stage | 11:30, 18:00 | Duration: 50 minutes | Ages: 7+
  5 € Ticket, People with disabilities, Companions, Unemployed & Friend 4 €

BrainBang! | Panagiotis Melidis (Larry Gus), Rebecca Digne, Konstantinos Antonopoulos

• Onassis Stegi, 5th Floor ΒοΗ | 11:00, 12:30, 13:30, 17:30, 18;30, 19:30 | Duration: 30 minutes | Ages: 4+
  3 € Ticket, People with disabilities, Companions, Unemployed & Friend 2 €

Windrose for piano, harp, bassoon, trombone, and narrator’s voice | Esthir Lemi
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 May
Galaxy Studio, 2, Galaxia street | 11:30, 13:00, 18:30 | Duration: 20 minutes | Ages: 7+

“Windrose” is a musical fairytale for children, a story about four well-known Mediterranean winds, as well as four musical instruments and timbres, and of a magical center, the center of a wind rose, where the children/listeners discover a contemporary music language and listen to the narration.

Following the traces of the classical musical fairytale “Peter and the Wolf” by Prokofiev, the composer Esthir Lemi creates a musical adventure exclusively for children, performed by young musicians, who timely decided to dive into the deep waters of contemporary music.

Credits

Idea, composition: Esthir Lemi
Text, narration, music direction: K. Alexis Alatsis
Coordination of children audiences: Sophia Kalafati

Performers / musicians:

Eleni Makra: piano
Christos Andrianopoulos: harp
Vladimiros Poulis: bassoon
Orpheas Bousios: trombone

Free admission with entry pass | Reservation is required

"Windrose for piano, harp, bassoon, trombone, and narrator's voice" can be attended only by children under the guidance of an educator. Parents may stay in the waiting room. A ticket reservation is valid only for a child.

Soñar Escape | Giorgos Gargalas and Spiros Tsigos
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 May
Dourgouti Park (benches zone) | 12:00, 14:00, 19:30 | Duration: 25 minutes | Ages: 5+

Soñar Escape is a group creating improvised electronic dance music. The sound is reproduced from recyclable materials such as PVC pipes, springs, wooden boxes, bottles etc. combined with contact mics and pressure sensors, analogue, and digital synths, and beat box. The fuse of digital sounds with everyday objects results to a performance with ambience and dance elements, ideal to encourage movement.

Credits
Giorgos Gargalas: musician, sound artist
Spiros Tsigos: musician, DIY instrument maker

Free admission | Reservation is required

Sounderella | Thalia Ioannidou, Persefoni Miliou
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 May
Galaxy Corner, 2, Galaxia street | 13:30, 14:30, 18:00, 19:30 | Duration: 20 minutes | Ages: 5+

4 performers, a master of sound, simple everyday objects, and a trumpet accompany the fairytale of Cinderella, as seen by the Grimm brothers and Lotte Reiniger.

“Sounderella” is a live sound performance accompanying the screening of the silent animated short film “Aschenputtel” (“Cinderella”), based on the classic short novel by the Grimm brothers, and directed by Lotte Reiniger, the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation.

The main characters of “Sounderella” speak the language of sounds. They convey their emotions and converse through them. These sounds that bring the actions in the film to life are performed by artists using ordinary everyday objects.

The performance takes place in front of the screen, in plain view of the audience, so that they can watch the making of this sonic experience, in time with the film.

Credits

Concept, composition, design: Thalia Ioannidou, Persefoni Miliou
Sound processing and engineering: Stefan Konstantinidis
Performers / musicians:
Thalia Ioannidou
Persefoni Miliou
Eugenia Palla
Nektarios Pappas

Video courtesy of Goethe-Institut

Free admission with entry pass | Reservation is required

MakeSomeNoiz | Social-music project “MakeSomeNoiz”
Saturday 28 May 2022 at 14:30, 17:30, 19:00 & Sunday 29 May 2022 at 13:00, 14:30, 17:30
Dourgouti Park, round space | Duration: 30 minutes | Ages: 3+

MakeSomeNoiz is a social-musical project. The project’s goal is to unite a group of teenagers with a diverse multicultural background living in the center of Athens, under the pretext of traditional Balkan music with the use of brass instruments. Balkan traditional music is the coexistence of sad and joyous mood at the same time, commanding the body to dance to the rhythm and bending the soul with its melodies. It is a vivid sound in the ears and hearts that unites every soul of this multicultural community. Brass are the tools of expression in the teens’ hands. They are impressive, shiny, and play really loud.

Within six half-hour sessions, three on Saturday and three on Sunday, MakeSomeNoiz presents at the Big Bang Festival a musical journey from Alexandria, the Peloponnese, Macedonia, and Lesvos to Thrace, Skopje, Sarajevo, Novi Sad, Beograd, and Bucharest.

Musicians:

Trumpet: Alvaro Ramirez, Stefanos Choros, Giorgos Michalogiannakis, Petros Karyotakis, Pavlos Serafetinidis
Clarinet: Elissavet Kalodimou
Saxophone: Michalis Kampourogiannis, Vassilis Floudas
French Horn: Jay Crossland
Trombone: Fotis Athanasiou, Spyros Mastoras, Manolis Michalogiannakis, Iakovos Theoharis
Euphonium: Evagelos Kottis, Michaela Pouli
Tuba: Aristoula Vaggeli
Sousaphone: Domenico Bonassi
Davul: Athanasios Makos, Thekla Filippoti, Danai Spathi, Maya Pipera

Free admission | Reservation is required

Mad Scientists’ Circus | Andreas Monopolis, Giorgos Gargalas
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 May
Onassis Stegi, 4th Floor Foyer | 11:00, 13:00, 18:30 | Duration: 35 minutes | Ages: 5+

A musical performance aimed at children and those who feel like children. The mad scientists, through audiovisual stimuli they provide at work, keep the audience’s interest alive in a variety of strange ways and, beyond entertainment, they stimulate the imagination, inspiration and creativity of the spectators. The core idea is a day’s routine in the mad scientists’ laboratory. These mad scientists produce music and sounds that are not related to traditional musical instruments and conventional recordings but to objects beyond suspicion. Recyclable materials, beat box, foley, flower flutes, mysterious boxes, springs, bottles and various objects attached to the contact microphones and sound generators are displayed on the workbench of the two scientists and interact with each other by creating an audiovisual circus. Through the electroacoustic amplification of everyday objects as well as of the human voice, a composition is produced where tiny objects sound fascinating in a virtual sound microscope.

Credits

Andreas Monopolis, DIY instrument maker, musician, producer

Giorgos Gargalas, musician, sound artist

Free admission with entry pass | Reservation is required

The Garden or The Invisible Rope | Kornilios Selamsis
Saturday 28 May at 13:00, 14:00, 19:00 & Sunday 29 May at 12:30, 14:00, 19:00
Onassis Stegi, -1 | Duration: 40 minutes (no interval) | Ages: 5+

A woman – or a girl? – enters a room. Or a garden? Or maybe a forest. White shapes are hung from the ceiling, people with musical instruments: The instruments have complex shapes and make weird sounds. The woman – or maybe the girl? – starts talking. But we can’t recognize the words. And we don’t know who she is or what she wants.

At some point a fly appears. A rather not whole fly. The woman talks to it, and this is how we hear what she says, what she thinks. The fly responds – in her own way, the best way it could find – is the fly really half? But it leaves. That shouldn’t have happened. It was inexcusable. And yet: a new visitor arrives. He – or she? or it? – wants to stay. He wants to hear, he wants us to hear. And what will happen will be beautiful.

“The Garden” is a musical theatre play for 7 instruments, 1 person and 2 images.
Kornilios Selamsis – conception, composition, conductor
Yannis Asteris – libretto
Eleni Papanastasiou – set design
Kathrin Krumbein – visual art & lighting fixtures
Nikos Vlasopoulos – lighting design
Harris Frangoulis – direction

On Stage:
Maria Skoula – soloist
Panagiotis Renieris – background actor

and the Musician:
Thodoris Vazakas – percussion
Spyros Vergis – trombone
Konstantinos Ziggeridis – accordion
Faidon Miliadis – violin
Gogo Xagara – harp
Dimitris Tigas – double bass
Spyros Tzekos – clarinet
Foivos Petropoulos – general coordination
Aris Laskos – executive producer

5 € Ticket, People with disabilities, Companions, Unemployed & Friend 4 €

Wires, Strings & Other Things | Andreea Banciu, James Allsopp, Ed Devane
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 May
Onassis Stegi, Upper Stage | 11:30, 18:00 | Duration: 50 minutes | Ages: 7+

Meet Ed, Andreea and James, three totally different people with one thing in common: they are crazy about music and sound.

The Ark and Music Network present a new music show for ages 6+ conceived and created by Brian Irvine and Wouter Van Looy.

Ed can usually be found in a corner, building unusual electronic instruments, tinkering with his own world of sound. Andreea plays the viola beautifully and reads complicated sheets of music as if they were fairy tales. And James? Well, James wanders a sonic labyrinth like an explorer, connecting and disrupting sounds with his bass clarinet as he goes.

Anything can happen as they find each other and start to invent music together. What stories will they share when, with your help, they explore the magic and mystery of how to compose, perform and improvise?

“Wires, Strings & Other Things” is a music performance that encourages you to always be curious. To listen, respond to and communicate through the sounds, music and stories that are all around you – wherever you are and whoever you are with.

Credits / Performers
Commissioned and produced by The Ark and Music Network
Composer: Brian Irvine
Director: Wouter Van Looy
Stage & Costume Design: Alyson Cummins
Video Design: Erato Tzavara
Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels

Supported by Onassis Stegi

5 € Ticket, People with disabilities, Companions, Unemployed & Friend 4 €

BrainBang! | Panagiotis Melidis (Larry Gus), Rebecca Digne, Konstantinos Antonopoulos
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 May
Onassis Stegi, 5th Floor ΒοΗ | 11:00, 12:30, 13:30, 17:30, 18;30, 19:30 | Duration: 30 minutes | Ages: 4+

BrainBang! is an immersive installation through sound and video. An open invitation of experimentation and discovery of the brain functions via a sensorial path. A luminance floor is the guide. The experimental videos are silent. In the Display, in front of each screen, there are ‘idiosyncratic’ instruments. It’s up to the children to explore those sounds made by the instruments in order to create a possible soundtrack for each aspect of a sensorial brain function. The moving images could be used as partitions and as mood boards which allow us to travel through different concepts of representing our minds.

Children and their parents are free to move and perform from one screen to the next, spending a total of about 30’ in the installation.

Credits

Concept, creation: Panagiotis Melidis (Larry Gus), Rebecca Digne, Konstantinos Antonopoulos

3 € Ticket, People with disabilities, Companions, Unemployed & Friend 2 €