Borderline Festival 2018 | 3rd Day

20:00
Alan Courtis (with a group of people with intellectual disability)

Upper Stage | Onassis Stegi | 3 € (Full price) - 2 € (reduced, Onassis Stegi's Friends, Unemployed, People with disabilities & Companions)

21:00
Francisco Meirino
Angharad Davies, Tisha Mukarji & Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga*
Richard Dawson

Upper Stage | Onassis Stegi | 7 € (Full price) - 5 € (reduced, Onassis Stegi's Friends, Unemployed, People with disabilities & Companions)

*Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga will not participate, due to unforeseen circumstances.

Pierre Berthet | “The goodwill of Aeolus” | Sound Installation

Agricultural University of Athens | Vineyard | Admission free | within the Geometries exhibition
Friday 20 April: 17:00-21:00
Saturday 21 - Sunday 22 April: 12:00-21:00

In the context of Borderline Festival 2018, the Onassis Stegi presents a music workshop for adults with disabilities led by Alan Courtis. This music workshop will lead to a music concert on the Onassis Stegi's Upper Stage.

In the context of the collaboration between Geometries and Borderline Festival, Pierre Berthet will present a sound installation of wind harps (20-22 April), and two performances.
For this sound installation with the title “The goodwill of Aeolus” (20-22 April), Pierre uses various suspended can-resonators linked with wires and activated by small motors and possible winds.

On Saturday 21 April he will present Tom Johnson’s “Galileo”, a composition/instrument that swings on five pendulums. The slowest of these hangs from a line about 260 cm long, suspended from a height of about 4 meters. The other four pendulums must be carefully measured, following the formula discovered by Galileo Galilei some 500 years ago, so as to make their cycles in 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, and 4/5 the time necessary for the longest. A sequence of short compositions allow us to hear all the different combinations of tempos. The piece has evolved slowly from three pendulums to five, from 10 minute to over 40, in a variety of situations.

On Sunday 22 April he will present a “Concert for various objects”. Music with drops, balloons, tubes, stones, vacuum cleaners, snail and mussel shells, hooks, dry plants, seeds etc. Blowing, hitting, shaking, moving, singing. Since the 90s, Pierre Berthet has been designing and building sound objects and installations using steel, plastic, water, magnetic fields, vacuum cleaners, dry plants, seeds and various objects he finds in nature. Pierre Berthet studied percussion with André Van Belle and Georges-Elie Octors, improvisation with Garrett List, composition with Frederic Rzewski, and music theory with Henri Pousseur.