Musical Ecologies Program

16:30-17:30

Hans Abrahamsen (*1952)
“Schnee” (2008)

Ten Canons for Nine Instruments

Ergon Ensemble
Nikos Nikopoulos (flute), Christina Pantelidou (oboe), Kostas Tzekos (clarinet), Babis Taliadouros (percussion), Beata Pincetic (piano), Stefanos Nasos (piano), Kostas Panagiotidis (violin), Marios Dapergolas (viola), Dimitris Travlos (cello)

Musical Direction / Conducting: Andreas Levisianos

17:30-18:00

Michael Pisaro (*1961)
“fields have ears (4)” (2009)

6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble
Ioanna Valsamara, Jannis Dimitroudis, Stella Dipli, Stefanos Kioridis, Lina Koukouli, Fotis Lazidis, Chrisi Parpara, Dimitra Pavlou, Alexis Porfiriadis, Myrto Siohou, Yorgos Holopoulos

18:00-19:00

Tristan Murail (*1947)
from the cycle “Portulan”:
“Une Lettre De Vincent” (2018), for flute and cello
“Les Ruines Circulaires” (2006), for clarinet and violin

Kaija Saariaho (*1952)
”Sept Papillons” (2002), for solo flute

John Luther Adams (*1953)
“Four Songs”:
“Magic song for one who wishes to live” (1990), based on Thule Eskimo poems
“The dead who climb up to the sky” (1990), based on Ammassalik Eskimo poems
“Little Cosmic Dust Poem” (2007), text writer John Haines
“Poem of the forgotten” (2004), text writer John Haines

Tristan Murail (*1947), from the cycle “Portulan”:
“Feuilles à travers les cloches” (1998), for flute, violin, cello and piano
“Paludes” (2011), for alto flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello
“Dernières Nouvelles Du Vent D' Ouest” (2011), for viola, French horn, piano and percussion
“Garrigue” (2007), for bass flute, viola, cello and percussion

Ionian Festival Ensemble
Angelica Cathariou (mezzo-soprano), Nafsika Tsara (flute), Spyros Tzekos (clarinet), Manos Ventouras (French horn), Panagiotis Ziavras (percussion), Andreas Farmakis (percussion), Marilena Souri (piano), Charalampos Karasavvidis (violin), Eleftheria Togia (viola), Marina Kolovou (cello)

Musical Direction / Conducting: Andreas Levisianos

19:00-19:15

Gérard Grisey (1946-1998)
“Anubis”, “Nout” (1983/90), for bass saxophone

Guido DeFlaviis, saxophone

19:15-20:00

Christos Hatzis (*1953)
“String Quartet No. 1 (The Awakening)” (1994), for string quartet and tape

Kaija Saariaho (*1952)
“Nymphéa” (1987), for string quartet and live electronics

Ensemble Continuum’s (@Athens) string quartet
Iro Seira (violin 1), Franc Shestani (violin 2), Patrick Evans (viola), Alexandros Botinis (cello), Nikos Palamaris, (live electronics), Sergios Sinanis (live electronics)

20:00-20:30

Kevin Volans (*1949)
“Cicada” (1994)

Beata Pincetic & Christos Sakellaridis, piano duo

21:00 | Concert

John Cage (1912-1992)
“Atlas Eclipticalis” (1961) with “Winter Music” (1957)

“Atlas Eclipticalis”: Stella Karytinou (violin), Chrisa Koutsaftaki (violin Charalampos Karasavvidis (violin), Dorian Idrizi (violin), Evgenios Zibai (violin), George Panagiotopoulos (violin), Ilias Sdoukos (viola), Eleftheria Togia (viola), Alexandros Botinis (cello), Marina Kolovou (cello), Haris Pazaroulas (contrabass), Ana Chifu (flute), Zacharias Tarpagkos (flute), Nafsika Tsara (flute), Kostas Giovanis (oboe), Kostas Tzekos (clarinet), Spyros Tzekos (clarinet), Dimitris Ntakovanos (bassoon), Manos Ventouras (French horn), Fanis Vernikos (trumpet), Dimitris Gkogkas (trumpet), Andreas Roland Theodorou (trombone), Spyros Vergis (trombone), Menelaos Moraitis (tuba)

“Winter Music”: Giorgos Konstantinou, piano

Anna Thorvaldsdottir (*1977)
“RÓ” (2013)
Ana Chifu (flute), Spyros Tzekos (clarinet), Dimitra Kokkinopoulou (piano), Andreas Farmakis (percussion), Iro Seira (violin 1), Stella Karytinou (violin 2), Patrick Evans (viola), Marina Kolovou (cello)

Alvin Lucier (*1931)
“Copied Lines (Panorama II)” (2011)
Andreas Roland Theodorou (trombone), Iro Seira (violin 1), George Panagiotopoulos (violin 2), Franc Shestani (violin 3), Stella Karytinou (violin 4), Charalampos Karasavvidis (violin 5), Chrisa Koutsaftaki (violin 6), Dorian Idrizi (violin 7), Evgenios Zibai (violin 8), Ilias Sdoukos (viola 1), Eleftheria Togia (viola 2), Patrick Evans (viola 3), Alexandros Botinis (cello 1), Marina Kolovou (cello 2)

Kaija Saariaho (*1952)
“Lichtbogen” (1986)
Zacharias Tarpagkos (flute), Marilena Souri (piano), Maria Bildea (harp), Panagiotis Ziavras (percussion), Franc Shestani (violin 1), Chrisa Koutsaftaki (violin 2), Ilias Sdoukos (viola), Alexandros Botinis (cello), Haris Pazaroulas (contrabass), Niko Palamares (live electronics), Sergios Sinanis (live electronics)

Musical Direction / Conducting: Andreas Levisianos

16:30-17:00

Jez Riley French (*1965)
'moments' (2010)
extract from the work “...until now photographic scores” (2007-2011)

Experimental Music School of Pallini’s Ensemble
Maria Thoidi (piano), Irini Kefala (piano), Niki Kefalloniti (electric guitar, percussion), Iris Kovou (melodica, percussion), Despina Parlavantza (Cretan lyra), Sotiris Parlavantzas (trumpet), Varvara Tyranopoulou (percussion), Valia Christopoulou (coordination)

17:00-17:30

Sarah Hennies (*1979)
“Loss” (2018) for humming cellist and electronics
Judith Hamann, cello

17:30-17:45

Alvin Lucier (*1931)
“Panorama” (1993), for trombone and piano

Andreas Roland Theodorou (trombone), Dimitra Kokkinopoulou (piano)

17:45-19:00

Wil Offermans (*1957)
“Honami” (1994), for solo flute

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1912)
“Le Merle noir” (1952), for flute and piano

György Ligeti (1923-2006)
“Arc-en-ciel, etude no. 5” (1985), for solo piano

Salvatore Sciarrino (*1947)
“Fauno Che Fischia a un Merlo” (1980), for flute and harp

François-Bernard Mâche (*1935)
“Sopiana” (1980), for flute, piano and prerecorded sounds

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
“Wasserklavier” (1965) and “Leaf” (1990), for solo piano

Anne LeBaron (*1953)
“Solar Music” (1997), for flute and harp

Doina Rotaru (*1981)
“Japanese Garden” (2013), version for 2 flutes and tape

Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
“Toward the Sea III” (1989), for alto flute and harp

Ana Chifu (flute), Zacharias Tarpagkos (flute), Maria Bildea (harp), Christos Sakellaridis (piano)

19:00-19:30

Judith Hamann (1983)
“Shaking Studies” (2017-present), for cello and cellist

Judith Hamann, cello

19:30-20:30

George Koumentakis (*1959)
“Mediterranean Desert” (selections)

Lorenda Ramou, piano

Main Lobby

16:00-16:30
Jamey Tenney (1934-2006)
“In A Reverberant Space” (1994)

Ventus Ensemble
Kostas Giovanis (oboe), Guido De Flaviis (saxophone), Spyros Tzekos (clarinet), Dimitris Ntakovanos (bassoon), Manos Ventouras (French horn), Fanis Vernikos (trumpet), Dimitris Gkogkas (trumpet), Spyros Vergis (trombone), Menelaos Moraitis (tuba)

2nd & 3rd Floor Foyers

16:30-17:10
John Luther Adams (*1953)
“Songbirdsongs” (1983)

Ana Chifu (flute), Zacharias Tarpagkos (flute), Panagiotis Ziavras (percussion), Andreas Farmakis (percussion)

Main Lobby

17:10-17:30
John Cage (1912-1992)
“Litany for The Whale” (1980)

Anna Pangalou & Anastasia Kotsali, mezzo-sopranos

3rd Floor Foyer

17:30-18:00
Robert Ashley (1930-2014)
“In Memoriam Esteban Gomez” (1963)

Roland Dahinden (*1962)
“Talking with Charlie” (2018)

Gareth Davis (bass clarinet), Guido DeFlaviis (saxophones), Alexandros Drymonitis (electric guitar), Charis Pazaroulas (double bass)

2nd Floor Foyer

18:00-18:20
Μichael Pisaro (*1961)
“Cosmological Plants” (2016)

Despina Papachristopoulou (actress/performer), Cristina Platanioti (actress)

2nd Floor Foyer

18:20-18:30
Jennifer Walshe (*1974)
“A Folksong Collection” (2011, 2016)

Maria Iliana Katsoura, soprano

3rd Floor Foyer

18:30-19:00
Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016)
“Earth Ears” (1989)

WHI ensemble
Odysseas Gkallios, Orfeas Karanasios, Anastasia Koukioglou, Margarita Lampou, Vassiliki Nikolaou, Nikos Panagiotakis, Dmitri Papavasileiou, Alexis Porfiriadis, Konstantina Samakovli

5th Floor Foyer

19:00-19:20
“The Ising Project”
Vocal performance: Anna Pangalou

2nd Floor Foyer

19:20-19:30
Jennifer Walshe (*1974)
“A Folksong Collection” (2011, 2016)

Maria Iliana Katsoura, soprano

3rd Floor Foyer

19:30-20:00
Christian Marclay (*1955)
“To be continued” (2016)

Alvin Lucier (*1931)
“Carbon Copies” (1989)

Gareth Davis (bass clarinet), Guido DeFlaviis (saxophones), Alexandros Drymonitis (electric guitar), Charis Pazaroulas (double bass)

20:00-20:15
Christian Marclay (*1955)
“chalkboard” (2010)

20:15-20:30
John Luther Adams (*1953)
“The Light That Fills The World” (2001)

Giorgos Panagiotopoulos (violin), Μενέλαος Μωραΐτης (τούμπα), Menelaos Moraitis (tuba), Panagiotis Ziavras & Andreas Farmakis (percussion, Dimitra Kokkinopoulou (keyboards)

Outdoors

Peter Ablinger (*1959)
“WEISS/WEISSLICH 14 (White/Whitish 14), Sitting and Hearing” (1995- present)

Main Lobby

“Α Dip in the OCEAN” (2020)
Installation/live streaming streaming based on John Cage’s (1912-1992) work “A Dip in the Lake” (1978)

Video Wall

John Cage: “49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs” (1977), complete video realization by Don Gillespie, Roberta Friedman and Gene Caprioglio

Exit

Max Neuhaus (1939-2009)
(LISTEN), happening

2nd Floor Foyer

Installation for Michael Pisaro’s (*1961) work “Cosmological Plants” (2016)

The listening texts are based on Félix Guattari’s essay “The Three Ecologies” (1989).
Conversion algorithm provided by Nick Didkovsky/Dr. Nerve.
Narrated by the actress Despina Papachristopoulou.
Electronics: Anargyros Deniosos & Orestis Papadopoulos

3rd Floor Foyer

Blackboards, for the performance of Christian Marclay’s (*1955) work “chalkboard” (2010)

5th Floor Foyer

“ΙCE/The Ising Project” (2019-)

Continuous streaming of the films:
Ron Fricke: “Baraka” (1992)
John Grzinich: “Sound Aspects Of Material Elements” (2010)
John Grzinich: “Minema” (2010)
Phil Niblock: “Brazil 84” (2004)
Godfrey Reggio: “Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance” (1982)
Andrej Zdravič: “Riverglass (V steklu reke)” (1997)
Bill Fontana: “SoundSculptures” (2018)

4th Floor Foyer

“BlackBox”
Sound Works

Alison Knowles (*1933)
“Frijoles Canyon” (1992)

Annea Lockwood (*1939)
“A Sound Map of the Hudson River” (1982)

Nikos Palamaris (*1982)
“Forêt Animé” (2008)

Spyros Polychronopoulos (*1980)
“ante” (2010)

Sergios Sinanis (*1995)
“Deux Cigarettes” (2018)

Katerina Jedaki (*1964)
“tsiou” (2019)

Maggi Payne (*1945)
“Moiré” (1996)

Hildegard Westerkamp (*1946)
“Transformations” (1996)

Chris Watson (*1952)
“Vatnajokull” (2003)

Luc Ferrari (1929-2005)
“Presque rien No.1 – le lever du jour au bord de la mer” (1967–70)

Luc Ferrari (1929-2005)
“Presque rien No.2 – ainsi continue la nuit dans ma tête multiple” (1977)