Music

Tectonics Athens 2019

Dates

Prices

Free entrance events and events with tickets

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Friday 7 June
Time
21:00
Venue
Former Athens Stock Exchange
Day
Saturday 8 June
Time
18:00
Venue
Onassis Stegi & Former Athens Stock Exchange
Day
Sunday 9 June
Time
18:00
Venue
Onassis Stegi

Information

Tickets

Free entrance events and events with tickets 3 — 7 €

Explore each day program

With eight world premieres, legendary artists and improvising musicians on stage with the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra, new site-specific works at the Former Athens Stock Exchange, imaginative makeshift devices and rare musical instruments, electronic music pioneers, dj sets and a show for children, the Tectonics Festival makes it clear that when it comes to music, anything is possible.

Radical conductor Ilan Volkov brings this festival to Athens for the second time, which aims to redefine the role of the Symphonic Orchestra in the 21st century while bringing together various ways of making music. Improvisation, contemporary composition, sound art, traditional music, electronic noise, and song all meet, collide, and complement one another in a three-day festival of tectonic pressures.

Devoted to discovering and revealing valuable works and composers of yesterday and today, Ilan Volkov proposes an interpretation of music that crosses genres, epochs, and geography. Maintaining a constant reference to avant-garde movements and trends of the previous century, such as Fluxus from the 1960s and ’70s, the indeterminacy and randomness of John Cage, site-specific works, electroacoustic composition and no wave music, the second Athens version of Tectonics explores the meaning of “here and now” in live musical art.

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Program

Friday 7 June

21:00 | Former Athens Stock Exchange

“Out of the Dark” (new site-specific work)*: Lemur (NO)

“Outremer” (1969): Bernard Parmegiani (FR)
Nathalie Forget (FR): ondes Martenot

Tetsuya Umeda (JP)

Saturday 8 June

18:00 | Onassis Stegi | Upper Stage

Nathalie Forget (FR) presents the electronic musical instrument ondes Martenot

19:00 | Onassis Stegi | Exhibition Hall -1

S.L.Á.T.U.R. (IS)

20:00 | Onassis Stegi | Foyer +4

Sarah Kenchington (UK)

20:30 | Onassis Stegi | Main Stage

The Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov (IL)

“Epexēgēsis” ** (2018-2019): Dror Feiler (IL/SE)
Blixa Bargeld: Vocals, Dror Feiler (IL/SE): Reeds and live electronics, Ghayath Almadhoun (PS/SE): Text

"Siheung Tablatures" * (2019): Eyvind Kang (Orchestra composition), Jessika Kenney (Vocal composition)
Jessika Kenney (US): Voice, Eyvind Kang (US): Setar

“Tropic” (1968): Yannis Ioannidis (GR)

“Magna Ipsum Heimat Ut Enim Minen Vacuum” (2014-2015): Georgia Koumará (GR)

“Reverb Music” *** (2015-2019): James Alexandropoulos-McEwan (GR/UK)

22:30 | Onassis Stegi | Upper Stage

Sofia Labropoulou: Kanun (GR) & Stratos Bichakis: Electronics (GR)
Ánde Somby (NO)

00:30 | Former Athens Stock Exchange

Mik Quantius (DE), Zombie Penguin & the Glory Holes (GR), The Prudence Tapes (GR)

Sunday 9 June

18:00 | Onassis Stegi | Upper Stage

“PM” * (2019): Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris (GR)
“Arioso for two pianos, one pianist” * (2019): Andreas Levisianos (GR)
“Great Piano Trilogy – Breakwater, Response, Magic” * (2019): Panayiotis Kokoras (GR)
“Wie ein Hauch” * (2019): Yiorgis Sakellariou (GR)

Lorenda Ramou (GR): Piano

19:15 | Onassis Stegi | Exhibition Hall -1

S.L.Á.T.U.R (IS): concert / children’s - teenagers' workshop presentation

20:00 | Onassis Stegi | Foyer +4

Sarah Kenchington (UK)

20:30 | Onassis Stegi | Main Stage

Jessika Kenney (US)

“For Nathalie Forget” *: Iancu Dumitrescu (RO)
Eyvind Kang (US): Viola, Nathalie Forget (FR): ondes Martenot, Octav Avramescu (RO) & Iancu Dumitrescu (RO): Piano

Matmos (US)


22:30 | Onassis Stegi | Upper Stage

AMM (UK)
Eddie Prévost: Drums, Keith Rowe: Guitar, John Tilbury: Piano

* world premiere

** world premiere on 24 May at Tectonics Stavanger

*** world premiere of new arrangement for orchestra

Credits

  • Concept – Conducting – Curated by

    Ilan Volkov

  • Co-curated by

    Michalis Moschoutis

  • Production Management

    Christina Pitouli

The participation of Lemur (NO), Nathalie Forget (FR), Tetsuya Umeda (JP), Mik Quantius (DE), Zombie Penguin & the Glory Holes (GR) and The Prudence Tapes (GR) is supported by the INTERFACES project, co-funded by the "Creative Europe Programme" of the European Union.

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