Time & Date
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Tickets
Onassis Stegi Friends & General Presale: from 18 NOV 2021, 17:00
Full price: 7, 10 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 8 €
Neighborhood residents & Groups 10+ people: 7 €
People with disabilities & Companions, Unemployed: 5 €
Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org
Venue
Small Stock Exchange of Athens (Pesmazoglou 1, Athina)
The venue does not have wheelchair access and is not suitable for people with impaired mobility.
Introduction
On the first day of the Tectonics Athens, everyday objects are turned by Frédéric Le Junter into self-made instruments; personal things draw narratives in Annea Lockwood’s work, “Spirit Catchers”; and a cello is in constant dialog with the body and the voice of Judith Hamann.
Different types of physical objects lie at the center of Tectonics’ first day. Everyday objects are turned by Frédéric Le Junter into self-made instruments; personal objects draw narratives in Annea Lockwood’s work, “Spirit Catchers”; and a cello takes the form of a typical sound-producing object in constant dialog with the body and the voice of Judith Hamann. In the third Athenian edition of the festival, at a time when boundaries between physical and virtual are blurred, Tectonics keeps constantly exploring and highlighting the materiality of sound.
Judith Hamann
Cellist Judith Hamann presents music from their impressive double release, "Shaking Studies" and "Music for Cello and Humming." "Shaking Studies" uses micro and macro pulses to explore different types of shaking and their influence on timbre and overtone structures – while also bringing electronic sounds into play. The intimate ‘humming pieces’ grew out of Hamann's studies of pure tuning, psychoacoustic phenomena, and the relationship of the voice to the body. Humming here enters into subtle interference with the cello, drifting into acoustical beating, bringing instability to otherwise more formal grid structures.
“Spirit Catchers” (Annea Lockwood, 1974)
4 speaking voices (Kostis Kilymis, Magda Lambropoulou, Annea Lockwood, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou/ Bunny), personal objects, quadraphonic sound (Georgios Mizithras)
Four people have each been asked to bring with them an object which they have had for many years – an object such as one would never throw away in a move – something which seems to have attached to itself something of its owner’s self-history, a spirit catcher (shamanistic term for an object, e.g. a stone, in which ally spirits are stored or exorcised spirits held)… The four people are talking to themselves, thinking aloud, introverted and should aim to become oblivious of everything but the memory process, oblivious of audience, amplification, the other speakers. *
* Excerpts from the score of “Spirit Catchers” (Anne Lockwood, 1974)
Frédéric Le Junter
Frédéric Le Junter will use self-made instruments and mechanical machines in a site-specific performance at the resonant space of the Old Stock Exchange of Athens. Le Junter describes his creative process with the following words:"And here is another question: to make sound in time or in space? Here and there?
I have decided this will be Come and Go, a kind of interior walk, in my kitchen with its utensils, in a rectangle drawn on the ground. But I will stop from time to time for a few pieces, prepared, with an uncertain number of movements."
