Tectonics Athens '21 | 1st Day

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."