It's a Good Saturday in Corfu, and as always the people of the city prepare for their annual celebration of Easter with a century old tradition of throwing pitchers made of clay off the balconies, for good luck and happiness. A tradition which during this year of pandemic wasn't at all the same. This time the philharmonic's performance was heard through loud speakers, though the people were rushing to catch a good spot in order to watch and experience the tradition at the central square. The sellers of those pitchers (Botides), are sitting under those loudspeakers, trying to sell out their last remaining pitchers, even at the last minute, magically synchronising their loud voices with the philharmonic's music, with a moving crescendo, forming eventually their very own, symphony.


Photo: Mary Giannaka

Corfu Soundwalk: Symphony Of The Corfiot Sellers

This is a piece written for my exams in the class of electroacoustic composition during the spring semester of '21.

In this piece I tried to manipulate sound using limited sound sources, specifically Iron (Ferrum) and Human Voices (Voces). The idea being that small or massive pieces of Iron and their attacks or resonances serve as an instrument and the voices only add to that sound rather than giving a whole meaning to the composition. Despite these two main sound sources some sine waves are also being used.


| Featured at HELMCA, Days of Electroacoustic Music 2021


Photo by: Elli Lymperopoulou

Ferrum Voces

"451  ̊F" takes place in a dystopian future not too far away and not too close to the present. Nothing is left, everything is deserted and left in a waste land where in a single empty room, free from all human traces, one radio remains in existence, doomed to repeat through whatever signal is left, the same news over and over again.
This cycle continues until a signal is inserted and triggers an unknown program with the sole purpose of a confession, a testimony of what happened, perhaps years ago. A desperate cry to nothing and then silence.
This fantastic dystopia stems from our times. The gloomy aura of news, the authoritarian policies, the targeting of young people and the resolutions to the detriment of education. The project's title refers to the exact temperature at which a page of a book catches fire and is, as one can understand, symbolic. The project includes "testimonies" that I have written based on events I experienced and thoughts I had during the last year of the pandemic. The project ends with the text from which it caught its primary spark: "The number of Fireflies that can be seen at night", Plague Diaries, Gonzalo M. Tavares.

| Featured in the 14th Audiovisual Arts Festival Corfu


Artwork by: Elena Lefkovits, (detail)

451℉

This is a live improvisation track created during a session in February.

Improv Sessions

Live Improv Session

Live performance with the a.s.a.b.e. ensemble of Corfu as guests at the 2023 Martini Elettrico Festival of Bologna, 28/04/23. 

The "composition" we agreed to follow consists of four distinct parts starting with 'high tension' that results to 'large surfaces' that slowly become parts of the 'processed soundscapes' environment, only to build up to a 'rhythmical play' to conclude and finish the piece. 

The piece ends with the use of the voice of Allen Ginsberg reciting his poem "America" (1956). 

Special thanks to Conservatorio Martini of Bologna and Francesco Giomi.

a.s.a.b.e. ensemble (all sounds are born equal):

Aliki Karali - Double Bass
Dimitris Matsoukas - Electronics
stelios tsiloglou-ignatiadis - Electronics

a.s.a.b.e. ensemble, Live @ Martini Elettrico 2023

The Hunt (2022)

Stereo electroacoustic composition

Composed in ΕΡΗΜΕΕ Studios (Lab for Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications), Corfu, GR

Performers recorded: Noraoto [double bass] and Annita Mavriki [singing performance]

Featured in the 2023 edition of HELMCA.


Program Note: 

The Hunt is a work which was inspired by Oresteia, Aeschylus’ trilogy. This piece does not intend so much to narrate the events of the trilogy with precision as to explore the violent relationship between hunter and prey that exists throughout its duration. On the one hand, the destiny that haunts the house of Atreides and that leads to the violent murders of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. On the other hand, the abominable act of matricide by Orestes and the relentless hunt by the Furies. And finally the hunt for justice and purification which Aeschylus very masterfully introduces in the last part of the trilogy.

stelios tsiloglou - ignatiadis

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