🟦 Bluets: A Sound & Light Artwork by Pandelis Diamantides & Kristia Michael 

🎵 Music Single: pandelisdiamantides.bandcamp.com/album/bluets 
 🎥 Video Art: vimeo.com/pandelisdiamantides/bluets 

"Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color…" — Maggie Nelson 

Bluets is a meditation on silence and monochromes—a work in which voice and electronic sound dissolve into the luminous essence of blue. Inspired by journeys across the Aegean Sea and the layered depths of Mediterranean urban landscapes, Bluets explores the infinite expressions and emotional resonances of the color blue. As Yves Klein might suggest, it is both a technical challenge and a metaphysical experience. As John Cage reminds us, there is no such thing as true silence. But I have heard the colour blue. 

Created collaboratively by composer and visual artist Pandelis Diamantides and vocalist Kristia Michael, Bluets occupies a unique space at the intersection of contemporary classical music, experimental electronic soundscapes, video art, and the poetics of light. 

Thank you for being part of this journey. 💙 

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released March 18, 2025 

Pandelis Diamantides (Sound & Light) 
Kristia Michael (Voice) 

Cover Design: Pandelis Diamantides, Machteld Jacques

Bluets

A boundary-defying live performance that transports the audience into the experimental world of Shandη Βάνια. This set fuses hyper-pop energy with Greek avant-garde lyricism, blending glitchy beats, fractured melodies, and a visual narrative that challenges perceptions of identity. The sound is immersive—layering dissonant synths and electronic textures over haunting, dreamlike vocals, creating a space where fragments of personal histories collide. Through her debut performance at Fengaros 2025, Shandη Βάνια redefines the relationship between performer and audience, using sound, light, and word to explore the complexity of existence in a rapidly changing world.

Πδ - Συνοικισμός

Πδ - Όταν χάνεται η κίνηση

Πδ - Πάντα θα μου χρωστάς μια Αυγουστιάτικη πανσέληνο

Center no Distractor
From the EP 'Nothing aiming is a splinter' (2013)


Center no Distractor, the latest project of the collaborative duo Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis, is an explosion of movement, physicality and gritty, thumping beats, for taiko and live electronics. Performances are simultaneously a concert, an exploration of sound and body, a visual spectacle; it is dance for the ears, the body, the eyes and the mind.


All compositions by Center no Distractor

Stephanie Pan: tateuchi taiko
Stelios Manousakis: live electronics, programming

Recorded at Zeebelt Theater, Dec 2012
Recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Stelios Manousakis

Center no Distractor - 2. That which is swan and ivy

Center no Distractor, the latest project of the collaborative duo Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis, is an explosion of movement, physicality and gritty, thumping beats, for taiko and live electronics. Performances are simultaneously a concert, an exploration of sound and body, a visual spectacle; it is dance for the ears, the body, the eyes and the mind.

A truly contemporary collaboration, Center no Distractor re-contextualizes the taiko in a digital environment while retaining the essence of its aesthetic, athletic and musical qualities. This meld creates a visceral, industrial, post-primal/post-digital experience – an immersive and intense performance full of evolving soundscapes and fine detail, throbbing percussion, gut-moving bass, and turbulent oceans of sound.

The project features fully DIY instruments: Stephanie plays a self-constructed nagado taiko, made from an oak wine barrel which she built over a period of 1.5 years. Stelios has created a modular instrument using SuperCollider, with custom-made processes and generators tuned for responsive, hands-on playing.
Their first EP, Nothing aiming is a splinter, will be released in 2013.


Center no Distractor - 2. That which is swan and ivy

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