A reorchestration from the original period instrument version, for the forces of TETTTIX ensemble, that was used in the music-film NORA TETTTIX of Daphne Heretakis and Kostis Samaras.

Elena Krasaki, soprano
TETTTIX ensemble

Prélude non mesuré ·· 2015/19

Commissioned by the Greek National Opera, for the project "A Greek Song Book", based on the text "Hellenic Nomarchy" by an anonymous author.

Vassilis Magouliotis, narrator
Kornilios Selamsis, conductor

Contemplate, and it's enough ·· 2021

A work in progress for the musicians of Klangforum Wien and PPCM, presented at the outHear New Music Week 2022 in Larissa.

Gregory Chalier · flute/piccolo
Elena Arbonies Jauregui · clarinet
Sophie Schafleitner · Violin
Dimitrios Polisoidis · Viola

Mucilage ·· 2020

Frequency beating obscures clean, transparent melodies and insisting chords.
In contrast to the static drone beatings of Terpnon, here the beatings emerge from moving melodies and harmonies, creating blurred contours and distortions to a familiar shape, as if you are looking through a frosted glass.

Recorded live in Conservatorium van Amsterdam, 14 April 2014
ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble
Bas Wiegers

Ark Futura ·· 2014

Ensemble TETTTIX · Yorgos Ziavras
Premiered 24 June 2023
@Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2023

Brian Coon · recording
Giorgos Hanos · mixing, mastering

Limpid Water ·· 2023

Skostok (Σχοστόκης) is the name of an ancient king of the Odrysians. We know he existed only from a few brass coins with laureate Apollo and an equestrian with the inscription 'ΣΚΟΣΤΟΚ'.
Initially written for Nieuw Ensemble, this is the reworked version for TETTTIΞ ensemble, performed in Onassis Stegi in 2018.

ΤΕΤΤΤΙΞ · Konstantinos Terzakis
Onassis Stegi
6|12|18

Σκοστόκ / Skostok ·· 2015/18

Song for Soprano & Baroque Instruments on an Eastern byzantine text.
Elena Krasaki, soprano
Antigoni Tsala baroque ensemble

Prélude non mesuré ·· 2015

Originally written for 6 sinewaves and clarinet, this reworking of the piece is for 5 strings and clarinet, performed in MATA Festival New York.
The strings constantly alter the environment in which the clarinet is moving as a soloist but always in their shadow. The cold precision of the sinewaves is transformed to a warm, somnolent, seductive water, finely performed by Momenta Quartet and its friends.

16 April 2015 · The Kitchen
Momenta Quartet:
  Emilie-Anne Gendron
  Adda Kridler
  Stephanie Griffin
  Michael Haas

Matthew Weber, double bass
Christa Van Alstine, clarinet
Carl Cristian Bettendorf, conductor

Not Yet II ·· 2012/14

120 whistling microtonal pitches, in a range of 2½ octaves
whistling Michalis Paraskakis

Composed for the Audio-DH project, curated by Francisco López. Presented in September 2016 in The Hague (iiinitiative - TodaysArt - Korzo Theater
http://audiodh.nl

Fata Morgana ·· 2016

Katerina Konstantourou, piano
Goethe Institute Athens 19·12·17

I avoided for years to write a piano solo piece, but my friend Katerina insisted and eventually convinced me to do it. The outcome is rather different from my previous pieces. The recording is from Katerina Konstantourou's recital in Goethe Institute of Athens.
https://soundcloud.com/k-konstantourou

Φλοιός / Cortex ·· 2016

Klangforum Wien - Enno Poppe
world premiere 10 Feb 2017
commissioned by Impuls Festival

For score follower check 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ljWaWDULyY&t=75s

Kāma ·· 2016

Inspired by Agia Sofia of Thessaloniki, the work draws from the temple’s multilayered nature: juxtaposed layers of time, of use, of architecture, of surroundings, of people.
Toonbrood is the offering bread placed on top of each other. At the same time “toon” is musical tone, thus naming the piece “tone bread”.

Recording: Ensemble dissonArt

Commissioned by dissonArt, Stegi Onassis and ZKM

Toonbrood ·· 2019

For B-flat clarinet and 6 sinewaves
Enric Sans i Morera_ clarinet

Not Yet ·· 2012

"Lizzard Point" from the landmark album "Ambient 4: On Land", arranged for TETTTIΞ
With the kind permission of Brian Eno.

On Land: Lizzard Point [Brian Eno] ·· arr. 2018

For positive organ, one player and four tuners.
The poetry of frequency beating. An almost electronic sound, produced only from the baroque, positive - also known as portative or chest - organ, used mostly for basso continuo. Patterns and alterations of beatings in unison, in chords or in clusters, in multiple layers.

Recorded live in the Royal Conservatorium of The Hague, during the concerts of the Spring Festival 2013. The organ used is a Klop in 440Hz, with 3 registers and split keyboard.

Vladan Kulisic_ Tuner 1
Eugene A. Kim_ Tuner 2
Assaf Gidron_ Tuner 3
Noah Rektenwald_ Tuner 4
Michalis Paraskakis_ Player

For the video of the performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI0sxtsONaI
and for score follower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgnoXX8AJQg

Τερπνόν / Terpnon ·· 2013

Born in Athens, studied and worked as a graphic designer, while studying accordion and piano. After lessons with Costas Varotsis, he shifted entirely to music and moved to the Netherlands to study composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. His teachers were Yannis Kyriakides, Martijn Padding, Cornelis de Bondt and Diderik Wagenaar. At the same conservatory he studied classical singing, while taking lessons in medieval and renaissance polyphony singing by Rebecca Stewart. He has taken masterclasses by Franck Bedrossian, Christian Wolff, Klaus Lang, Mark Andre, Dimitri Papageorgiou and Orestis Toufektsis.

He has won the impuls composition competition where his piece "Kāma" premiered on 2017. He has collaborated with musicians such as Klangforum Wien, ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble, Ensemble dissonArt, Nieuw Ensemble, Momenta Quartet, Slagwerk Den Haag, Ensemble KLANG, Enno Poppe, Ilan Volkov, Bas Wiegers, Ben Roidl-Ward, Katerina Konstantourou, Theodore Antoniou, Yorgos Ziavras, Konstantinos Terzakis and many more. His music has been presented in venues and festivals like Muziekgebouw aan ‘t Ij Amsterdam [NL], MATA Festival New York [US], impuls Festival [AU], Onassis Stegi [GR], Greek National Opera [GR], Athens & Epidaurus Festival [GR], REACTOR Vienna [AU], Korzo Theatre [NL] Tehran International Electronic Music Festival [IR] etc. 

As a singer/performer, he focuses on challenging and demanding singing and music-theatre works, including “Kassandra” by Iannis Xenakis and “Anaparastasis I” by Jani Christou, Recitations by George Aperghis, Maknongan by Giacinto Scelsi, as well as polyphony from Medieval and Renaissance era. He has performed together with the ASKO/Schönberg Ensemble, ASKO Kammerkoor, the Ballata Ensemble, the Athens State Orchestra and the Greek National Choir. Additionally, he participated in several premieres by composers or artists including Kate Moore, Kriests Auznieks, Nikos Ioakeim, Maya Verlaak, Nikos Galenianos and more.

He is the founder and artistic director of the new music ensemble TETTTIX in Athens, which already shapes an important presence in the music scene of Greece, staging music theatre or interdisciplinary performances.

His interest for music-theatre started with performing J. Christou’s works and with participating in Karyn Benquet’s choreography “Ensuing” in Nederlands Dans Theater. His first opera "Strella", was commissioned and premiered by the Greek National Opera in 2023, repeated on the next season due to its great success.

From 2019 his is a PhD candidate on music-theatre, under the guidance of Dimitri Papageorgiou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Franck Bedrossian (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz).

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