Dying Dwemer Centurion - Live Performance in Athens Conservatoire (9/12/21)

Inspired by the video game series “The Elder Scrolls”. The Dwemer Centurion, aka Dwarven Centurion, is a huge mechanical warden, watching over the ruins of the deserted Dwemer cities. In this piece, I attempt to channel its malfunction and final collapse, in other words, the death of a machine. There are two sonic layers: the prepared environment of the machine city, improvised “cries” of the Centurion. 

Live Clarinet with delay pedal, DIY 555 Astable Oscillator, Korg Volka Keys, recorded found sound, live electronic processing.

Art ''Dwarven Mechanism Collapse'' generated by Midjourney and edited manually.

Dying Dwemer Centurion (Live)

Beneath Underbreathe, for bass clarinet and two percussion players

ARTéfacts ensemble
Spyros Tzekos: bass clarinet
Theo Vazakas: percussion
Panagiotis Ziavras: percussion

Commissioned by Onassis Stegi for the project "Music Connects the Onassis Stegi and the Panteion University vol. 7" organized by Lorenda Ramou. 

Panteion University, Athens, Greece 4/3/2022
https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/music-connects-the-onassis-stegi-and-the-panteion-university-vol-7

αbout the piece:
The “Beneath/Underbreathe” was created during the winter of 2021-2022. The recent discovery in the Oracle of Delphi regarding the subsoil of the temple was the main source of inspiration. According to the research, ethylene gases entered through the cracks of the temple. The smell of the ethylene could cause ecstasy, change in the way of speaking, hallucinations, etc. For a long time, the process by which the Pythians came into ecstasy and offered oracles remained a mystery, until today when science came to solve the myth. Inspired by this story, the work explores the dynamic relation of the percussions with the bass clarinet. Starting from the "subsoil" the music rises and seeks the "ecstasy" that arises through the continuous transformation.

picture: Artefact Print by Avrora Avrora

Beneath, Underbreathe, for bass clarinet and two percussion players(excerpt)

View on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYD0Urpdcmg&t=0s

Performed live at the Soundhub Showcase at LSO St Luke's, Saturday 9 February 2019.

Find out more about LSO Soundhub: https://lso.co.uk/lso-discovery/the-next-generation/lso-soundhub.html

Conductor: Darren Bloom
Recorder: Tabea Debus
Flute: Pasha Mansurov
Bb/ bass clarinet: Scott Lygate
Trombone: Becky Smith
Cello: Colin Alexander
Viola: Anna Bastow
Violin: Clare Duckworth
Percussionists: Neil Percy, Tom Edwards

Aesop

Recording by Atlas Arts Media
Staged by Thompson Street Opera Company at the Athenaeum Theatre Chicago, April 2019.

The Man: Jonathan Wilson (Baritone)
Whiskers: Angela Born (Soprano)
Owner: Eric Schlossberg (Counter-tenor)
Woman: Kelsea Webb (Soprano)

Conducted by Alex Enyart
Directed by Claire DiVizio

The Man Who Woke Up (excerpts)

This is the last piece of the of the fourth part of the work manuscript entitled "Déchiffrage" by composer Olivier Messiaen, for piano and ondes Martenot

Feuillets inédits No. 4 - Olivier Messiaen

Electric Counterpoint is a minimalist composition by the American composer Steve Reich. 
The piece consists of three movements, "Fast," "Slow", and "Fast".
This is the arrangement of the third movement, written for electric guitar and tape, or guitar ensamble

Electric Counterpoint Mov III - Steve Reich

Overdriven

Improvised piece for violin and electronics. 
Dimitris Mitropoulos @script_kitty - VCV rack, modular 
Sofia Zafeiriou - violin, VCV rack, supercollider 
Ivan Nikolic - visuals

recorded live in Athens with a Zoom H5, October 2019.

If I Was Your Electric Papagalaki

This is my first completed piece. The name of it is mostly a metaphora and refers to a human soul, but if you want you can just imagine an actual coast and nothing more.

There is also a visual version on YouTube: 
https://youtu.be/zP69zc-t1vc

#kalimba #clarinet #electroacoustic

The Dark Coast (demo)

Three part electronic outing with SuperCollider and VCV Rack (work in progress)

of the recent past

Music is arranged, mixed and mastered in Reason 11.
Artwork by Ilona Iske

The main idea of this piece is focused around a campfire and a storyteller. You (alone or with someone) are listening a scary stories close to the campfire in a night forest.

Overdriven

Spyros Tzekos

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