Sounds Echoing, at MCF with free entrance (Introduction to the film screenings)
The Michael Cacoyannis Foundation opens its doors to host young professionals and talented students from the fields of music and other performing arts. Every Wednesday at the foundation’s ground foyer, short performances preceding the “Screenings with Classic Cinema Masterpieces”, introduce each movie through their individual artistic angle, half an hour ahead of each screening’ s start with admission free of charge.
A round of events dedicated to the work and the artistic expression of the young generation’s potential.
Wednesday, April 4th 2012, at 21:00
Introduction to the film Zabriskie Point
by MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Anna Stereopoulou
Compositions – Performance
With a deep respect and inspiration in the world of Pink Floyd, as well as a grand admiration to the Italian perspective in the Arts, Anna Stereopoulou introduces us with her music to Michelangelo Antonioni’s film «Zabriskie Point», via the echo of an Aeaea* of her own. Analogue sounds with an algae odour, soundscapes filled with warm desert wind and piano keys tuning our heartbeat. A wish to escape Morpheus’s seduction, while keeping alive Orpheus’s Lyre and Dream…
*Aeaea: The island, at which the palace of the witch Circe is said to had been [Greek Mythology]
Wednesday, April 11th 2012, at 21:00
Introduction to the film Mourir à 30 ans
by ROMAIN GOUPIL
Anna Stereopoulou
Compositions – Piano – Poetry
Elsa Papeli
Violoncello
Olyna Xenopoulou
Narration
Doubt or reconsideration? Repetitive or reminding eras? Questions or answers? Symbols or illustrations? Perpetual troubling, continuously feeding the inspiration and the need for expression of each one of us. Indelible memories, examples of each realization Moment and subconscious Sound; of every pro-logue, epi-logue, pro-logue and so on. Thus, with a spiral Speech and Sound, Anna Stereopoulou’s music and texts’ excerpts -that will be performed live- draw the introduction to Romain Goupil’s «Mourir à 30 ans» and link two generations with feelings -and not only- in a turmoil.
Wednesday, April 18th 2012, at 21:00
Introduction to the film “Salt of the Earth” by Herbert J. Biberman
Argyro Koliogiorghi and Kostas Kosmas will present compositions of theirs, inspired by the film “Salt of the Earth”.
Argyro Koliogiorghi
Composition
Giorgos Skrivanos (Flute), Alexandros Michailidis (Clarinet)
Work for flute and clarinet
The miserable living and working conditions of the Mexican-American community as well as the inhabitants’ brutal exploitation (Anglo-Americans as they are called) by the white industrialists are musically expressed by this composition for flute and clarinet which introduces the film “Salt of the earth” by Herbert Biberman. Modern techniques give an audible effect that refers to the difficult lives of these people.
Kostas Kosmas
Composition
Ariona Mucaj (violin), Vassilis Billas (clarinet), Eleni Malagardi (piano), Konstantina Roussou (flute)
Sense
The work Sense is pre-eminently tonal with dissonances lending a special colour, which comes in “harmony” with the fighting spirit of the film “Salt of the Earth” by Herbert Biberman. A film that sets us thinking about what’s happening in our country. The work “Sense” by Kostas Kosmas intends to introduce this specific issue, expressing the mixed and contradictory feelings that coexist in the film’s heroes. Heroes who fight hard to reclaim a life of dignity, but at the same time are romantic in their interpersonal relationships.
Wednesday, April 25th 2012, at 20:45
Introduction to the film La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz
Elias Kotzias will present the works: “My Sea”, “The Bandage”, “The Silence”.
Participating: Manousos Ploumidis (clarinet), Roxani Papadimitriou (song), Spyros Souladakis (piano), Eva Tsourou (dance – performance), Olga Chalkidou (video artist)
“My Sea” is a musical composition for electronics and piano. This work, in terms of compositional techniques, is preferably described by polystilism. We may trace into this composition elements that stem from tonal, atonal, jazz and noise music. By this particular musical piece I intended to depict a psychological condition. With the electronic sounds I wanted to describe this unconscious psychological environment. With the piano music I try to reveal fragments of the ineffable psyche.
“Gaza” is a composition for computer and clarinets (b flat and bass). This work was composed in January 2009 after the Israeli invasion of Gaza in December 2008. It is dedicated to the victims and their families who suffered from this war. With Gaza I describe the invasion, as well as thoughts and feelings deriving from it.
“Silence” is a project that tries to interpret the emotions generated during the time a man expects a subject-object-concept that is not defined. It describes the feelings of anxiety that gradually escalate to feelings of anguish and agony. This work is called “Silence” because almost all sounds of the composition refer to the sounds of internal hearing of a person while waiting for something to happen. The only actually audible sounds are breathing, heart beating and three words at the end of the project that form a kind of “solution” to the drama. The project is inspired by Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
The imagery coexists with music and it has been inspired by it; the coexistence of video art and musical composition intent to magnify the feeling of the auditor in a scenographic way. The video art emerges through the images the sensation that music conveys to the gaze. It creates this way a new rhythm that coexists with the soundscape while conversing with it. They all compose a new space where the musical composition is expanded and time projects its diverse dimensions.
–Natalia Mavraki will present the work: La haine attire la haine for piano and percussions inspired by the film.
Participating: Katerina Kanavaki (piano), Giorgos Filippas (percussions)
“La haine attire la haine”
(Hatred brings about hatred)
“It’s about a society in free fall, which while falling, keeps on reassuring itself that so far so good…”
More contemporary than ever, the film “The Hatred” by Mathieu Kassovitz was a source of inspiration for this piece of music, which starts from the silence followed by the piano which introduces us to the sorrow that hatred always leaves behind and continues with the introduction of the percussion instruments, ending up in a deafening cry of protest against the hatred, the hatred that has such power that “it is enough one person to hate an other person for hatred to spread slowly to the whole mankind” (Jean-Paul Sartre)
