“Random gebaut keeps an eye on the module guide” (for solo drums) & “Fosferatu” (for mezzo-soprano, 16 instrumentalists and a children choir)

Composer Christos Antoniou presents the World Premiere of two personal works, the “Random gebaut keeps an eye on the module guide” and “Fosferatu”, approaching the ideas of revelation, the unfolding of the soul and the shake off the abiding form.

In a world where we learn from an early age to recognize “forms”, the “Random gebaut keeps an eye on the module guide” and “Fosferatu”, aspire to prove that truth will never see eye to eye with any kind of infinite aesthetics.

The performance consists of two works:
The first work under the title “Random gebaut keeps an eye on the module guide” written for solo drums with Fotis Benardo, as soloist, hovers between study and experimentation. The soloist approaches a predominantly percussion instrument as melodic, thus revealing the dual nature of drum kit. Sometimes with sticks in his hands, sometimes only with his own hands, the soloist looks like he introduces himself to the percussion instrument for the first time and takes the audience back to those early years when the musician has the first contacts with music.

The second work under the name “Fosferatu” is a work for mezzo-soprano, 16 instrumentalists and a children choir, aiming to depict the painful incubation of the light into the womb of the multiple forms that shape it. A self-battle of quantum, inside the cocoon, that transforms them into the optical illusion, that people have simply named vision. The renowned electromagnetic radiation- the simple light that infuses every corner of this planet – during a final effort to redeem itself for its complicity in every unfair action in this world, decides to find a way to communicate with one of its “lovers”, and that is no other that Max Planck .The erotic chemistry, the bonding and the relation that the famous scientist develops with the source of his interest, finds some similarities with the contemporary human relations.

While the larvae struggles inside the cocoon to take a mature shape that can be easily conceived by the scientist, a series of heartbreaking revelations and desperate attempts to communicate with the outside world, reminds us that any form of association contains millions of deaths within.

PRODUCTION CREDITS

FOSFERATU
Music: Christos Antoniou
Text: Androniki Skoula
Direction: Christos Antoniou, Androniki Skoula
Soloist: Androniki Skoula
Conductor: George Aravidis
Hellenic Conservatory Children Choir
Conductor: Maria Xenidou
Choreography: Daniel Lommel
Photography: Stella Mouzi
Flute: Othonas Gkogkas
Oboe: Kostas Giovanis
Bassoon: Giannis Euaggelatos
Horn: Giannia Gounaris
Trumpet: Dimitris Gkogkas
Percussion: Nikos Velentzas
Percussion: Eirini Aravidi
Piano: Alexandros Faris
Violin: Franz Shestani
Viola: Lindita Nina
Cello: Vangelis Nina
Double Bass: Mari Hasapi
Electronic Violin: Charalampos Paritsis
Whistles: George Diamantopoulos

RANDOM GEBAUT KEEPS AN EYE ON THE MODULE GUIDE
Music: Christos Antoniou
Soloist: Fotis Benardo