Koumaria 2010 Participants
In the context of ElectroMediaWorks_10 the collective Medeaelectronique (www.medeaelectronique.com) will host KOUMARIA_10, an intensive 10 days Residency at the foot of Mount Taigetos. A 400 square meter residency in a huge private olive field, including a converted mixed-media art studio, will be transformed this November into a laboratory for contemporary art.
Greek and international artists, theoreticians, scientists from different disciplines and backgrounds, are invited to work together and form the Instant Synthesis Ensemble (I.S.E) in order to develop a collective arts project. The outcome of this effort will be introduced in Athens among other productions, presentations in a twoday Collective arts Meeting at KNOT gallery (http://knotarts.blogspot.com).
We are happy to announce this years participants which are – (Additional participants might be announced)
Eric Lewis
Eric Lewis is a professor of Philosophy at McGill University, specializing in the philosophy of improvised music. He helps run ICASP (Improvisation, Community and Social Practice), an international research projected dedicated to the study of the social aspects of improvisational practices. He is an improvising brass player, having performed with the likes of Pauline Oliveros, Joe McPhee, Jean Derome, Lori Freeman and Roger Dean. He has just completed a book manuscript entitled: Other Worlds: Toward an Ontology of Improvised Music. Prof. Lewis has lectured internationally on improvised music and its many manifestations.
More at: www.improvcommunity.ca
Stefan Smulovitz
Award-winning composer, collaborator, violist and laptop artist Stefan Smulovitz has created more than 50 live scores for films and performs with leading improvisors including Fred Frith, Evan Parker and Uri Caine. Kenaxis — Stefan’s game-changing software — is used by musicians around the world, and his numerous collaborative creations have been developed for theatre, dance, art installations, and DVD-ROMs.
More at:www.kenaxis.com
Viviane Houle
Viviane Houle is a vocalist, improvisor and songwriter who defies categorization. Celebrated for her audacious approach to music and her tour de force improvisations, Viviane has collaborated with some of Canada’s finest improvisers, dancers, filmmakers and theatre artists. Her recordings include a CD of original songs and improvisations with Existential Angst Party, la belle et la bête with Stefan Smulovitz, and Treize, featuring 13 extraordinary duos.
More at:www.vivianehoule.ca
The Houle Smulovitz Duo
Vocalist Viviane Houle and laptop/violist Stefan Smulovitz create music that forges new paths to experience sound. Since forming The Houle Smulovitz Duo, they have explored a “cinema of the mind,” giving audiences an auditory glimpse into the people and places — past, present and future — they have known.
Marielle Andrée Groven
Marielle Groven is a Canadian composer and improviser currently based in Paris. She recently completed a masters degree in composition in Montreal at McGill where she studied with Jean Lesage and Brian Cherney. Her music has been performed in Canada and France by ensembles and soloists including Le nouvel ensemble moderne, Ensemble Supermusique, Ensemble Linea, Les Cris de Paris, and Mira Benjamin. As both pianist and electronics projectionist, she has performed with various ensembles and soloists including Kate Herzberg, the Contemporary Keyboard society, Xenia Pestova, Pascal Meyer, The Murray Street Band, and the Murray Street Five. She is currently studying privately with composer Martin Matalon in Paris, thanks to the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Nova Scotia Talent Trust.
Tim Ward
Electroacoustic Composition from England/ Greece Primary interest is in music and new technology, with a principle focus on the use of computer technology in composition and performance.His compositional activities center around three areas: electroacoustic music, the useof live electronics alongside acoustic instruments and computer controlled sonic installations. His performance activities concentrate on advanced sound diffusion techniques for the performance of electroacoustic music.
He is a member of the Sonic Arts Network, and also a founder member of the electroacoustic performance group Nerve8.
More at:http://www.spiza.gr/home.html
Anastasis Grivas
He studied Statistics and Informatics at Athens University of Business and Economics. After working for years in the field of informatics as programmer/user/salesperson, and as tutor for the European Educational Programs, his last educational job was for Stavrakos School for Cinema, Sound Engineering and Radio/TV Production. Being always a great fan of contemporary music and increasing his interest in free improvised and experimental music he started his mail order (Contra Music) in 1995 focusing in the above fields, while he was working for the Greek Music Club.
Since then and under the influence of Minimalist Composers like Pauline Oliveros, Phil Niblock, La Monte Young and improvisers like Keith Row, Derek Bailey, Fred Frith he focused on sound design, inventing custom string instruments and the use of live electonics. In the year 2000, he founded Ektopia, a non profit company and Small Music Theatre, a small venue in Athens, soon to become the home for free improvised, experimental, avant/post rock and creative Jazz music in Athens.
Paris Erotokritou (Director, Actor)
Paris Erotokritou was born in Nicosia Cyprus in 1979. He has studied drama in the Athens Drama School (1st Class, Higher Education Diploma) and law at King’s College London (LLB-Law, Upper Second Class, 2:1). He is a graduate of The English School in Nicosia, Cyprus. He has taken part as an actor in a number of performances as well as international theatre festivals like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The London Festival of Greek Drama and the Patravadi Fringe Festival in Bangkok, Thailand. His film and television appearances include, ‘The Life of Guy Fawkes’ (Living TV, London), ‘Shinex’ and ‘In less than a minute’.
In the summer of 2008 he founded his own company (Fresh Target [bang!]) bringing together people from many artistic and other disciplines. The first production of his company was ‘The Lover’ by Harold Pinter, which he directed and translated. The second production of the company was a site-specific promenade performance The New World Order (Pinter triple bill) at the Cacoyiannis Foundation in Athens.
Stavros Apostolatos (Dancer-Choreographer)
He was born in April 1975 in Chania of Crete where in 91 ‘ he began his relation with dance. He is alumnus of The Ministry of Culture Proffesional Section Of Dance. He has attended several circles of courses and seminars of Classic Dance, Modern Techniques, Realise Techiques, Contact Improvisation, Improvisation, Buto, with schoolteachers from Greece, America and Europe.
He has taken workshops with:William Forsythe – Frankfurt opera Studio, UnderwegsTeatre-Germany, Pina Bausch Dance Cie, Helge Musial-Tanzfabrik Dance Cie-Berlin, Jean Francois Lefort-France, Masaki Iwana-Japan, and many more.
As a teacher of modern dance he has been teaching since 2003 both in Athens and Germany.
http://stavrosapostolatos.blogspot.com/
Ioanna Kabilafka
Ioanna Kambilafka performer from Greece Graduated from the Laban Centre (Bachelor of Arts in Dance Theatre) and from the Middlesex University (Diploma in Interior Design). During the academic year 2003-2004 she got a scholarship from The Fulbright Foundation and studied in various dance schools in New York (Movement Research, Trisha Brown, Dance Space, Susan Klein and Barbara Mahler). She has also attended seminars of improvisation, dance techniques and dance theatre in Greece as well as abroad by: Jeremy Nelson, Paul Douglas, Akram Khan, Vicky Shick, David Zamprano, Yvonne Maier, Juliette Mapp, Barbara Mahler etc.
She is a key member of the dance company ‘Kinitiras Dance Spectacle’ since 1998
She has also collaborated with: Seimio Theatre, Egos Dance Company, Pocket theatre etc. As a choreographer she worked with The Arts Theatre, Seimio Theatre, Kalouta Theatre etc.
More at:
http://www.kinitiras.com/data/data2-cv-ioannakampylafka-gr.html
Alexandros Drymonitis
Alexandros Drymonitis studied guitar in Athens, Amsterdam and Berlin, specialising in contemporary music. He attended composition classes in Athens and Amsterdam, plus several electronic music and installation art software and hardware seminars and lectures. He has collaborated with composers and performers, visual, video and installation artists, painters and fashion designers, as a performer and/or composer. He has performed in The Netherlands, Greece, Germany and Slovenia.
Magnus Klahr
Magnus Klahr is a graphic designer with a BA in design. He is also an art director of art- and visual culture magazine Bakteriekultur magasin; which has been exhibited in Magazine café in Tokyo and at the festival Diaz Nordicos in Madrid. He has also curated his own art gallery – Galleri Nödutgång between the years 2008 – 2010. His approach to both art and design derives from the charecteristics of minimalism. He strives to tap into emotions by finding the core value of a project, and reducing it to it´s basic elements.
www.magnusklahr.com
Peristeraki Elli-Anna
ΒΑ graduate in 2008 from Panteion University of Athens, Communication Media and Culture department, Cultural Management division. MA graduate in 2010 from University of Essex, Art History and Theory department, entitled Gallery Studies and Critical Curating.
Medea Electronique
Information about the Members of Medea on our site www.medeaelectronique.com