XARKIS CONCERT
Saturday 17th of August
Doors Open 19:30
Digital Borders: translating together with the algorithm with Emilio Aguilar (AR, NL)
By using GoogleTranslate (GT) as an active partner in creative writing Emilio hopes to demonstrate the ways in which algorithms dissolve the classical distinction between the material and semantic aspects of the voice. Creating assemblages of people using GT to communicate can be understood as a way to acknowledge cultural and linguistic boundaries while simultaneously resisting to GT’s inherent uniformism.
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Emilio Aguilar is a singer specialized in the performance of historical music – namely repertoire which spans from the 14th to the 17th century. He is currently combining his professional work with an interdisciplinary project between the University of Amsterdam (Cultural Analysis) and the Conservatory of Amsterdam (Early Music Singing), in which he researches material-discursive practices in order to bridge the gap between the speaking/thinking and the singing/performing body
Transcending musical borders of Sound with George Bizios (CY, NL)
Nowadays, as a result of our technological advancements we can see borders between music genres being stretched and possibilities for expression being expanded. In popular life however, we are still operating within a set of rules that come along with the cultural background of each genre. By using ‘Free Improvisation’, George explores the rather obscure boundaries given in a seemingly vast context of new possibilities.
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George Bizios is a guitarist from Limassol. In 2013, he moved to the Netherlands where he also completed his music studies. He received lessons on improvisation with some of the most renowned musicians in the German/ Dutch creative and free-improvised scene and has participated in many ensembles including jazz bands and multi-disciplinary projects. George is currently residing in Brussels and is active as a band leader and a solo artist.
Super Token - with Siedl Cao (VN, AT)
Super Token is a celebration of fluid boundary between disciplines, between performers and audience, between doing and being, between being grown-up and still being a child at heart. Super Token is a tangible representation of universal human feelings, memories, human inherent qualities of being curious, playful and creative. Found every day objects in combination with light and shadow, acoustic music instruments, modular synthesizer and sensors, are set in interaction with intentional and unintentional human actions.
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Siedl Cao, Cao Thanh Lan (VN) and Gregor Siedl (AT), is a Vienna-based composer-performer and sound artist group. Siedl/Cao is one of 5 groups from Austria that received the award New Austrian Sound of Music 2018- 2019. With their recent transdisciplinary and sound art works, many of which incorporate site-specific sound installations and audience participation, they research into the relationship and balance between visual and audio elements, intentionality and un-intentionality, nature and artificiality, human and machine.
Dream’n’Bass and poetry performance with Alcalica (GR, DE)
“The music of Alcalica abolishes several pseudo-dilemas such as ‘East-West’. It resolutely brings into equitable dialogue the baglamas and the santoor with contemporary electronics, the aptaliko of Mytilene and the interwar rembetiko with drum’n’bass and urban industrial.” (Xagas) The feel of global justice inspires both the polyglot lyrics and the way precious instruments and electronics are woven into a flying carpet. The mutating genres prove de facto that borders exist to be overcome.
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Alcalica is a self-produced band from the Island of Lesbos (Gr) and Berlin (D). The duo of multi-instrumentalist Leonidas Danezos and painter/poet Julie Loi play the Persian santoor, Greek baglamas, African Kalimba, hardware electronics and contralto vocals in five languages. In twelve years they have released six vinyl albums and given hundreds of concerts across Europe. Alcalica has opened the concerts of Baba Zula, Dirtmusic, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Giannis Aggelakas
Synth Folk-World - with Ko Shin Moon (FR)
Cosmopolitanism, Omnisightseeing and Exploration are the creeds of Ko Shin Moon. A French formation born in Paris from the artistic fusion between Axel Moon and Niko Shin. Adepts of ethno-musical and eclectic musical experiments, Ko Shin Moon seeks to push genre boundaries further by blending traditional repertoire and instruments from different parts of the world with electronic analog sounds.
Finale | DJ set - with Kraaaouuuu (CY, NL)
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