Garden stories: Blue hour
Event
Two sound performances in the Museum Garden, perfect for the last warm nights before the season changes! Set against the hues of the Blue Hour, join us to relax and immerse in sounds within an atmosphere that blends music and the autumnal breeze.
Dalot presents a performance for laptop and live electronics, thematically inspired by dusk, or the Blue Hour, when the sun lies deep below the horizon. This semi-improvised performance focuses on the concept of locality—capturing field recordings and other stimuli that follow the passage of time—and on “the hour” as an immeasurable and ephemeral notion. The performance aims to “dialogue” and coexist with the museum space and its surrounding garden, inviting the audience to experience a harmony with the natural landscape and the distinctive atmosphere of the Blue Hour.
Pinna Bounce explores the relationship between sound and space, as well as concepts like perception and memory. Using trumpet, objects, field recordings, effects, and amplifiers, her work centers on experimentation, improvisation, and expression through sound, as well as the emergence of personal spaces through music. In this event, through the sounds of her trumpet and processors, in collaboration with the landscape and sounds of the museum garden, she will present a musical/sound narrative, story, or fairy tale.
Information
Garden stories: Blue hour
Sound performance
Date: Saturday, November 9 2024
Start time: 18:00 (doors open at 17:30)
Entrance fee: €5*
*Tickets are available exclusively at the museum venue.
With attendance at the event, entry to the Museum exhibition is free.
Artist Info
Maria Papadomanolaki (a.k.a. Dalot)
Maria Papadomanolaki (a.k.a. Dalot) holds a degree in French Language and Literature from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and completed postgraduate and doctoral studies (MA and PhD) in digital music and sound arts in London, with scholarships from the Onassis Foundation, The Schilizzi Foundation, and University of the Arts London. She trained under renowned academics and researchers such as Salomé Voegelin, Angus Carlyle, Peter Cusack, David Toop, Kersten Glandien, and Cathy Lane.
She has presented her work and research internationally, across Europe, America, and Asia. From 2009 to 2012, she served as a curator for cultural events with the non-profit organization Wave Farm in Manhattan, where she also worked on organizing and documenting its archive—a project that led to the publication of the book Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves (PAJ Publications, 2011), which she co-edited with Galen Joseph-Hunter and Penny Duff.
She is a founding member of the artistic group Soundcamp (UK, DE, GR), which recently completed the “Acoustic Commons” project, funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe program, and an active member of the international artistic collective “Shortwave Collective.”
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Pinna Bounce
Pinna Bounce is a solo project by Thalia Ioannidou (a.k.a. S.t.m.C. / Jimmy Hacka), a musician, sound artist, music producer, and architect based in Athens. Her artistic practice centers on improvisation and the composition of music and soundscapes for theater, film, dance, and art installations. Through this practice, she explores the relationship between people and environmental sounds, as well as the emergence of personal spaces through sound and music.
Her works have been presented at Documenta 14, the Athens Festival, NEON exhibitions, the National Technical University of Athens, the Onassis Stegi, and more. She has collaborated with the Goethe-Institut Athens, the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, and the Onassis Foundation as a curator of music programs, music producer, and facilitator of music workshops for children. She is a founding member of the audiovisual ensembles Drog_A_Tek (2000-2020) and miniMaximum Improvision (2005-2019).
With Drog_A_Tek, she was awarded the Greek Film Academy’s Original Music Award for the films Homeland by Syllas Tzoumerkas (2011) and Spring Awakening by Konstantinos Giannaris (2017).
More information on the artist:
Instagram: @Jimmyhacka
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