Sound is the protagonist for another year in the 2nd Electroacoustic Music and Audiovisual Arts Festival under the general title “Stereoma” which will take place at MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse B1, Thessaloniki port), from 20 September until 27 October 2024.
The Festival is focusing on sound expression and its timeless and immersive nature and impact. Through an exhibition (20.09-27.10), live concerts (4-5-6.10) and a dance performance (19.10), the Festival highlights sound as a pivotal element of sensory experience, inviting the audience to explore the ephemeral, fluid, and transformative qualities of sound and the acoustic process. Sound has the power to reshape our perception, revealing profound and often unexplored connections between art and life. The Festival aims to explore these connections, underscoring the central role of sound within a diverse cultural and intellectual landscape that mirrors the complexity and diversity of our era.
The exhibition of the Festival brings together artists from diverse disciplines who explore the relationships between audio and visual. Their works both challenge and redefine our approaches to this relationship, fostering a stronger connection between inner experience and external space. Furthermore, drawing inspiration from Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life, the exhibition delves into themes of dislocated time, rickety memory, and the gradual cancellation of the future. In a world where it is becoming a given that the linearity and coherence of time and memory are fractured, and where the future seems increasingly disintegrated due to a permanent state of crisis and uncertainty, the exhibited works underline the necessity of reimagining the unfulfilled promise of a radically different future, serving as a medium of both protest and resistance.
The live part of the Festival, featuring a three day series of concerts and a dance performance, also showcases the indeterminate and ever-changing nature of sound. The performers push the boundaries of auditory experience, venturing into new directions in the fields of music and acoustic art. Through the multilayered use of materials—including live electronics, field recordings, radio broadcasts, electronic tones from oscillators, vocal experimentations, improvisations and noises produced by analog devices—the compositions presented demonstrate a profound understanding of the structure of sound and its dynamic potential for modification.
Curated by Eirini Papakonstantinou, Art Historian, Curator MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts
Coordination: Dominik Mάlek
Programme
2nd Electroacoustic Music and Audiovisual Arts Festival “Stereoma”
MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts
Warehouse Β1, Pier Α’, Thessaloniki Port
Exhibtion* │ 20 September – 27 October 2024
Artists: Voltnoi Brege, Yiorgos Drosos, MAENADS (Eleni Ikoniadou, Aliki Leftherioti), Ilektra Maipa, Pedro Oliveira, Maria Paschalidou, Anna Raimondo, Andrey Smirnov, Bill Psarras, Raed Yassin, The Institute of Audiovisual Arts (Athanasios Lazaris, Despina Tamvaki, Kleanthis Kommatas, Lambros Tsiambasas, Nasia Karatsiraki, Adamantia Lea Kavvadia, Elisavet Zari, Theodoti Aggelaki, Maria Adamou, Mira Maria Maroniti) IAA curated by Angeliki Avgitidou, Maria Varela, Sophia Papadopoulou
Concerts** │ 4-5-6 October 2024
Friday 4 October @21.00
emdy (Anastasios Kokkinidis)
Pedro Oliveira
Saturday 5 October @21:00
Leo Okagawa
Jasmine Guffond
Sunday 6 October @21:00
Spyros Emmanouilidis
MAENADS (Eleni Ikoniadou, Aliki Leftherioti, Maria Sideri)
Dance-Performance
Saturday 19 October @21:00
Eleonora Siarava, Sofia Pouhtou, Yiannis Tsirikoglou
*General Admission: 4€. Reduced prices are also applied.
**Concerts’ Daily Pass: 6€ | 3-Days Concerts’ Pass: 15€. The tickets are issued on line by ComeTogether (https://cometogether.live/event/1314) or at the venue’s Reception, half an hour in advance of the event, upon availability.
