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Orgiastic Compression by Piandaemonium at Thessaloniki Concert Hall | Greece

April 18, 2023June 3, 2023

Orgiastic Compression, for 12 (or more) pianists will be presented, for a second time, at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. The concert will take place on 27th & 28th of April 2023. It will be performed by the Greek Pandemonium as a part of the Thessaloniki Piano Festival 2023. The piece is programmed to be the last piece of the first part of the concert and -as it is asked in the score- it will take the form of a happening, covering all the break and extending till the beginning to the second half of the concert. An extensive set of sound-generating objects (vibrators, electric toothbrushes, etc) will be utilized to create a unique and autonomous soundscape.

Friday 28 & Saturday 29 – Public Performances | 18:00 & 20:30
Thursday 27 & Friday 28 – School Performances | 9.30 & 11.00
Concert Duration 60′ Concert Info: Anastasia Ioannou, tel.6981055760 & info@tpf.gr
More info here

Piandaemonium consists of Charalampos Aggelopoulos, Eftyhia Veniota, Evi Giamopoulou, Nikos Zafranas, Stephanos Thomopoulos, Nikos Kyriosoglou, Christos Lenoutsos, Nefeli Mousoura, Maria Mylaraki, Stephanos Nasos, Dionysis Pantis, Antonis Selemidis, Melina Tsinavou & Kostas Chardas

DeFence at Τhessaloniki Concert Hall

June 15, 2019February 8, 2021

On the occasion of the celebration of the European Music Day on 21st of June, a large scale happening is going to take place at Megaron Concert Hall of Thessaloniki at 23:00.

DeFence is an open performance for 4 orchestra conductors, 88 performers with hammers, hand wrenches, motors, sheet metal, cables, and other hardware tools used as sound actuators. The ultimate target of the performance is the disintegration of the wire mesh that surrounds the building M2.

The visual borderline, the boundaries of an image, the physical barriers, are not able to set also a sound limit. Although the conversation with any kind of restriction or borderline is in many cases challenging, in this case, for artistic reasons, such an artistic debate can be initiated only if by the end of the event the physical barrier will disintegrate. The border will be deconstructed and abolished through and within the artistic act itself.