LIGHTNING ON SATURN is a collaboration between composer David Hahn and video artist Andreas Karaoulanis. The musical composition includes electric guitar, Moog synthesizer, and real sounds of Saturn recorded by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft which explored the planet for many years beginning in 2004.
This abstract piece considers Saturn as Solaris, a “mind-world” planet that is maybe talking to us, maybe wondering, or maybe just being friendly to our insignificance in its own gigantic passage through time.
158 and 88 years after the poet’s birth and death respectively, the Onassis Foundation invites a young Greek rapper to recite four poems written by C. P. Cavafy. Saske immerses himself in Cavafy’s lyrics, navigating the thoughts that the poet captured on paper. Next to this, the internationally acclaimed animator Andreas Karaoulanis invests these readings with image and sound, rounding off the experience.
The poet Constantine Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on April 17, 1863 and passed away on April 29, 1933, creating a notable coincidence in the registry: a full life circle. Already from the beginning of the 20th century, he started writing poems about love, death, violence, the intoxication of power and the failure of high ideals. The particularity of his poetry, his quirky character and his solitary living, deprived of electricity and telephone, comprised a unique case that deviated from his era’s usual standards. Slowly but steadily, his poetry started expanding both to the Egyptian communities and the Greek mainland alike, engaging fervent supporters, but also fanatic opponents.
C. P. Cavafy collected and archived his work on a systematic basis, hence creating a unique literary and personal archive. The CAVAFY ARCHIVE consists of manuscripts of poems, hand-compiled printed editions, prose literary works, articles, studies and notes by the poet.
Trailer for an audio collection of 36 music tracks created by AGF in collaboration with Greek women sound artists and singers, an animated film by Andreas Karaoulanis which accompanies the music, an homage to the Greek female poets from ancient times to nowadays.
Sound and remembering in arachnesound.
Animation by bestbefore – Andreas Karaoulanis
Produced & Commissioned by Onassis Stegi
Watch the full film (Duration: 69’) here: youtube.com/watch?v=6YLoYMmo04c
Arachnesound by AGF & Various | 2021
We recommend the use of headphones for an enhanced experience.
Credits:
Reine Linda Nyongo
Savina Yannatou
Angela Dimitrakaki
Anna Stereopoulou
Maria Papadomanolaki
Maria Arapoglou
Nicoleta Chatzopoulou
Dimitra Ioannou
Katerina Iliopoulou
Konstantina Korryvanti
Ismini Samanidou
Carsten Stabenow
Vassilis Douvitsas
Onassis Stegi acknowledgements:
Christos Carras, Music Program Curator
Christina Pitouli, Producer
The track “Katerina Gogou” features an excerpt of Katerina Gogou’s poem “Ekino pou fovame” (“What I am afraid of”), included in the collective volume Poems 1978-2002, published in Greek by Kastaniotis Editions.
The track “Katerina Iliopoulou” features an excerpt of Katerina Iliopoulou’s poem “Passage,” included in the book Every Place Only Once, and Completely, published in Greek by Melani Editions.
The track “Eftychia Panagiotou” features an excerpt of Eytychia Panayiotou’s poem “Truth”, translated by Theodoros Chiotis, included in the book Futures: poetry of the Greek crisis, published by Penned in the Margins Editions.
Larhythmix – Fear Not [Official Music Video]
https://larhythmix.bandcamp.com/album/fear-not-ep
Animation:
Patrick K.-H. (drawnsound.org/patrickkh-karaoulanis.html)
bestbefore: bestbefore.gr/blog
http://soundcloud.com/larhythmix
http://larhythmix.com/
The “eror” is inspired by a word—λάθως (lathos: in error)—written on the walls of ATHENS. In a city without people, the only survivor is a disguised pianist who repeats that same word—λάθως—over and over again. Although the word «λάθως» appears only on the walls of Athens, the work relates to any city and the “errors” of civilization/CULTURE: badly-conceived and faulty IT systems, red alerts that spread fear, the production and piling up of waste – throw-away products, images, information…
More info here: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/eror-the-pianist
Full performance here:
The work expresses the political, geographical and social instability through the digital instability – the introduction of the aleatory and the algorithmic error in the musical material, the sound and the video image. Pianistic gestures, brief references and tributes, and field recordings are transformed through a complex music computing environment. A ‘sound-geography of “error” for a city without peolpe.
COMMISSIONED AND PRODUCED BY ONASSIS STEGI
CO-PRODUCTION IRCAM—CENTRE POMPIDOU
A prepared piano with special effects and electronics dynamically enters the ‘With a Twist’ Cycle for a single concert, where the sound of the virtuoso instrument as we know it changes: the classical Steinway is transformed with the help of technology so as to produce new unique timbres, which, in combination with the moving image, create a distinctive aesthetic environment of perpetual interaction. A journey through ever-changing landscapes, with creatures of the imagination. The piano with a twist best before…unu!
‘unu’ (Antonis Anissegos) electronics, prepared piano
‘bestbefore’ (Andreas Karaoulanis) video animation http://www.megaron.gr/default.asp?pid=5&la=2&evID=4246
"Trass" music video by Patrick K.-H. / bestbefore – Andreas Karaoulanis (animation) and Michael J. Schumacher / diNMachine (music), 2018.
Trass takes a motif from “Camptown Races” (Stephen Foster, 1850) and expands on it in a contrapuntal texture. The piece is scored for mixed ensemble; in this recording synthesizers were used instead, with live drums. The video adds its own layers of textural complexity and depth perspective, commenting humorously on the frenetic energy of the music.
On the occasion of Karl Marx’ 200th birthday, Akademie artists report on encounters with his work and the influence it had on their own artistic oeuvre. In the context of the Spring General Assembly, the Akademie invites to in-house talks at Hanseatenweg with its members Jochen Gerz, Regine Keller, Ursula Krechel, Helke Misselwitz, Ingo Schulze, Arila Siegert, Mathias Spahlinger and Uwe Timm. Ulrich Peltzer will moderate the consecutive discussion groups with Abstract Animations by Andreas Karaoulanis in between. Jeanine Meerapfel will introduce the evening.
Audio by Floros Floridis.
Additional events: Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike. Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital (2008), a film essay by Alexander Kluge, a projection of Sibylle Bergemann’s photo series Das Denkmal about the creation of the Marx-Engels monument by Ludwig Engelhardt from 1975 to 1986.
Starting at 10 pm, guided tours with the curators Angela Lammert and Markus Müller will be held in the Underground and Improvisation. Alternative Music and Art after 1968 double exhibition. https://www.adk.de/de/programm/?we_objectID=58422
Expert from Madatac Fest in Madrid – January 2018.with Patrick K.-H.
MADATAC offers the viewer a new way of seeing video art within one of the most amazing architectural installations in the world. The public can be seated on the sofas, or lying in the ambience prepared for the occasion, under the vault of the NH Collection Eurobuilding: the largest domed LED screen in Europe (300 square meters) and the second in the world. A whole show of light, surround sound (48 sound projectors integrated in the structure) and video in a semi-transparent curved screen where 9 works with a special format, resolution and aesthetics will be projected for this amazing place. Under the title of Videoskies, the works reflect hybrid images, abstract, technological frescoes, geometric and pictorial trips on the perception of color in space, audiovisual games of rhythms, shapes, light, invitations to enter our dreams or Nature in all its splendor unfolding in our senses. http://madatac.es/event/videodome-videoskies_nh-collection-eurobuilding/
Last month’s Scope talk of Patrick K.-H. and Bestbefore about their beautifully surrealist animations and audiovisual collaboration is online!
photo/video:by the scope sessions team (http://scopesessions.org/)
“For the video to recent single “Dbl Trbl,” the band paired with Russian artist Patrick K.-H. and Greek artist Bestbefore to create an animated accompaniment to the erratic and rhythmically skewed sounds that diNMachine has linked together on this track. Combining warped electronics with muddied cross-genre experimentation and a brittle visual aesthetic, the band looks to pull apart their influences while finding common ground between the aural and cinematic nature of their work. Whether it’s through the driving synth bass sounds of electro funk or a dramatically percussive jazz-influenced melody, the band finds a way to make all these sounds flow together in a persuasive cadence.“
read the whole piece here… nooga.com/173373/watch-dinmachine-wraps-eclectic-sounds-inside-brittle-animation-for-the-video-to-dbl-trbl-nooga-premiere/
Live film collaging / live soundtrack composition by the Berlin Soundpainting Orchestra @ 03/05/2015
animation: Andreas Karaoulanis
A musical and visual journey inspired by “A Trip To The Moon” and other bizarre movies of the early 20th century by the great Georges Méliès.
THE CONCEPT
In collaboration with Per Aspera e.V. the Berlin Soundpainting Orchestra presents a movie selection from one of the first and most creative directors of film history: Georges Méliès.
Led and conducted by Hada Benedito, the Berlin Soundpainting Orchestra provides the Soundtrack and discovers the interplay between sound and images to create an audio-visual composition in real time.
The video artist Andreas Karaoulanis creates animations to reconstruct the visual narration of the films, providing them with rhythmical abstraction.
“I composed Corporate Coitus while working as an audio technician at a company which produced background music for businesses. When the company CEO was interviewed by the on-line business journal WallStreetReporter.com, I used the audio portion of the interview as source material. I extracted the extra-verbal sounds—the “ahs” and “ums” and intakes of breath—for use in this new piece. The title of Corporate Coitus came about as I feel that sex and business are always somehow connected. I heard the piece as an imaginary sex act gathering intensity to a climax followed by a gradual de-tumescence.” David Hahn
Still images from Black Flow project
Morphing landscapes and electroacoustic environments
An audio/visual performance with floor projection (10x10m)
@ Kühlhaus Berlin 27-02-2015
Floros Floridis: reeds, live-electronics
Andreas Karaoulanis: animation-programming
Patrick K.-H.: animation
