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
CONCEPT, ART DIRECTION GEORGIA SPIROPOULOS
PIANO IMPROVISATION ALVISE SINIVIA
COMPUTER MUSIC DESIGN IRCAM – BENJAMIN LÉVY
VIDEO DIRECTION ANDREAS KARAOULANIS, GEORGIA SPIROPOULOS
EDITOR VIDEO BESTBEFORE – ANDREAS KARAOULANIS
Links to interviews:
https://bit.ly/2OBFkxi
https://bit.ly/2FNBm1H
https://bit.ly/2HQjB41
https://bit.ly/2HQN79S