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Natalia Kotsani and Tasos Kofodimos, collaborate for the first time in a performance, with important moments from their fifteen-year musical career. Rhythms from the Balkans and Thrace, Armenian melodies and Mediterranean songs, meet their personal compositions, highlighting their special communication with the audience, their dynamic presence on stage and their expressive performances.
They exchange their musical material, change roles, share their compositions and propose a contemporary interpretation of traditional songs. Two parallel musical paths, with common origins in the traditional musics of the world and in the search for the roots, come together in an imaginative dialogue of alternation and exchange of musical idioms.

Sponsors
Emily Boutique Hotel
Seajets

Natalia Kotsani: Voice, Piano, Accordion
Tasos Kofodimos: Voice, Lute, Guitar

Where
Cantina Analogue
Ermoupolis, Syros, Greece
Entrance: €5

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1st Music and Artificial Intelligence Festival 

• 01, 02 Jun 2023

Festival

Greek National Opera Alternative Stage
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Starts at 20.00  |   

website: https://musai.gr

Free admission upon priority vouchers that will be distributed from Friday 26 May 2023, at 12.00, exclusively via ticketservices.gr/enAlternative Stage founding donor

The 1^st Music and Artificial Intelligence Festival MUSAI is coming to the Greek National Opera Alternative Stage at the SNFCC with the participation of fourteen Greek musicians and an international artist. For two days, on the 1^st and 2^nd June 2023, at 20.00, the audience will have the chance to enjoy artists from different musical worlds interacting with new technology and artificial intelligence tools and integrating them into musical creation, either in an improvisatory way, in real time, or as compositional tools.

In MUSAI Festival, acoustic instruments meet with electric sounds and live visuals, analog processors converse with motion and brain sign sensors, and the raw timbres of vocal idioms of the Eastern Mediterranean become musical digits in granular synthesis creations.

The Festival is realised thanks to a grant by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the scientific guidance of the Artificial Intelligence and Learning Systems Workshop of the National Technical University of Athens and the LabMat of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as the collaboration of the GNO Alternative Stage.

The first day of the Festival (1/6) opens with the prolific multi-instrumentalist and composer Tilemachos Moussas with an ambient-experimental programme and continues with experimental musicians Spyros Polychronopoulos on the electronics and Giannis Anastasakis on the guitar – accompanied by the live visuals of visual artist Natalia Manta–, followed by the Dance with Invisible Partners project by scientist and musician Kostis Gardikis with dark pop pieces co-created with the use of artificial intelligence.

The Festival’s second day brings onto the stage the synergy of researcher and performer Natalia Kotsani with Tasos Kofodimos singing and playing the lute, Harris Lambrakis on the ney, Giotis Kiourtsoglou on the electric bass and Vangelis Karipis on percussion, in a special musical encounter dedicated to the songs of the Mediterranean and the interaction of traditional vocal idioms with tools of granular synthesis. The Festival comes complete with the French singer and ethnomusicologist Françoise Atlan that has carved out a remarkable career thanks to her special timbre and the expressive style with which she approaches the Sephardic, Arabic and Andalusian repertoire.

This course proposes the exploration of the poetic and musical world at the time of Al-Andalús through the Spirit of Cordoba. In view of the sung tradition of Judeo-Spanish Romances and classicals song from thé tradition of Andalous Music from Morocco, the repertoire of the Cantigas de Santa Maria will be approached, devotional songs written and compiled by King Alfonse De Castille. Known as Alfonso el Sabio, this enlightened 13th century monarch welcomed Jewish, Christian and Muslim musicians into his court. Historical contentIn 1492, following the decree of expulsion pronounced by Isabella of Castile, the Jewish population of Spain left Al Andalous and La Convivencia which characterized it, taking with it a secular and sacred repertoire of great beauty, multi-secular and transmitted orally. Welcomed in the former Ottoman Empire, and in the Maghreb countries (northern Morocco in particular), the Cantigas will be tinged with the musical styles and languages ​​of the host countries. Thus, the Sephardic repertoire is enriched in a brilliant way in contact with the music and peoples who have welcomed them.Directory workedThe Spirit of Cordoba: Sephardic and Arab-Andalusian songs. Sacred and secular songs in Haketya, Ladino, Hebrew, Arabic and Gallego-Portuguese for the Cantigas de Santa Maria and Shuadit Judeo-Provencal.

Method

Work on phonetics
Vocal preparation work according to the repertoire coveredWork on modes, melismas
Learning rhythms with percussion: singing and accompanying oneself

Work and approach to ornamentation adapted to each songListening and comparative analysis of the songs, from sound extracts

Learning is done orally, however the corresponding scores and arrangements edited by Françoise Atlan will be distributed. If possible, come with a percussion (frame drum, such as a bendir, daf, tambourine, darbouka).

Where

Protopapadaki 43, Athens, Greece

When

Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th June, 2023

13:00-17:30

Duration

8 h (4 h per day)

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2 March 2023

Natalia Kotsani and Tasos Kofodimos, collaborate for the first time in a performance, with important moments from their fifteen-year musical career. Rhythms from the Balkans and Thrace, Armenian melodies and Mediterranean songs, meet their personal compositions, highlighting their special communication with the audience, their dynamic presence on stage and their expressive performances.
They exchange their musical material, change roles, share their compositions and propose a contemporary interpretation of traditional songs. Two parallel musical paths, with common origins in the traditional musics of the world and in the search for the roots, come together in an imaginative dialogue of alternation and exchange of musical idioms.

Natalia Kotsani: Voice, Piano, Accordion
Tasos Kofodimos: Voice, Lute, Guitar
Dimitris Brentas: Clarino, Bagpipe, Kaval
Vangelis Karipis: Percussion
Giorgos Danis: Double bass

Where
Aliko
Triptolemou 8, Gazi, Athens
Tel. reservations: 210 341 1498
Entrance: €5

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Wednesday 1 & 8 February 2023

Natalia Kotsani and Tasos Kofodimos, collaborate for the first time in a performance, with important moments from their fifteen-year musical career. Rhythms from the Balkans and Thrace, Armenian melodies and Mediterranean songs, meet their personal compositions, highlighting their special communication with the audience, their dynamic presence on stage and their expressive performances.
They exchange their musical material, change roles, share their compositions and propose a contemporary interpretation of traditional songs. Two parallel musical paths, with common origins in the traditional musics of the world and in the search for the roots, come together in an imaginative dialogue of alternation and exchange of musical idioms.

Natalia Kotsani: Voice, Piano, Accordion
Tasos Kofodimos: Voice, Lute, Guitar
Dimitris Brentas: Clarino, Bagpipe, Kaval
Vangelis Karipis: Percussion
Giorgos Danis: Double bass

Where
Aliko
Triptolemou 8, Gazi, Athens
Tel. reservations: 210 341 1498
Entrance: €5

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We open our eyes and our hearts, unite our voices and sing with encardia declaring our solidarity with refugees and immigrants across the country, across the earth.
We will live together!
The “Movement for the Defense of the Rights of Refugees & Immigrants” is a group of volunteers which is made up of active members in Patras since 2007. It provides Greek language courses and collects and distributes food and clothing. Highlights the problems caused by the anti-immigration policy of the government and the EU and claims the rights of immigrants and refugees.
Encardia, a world music ensemble, is currently one of the most prominent Greek world music groups in the country and internationally. Dedicated to the rich traditional music of South Italy, they take us with them on a musical journey to the villages of Calabria, the beautiful regions of Salento and all those places where Greek and other local dialects are still spoken.

encardia website: https://www.encardia.gr
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