EΜΣΤ is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Greece of the visual artist Viron Erol Vert, entitled The Hermit. The show will open on the 29th November with a live programme curated by KRAMA.
The programme curated by KRAMA will include live performances by sound artists Jeph Vanger, NatCase, Agatha & Kristianna Tsimpi.
KRAMA is a collective, an independent initiative showcasing artists from a wide spectrum of creative practices. Through a multidisciplinary approach, theywe bring together different forms of artistic expression in an effort to create a dialogue that transcends creative fields and geographical boundaries. At the core of KRAMA lies a desire to create a space (tangible or intangible) for artists to converse, experiment, merge or deviate and ultimately form a community with shared commonalities and unique differences on the fringes of mainstream culture.
KRAMA was formed in 2019, taking shape as a yearly festival in 2019, 2022 and 2023, hosting 45+ music acts and 30+ visual artists, in venues such as Communitism, Romantso and Empros Theatre. KRAMA has also curated an exhibition in 2021 at KEIV Athens and the collective is a resident host of a monthly radio show called KRAMA Entries at Stegi Radio. The fourth edition of the festival is scheduled for summer 2024, while more events will take place in the coming months.
ARTISTS & WORKS
Jeph Vanger
Jeph Vanger is a sound artist and electronic music composer who works in the intersection of performing arts & sonic installations. He studied Digital Music and Sound Arts at the University of Brighton and is currently undertaking a Masters in Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work often combines multichannel sound systems and loudspeaker experiments with an emphasis on how sound manifests as a moving, raw entity.
After his latest release of “Cyclothymia” EP, his sonic pallet has been compared with artists such as Floating Points, Four Tet, and Hildur Guðnadóttir’ by the British online magazine Resident Advisor. Jeph’s work has been supported by ARTWORKS (Stavros Niarchos Foundation), Arts Council England & Help Musicians UK. He has also been a Composer in Residence at the renowned EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm during May 2021.
As a composer, he has collaborated with choreographers, theatre directors and musicians such as Chara Kotsali, Candy Karra, Mario Banushi, Savina Yannatou, Martha Passakopoulou & Aris Papadopoulos, Aris Biniaris, Anastasia Valsamaki, Kyriaki Nasioula, Michalis Theophanous, Isidora Vincentelli, Georgia Tegou. Some of his own works and collaborations have been exhibited and performed in institutions, theatres and organisations in China, the UK, France, and Greece such as Tate Modern, Beijing Today Art Museum, Sadler’s Wells, Brighton Fringe, Megaron Athens, Onassis Stegi and Athens & Epidaurus Festival to name a few.
Live performance at EMΣΤ
“The Thorns We Buried” is a new composition based on improvisational techniques of granular processing of clarinet recordings by Christos Anastasiadis, fused with sounds derived from telephone voice memos. Starting from tiny grains of sound, the performance intends to create a sonic space, in front of and around the listener.
NatCase
NatCase is an electronic music producer, DJ & radio host from Athens, Greece. Music has been essential since her early years as she studied piano and drums but it was only when she began frequenting clubs and started DJing that the gate to the limitless possibilities of electronic music opened, marking a pivotal connection with the genre and its community. NatCase is currently re-imagining electronic music as a hybrid with lo-fi aesthetics and traditional patterns. She draws inspiration from the struggles of the oppressed and shares the agony of achieving equality and social balance, a stance that resonates in her artistic expression.
In 2016 she started producing her own music after she received training in electronic composition at the Contemporary Music Research Center (Ksyme) between 2017-2018. She eventually realised that her interest oscillates between experimental and dance electronic music and keeps walking on that line, bending towards each genre and allowing her projects to unfold organically through interactive exploration.
In 2020 her first EP “Deeptych” was released on the iconic underground L.A. label TAR. Since then, she has showcased her music in live performances and earned a place in various compilations.
Live performance at EMΣΤ
“A timestamp is a sequence of characters or encoded information which identifies when a specific event occurred, typically by indicating the date and time of day, often accurate down to a small fraction of a second. Timestamps however do not have to be based on some absolute notion of time; they can relate to any epoch, to any random point in history. In “Timestamps”, NatCase will transform traditional logs into contemporary, more readable formats. Since time is a prevalent element in both perception and implementation via looped sequences, ceremonial events become distorted and delayed, interwoven with sonified timestamps. As tradition and continuity are imbued with polemic notions of power, the timing of the sound is treated as a political instrument – a tool to challenge established facets of a collective cultural identity”. – NatCase
Agatha & Kristianna Tsimpi
Agatha is a sound designer and music producer based in Athens. Their practice has developed through engagement with sound and music as a band member (Agatha & Molyneaux and Plastic Flowers), an event organiser (KRAMA, Fauna Sauna, Power Dance Club, LGBTQI+ Refugees in Greece) as well as working on sound for theatre and films (more recently as a member of Eteria FIlon project at Epidaurus Festival). For the past two years and in collaboration with xfutrhug.co/Qreclaim, they are running workshops for individuals who are making their first steps in music production on Ableton.
Kristianna Tsimpi is a sound artist based in Athens. She has been producing dance music under the moniker Tanjie Kay, while also being involved with scoring films and performances such as Bone Selektor (2021) and JCSF (2022).
Live performance at EMΣΤ
“aposynthesi↹, is an ongoing collaborative project. Drawing influence from the research of the artists, it is an attempt to explore the process and importance of “synthesis of meaning”. To achieve that, an interactive audio interface is programmed, where decision making is not based on rigid music norms and models but instead operates in a continuous flux. The methods are based on a conjunction use of a digital audio workspace, Ableton, as well as data analysis tools which extract information from an image or word and correlate it to a sound. The duality of these methods invites the audience to assess the significance or insignificance of human input in this process of synthesis.” – Agatha & Kristianna Tsimpi
ACCESS
Free entrance
