T.C.H.
Artistic Direction: Kostas Makriyannakis
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
W. B. Yeats, abstract from Down by the Salley Gardens
The performance
ianemta - the sounds of the park is a new proposal regarding chamber music, which
combines contemporary means with tranditional forms creating a unique language. The special
guitar-piano duo in addition to visual material as well as electronic and pre-recorded sounds narrate in
an abstract way stories that take place during a day in the imaginary park ianemta.
Ianemta is not just a place full of trees and flowers but an area which hosts and frames its visitors’ sociability,that allows their thoughts and emotions to come to the surface giving them the opportunity to express their love, their loneliness or even their violent side. It is the natural place in which everyone can feel free to get in touch with other people in their own way. The main role in this narration of the park’s microcosmos is played by music. The outstanding guitar-piano duo of Korina Vougiouka and Thodoris Tzovanakis interprets original music as well as transcriptions by Tasos Rosopoulos especially composed for this performance. Ianemta’s musical structure is highlighted by special lighting as well as video
projections under the direction of the young award-winning director Kostantinos Frangopoulos.
Electronic and pre-recorded surrounding sounds ‘embrace’ the audience and lead the spectators to the
park of their desire...
Lighting, visual material, fragmentary narration and merging sounds, extend the
purely audible-acoustic hypostasis of the music interpreted on the stage and enrich it with further
dimensions; subtle sides hidden in human relationships, habits and emotions are underlined. Short
stories which take place during a day in Ianemta. Under the shadows of the trees and the afternoon
that passes by, simple casual moments and memories.
Ianemta was premiered at Onassis Cultural Centre 14th and 15th of May 2011.
Tickets: 10€
ARTISTS
Idea, project design, original music, transformations, soun material: Tasos Rosopoulos
Project design, direction, visual material: Konstantis Frangopoulos
Korina Vougiouka, guitar
Thodoris Tzovanakis, piano
Recorded vocals: Savina Yannatou
Sound engineering, recordings. sound editing: Tasos Bakasietas
The poem Down by the salley gardens’ by W. B. Yeats is translated into Greek by Giorgos Koropoulis