Calliope Tsoupaki about her new work:
“Perasma” is a Greek word with many meanings, one of them being the passing of time. The passing of a moment, of a period of time, of life. Everything is moving away from us, a bad moment gives space to a new beginning. We move from a sad to a happy moment or backward, from happy to sad. We constantly say goodbye to moments in our life, and then when we are older, there comes a moment of reflection: “a lot has changed”, or “I feel as happy and careless as when I was 14″. Time takes away but also brings back to us new things.
I do not work with cerebral constructions. I want the music to be connected with deeper thought, reflection and emotion. To give us a life experience, I play with time. For example, I use techniques to make a short music fragment sound and feel longer and the other way around. I play with our expectations, manipulating details related with our memory during the concert, so that everyone from the audience will have their own experience, a private inner moment.
(Photo by Eleni Mik)
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