Exhibitions & Lives

Anna-Maria Rammou

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Bi-monthly web radio residency at Onassis stegi.radio

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The first week of December '23 a four day festival took place in Athens regarding the Greek cultural landscape vis-à-vis the increased involvement of private institutions. My musical performance @tvcontrolcenter addressed the contradiction of the Athenian cultural scene by juxtaposing pompous phrases from press releases to the artists' inquires. Let's keep reclaiming the night!

H(E)AVENS

A four-day festival on the role of private foundations in the field of culture.

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Contemporary Art Exhibition “Apnea” at The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design & Environmental Studies

Opening Friday 10 March 2023

*apnea: The term “apnea” is used to describe the suspension of breathing. In water sports, the term refers to the voluntary holding of breath by keeping the face below the surface of the water.Apnea or calm in both meteorology and shipping is characterized by the complete lack of wind. The exhibition is open to all artistic practices (painting, sculpture, printmaking, mosaic, photography, installation, coding art, AI-Artificial Intelligence art , Sound art, video art, 3D art, animation, performance, lectures, etc.) and encourages experimental approaches within a creative context.

Sound Work : Fallacy - Our Mind Is A Cracked Mould Shaping Reality

Field Recording / Sound Composition (2020, 14')

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Selected for public broadcasting two radio art compositions.

August 2023 Glasgow / Scotland

“Scultping Nostalgia (Athens Lied)” Spoken Word - Music Composition (2023,10’)

“Scultping Nostalgia (A Belgradian Rhapsody)” Spoken Word - Music Composition (2022, 10’)

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Sunday Night office gig @prelab_creative_space from @periodiko.dilitirio with  @babakahteshamipour and @0111.g0.  December 2022, 11th

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Live Performance in front of Piraeus Municipality Theatre, 17 September 2022. Electric Nights Festival.

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Live at Π6, Athens, July 2022

Spoken Word by Yannis Mihos and electronics.

Group Improvisation

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Behind the scenes...

Live audio manipulation with pure data and light sensors of an actor’s recitation together with the sounds of the surroundings. Koumaria, 2022

Idea, Live electronics : Anna-Maria Rammou

Recitation : Spyros Varelis

Video : Natalia Papadopoulou

Environmental sound performer : Aris Papadopoulous

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Field Recordings -  Live improvisational sets - Performances with actor and dancer -  Live music for video - Koumaria, 2022

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Official Selection for the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival | FutuRetro

"Follow The Pebbles" is a mini-collage of sound souvenirs. We shape our path intrinsically, but some of us are trying to follow the pebbles back in order to understand the elements that shaped us when children. All sounds were sourced from old fairy tales cassettes and together they create a parade where the musical elements pass you by. Noise, artifacts, human voices that become animals' roar, all blend as reality and fiction collide. Warped sounds match our distorted memories. Once in our memory sound gains a dual identity. It becomes an eternal element that can be recalled and projected into the future conserving simultaneously its past character. The listener is invited to dream again, even though aware that life is not a fairy tale, and to live happily ever after.

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Selected work for the Future Nostalgia digital platform and upcoming Futurology Kiosk installation,  Weimar, Germany, March 2022

“Abra Katabra” ‘s primary source of sound is the 555 timer IC that dates back to the 70's and incorporates in its sound the whole ethos of DIY electronics. Here, it is heavily processed by sound manipulation tools provided by a modern DAW. The outro is the opening melody of an old fairy tale cassette I used to listen as a child back in the 80's. The brain is befogged by the use of an opening tune as outro. A mental loop is created that wraps around you like a veil and travels you through time. An eerie warm light where future and past collide in a soundtrack played on a warbling cassette player, thus forever stored in our memory. By collecting and evoking the sonic elements into the conscious mind the piece gains a dual identity. It becomes an eternal element that can be recalled and projected into future conserving simultaneously its past character. Every time it is recalled a new entity is created as time reshapes it, in the same way as a magnetic tape is worn and reborn in every loop.

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Live at Athens Conservatoire - Solo and Group Improvisation

“is slender; likes flowers”

is a verse from a poem by e.e. cummings where Life is presented as an old man with flowers on his head and Afterwards as a slender lady who likes flowers. The work comes as a sequel to “in pulverem reverteris” (2021), an observation of the moment when ashes join the foam of the waves. In the work “is slender;likes flowers” the sound fragments have been united in a single structure, which, however, remains extremely fragile. The space created by the synergy of high and low frequencies is the binding material of the fragments that are joined to this new body, only to break at the first opportunity.

The work is intended for live performance via live mixing and sound manipulation through filters and effect inside Ableton Live, and lasts approximately 8'. The primary sound material are recordings from Eurorack simulator (VCV) and contact mics, 40106 oscillator, plug-in and  Volca FM synthesizer.

Watch Live Footage

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In 2009 I was in Brooklyn, NY for Mono No Aware Festival III for live musical accompaniment and performance of “Honey Bed” ‘s soundtrack. A beautiful short film, I also co-starred in, by my dear friend Syni Pappa, shot on Super 8.

You can watch the film here

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Live at Chimeres Space - Solo and Group Improvisation

Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris

Στον πίνακα του Ιωάννη Αλταμούρα «Κύματα» η θάλασσα απεικονίζεται σαν συνέχεια του ουρανού. Μια ενιαία ατμόσφαιρα που αντικατοπτρίζει το όλον.

Το in pulverem reverteris είναι η παρατήρηση εκείνης της στιγμής που η τέφρα επιστρέφει στο όλον. Τα σωματίδια νερού κι αέρα, ο αφρός των κυμάτων, ενώνονται με την τέφρα σε μια γιορτή σύζευξης και επιστροφής της ανόργανης ύλης στη θάλασσα. Μαζί ανυψώνονται στον ουρανό για να πέσουν στα βάθη της θάλασσας μέχρι το κύμα να τα ξεβράσει πάλι σε μια γη. Η πορεία είναι επαναληπτική κι αέναη, μια ψευδαίσθηση αθανασίας.

Όπως το μάτι ανακαλύπτει λεπτομέρειες μέσα στο ενιαίο έτσι και το αυτί επικεντρώνεται σε σημεία μέσα στον θόρυβο.

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Group improvisation session, following a series of creative music technology workshops at the ContemporaryMusicResearchCenter (KSYME).

Stelios Giannoulakis: Circuit-bent toy piano, BastleKastle, 555 oscillator, mixer

Thanasis Zaharopoulos: Clarinet, 555 oscillator, percussion

Anna-Maria Rammou: 555 oscillator, guitar pedals, looper, PocketOperator

Yannis Michos: 555 oscillator, Ableton Live, MIDI controller

Jiannis Papadakis: 40106 oscillators, APC, guitar pedals, voice

Chimeres Space, Athens 2020.