Streaming is an exploration along Athens’ Kifissos River, which, as an actual urban environment, has nearly disappeared. The river’s material and imaginary ‘presence’ in daily life is researched, along with the related strategies of remembering, forgetting and actualizing. By that the project reconstructs the flow of the river through the perceptions and practices that preserve this former reference line of Athens’ cartography as an urban reality – despite its eradication through urban planning. In a series of talks and interviews, Schellow follows local and trans-local narrations, weaving what becomes the urban reality of Athens.

To accompany Alexander Schellow’s STREAMING, two Paris-based musicians/artists, Séverine Ballon (cellist) and Nicolas Fenouillat (rock artist) have been invited to create a series of live experimental soundscapes.

 

STREAMING | A SOUNDSCAPE INTERVENTION, IN PRODUCTION

 

NICOLAS FENOUILLAT | ARTIST & MUSICIAN

Nicolas Fenouillat’s artistic work is multidisciplinary. It combines music, performance art, visual arts, architecture, poetry and video. Visual artist, performer and musician, he translates in a poetic and artistic way his active research in music and sound creation. His additional artistic training at the Fine Arts school of Montpellier, music at the National School of Music in Villeurbanne (ENM) as a pupil of composer, Fred Frith, and the curatorial school Magasin in Grenoble led him to a unique and singular production linking music and art.

His artistic work draws its references from different creative fields: architecture, popular culture and counter musical culture. Using metaphors from certain social contexts, the work of Nicolas Fenouillat creates a particular atmosphere, at times vaguely threatening, that offers a full immersion in space in order to transcend it. He conceives works that are characterized by the creative power of sound and the expression of a certain construction, present in the processes of sculpture or through images and allegories.

 

 

 

SEVERINE BALLON | MUSICIAN

Séverine Ballon‘s work focuses on regular performance of key works of the cello repertoire, as well as numerous collaborations with composers; in addition, her researches as an improviser have helped her to extend the sonic and technical resources of her instrument.

She studied the cello at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and in Lübeck with Joseph Schwab and Troels Svane. In 2004-2005 she was ‘academist’ at the Ensemble Modern (Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie). She perfected her contemporary cello technique with cellists Siegfried Palm, Pierre Strauch and Rohan de Saram. In 2005-2006 she was solo cellist of the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra, but subsequently decided to concentrate on contemporary music and on the premiere of new works. Currently she is working on developing extended techniques for her instrument and finding an appropriate notation.

 

 

 

TED REGKLIS | MUSICIAN, COMPOSER

Born in Crete in 1986 and raised in Athens, Greece. From the age of 6 he started learning the piano and took his first steps in music composition just a few years later. Before even reaching his 20s, Ted was already producing his own music with computers. He completed his piano studies from the Hellenic Conservatory and the Charalambos Ekmetsoglou Music School and then he moved on to study music theory at the London College of Music.

Since then he has been the founder or just a member of several alternative, pop-rock and downtempo music bands, serving as a composer or performing as a singer and a keyboardist. Since 2005, he’s been writing music for short films and theatrical plays while later he stepped into scoring video games. In 2013, he started collaborating with the Greek National Opera Dance School. Overall he has been the composer for both domestic and international projects, for over 30 short films, theatre plays, commercials and video games. In the meantime, Ted is a prolific concert composer and he has already released, both in Europe and the U.S., three personal albums and four with his downtempo band, Mockbirth.