GNO Learning & Participation Department’s educational programme “Sound Art and Deafness: Music as an Embodied Experience” presents a relaxed performance

Sound Art & Deafness: Music as an Embodied Experience

Relaxed performance

Designed by:

Akoo-o, Τwixtlab & GNO Intercultural Orchestra

Saturday 29 April 2023

Starts at: 14.00

Greek National Opera’s foyer

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Admission is free for the public

GNO Learning & Participation Department’s educational programme “Sound Art and Deafness: Music as an Embodied Experience” completes its series of workshops with a relaxed performance, a fully accessible performance of structured improvisation, on Saturday 29 April 2023 at 14.00 at the GNO foyer in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. Admission will be free for the public. The event will be accessible to participants through interpretation in Greek Sign Language.

The educational programme is part of the series of events titled “All Τogether at the Οpera”, which is realised with the support of Αlpha Bank.

The workshops “Sound Art and Deafness: Music as an Embodied Experience” (Dana Papachristou, George Samantas) and the GNO Intercultural Orchestra (Harris Lambrakis) will jointly improvise offering a new experience of musical co-creation that is based more on visual stimuli than hearing. With the help of a software created by composer and sound artist Orestis Karamanlis, participants will improvise and compose music as part of a relaxed performance – a practice that breaks down the conventions of the established ways of presenting music, dance, and theatre performances, as a relaxed performance can be attended by persons with visible or invisible disabilities of all ages. During the performance audience members are allowed to freely move around the space, remain there for as long as they wish, take part in the show, talk, or produce sounds. All of us together will have the chance to experientially follow the process of creating a music work and familiarise ourselves with the relaxed performance condition – a performing arts trend that has been gradually spreading over a multitude of music and theatre scenes abroad aiming at full accessibility.

The relaxed performance was designed by the Akoo-o group of artists and the Twixtlab company in collaboration with the GNO Intercultural Orchestra.

GNO Learning & Participation

Sound Art & Deafness: Music as an Embodied Experience • Relaxed performance

Designed by: Akoo-o group of artists (Dana Papachtistou, sound artist, musicologist, currently teaching at the University of Thessaly & Giorgos Samantas, sound artist, social anthropologist), Τwixtlab company (member of the cultural cooperation programme B-AIR: Art Infinity Radio that is co-funded by European Union’s Creative Europe programme)

Artistic Collaborator: Orestis Karamanlis, composer, sound artist, currently teaching at the NKUA

In collaboration with the GNO Intercultural Orchestra

Interpretation: Xenia Nikolakopoulou

Saturday 29 April 2023

Starts at: 14.00

Greek National Opera’s foyer – SNFCC

Admission is free for the public

GNO Accessibility Sponsor 

Lead Donor of the GNO Learning & Participation Department