SOMNIA PACIS: Dreaming Of Peace

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Dates

02.07 — 03.07.2024

Start Time

21.00

Venue

Fortezza, Rethymno How to get there

Description

The musical piece SOMNIA PACIS: Dreaming Of Peace is a collective platform, where music and speech come together to expressively interact. Starting from war conflict and moving towards its gradual impact on individuals, communities, and eventually the world, the piece is an artistic search for peaceful coexistence. It combines both classical and traditional timbres, sometimes using complex and other times simple expressive forms. The narration sometimes complements and other times enhances the themes evoked by the music, maintaining a balance between the horror of war and the dream of peace. The collective vocal and rhythmic interplay with the percussion, accompanied by the narration, and complemented by the orchestral ensemble, which both follows the score and improvises, creates a cross-artistic tapestry. This tapestry not only aims to evoke emotions but also to stimulate the audience’s senses, and provoke them by introducing them to an unprecedented musical experience.

Contributors

Concept

Giannis Papatzanis, Andreas Paragioudakis, Katerina Adamara

Artistic curator

Giannis Papatzanis, Andreas Paragioudakis

Arrangement, percussion group training

Giannis Papatzanis, Anthi Fourki

Arrangement, musical composition, singing group training

Andreas Paragioudakis

Dramaturgy

Andreas Paragioudakis, Katerina Adamara

Stage direction, text

Katerina Adamara

Musicians on stage

Dimitris Sideris (lute, electronics), Andreas Paragioudakis (mandolin), Giannis Papatzanis (percussion, singing), Anthi Fourki (percussion), Aris Syskakis (violin), Lauri Hamalainen (viola), Bernard Klein (violoncello), Katerina Sarantinou (violoncello), Katerina Lakiotaki, Eleftheria Blazaki, Alexia Katsanevaki, Maria Kefaloudaki (percussion, singing)

Along with a percussion group involving 120 participants in the programme “The art of rhythm in education – Music in the community”

Narrators on stage

Aliki Atsalaki, Malama Patreli

Sound designer

Telis Aristotelis

ΑΜΚΕ

Arts in the Mixer

Information

The event is offered for free by the Ministry of Culture.
Audience members are only requested to pay for the entrance fee to the archaeological site (4€, Reduced: 3€ for seniors over 65, free admission for permanent residents, students, soldiers, and people with disabilities).
Advanced booking is necessary.

Duration

75'