DUO MOOR-KYRIAKIDES : Rebetika & Orbital In Rebetika Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides (electric guitar and live electronics) explore and mine the rich and mysterious terrain of Greek rebetika music from the early 20th century. Developed from their first release in 2006 through 'A life is A Billion Heartbeats’ released in 2015, and ‘Pavilion' in 2019, they continue to expand their particular interpretation of this repertoire. The music travels from more composed and arranged renditions of the old tunes, to completely improvised pieces that capture a sense of the gesture and tonalities of the source music, albeit with a very contemporary edge.
Orbital is an audio visual score for ensemble of any size. It is a journey around the Amsterdam ring road - the A10 - made during the first period of lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic April to September 2020. The score is comprised of 74 images in which various musical parameters can be interpreted. Sound input from a microphone is used to generate shapes on the video which are interpreted by the musicians. The video score is accompanied with a set of instructions and optional melodic material.
A Quatuor Bozzini production
- ANDY MOOR has a background in the British post punk of the 1980s and he’s a member of Dutch band The Ex since 1990. His energetic, rhythmically oriented playing is characterized by physical manipulation of the strings and parts of the electric guitar. As an improviser he collaborates with artists from different disciplines, such as poet Anne-James Chaton, filmmaker Jem Cohen and DJ/Rupture. He also runs the Unsounds label together with composer Yannis Kyriakides and designer Isabelle Vigier.
YANNIS KYRIAKIDES is a composer and sound artist focused on creating new forms, notations and hybrids of media that highlight the multi-sensory experience of listening. The question as to what music actually communicates is a recurring theme in his work and he is often drawn to the relations between music, text, and image. He co-founded and runs a label for electronic music, Unsounds, is active as an electronics improviser with musicians like Andy Moor and Maze Ensemble and teaches composition and multimedia at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
