2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 13,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Like a virus knows_

Now we can relax in the cafes of the Plaza
Then run to the 24-hour game station
Or let’s get lost in the grey zone of a vast building
But, remember, the Sender has no human sight
Only like a virus knows_

Life is but a dream_

Deeper in blue skies
Life is but a dream
Deep inner city details
Will you walk with me?
Talking about the shape of shape_

Broken weather, broken toys

On a paper boat
With broken weather
We sailed away
To distant shores

Never reached the sun
Like we planted details
Tripping wildly
With the polar lights

We woke up in a black spring
Summer seemed away
Like letter found on bed
One day

With breaking up words
We hanged down the stars
Spilled golden stardust
On the waves

Now in the trembling streams
Of foggy winters
We’re spirits drifting
Fade to white

Still we’re chasing hope
Or we’re hunting up noise
In broken weather
We’re broken toys

And we wake up in dark days
Summer seems away
Like that letter found on bed
That day

(Still) with breaking up words
We hang down the stars
We’re golden stardust
On the waves_

In between places_

Here I am, sitting and with ten hours to spend in a place beyond all places. Unceremoniously dusty, thrown away in a lost and dumped landscape. Refused, but still preferring the Gardens of Babylon, to the happy compromise of missing my identity in the upstairs room. They told me they call it the Sterile Zone. No one is really here. But I still hear voices. In between places. Or into some other alien worlds_

Mech▲nimal live

First Mech▲nimal live performance_
Tonight at Floral, downtown Athens_

Serafim Tsotsonis & ION at Loop Bar

ION live at DESTE Foundation for Kafka Zone exhibition

As part of the presentation for the Kafka Zone exhibition at DESTE Foundation (22/09/2011), I performed a 20 minutes piece for Reaktor & Tenori-on, closing a night of pleasant (and a few unpleasant) surprises.
Special thanks goes to Orestis Plakias, Freddie F. and to Athens International Film Festival for this gig.

Goethe.rmx

Somewhere in the midst of a summer recording fever with Mech▲nimal, I found some time to contribute to this project which I found to be of great interest. Firstly, thanks to Goethe Institut in Athens, I was invited to participate in an international remix project which included one original track and nine different producers from Canada, Brazil, Australia, Russia, Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and of course Greece. The main idea was based in a recording of Goethe’s poem “Koenig in Thule” by Emil Klotzsch. Last week the presentation of the nine remixes, including mine as ION, took place through SoundCloud.

Here’s the ION remix

The interview and the photos for Goethe Institut’s project site were done by Nikos Chrysikakis.

Follow the links for further information and audio pleasures

Goethe Institut

Goethe.rmx on SoundCloud