Hidden Poets Garden

Presented at
Mikro Polytexneio
Date
2012

In this audio installation–performance, Emmanouel Rovithis, together with the students of his Digital Sound Design workshop at the Mikro Polytexneio Foundation for the Arts, explored the sonification of poems written by students of the Poetry course, using the poets’ voice recordings as the sole material for composing the audio works.

Notes, ambiences, textures, and soundscapes were created entirely by editing, filtering, and stretching the recorded words. After presenting the sonified poems to the audience, the group performed a collaborative improvisation with everyday resonant objects, suggesting that music and poetry can arise from the materials and moments of everyday life.

With the audio works focusing entirely on human speech as raw material, Emmanouel Rovithis integrated his Embodied Sound Dramaturgy into his teaching practice for the first time, introducing students to the metamorphosis of vocal recordings into autonomous sonic entities operating on both acoustic and symbolic levels.

Credits

Concept-Supervision: Emmanouel Rovithis

Sound Design:

Paris Gavrilis on a poem by Varvara Koassin,

Irene Korinthiou on a poem by Xristos Daskalakis,

Katerina Krompa on a poem by Ioannis Kountouris,

Giannis Oikonomou on a poem by Ioannis Kountouris,

Maria Papadaki on a poem by Zoe Mouratoglou,

Emmanouel Rovithis on a poem by Panagiotis Lampridis

Gregory Thanopoulos on a poem by Giorgos Koukas,

Thodoris Trifyllis on a poem by Xristos Daskalakis,

Giannis Voutsinas on a poem by Anthi Mitropetrou

Photo-documentation: Gregory Thanopoulos

News247
The intense musicality also contributes to this harmonious mix (excellent musical composition and sound design by Emmanouel Rovithis) which "binds" with Aris Biniaris' directorial perspective and subsequently imbues the acting of his actors with rhythm in speech, breaths and their body."
Efsyn
"The intense music of Emmanouel Rovithis and the choreography of Evi Oikonomou move the stage in the steps of a Kafkaesque nightmare."

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