This is my debut audiovisual album and in the overall length of 46 minutes combines:
1) composed music, performed by a quintet (Vocals, Alto/Tenor Saxophone, Harp, Electric/Double Bass and Percussion/Drums)
sound designed elements made of field recordings of the same quintet as well as of different soundscape recordings made around the Netherlands, Greece and Turkey
2) film recordings, also made around the Netherlands, Greece and Turkey and
3) three poems
?Narcissus and Echo written by Fred Chappell (track 3)
?A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe (track 4)
?Time and Life by Algernon Charles Swinburne (track 6)
All carefully planned and put together in 6 chapters:
Our25thHour is meant to be a condensed?compressed version of someone?s emotional world, that throughout an entire life, the years, the months, the days or in just one hour, feel like an endless circle full of ups and downs, that ultimately through time, result in some kind of balance equal to our unique and individual perception of reality.
Music Composition
Sound Design/Mixing
Film Direction/Editing
Efthymios Stavropoulos
Mastering
Aggelos Athanasiadis
Conducting
Georgi Tsenov
Live Performance
Elsbeth Verheij ? Harp
Wietse Voermans -Tenor/Alto Saxophone
Ferhat Oz -Vocals
Jacobus Thiele -Percussion/Drums
Daniel De Boer -Electric/Double Bass
Casting (track 5)
Burcu Ramazano?lu
Performance?s Sound Recording/Engineering
Aleksandar Obradovi?
Performance?s Light Designing
Edwin van Steenbergen
Cinematography
Efthymis Stavropoulos
Giorgos Zondi (tracks 1,2,4)
Zarkadas Dimitris (track 4)
The performance material were recorded live at Codarts University of the Arts
in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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A few more words about Our25thHour
Whatever can be imagined, can as well become true or be realized. Imagination keeps our minds active and our minds keep our emotions busy and vice versa.
Imagination ? Thinking ? Feeling
In our daily lives we are going through circular patterns of emotional states that we either embrace and support or we avoid and neglect.
Whatever can be imagined, can as well be true and real. Imagination keeps our minds active and our minds keep our emotions busy and vice versa.
In our daily lives we are going through circular patterns of emotional states that we either embrace and support or we avoid and neglect.
Depending on our approach we enrich our knowledge on the perception of reality from different points of view as well as the emotional variety and intensity with which we feel complete, unique, confident, happy, friendly e.t.c, or we find ourselves against difficulties, stress and extra needs that most of the times are superficial. In every moment we make choices. Some of them consciously and some not. The more we understand and control ourselves, the more aware of the possible choices we become. This gives a certain amount of confidence over our life?s development, but it also provides stress or anxiety, resulting again in a circle through which we have to go through in order to proceed.
Life is full of these circles. All of them combined give us a bigger circle, the circle of life. Dealing with it in a moral way puts each one of us against ourself and against the projection of our image towards the others.
Through the years, I have over and over again been struggling from being lost into these thoughts and as a reference to that I created a collage of music, sound design and film which consists of emotional states, atmospheres, thoughts and imaginations I passed through, during the years I studied in the Netherlands.
Away from home and family, exploring a new life, growing up, meeting new people and cultures, widening my horizons and slowly becoming who I am today.
