AWE
a w e (δέος)
Solo Music Album by Anna Stereopoulou
Music for Installations, Performances, Art Radio/Podcasts
A cinematic initiatory approach to social-cultural topics, from antiquity to the present, and for future needs.
Release: June 4, 2023
Production: Independent
Available in Digital (Tracks 1-9) https://annastereo.bandcamp.com/
& Physical formats: CD (Tracks 1-7), Cassette Tape (Tracks 8-9)
Deep Listening, preferably, with Closed Type headphones
Best Greek Music Album 2023 – “For the composer’s overall view on Sound and its relation to Science.” – Phontas Troussas | Diskoryxeion | 19 December 2023
(and) Amongst the:
• 20 Best Greek Music Albums 2023 – “(…) it comes to shine as one of the most distinguished and rich (Greek) records, in the experimental field (2023).” – Haris Symvoulidis | Athinorama | 31 December 2023
• 6+1 Best Greek Music Albums 2023 – Phontas Troussas | LiFO | 1 January 2024
Καλύτερος Ελληνικός Δίσκος για το 2023: «Για την συνολική ματιά της συνθέτριας πάνω στον ήχο και την συσχέτισή του με την επιστήμη.» – Φώντας Τρούσας | Δισκορυχείον | 19 Δεκεμβρίου 2023
(και) Ανάμεσα στα:
• 20 Καλύτερα Ελληνικά Άλμπουμ 2023 – «(…) έρχεται να λάμψει ως ένας από τους πιο διακεκριμένους και πλούσιους δίσκους που άκουσα φέτος από την εγχώρια έκφραση στο πειραματικό/experimental πεδίο.» – Χάρης Συμβουλίδης | Αθηνόραμα | 31 Δεκεμβρίου 2023
• 6+1 Καλύτερα Ελληνικά Άλμπουμ 2023 – Φώντας Τρούσας | LiFO | 1 Ιανουαρίου 2024
“Dedicated to my father, Nikos Stereopoulos (journalist, author, researcher)”
– Anna Stereopoulou, 4 June 2023
awe [aw]
n., v. awed, aw•ing. n. [1]
1. an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, or wonder produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, etc.
2. Archaic. power to inspire fear or reverence.
From ancient Greek (aw- / awe- / awed- / awer-)
ἄω (to blow, to speak, to sing); ἀάω; to satisfy, to sat(iat)e [2]
The sound of breath caused by the pronunciation of the vowels Ah! (ἆ – ἅ – ἅ – ἅ!)
and Oh! (ὤ – ὦ!), as interjections, expressing a feeling;
Related to (the Flow of) Water (ὕδωρ), Light (Eos / ἠώς, ἐώα, ἡ), Wind (air / ἀήρ) and God (Dias, Zeus), as Cosmos – Nature early worships on Earth; first forms (shouts) of human communication. [3]
Sources:
[1] Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
[2] Professor Charalambos Spyrides
[3] Georg Autenrieth, A Homeric Dictionary
TRACKS LIST
1 | The Anti-Post-Primitives – 05:00
2 | Delphic Hymn (Moonstruck) – 17:32
3 | Villa Veta – 05:08
4 | Es Trophoniou Memanteutai – 23:51
5 | Waxing Gibbous 72% – 08:11
6 | S.O.S. (Save Our Souls) – 06:46
7 | Ceres – 04:00
8 | Tata Itu – 09:35
9 | Anassa – 09:33
INFORMATION
“AWE” is inspired by Archaeology & Modern Media, while studying and expressing the fusion of Nature & Technology, and having Speech as their dominant element. Acoustic (musical) instruments, analogue synthesizers, field recordings, pulses and ‘glitches’, blossom through various orbits and musical geographies (Acoustic /Psycho-acoustic, Avant-garde, Minimalism, Sound Art, Cosmic Music), and with Cinema & Ancient Drama as their core.
The album, with a total duration of 90 minutes, includes nine compositions by Anna Stereopoulou, as she created them for different collaborations in Film & Video Art, Art Radio /Podcasts, Visuals /Installations, etc., in Greece and abroad (2020-2022). “AWE” concludes with her Diptych Sound-Work, based on Mathematics, Code/s, Linguistics, Psychology, Architecture, Noise, Astrophysics / Astromythology and Pre-History (Cretan / Minoan – Aegean – Near Eastern civilizations).
The goal of “AWE” is the Highlighting and Deep & Active Listening of Sound, in Art and everyday life, but also the ‘amplifying’ of Listenings and Sound Installations.
FURTHER ANALYSIS
CREDITS
Music (Composed, Orchestrated, Performed, Mixed, Produced)
and Research by Anna Stereopoulou
Release: 4 June 2023 | Production: Independent
Anna Stereopoulou©All rights reserved.
AEAEA Studio, Athens © 2023
A STEREOSCOPIC perspective of Music & Art©
https://annastereoscopic.wordpress.com/
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Performed by:
• Anna Stereopoulou – Analogue Synthesizers (Korg microKORG, Korg Volca Kick, Yamaha PSR 200), Organ (Yamaha P60), Percussion (Bendir, Arbani, Shell in Eb), Celtic Lyre, Vocals, Software Synthesizers
• Irene Makri – Singing, Vocals (Track 2)
• Penelope’s Web* – Narrations (Track 2)
• Elsa Papeli – Violoncello (Track 8)
*(IOOA: Margarita Petrova, Dimitra Chanioti, Beskida Kraja, Evangelia Basdekis)
Recordings / Field Recordings: Anna Stereopoulou
Additional Recordings: Irene Makri (Track 2), Penelope’s Web (Track 2), Nikos Stereopoulos (Track 8)
Poetry – Texts: Anna Stereopoulou, Angelos Sikelianos, Lia Papadaki, Dr. Jack Dempsey, Orphic Hymns, Aeschylus
Video Art DoP (Track 1): Dionysia Kopana
Album Artwork: Anna Stereopoulou
Cover Photography: Thracian Satyr; ceramic Ancient Greek Drama Mask (family replica souvenir from Calabria)
ALBUM LAUNCH Events
23 September 2023 | LIVE Concert
Visitor Centre of Penteli of the National Observatory of Athens
Information & Photos: https://annastereoscopic.wordpress.com/2023/09/17/awe-anna-stereopoulou-live-penteli-observatory-autumn-equinox-2023/
12 June 2023 | LISTENING Event
Zoetrope Athens Art Space
In the presence of the composer and the participant artists, and in parallel to the exhibition of the the Catalogue of Works of Artists who responded to the international Postal Art call of the Spanish magazine/fanzine PROCEDIMENTUM 2023 (Theme: the Musical Work of Anna Stereopoulou).
Guest Speaker: Athanassios Alatas (journalist and music producer)
Event Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/655015913199378/
ALBUM PRESENTATION
R A D I O / P O D C A S T S
4 April 2024 | Boiler Room at Hardline (Oct 2023) | Pune, India
“The Anti-Post-Primitives” (track 1), in Pooja B (ikigai)’s set
• LISTEN-WATCH: https://boilerroom.tv/recording/pooja-b
13 March 2024 | El Telescopio (No.747, “¡mujeres!”) | Madrid, Spain
“Waxing Gibbous 72%” (track 5), on Jorge Obón‘s podcast series
• LISTEN: https://www.ivoox.com/747-mujeres
7 March 2024 | Radio Student 89.3 FM | Ljubljana, Slovenia
“The Anti-Post-Primitives” (track 1), on Urška Preis‘s radio show
• INFO: https://radiostudent.si/
23 January 2024 | MiC Music Portal | Greece
“The Anti-Post-Primitives” (track 1), in Tribute Mix by the MiC Team:
Forty plus one songs from the domestic (Greek music) production of 2023
Τεσσαράκοντα συν ένα τραγούδια από την εγχώρια παραγωγή του 2023
(Αφιέρωμα Mix από την ομάδα του MiC)
• LISTEN: http://www.mic.gr/team/tessarakonta-syn-ena-tragoydia-apo-tin-eghoria-paragogi-toy-2023
3 January 2024 | Alínea A | Porto, Portugal
“The Anti-Post-Primitives” (track 1), in Anna Petracca‘s set
• WATCH/LISTEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NTZtiCBWEs
14 July 2023 | Freies Sender Kombinat | Hamburg, Germany
“Waxing Gibbous 72%” (track 5), on Doctore Xyramat radio show
05 July 2023 | RESONANCIAS on RNE Radio 3 extra | Madrid, Spain
Podcast Presentation (entire album), by Fluido Rosa
• LISTEN: https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/resonancias/anna-stereopoulo-awe/6927112/
26 June 2023 | Paranoise Radio | Hamburg / Thessaloniki
“S.O.S. (Save Our Souls)” (track 6), on Doctore Xyramat radio show
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E – P R E S S
8 January 2024 | Album Selection by Sunday Freakshow | Greece
Amongst the 10 Best Greek Music Albums 2023
Ανάμεσα στα 10 Καλύτερα Ελληνικά Άλμπουμ 2023
• READ in Greek on Sunday Freakshow: https://sundayfreakshow.wordpress.com/
1 January 2024 | Album Selection by Phontas Troussas | Greece
Amongst the 6+1 Best Greek Music Albums 2023
Ανάμεσα στα 6+1 Καλύτερα Ελληνικά Άλμπουμ 2023
• READ in Greek on LiFO: https://www.lifo.gr/culture/music/pera-apo-tin-pop-kai-meinstrim-ta-kalytera-ellinika-almpoym-toy-2023
31 December 2023 | Album Selection Charis Symvoulidis | Greece
Amongst the 20 Best Greek Music Albums 2023
Ανάμεσα στα 20 Καλύτερα Ελληνικά Άλμπουμ 2023
• READ in Greek on Athinorama (Αθηνόραμα): https://www.athinorama.gr/music/3024507/20-ellinikoi-diskoi-gia-to-2023/
10 July 2023 | Album Review by Phontas Troussas | Greece
READ in Greek on
• LiFO: https://www.lifo.gr/culture/music/tesseris-ellinides-synthetries-stoys-pio-prosfatoys-diskoys-toys
• Diskoryxeion: https://diskoryxeion.blogspot.com/2023/07/calliope-emi-path-avant-garde.html
• StinPena.gr: https://stinpena.gr/
11 June 2023 | MyFILM | Greece
• READ in Greek: https://www.myfilm.gr/v2/culture-2/musica/item/6010-neo-solo-album-apo-tin-anna-stereopoylou-awe-deos
11 June 2023 | GRAND Magazine | Greece
• READ in Greek: https://www.grandmagazine.gr/el/article/7317/awe-kukloforise-to-7o-solo-album-tis-annas-stereopoulou
10 June 2023 | +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] | Greece
• READ / ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ: https://theinstitute.info/awe-anna-stereopoulou-album-listening-12-6-athens/
8 June 2023 | WIFT Greece | Greece
• READ in Greek: https://wift.gr/%ce%bd%ce%b5%ce%bf-solo-album-%ce%b1%cf%80%cf%8c-%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bd-%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%bd%ce%b1-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%b5%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%85/
7 June 2023 | feminatronic | NET
• New Releases: https://feminatronic.com/2023/06/07/new-releases-7-6-2023/
2 June 2023 | AVOPOLIS Music Network | Greece
• READ in Greek: https://www.avopolis.gr/atzenta/live-stin-attiki/anna-stereopoylou
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AEAEA Studio, Athens © 2023
A STEREOSCOPIC perspective of Music & Art©
https://annastereoscopic.wordpress.com/
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