Rehearsals is a selection of tracks written for Theatre and Dance that where revisited and re-orchestrated to work as a whole, enlightening the common aesthetics of these themes. A merge of the sounds of glitch electonica and electro-acoustic composition with modern-classical elements and acoustic instrumentation.

In the album Stavros Gasparatos chooses themes from the following plays:

  •  «La Morte Amoureuse» (directed by Katerina Evangelatos, Amfi-Theatre)
  •  “A sketch” (choreographed by: Betty Dramisioti)
  •  «See you in walhalla» (amorphy.org – directed by Jenny Argyriou, Peiraios 260, Greek Festival)
  •  «invisible cities» (amorphy.org- directed by: Αsh Bulayev, Theater of Neos Kosmos)
  •  «Motortown» (directed by Vangelis Theodoropoulos, Theater of Neos Kosmos)
  •  «Gronholm method» (directed by Diagoras Chronopoulos, Theatro Technis)
  •  «Plastelini» (directed by Katerina Evangelatos, National Theatre of Greece)
  •  «Touched» (directed by Vangelis Theodoropoulos, Theatre of Neos Kosmos)
  • -“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” (directed by Konstantinos Arvanitakis, National Theatre of Greece)

 

This album is a selection of music pieces that I have composed over the past three years for a series of theatrical plays and dance performances; music that has been re-arranged, more or less, especially for this album. In choosing the tracks I didn't simply want to 'stage' a short retrospective of my work for the theatre. My ultimate goal was to produce an album inspired by the theatre, whilst in the same time being continuous, autonomous, and able to highlight the different aesthetics of the ways in which I perceive it." june 036, fin and bad dream (watch live) taken from "the dead lover", dir. K. Evangelatou (amphitheatro, spring 2007) /// AA2 taken from "a scetch", chor. B. Dramitsioti (paraligo, spring 2008) /// water travel taken from "see you in walhalla", dir. by P. Argyriou of amorphy.org (athens international festival, summer 2007) /// reading taken from "invisible cities" dir. A. Bulayev, chor. P. Argyriou of amorphy.org (neos kosmos theatre, winter 2007-08) /// motortown taken from "motortown", dir. V. Theodoropoulos (neos kosmos theatre, winter 2007-08) /// method taken from "the gronholm method", dir. D. Chronopoulos (theatro technis karolos koun, winter-spring 2008) /// she_nightmare (watch live) and fall taken from "plasticine" dir. K. Evangelatou (national theatre - piramatiki stage, winter 2007-08) at the beach taken from "touched", dir. V. Thodoropoulos (neos kosmos theatre, winter 2007) /// spot taken from "thou shalt not reproduce your reflection...", dir. K. Arvanitakis (national theatre - piramatiki stage, winter 2007)

The musicians who participate in this album are:

Dionisis Vervitsiotis - violin

Thodoris Altanis - violin

Kaiti Pantzari - cello

Spilios Kastanis - contrabass

Kostas Georgopoulos - viola

Manolis Kontos - viola

Alexandros Tsilfidis - piano

DJ DDY - scratch / Stavros Gasparatos - piano, guitars, drums, electronics

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REHEARSALS 

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