{"id":2245,"date":"2026-01-26T00:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ioannisangelakis.com\/?page_id=2245"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:25:24","slug":"bacchaes-voice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ioannisangelakis.com\/index.php\/bacchaes-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"ASC2.1-2015 – Copy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Bacchae\u2019s Voice (2024)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Bacchae\u2019s Voice<\/b>, music theater for four performers (2024 rev. \/2021)<\/p>

Music Composition, Electronics, Sound Design, Texts: Ioannis Angelakis<\/p>

Director: Giorgos Koutlis<\/p>

Set & Costume Design: Artemis Flessa<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Light Design: Giorgos Agiannitis<\/span><\/p>

Performers: Christos Kechris (voice), Kostas Tzekos (bass clarinet), Spiros Laskaridis (trumpet), Andreas-Roland Theodorou (trombone)<\/p>

Production: Ergon Ensemble<\/p>

Premiere: Ancient Theater of Mieza, Greece, September 5 & 6, 2021 Next (Revised) Performances: Alternative Stage at the Greek National Opera, May 18-19, 2024<\/p>

Duration: 60\u2019 min<\/p>

The performance has been funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Greek National Opera.<\/p>

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Bacchae\u2019s Voice<\/i><\/b> is an original devised performance that bridges music theater, contemporary experimental music, and electronics. The constant use of indeterminate phonemes and vocalizations of all four performers give prominence to the human voice as a primordial means of extra-linguistic communication, while the use of electronics shatters the borders between the human voice and the computer music that processes the sounds of the voices and creates the space for a mystic ritual in which the Voice<\/i><\/b>, as an amalgamation between humans and computers, is the protagonist. The cruelty and brutality in the use of the human voices, the acoustic instruments, and electronics are symbols of violence as the latter is demarcated through Euripides\u2019 original tragedy: between Pentheus and Dionysus (Apollonian-Dionysian), between the opposite sides of human nature, and between humans\u2019 inherent desire to preserve their tradition and violently overturn it. Just like Euripides\u2019 Bacchae<\/i> reveals an ever-existing contradiction at the basis of the human soul, human societies, and human history overall, likewise, Bacchae\u2019s Voice<\/i><\/b> aims to penetrate the human voice and point out its unmediated, unexplored, and unsayable nature.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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