Breach Festival

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Míriam Fèlix born in Menorca, Spain and she is a cellist and composer specializing in improvisation and modern music. She has performed, composed and recorded with the most watched musical programs on Spanish TV and for the most recognized groups, producers and artists in the country, performing in Europe and US. “She is versatile, daring and very adaptable”, described by TimeOut NY, as a virtual cellist. She currently creates multidisciplinary shows with her own production company.

Marina Tantanozi is a Basel-based flutist,improviser & sound artist. She explores music-making in various settings based on improvised music practices, reflecting on the notions of communication, temporality & active listening. She collaborated with Frantz Loriot, Tom Malmendier, Philipp Eden, Martina Berther, Eve Risser, Alfred Zimmerlin, Jonas Kocher, Hans Koch, Clara de Asis, Silvan Schmid, Peter Schärli, Lucas Niggli, Gamut Collective, Insub among others. As an improviser she’s performed in major festivals such as Irtijal, Borderline, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Archipel Genéve, Musikfestival Bern etc. She is the co-curator of the series Murmur in Basel, as well as the No Ordinary Festival for experimental sounds in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Andria Nicodemou is a multifaceted musician and educator from Cyprus, specialising in vibraphone, improvisation, interdisciplinary & interactive performances. Her music is characterised as an “open-ended play,” where movement, theatricality, and sound are equally important. Through her active music career around the world, she has collaborated with Joe Morris, Anthony Coleman, Marty Ehrlich, Ikue Morri, Tayler Ho Bynum, Anne La Berge, Tatsuya Nakatani, Ab Baars, Ingrid Laubrock, Joe McPhee, Hans Koch, among others, and she’s performed at Earshot Jazz, Klaeng, Borderline, Seattle Improvised Music, Irtijal & venues such as MOMA, Jordan Hall, The Stone, Megaron Athens etc. She has released records with the labels Relative Pitch in NY (“The Industry of Entropy,”) Glacial Erratic Records (“Raven”) & Subcontinental Records (“River is Full”). Andria is the founder & co-curator of Breach, and the founder & artistic director of the NGO-Make Music Cyprus.

𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐍 is a Beirut-based duo of visionary electronic dream pop, shapeshifting above ambient and industrial undercurrents. Their music is moody, unsettling, luminous – the culmination of a decade of collaboration and friendship between producer/musician/engineer Fadi Tabbal, and singer-songwriter/musician Julia Sabra from indie trio Postcards.

Snakeskin’s debut self-titled album was released on October 14, 2022, as part of the Corrosion Series –– a collaborative effort by Portland-based label Beacon Sound and Beirut-based label Ruptured. Sabra and Tabbal began working on the record in the aftermath of the August 2020 port explosion, composing their first track 'Roots' for the Ruptured-curated series The Drone Sessions in the fall of 2020. The duo is currently finishing their sophomore album.
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Two electric guitars construct a Wall of Sound made by fluctuating frequencies. This isn't your typical performance; it's an exploration, a conversation between two musicians. With each stroke, Panagiotis Mina and Alkis Nicolaides dive deeper into uncharted sonic territory, experimenting with tunings and textures to create an ever-shifting soundscape. The music fluctuates, oscillating between moments of tranquility and intensity, drawing listeners into a trance-like state.

Panagiotis Mina (b. 1982, BA Communication Culture and Media) is interested in the concept of noise and interruption within cultural norms. Using photography, video, sound and music he explores the ability of different platforms to accept the inevitability of their demise
and either create an alternative world using a similar discourse or mock the existing ones. He has been working as a freelance photographer and video maker and as an audio/visual artist in Cyprus since 2003.

Alkis Nicolaides is a guitarist, improviser, composer, and educator from Cyprus. His original work takes many forms, influenced by a wide array of musical traditions. Performances range from original explosive jazz-influenced metal music –"battle jazz" – to ASMR cooking performance art, contemporary western art chamber music, music for home appliances, and improvised duets with his pseudo-AI computer instrument named Challenger. Nicolaides's interest in exploring many styles and performance methods is rooted in Edgar Varèse’s definition of music: “What is music but organized noise?” and David Rosenboom’s words: “What is music? I hope we never see a day when we believe we know the answer. For that day would close down music as a viable art form.”
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🟢 Ευχαριστούμε την Η Καθημερινή Κύπρου - Kathimerini Kyprou και τον Απόστολο Κουρουπάκη για την όμορφή συνέντευξη!

Τα λέμε σύντομα στο BREACH FESTIVAL 🟢

Απόκλιση από τη μουσική πεπατημένη Για τρίτη συνεχή χρονιά το φεστιβάλ πειραματικής μουσικής και ελεύθερου αυτοσχεδιασμού Breach και στην «Κ» μιλάνε η Άντρια Νικοδήμου, ιδρύτρια και καλλιτεχνική διευ....

"Field recordings and analog oscillators filtered and modulated by vibrating objects and random sources of uncertainty."

Elyse Tabet is an audiovisual artist and electronic musician based in Lebanon. Her music releases range from ambient soundscapes to noise pop and industrial techno.
She currently composes graphic scores that she interprets into pulsing electro-acoustic landscapes by juxtaposing speeds, patterns and long analog sustains. Her research and practice are focused on relationships between space and sound and the role of context in creating sonic narratives. She is a co-founder of the Beirut Synthesizer Center, an informal co-op and research lab on sound synthesis operating from Beirut.

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Residency Program Ensemble formed in March with local musicians under the curation of Sharif Sehnaoui. Together they created an open composition that will be performed for the first time at the festival.
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Sharif Sehnaoui is a world acclaimed free improvising guitarist, focusing on expanding the intrinsic possibilities of the instrument. He resides in Beirut, his hometown, after more than a decade in Paris, where he started his career as an improviser in 1998. In Lebanon, he actively contributed to the emergence of an unprecedented experimental music scene. Along with Mazen Kerbaj he created “Irtijal” in 2000. His main groups and projects include the “A” Trio, “Wormholes”, Karkhana, and Calamita.
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Giorgos Bizios is a guitarist, composer, improviser, interdisciplinary artist & performance maker from Limassol. He works in the field of performing arts with focus on experimental and contemporary music, performance art and choreography.
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Andria Nicodemou is a multifaceted musician & educator from Cyprus, specialising in vibraphone, improvisation, interdisciplinary and interactive performances. Her music is characterised as an “open-ended play,” where movement, theatricality, and sound are equally important.
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Dimitris Savva is an electroacoustic and multimedia music composer, a live-electronics performer, and an educator. As a composer, Dimitris has featured his work in 86 international music festivals and collaborated with artists and researchers across various mediums, including contemporary dance, performing arts, video art and installation art, documentary, and VR projects.
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Simis Shukuroglou makes coffee, carves stones and plays the recorder & the clarinet.
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Eva Stavrou is a flute performer with a special interest in contemporary music and an educator from Cyprus. She has worked with a variety of composers and participated in music workshops and festivals around the world. Eva strongly believes in the importance of performers getting involved in the process of music composition. She often collaborates with composers for the creation of new pieces and to promote contemporary music in Cyprus and abroad.
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PSEEHEEKAWN is a solo project by guitarist and composer Giorgos Bizios dedicated to the creative process of discovery and transformation and to the decolonization of musical expression. With a somewhat childlike attitude, he approaches the guitar in unconventional ways and incorporates musical or found objects that extend the instrument's expressive functionality and challenge its predetermined identity. G. Bizios' solo guitar music proposes rather a language, constructed in the liminal space between antithetic elements, in his attempt to honor both the noise and the stillness, the fluid and the concrete, the body and the spirit.

Giorgos Bizios is a guitarist, composer, improviser, interdisciplinary artist and performance maker from Limassol. After graduating from the ArtEZ Conservatory in the Netherlands in 2019, he is based in Cyprus and works as a creator and collaborator in the field of performing arts with focus on experimental and contemporary music, performance art and choreography. Some of his latest works are the solo work "slowness is an act of resistance" which was presented at Sessions as part of the interdisciplinary event 22 ̊Halo (co-curated by Ichomagnetics and Nicola Mitropoulou) and the site-specific peripatetic musical performance "the smallest unit that is still listening" which was developed and presented as part of Xarkis residency program.
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Build-a-Band is an initiative that began 2 years ago aiming to experiment under the assumption that anyone can be a musician. Anyone who wants to can communicate through music through courage, consistency and listening. Our desire to allow music to flow through us led us to explore what was possible, refusing to believe the limitations that music is only a language for those who have studied and learnt an instrument. We have built a multilayered language that oscillates between chaos and harmony, travels through different dimensions and reminds everyone in the room of the heart and the essence of expression.
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Irine Flexiblespirit Self taught musician, flirting with all kinds of instruments having preference on wind and chords. Her rhythm and produce melodies that can fly you away.
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Foxy is a Welsh man, and for the majority, his 30 years of life, he believed he was not a musician. He moved to Cyprus and joined build-a-band, reconnecting with his musical child of old.
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Margo Khlop is an artist from Siberia. Her path in adulthood took her into the management part of the creative field. She is currently presenting herself as a multidisciplinary artist, perfecting improvisational music & dance.
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Aggelos Messios is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in sculpture and performance art. He has been exploring the relationship between performance and the world (action performance) and most recently he has been shifting from the standard performance structure towards permaculture, an understanding of nature and spirituality.
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Melissa Zanga .zanga is a poet and performance artist from Cyprus. She won the National Poetry Slam Championship in 2022, representing Cyprus in the World Championships. She founded BLEND, a creativity school of improvisation & performance for adults. She now explores her own work using improvisation in music, poetry and performance to bring forward vulnerability, presence, awareness, community and the joy of being.
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🟢 Breach Festival / Line-Up / 7 & 8 April / Ktirion 53 🟢

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🟢 BREACH Festival / 3rd Edition 🟢

Artists Featured: Giorgos Bizios, Panny Brown, Miriam Felix, Irine Flexiblespirit, David Fox, Margo Khlop, Aggelos Messios, Andria Nicodemou, Alkis Nicolaides, Julia Sabra, Dimitris Savva, Sharif Sehnaoui, Simis Shukuroglou, Eva Stavrou, Fadi Tabal, Elyse Tabet, Marina Tantanozi, Melissa Zanga

BREACH+ Improv Series Vol. 1
Sharif Sehnaoui
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BREACH+ Improv series vol. 2

BREACH+ Improv Series Vol. 1

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Big thanks to Cyprus Mail and Eleni Philippou for the beautiful article.
See you all tonight at Καφενείο Πρόζακ!

A night of improv | Cyprus Mail An exciting improv concert is set to shake up Nicosia’s live music scene very soon, promising new sounds. As part of the annual festival of improvised and experimental music Breach 2024, Andria Nicodemou and Alkis Nicolaides will give a free improvisation concert at Kafeneio Prozak on Monday eveni...

Breach Festival 2023
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Breach Festival 2023
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Today - April 20th - A great opportunity with this amazing workshop! With the one and only: Emiddio Vasquez!
Don’t forget to bring your laptops and get into the world of an endless possibilities!

Day 2 – Thursday, April 20th, 2023sms, Sound & Computation” by Emiddio Vasquez
Part I: 10:00-12:00 - Context and MaxMSP Crash course
Part II: 13:30-16:00 - Modalys in MaxMSP
Day 2 – Thursday April 20th, 2023
Theatro Polis
The workshop will take a close look at physical modeling as a technique to synthesize sound, by using a hybrid of MaxMSP and modal synthesis. To do so we will consider notions of computation, digital sound composition and synthesis, as material processes by engaging critically with the ideological assumptions and constructions on both domains and the implemented techniques.

Following the ongoing discussions of (neo-)materialist thinking and drawing inspiration from the story of the “Pythagorean hammers” that was crucial to both Western philosophy and tonality, the workshop will introduce users to core issues at stake when considering digital instrument building, ultimately inviting them to form “a new forge” and leave the workshop with their own individual materially-dependent digital instruments.



Emm Vitrina

Today - April 20th - A great opportunity with this amazing workshop! With the one and only: Emiddio Vasquez!
Don’t forget to bring your laptops and get into the world of an endless possibilities! 10am at Theatro Polis!

Day 2 – Thursday, April 20th, 2023sms, Sound & Computation” by Emiddio Vasquez
Part I: 10:00-12:00 - Context and MaxMSP Crash course
Part II: 13:30-16:00 - Modalys in MaxMSP
Day 2 – Thursday April 20th, 2023
Theatro Polis
The workshop will take a close look at physical modeling as a technique to synthesize sound, by using a hybrid of MaxMSP and modal synthesis. To do so we will consider notions of computation, digital sound composition and synthesis, as material processes by engaging critically with the ideological assumptions and constructions on both domains and the implemented techniques.

Following the ongoing discussions of (neo-)materialist thinking and drawing inspiration from the story of the “Pythagorean hammers” that was crucial to both Western philosophy and tonality, the workshop will introduce users to core issues at stake when considering digital instrument building, ultimately inviting them to form “a new forge” and leave the workshop with their own individual materially-dependent digital instruments.



Emm Vitrina

Thank you Parathyro !
Get your ticket here http://bit.ly/3GqVjdJ and see you tomorrow 💜

2ο Φεστιβάλ Breach - Αυτοσχεδιασμός & Πειραματική Μουσική Ένα πολύ διαφορετικό φεστιβάλ στην μουσική σκηνή της Κύπρου!

Day 2 – Thursday, April 20th, 2023sms, Sound & Computation” by Emiddio Vasquez
Part I: 10:00-12:00 - Context and MaxMSP Crash course
Part II: 13:30-16:00 - Modalys in MaxMSP
Day 2 – Thursday April 20th, 2023
Theatro Polis
The workshop will take a close look at physical modeling as a technique to synthesize sound, by using a hybrid of MaxMSP and modal synthesis. To do so we will consider notions of computation, digital sound composition and synthesis, as material processes by engaging critically with the ideological assumptions and constructions on both domains and the implemented techniques.

Following the ongoing discussions of (neo-)materialist thinking and drawing inspiration from the story of the “Pythagorean hammers” that was crucial to both Western philosophy and tonality, the workshop will introduce users to core issues at stake when considering digital instrument building, ultimately inviting them to form “a new forge” and leave the workshop with their own individual materially-dependent digital instruments.



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C-Drik (Electronics)
Day 2 – Thursday April 20th, 2023, 21:00
Theatro Polis
Cedrik Fermont (aka C-drík, Kirdec, Cdrk) is a Berlin-based Belgian-Congolese composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, radio host (Radio Staalplaat, 88vier/Colaboradio and Boxout.fm), concert organizer, independent researcher and label manager (at Syrphe) who operates in the field of noise, electronic and experimental music since 1989. His compositions and installations vary from sound art and electroacoustic to noise, industrial and more conventional “dance” music such as electronica and acid. His numerous projects include collaborations with Axiome, Jawad Nawfal (as Tasjiil Moujahed), Marie Takahashi (as Ambre), Mick Harris, Dora Bleu, Mark Spybey, among many others.
In Partnership with:
Irtijal and Space21 Sound
Sponsor: Οργανισμός Νεολαίας Κύπρου / Youth Board of Cyprus
Supported by: CYENS Centre of Excellence, MILL
Organised by:
Make Music Cyprus

Duo Moment
Hardi Kurda - customised violin and viola, diy objects & circuits
Khabat Abas - customised cello
Day 2 - Thursday April 20th, 2023 - 20:00
Theatro Polis
Duo Moment is a Kurdish experimental free improvisation duo hailing from Iraqi Kurdistan and comprised of Hardi Kurda and Khabat Abas. Kurda plays customised violin and viola wired through a radio circuit board and springs, a device which he describes as RaDiolin and Radiola Springs. Abas plays customised cello – an instrument whose back is open and front is made of drumskin. The duo focuses on “a moment where sounds emerge through interacting, reflecting, reacting and interrupting each other”. Their practice is rooted in an ongoing questioning of the construction of legality and meaning of illegality, and of oppression rooted in social and political systems.
In Partnership with:
Irtijal and Space21 Sound
Sponsor: Οργανισμός Νεολαίας Κύπρου / Youth Board of Cyprus
Supported by: CYENS Centre of Excellence, MILL
Organised by:
Make Music Cyprus

NP
Jad Atoui synth, guitar
Anthony Sahyoun electric guitar
Day 1 - Wednesday April 19th, 2023 - 21:00
Theatro Polis
NP is an electronic experimental duo formed in Beirut by Jad Atoui and Anthony Sahyoun. The two musicians have made a name for themselves in Lebanon for performing extended experimental music sets, using guitars, acoustic objects, modular systems and programming. They have toured the EU, played various shows and cine-concerts in Beirut and the UAE, and collaborated with various bands and musicians including Kinematik, Mazen Kerbaj, Fadi Tabbal and Bana Haffar.
In Partnership with:
Irtijal and Space21 Sound
Sponsor:
Supported by: , MILL
Organised by:

Emiddio Vasquez (Electronics) Emm Vitrina
Day 1 - Wednesday April 19th, 2023 - 20:00
Theatro Polis
Emiddio Vasquez is a Cypriot-Dominican electronic musician and artist. His practice deals with material transformations that blur the encoding-decoding processes across media, as a way of engaging with the larger infrastructures at stake. Through different computational techniques, including radio transmissions, modular and modal synthesis, installations, and performances, Vasquez examines the manner in which subjects emerge through mediated sensing and into the possibility of their de-colonized renditions.
In Partnership with:
Irtijal and Space21 Sound
Sponsor: Οργανισμός Νεολαίας Κύπρου / Youth Board of Cyprus
Supported by: CYENS Centre of Excellence, MILL
Organised by:
Make Music Cyprus

🟣🟠 19 & 20 Απριλίου! Περιορισμένος αριθμός εισητηρίων.
Avant Garde Cyprus

Ένα αλλιώτικο μουσικό φεστιβάλ έρχεται στη Λευκωσία! Έρχεται το 2ο Φεστιβάλ Breach - Αυτοσχεδιασμός και Πειραματική Μουσική 2023, 19 & 20 Απριλίου στο Θέατρο Πόλης - ΟΠΑΠ

📌Check out the amazing line-up and purchase your tickets! 💜

BREACH FESTIVAL 2023 Event Tickets

💜Check out the incredible Line Up!!

📌 April 19 & 20, 2023

📌 Sold Out Tickets: http://bit.ly/3GqVjdJ

In Partnership with:
Irtijal and Space21 Sound

Sponsor: Οργανισμός Νεολαίας Κύπρου / Youth Board of Cyprus
Supported by:
CYENS Centre of Excellence & MIll

Breach Festival 2023 💜

📌 2nd Edition!
📌 April 19 & 20 at 20:00

📌 Buy your tickets here: http://bit.ly/3GqVjdJ

📌 Venue: Theatro Polis

Organizer: Make Music Cyprus
In Partnership with: Irtijal, Space21 Sound

Sponsor: Οργανισμός Νεολαίας Κύπρου / Youth Board of Cyprus
Supporters: CYENS Centre of Excellence, MILL