Costas Andreou ( el, Κώστας Ανδρέου, links=, lit=) is a musician and composer based in
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
, Greece. He processes the sounds of
fretless
A fretless guitar is a guitar with a fingerboard without frets, typically a standard instrument that has had the frets removed, though some custom-built and commercial fretless guitars are occasionally made.
The classic fretless guitar was fir ...
electric bass in real time, creating multi-level
soundscape
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s. He has written and performed the music and done the
sound design
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for theatre performances and other artistic productions. His music has been used in various documentaries, films and television productions. His music is available to preview and download on his website.
His solo concert ''Live Ambient'' has been presented at Poli Theatre (
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
) on 10 October 2015, at Art Theatre Karolos Koun (Frinichou 14,
Plaka
Pláka ( el, Πλάκα) is the old historical neighborhood of Athens, clustered around the northern and eastern slopes of the Acropolis, and incorporating labyrinthine streets and neoclassical architecture. Plaka is built on top of the residentia ...
) on 21 April 2016 and at Fournos Theatre (Mavromichali 168,
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
) on 15 December 2017, on 19 and 26 October 2018 and on 7 and 8 January 2019.
On 17 and 24 May 2019 he presented the concert ''Ippokratous'' at Fournos Theatre in
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
.
Music/sound design
Theatre
* ''Deirdre'' (
William Butler Yeats
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)
* ''Youth Without God'' (
Ödön von Horváth
Edmund Josef von Horváth (9 December 1901, Sušak, Rijeka, Austria-Hungary – 1 June 1938, Paris France) was an Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who wrote in German, and went by the name of ''nom de guerre'' Ödön von Horváth. He was ...
)
* ''The Burrow'' (
Franz Kafka
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)
* ''An Unknown From The Seine'' (
Ödön von Horváth
Edmund Josef von Horváth (9 December 1901, Sušak, Rijeka, Austria-Hungary – 1 June 1938, Paris France) was an Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who wrote in German, and went by the name of ''nom de guerre'' Ödön von Horváth. He was ...
)
* ''I Should Have'' (
Franz Kafka
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)
* ''Woyzeck'' (
Georg Büchner
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)
* ''"What Do You Say, Babis?"'' (Sakis Serefas)
* ''Riddance'' (Linda McLean)
* ''Leaves of Glass'' (
Philip Ridley
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As a visual artist he has been cited as a contemporary of the 'Young British Artists', and had his artwork exhibited internationally. ...
)
* ''Chroniques Des Jours Entiers, Des Nuits Entieres'' (Xavier Durringer)
* ''Places To Hide''
* ''Children's Tales''
* ''Blackbird'' (
David Harrower
David Harrower (born 1966) is a Scottish playwright who (as of 2005) lives in Glasgow. Harrorwer has published over 10 original works, as well as numerous translations and adaptations.
Career
Harrower's first play, ''Knives in Hens'', which p ...
)
* ''Sabbathland'' (Lena Kitsopoulou)
* ''The Small Things'' (
Enda Walsh
Enda Walsh (born 1967) is an Irish playwright.
Biography
Enda Walsh was born in Kilbarrack, North Dublin on February 7, 1967. His father ran a furniture shop and his mother had been an actress. He is the second youngest of six children. Wal ...
)
* ''L'Hereux Stratagème'' (
Pierre de Marivaux
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He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing nume ...
)
* ''The Pillowman'' (
Martin McDonagh
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)
* ''Amphitryon'' (
Heinrich von Kleist
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 177721 November 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays ''Das Käthchen von Heilbronn'', ''The Broken Jug'', ''Amphit ...
)
* ''Tone Clusters'' (
Joyce Carol Oates
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)
* ''The Mandate'' (
Nikolai Erdmann
Nikolai Robertovich Erdman ( rus, Николай Робертович Эрдман, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ˈrobʲɪrtəvʲɪtɕ ˈɛrdmən, a=Nikolay Robyertovich Erdman.ru.vorb.oga; , Moscow – 10 August 1970) was a Soviet dramatist and screenwriter ...
)
* ''King John'' (
William Shakespeare
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)
* ''Far Away'' (
Caryl Churchill
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* ''Flirtations'' (
Arthur Schnitzler
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Biography
Arthur Schnitzler was born at Praterstrasse 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire (as of 1867, part of the dual monarchy ...
)
* ''City in a State of Emergency'' (Aghelliki Darlassi)
* ''Mr Ouatson would like some more snow'' (Giannis Dumos)
* ''Tabataba'' (
Bernard-Marie Koltès
Bernard-Marie Koltès (; 9 April 1948 – 15 April 1989) was a French playwright and theatre director best known for his plays ''La Nuit juste avant les Forêts'' (''The Night Just Before the Forests'', 1976), ''Sallinger'' (1977) and ''Dans la ...
)
Film, documentaries
* ''Exploro''
* ''Meridian''
* ''The Navigator''
* ''In The Wind''
* ''Clementine''
* ''Aerostat''
* ''Devotion''
* ''Southern Skies''
* ''Moment of Torsion''
* ''Kinetic''
* ''Uptown''
* ''Indirect Fire''
* ''Easter Island''
* ''Netrino''
* ''Bella''
* ''No Relation''
* ''Behind A Cloud''
* ''Walls Are Dancing''
* ''Acquisition''
* ''Red Chamber''
* ''Sophia Girl''
* ''Airborne''
multimedia, audiovisual
* ''Flavescent''
* ''Radioscopic''
* ''Restless''
* ''Spectrum''
* ''Geo''
Discography
Solo albums
* ''Observation Point'' (2017)
* ''Blind Journeys at Sea'' (2011)
* ''Dolphin Dreams'' (2006)
* ''Transpacific EP'' (2005)
Collaborations
* Per Boysen & Costas Andreou – ''Nanetora'' (2008)
External links
costasandreou.com– official website.
References
Ippokratousinformation about the concert
Live Ambientinformation about the concert
Vicky Georgiadoutheatre productions directed by Vicky Georgiadou
Pulsar theatre grouptheatre productions
Interviews
*
Costas Andreou in fretless pathways on a rich musical journey!'
*
Costas Andreou: music improvisation and other stories'
*
Costas Andreou: I am interested in stimulating the audience's mind to create images'
*
Costas Andreou: Fretless electric bass is the instrument with which I express myself, it's a companion'
*
Costas Andreou: Every concert is a different journey that we take together'
Costas Andreou: Fretless electric bass has a lot in common with the human voice
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Musicians from Athens
Greek composers
Ambient musicians
Greek electronic musicians
Theatre in Greece
Greek bass guitarists
Alternative rock bass guitarists
Male film score composers
Minimalist composers