STELIOS.EXE

(FR)

stelios.exe live @ MIR

45′

Thursday 23.11 | 22:00

Paper Tiger, in the Stoa Sofokleous 7-9, City centre

Admission free

Hyperpop electronic sound meets futurist baroque. Maximalism in transgressive electronica. From the slumbers of Marseille to an Athenian atrium.

stelios.exe builds bridges between baroque and hyperpop, two genres born three centuries apart, but both based on expressive and melodic exuberance. Baroque «Contrepoint», a composition technique which develops several simultaneous melodies, is integrated into a maximalist approach to pop music, where codes and effects are saturated and pushed to their climax. The musician’s approach is part of the transgressive movement : it questions and breaks down barriers between genres by merging pop influences with so-called scholarly concepts. Counting among its influences Oneohtrix Point Never, Arca, or even Rameau and Bach, stelios.exe is an experimental laboratory, a personal manifesto for going beyond pre-established rules.

stelios.exe is a Marseille-based producer working at the crossroads of musical traditions and contemporary practices. Coming from a training in medieval, renaissance, and baroque music, he operates in his work a sound synthesis between ancestral composition techniques and radical electronic sound design. He thus questions the place of music in our cultural heritage and pleads for the invention of new rites and sensory experiences. He studied the recorder at the conservatories of Basel, Brussels, and Lyon, then experimented with the modification of acoustic signals using computers, opening up to electronic music and production.
From 2021 to 2022 he was resident at “Artagon Marseille”, where he developed numerous collaborations with visual artists, choreographers and video artists. In 2023, he released his first solo EP, “De Ave Phoenice”, on the Prague-based label Unizone. He is also a musician and producer with the group Lolomis, which he co-founded in 2014, a collective project that combines acoustic instruments such as harp, flute, voice or percussions with sound and electronic experimentations, with which he is currently preparing a 4th album.

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Concept & performance: stelios.exe
Original composition: stelios.exe, with excerpts from the manuscript “Cancionero de Palacio” (15th-16th century)

Premiere: MIRfestival 2023

Opening Party at Paper Tiger with Dj Khmer