SONIC CHROMAS | Scores of Space

An evening dedicated to the encounter between architectural thinking and contemporary musical practice, in which drawings by architect Christos Papoulias are transformed into open graphic scores, serving as the starting point for two live performances.

Four distinguished musicians, with an established presence in contemporary, improvisational and experimental music, are invited to approach the drawings not as static images, but as dynamic fields for interpretation, sound and gesture.

Bassist Nefeli Stamato giannopoulou meets Andrea Monopoli, working with DIY electronic circuits and synthesizers, while Thanos Polymeneas on double bass joins Michalis Moschoutis on guitars.

Through these two distinct sonic encounters, the evening explores the boundaries between notation and interpretation, structure and freedom, image and sound.

The architectural drawings become an intermediary space where composition, improvisation and personal interpretation coexist, revealing new ways in which music can emerge from a visual form and enter into dialogue with architecture, drawing and contemporary artistic practice.

Performers: Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou (double bass) & Andrea Monopoli (DIY electronics, synthesizers); Thanos Polymeneas (double bass) & Michalis Moschoutis (guitars)

Pre-concert electronic sound installation in the exhibition space: Nicoletta Chatzopoulou

Tuesday, December 1, 2026 | 20:30

Tickets: €10, €9 (ThF_Friends)

Biographies

Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou (Nefeli Stam.) is an Athens-based composer, performer, improviser and researcher. Her practice moves between contemporary music, performance and audiovisual media, with a particular interest in the relationships between sound, body, movement and dramaturgy. As part of her doctoral research, she developed her own methodology around these practices.

She plays double bass, electric bass and piano, and also works with electronics and voice. Alongside her performance practice, she composes and conducts musical works and performances, exploring contemporary performance techniques, improvisation and sound production.

She has created more than 60 works, ranging from music for theatre, choreography and film to independent musical and stage compositions. Her work includes Quintet ’84, The Glass Between, Iso–άϊζο, the bird, The Slaughterhouse and J. She has presented her creations in Greece and across Europe, including at the Athens Epidaurus Festival, the Athens Concert Hall, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, Odin Teatret in Denmark and the Art & Science Festival in Berlin.

She has also participated in international networks, festivals, musical ensembles and collaborative projects. She is the founder of Ov Off Studio and the Ov Off research group, through which she develops performances, improvisational practices, workshops and initiatives exploring contemporary music and the performing arts.

A. Monopoli was born in Corfu in 1976. He works in music technology, event organisation and related fields, participating in a wide range of multidisciplinary artistic events and notable collaborations, through which he has gained valuable knowledge and experience.

He studied at the Department of Music Studies at the Ionian University, focusing on specialised topics in sound engineering, music, computing, analysis and electroacoustic music composition. His studies involved professors from Greece and abroad, and he has also worked as an external collaborator.

He is a member of the Hellenic Association of Electroacoustic Music Composers (ESSIM) and was formerly a member of Platon Rivellis’s Photographic Circle association. He has participated in numerous international training projects.

As founder of the NGO O.C.S.C., he has coordinated numerous cultural and socially oriented initiatives promoting cultural diversity. Beyond music, his artistic drive finds expression through image and material, and in recent years he has developed a virtual and physical multidisciplinary laboratory under the pseudonym MoCM.

Further information:
monopolis.gr
mocm.gr

Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris (b. 1981) is a musician, composer and researcher in music technology.

He studied double bass and electroacoustic composition at the Rotterdam Conservatory. He went on to attend postgraduate seminars in sound technology at the Institute of Sonology of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and at IRCAM (the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) in Paris. He holds two postgraduate degrees: one in Fine Arts, specialising in Art and Technology, from Valencia, Spain, and another in Education from Falmouth, UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Sussex, supported by a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council scholarship.

Since 2011, he has taught continuously at universities in Greece and abroad, including Falmouth, Brighton, Sussex, the Ionian University and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). In 2025, he was elected Assistant Professor of Music Creation with Interactive Media at the Department of Music Studies at NKUA.

His artistic work encompasses musical composition and performance, recordings, audiovisual installations and interactive works. It has been presented at major international events and venues, including the Athens Epidaurus Festival, the Athens Concert Hall, the Onassis Foundation and the Greek National Opera.

Michalis Moschoutis is a musician, curator and educator. His work focuses on exploring the materiality of sound and the physical dimension of musical performance. His practice encompasses extended techniques that transform acoustic instruments into sources of noise, free improvisation, the electronic processing of diverse sound signals and the composition of original music for film.

He has curated a series of music festivals at Onassis Stegi, including INMUTE, Borderline and Tectonics. He is the founder of the record label Holotype Editions and has presented his music at international electronic and experimental music festivals in Greece and abroad.

He has released two solo albums, including Classical Mechanics on Room40, and composed the original score for Digger, the award-winning film by Georgis Grigorakis.

In recent years, he has worked in the Educational and Social Activities Department of the Greek National Opera, where he designs and coordinates educational and social programmes.