Garden Stories (LIVE)
Live electro-acoustic performance
An evening of two electroacoustic performances in the garden of the Vorres Museum, featuring Athens-based sound artist Tristanos and Italian percussionist Daniele De Santis. Working with distinct sonic vocabularies, the two artists activate the garden’s acoustic potential through a carefully designed setup.
Visitors are invited to navigate the site freely, shaping their own auditory path while engaging with the garden’s architecture and natural environment. In this interplay of movement, sound, and place, resonant objects, electronic textures, and polyrhythmic layers compose a shifting soundscape—an open field of listening offering multiple perceptual perspectives.
Information
Garden Stories (LIVE)
Electro-acoustic performance
Tristanos (live electronics / resonant objects)
Daniele De Santis presents (prepared Drums)
Dates: Friday 13 June, 2025
Start time: 20:00 (doors open at 19:30)
Entrance fee: €7
Curation: Myrto Lavda
Tickets
Entrance: €7*
*Tickets are exclusively available at the museum.
Admission to the museum’s exhibition is free with attendance to the event.
Bio
Daniele De Santis
Daniele De Santis is a multi-instrumentalist, percussionist, and producer from Apulia, also active as a sound engineer and curator—particularly within the context of the Dromoscope platform. His unique musical language is rooted in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern traditions, while drawing from improvisation, jazz, abstract electronica, and dub. Moreover, his practice engages with the artisanal creation of experimental sound devices and original instruments. His research finds expression in the augmented percussive techniques of the Prepared Drums project, as well as in the sophisticated atavism and mechanical poetics of GRÜN.
A prolific solo artist (MDF, GRÜN, Prepared Drums), De Santis also collaborates in various formations, including duos with Dudù Kouate (Art Ensemble of Chicago) and Rully Shabara (Senyawa, ZOO), and as a member of the Upperground Orchestra. He has performed at major international festivals, among them Berlin Atonal, CTM, Strøm, PHONO, Irtijal, Terraforma, SeaNaps, and NUMACircuit. His discography includes releases with Communion, Das Andere Selbst, Dromoscope Editions, and 901 Editions, among others.
Tristanos
Tristanos is a sound artist based in Athens, originally from Crete. His practice navigates the fields of psychoacoustics and indeterminacy, bringing them into dialogue through sound installations, electroacoustic compositions, and live electronic performances. Attuned to space and material presence, his work unfolds through site-specific interventions and carefully choreographed sound diffusion, utilizing multichannel setups and amplified resonant objects. At the intersection of structure and spontaneity, he combines composed and improvised elements shaped by field recordings, FM synthesis, and algorithmic processes.
A graduate of the Institute of Sonology (BA, 2023), Tristanos has also led workshops on soundscape studies and soundwalks. His approach to sound extends into interdisciplinary research—most notably in Site Sound, a sensory-based archaeological investigation of the ancient sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Lykaion. His works have been presented in the Netherlands, Greece, and the Czech Republic.