Costas Andreou
Costas Andreou () is a musician and composer based in Athens, Greece. He processes the sounds of fretless electric bass in real time, creating multi-level soundscapes. He has written and performed the music and done the sound design for theatre performances and other artistic productions. His music has been used in various documentaries, films and television productions.
His solo concert Live Ambient has been presented at Poli Theatre (Athens) on 10 October 2015, at Art Theatre Karolos Koun (Frinichou 14, Plaka) on 21 April 2016 and at Fournos Theatre (Mavromichali 168, Athens) on 15 December 2017, on 19 and 26 October 2018 and on 7 and 8 January 2019.
His solo concert Ippokratous has been presented on 17 and 24 May 2019, 9 and 16 October 2019 and 11 and 18 November 2022 at Fournos Theatre in Athens.
In 2021 he wrote music for the documentary series Why 21? 12 questions by director Elena Lalopoulou on ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation).
Since 2021 he presents his production MIF (Musique Indépendante Francophone). In 2022 he started the DJ set Musique francophone au coucher du soleil, as part of the MIF production. In 2023 and 2024 the DJ set was presented, among other venues, at Kir-Yianni wine estate, in Giannakochori, Naoussa.
In 2024 he started presenting the DJ set Czech Jazz, as part of the Hudba cultural production, featuring contemporary Czech music.
Theatre
- Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
- Deirdre (William Butler Yeats)
- Youth Without God (Ödön von Horváth)
- The Burrow (Franz Kafka)
- An Unknown From The Seine (Ödön von Horváth)
- I Should Have (Franz Kafka)
- Woyzeck (Georg Büchner)
- "What Do You Say, Babis?" (Sakis Serefas)
- Riddance (Linda McLean)
- Leaves of Glass (Philip Ridley)
- Chroniques Des Jours Entiers, Des Nuits Entieres (Xavier Durringer)
- Places To Hide
- Children's Tales
- Blackbird (David Harrower)
- Sabbathland (Lena Kitsopoulou)
- The Small Things (Enda Walsh)
- L'Hereux Stratagème (Pierre de Marivaux)
- The Pillowman (Martin McDonagh)
- Amphitryon (Heinrich von Kleist)
- Tone Clusters (Joyce Carol Oates)
- The Mandate (Nikolai Erdmann)
- King John (William Shakespeare)
- Far Away (Caryl Churchill)
- Flirtations (Arthur Schnitzler)
- City in a State of Emergency (Aghelliki Darlassi)
- Mr Ouatson would like some more snow (Giannis Dumos)
- Tabataba (Bernard-Marie Koltès)
film, documentaries, animation
- Arctic star
- A Bitter End
- Exploro
- Meridian
- The Navigator
- In The Wind
- Clementine
- Αerostat
- Devotion
- Southern Skies
- Moment Of Torsion
- Kinetic
- Uptown
- Indirect Fire
- Easter Island
- Netrino
- Μoment Of Torsion
- Kinetic
- Uptown
- Indirect Fire
- Bella
- Νo Relation
- Behind A Cloud
- Walls Are Dancing
- Acquisition
- Red Chamber
- Sophia Girl
- Fantastic Festivals Of The World
- Blue Realm
- Airborne
multimedia, audiovisual
- Morph
- Flavescent
- Radioscopic
- Restless
- Spectrum
- Geo
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
- Ippokratous information about the concert
- Live Ambient information about the concert
Sources
- Vicky Georgiadou theatre productions directed by Vicky Georgiadou
- Pulsar group various productions
- Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center
Interviews
- Costas Andreou in fretless pathways on a rich musical journey! artic.gr (web archive)
- Costas Andreou: music improvisation and other stories tvxs.gr
- Costas Andreou: I am interested in stimulating the audience's mind to create images koutipandoras.gr
- Costas Andreou: Fretless electric bass is the instrument with which I express myself, it's a companion pagenews.gr
- Costas Andreou: Every concert is a different journey that we take together musicpaper.gr
- Costas Andreou: Fretless electric bass has a lot in common with the human voice a8inea.com
- Costas Andreou – traveling along Ippokratous street with an electric bass katiousa.gr
- Athens-Macedonian News Agency amna.gr
- DION TV YouTube
Articles
- Costas Andreous musikalische Reise geht weiter griechenland.net
- A dive into the dreamy, relaxing world of ambient music with Costas Andreou marieclaire.gr