NISYROS, Greece — The otherworldly landscape of central Nisyros, a jumble of looming caldera ridges and shimmering craters where fumaroles spit hot, sulfurous gases from the earth’s crust, is usually visited only by volcanologists and curious tourists.
But last Thursday at dusk, 15 musicians gathered at an active volcanic crater on this small island in the southern Aegean Sea for an experiment in improvisational site-specific performance. Lit by a glowing August full moon, they played for 10½ hours, asked only to take inspiration from their surroundings.Titled “634 Minutes Inside a Volcano,” the event was organized by six d.o.g.s, an Athens arts space, and theOnassis Cultural Center. The musicians, mostly Greek and in their 20s and 30s, came from improvisational backgrounds, including jazz, classical, avant-garde and electronic, and many met for the first time at the sound check. Their instruments included electric guitar, piano, clarinet and synthesizer, as well as sample loops, and traditional eastern Mediterranean instruments like the oud and the kanonaki.
But last Thursday at dusk, 15 musicians gathered at an active volcanic crater on this small island in the southern Aegean Sea for an experiment in improvisational site-specific performance. Lit by a glowing August full moon, they played for 10½ hours, asked only to take inspiration from their surroundings.Titled “634 Minutes Inside a Volcano,” the event was organized by six d.o.g.s, an Athens arts space, and theOnassis Cultural Center. The musicians, mostly Greek and in their 20s and 30s, came from improvisational backgrounds, including jazz, classical, avant-garde and electronic, and many met for the first time at the sound check. Their instruments included electric guitar, piano, clarinet and synthesizer, as well as sample loops, and traditional eastern Mediterranean instruments like the oud and the kanonaki.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/arts/music/15-musicians-spent-the-night-in-an-active-volcano-listen-to-what-happened.html?_r=1
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