About

LAST UPDATE: 2020

6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble started off in 2007 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Greece as the offshoot of a music improvisation course held by Alexis Porfiriadis at the Department of Music Studies the years 2005 to 2009. Since 2012 6daEXIt is an independent improvisation and experimental music ensemble based in the center of Thessaloniki. 6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble is an open collective and anyone can become a member if the group agrees.

Past concerts and activities have ranged from the performance of  graphic and verbal score repertoire of the 20th and 21th century, to the creation and performance of verbal and graphic scores by members of the ensemble, and free improvisation. In the past sixteen years, 6daEXIt have collaborated with painters, dancers, music educators and schoolchildren, performed in anti-racist festivals and community outreach events across Greece, played alongside free form noise groups and new music ensembles, as well as performing more traditional concerts in recital halls and theatres such as the Onassis Cultural Center Athens, the Lazaristes Theatre Thessaloniki, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, the Ethnological & Folklife Museum Thessaloniki, the State Symphony Orchestra Rehearsal Hall “Solon Michailidis” Thessaloniki and different smaller venues like Vitruvian Thing in Thessaloniki, KNOT Gallery Athens, Viotechnia and Protos Orofos . The constant search for new timbral, rhythmic and textural possibilities are central for 6daEXIt, as is the purely social and political dimension of collective music-making.

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Το σύνολο αυτοσχεδιασμού και πειραματικής μουσικής 6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble δημιουργήθηκε στη Θεσσαλονίκη το 2007 μέσα από το μάθημα αυτοσχεδιασμού του Αλέξη Πορφυριάδη στο Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών του ΑΠΘ (2005-09). Από το 2012 το σύνολο συνέχισε την πορεία του αυτόνομα έχοντας ως βάση του διάφορους χώρους στο κέντρο της Θεσσαλονίκης. Διατηρεί ευέλικτη δομή, με μεταβαλλόμενο αριθμό συντελεστών. Οι 6daEXIt είναι μια ανοιχτή συλλογικότητα στην οποία μπορεί να λάβει μέρος ο καθένας μετά από τη σύμφωνη γνώμη των μελών της ομάδας.

Οι ανοιχτές πρόβες και οι performances των 6daEXIt έχουν συμπεριλάβει τα τελευταία 16 χρόνια εκτελέσεις γραφικών και λεκτικών παρτιτούρων μελών της ομάδας αλλά και συνθετών πειραματικής μουσικής από τη διεθνή σκηνή του 20ου και 21ου αιώνα καθώς και διαδράσεις μεταξύ του ελεύθερου μουσικού αυτοσχεδιασμού και άλλων μέσων ανάλογα με τα ενεργά μέλη της ομάδας στα οποία έχουν συμπεριληφθεί κατά καιρούς ζωγράφοι, performers, χορευτές και video artists.

Η κοινωνική διάσταση του συλλογικού αυτοσχεδιασμού έχει πρωτεύουσα θέση στη λογική των 6daEXIt. Η ομάδα παίρνει τις αποφάσεις της αμεσοδημοκρατικά και βρίσκεται σε μια συνεχή έρευνα για νέα ηχοχρώματα, νέους τρόπους ηχητικής οργάνωσης και παρουσίασης του ελεγχόμενου και ελεύθερου αυτοσχεδιασμού.

Οι 6daEXIt έχουν πραγματοποιήσει εμφανίσεις σε φεστιβάλ (Στέγη Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών Open Day 2014/2018/2020, Moving Silence 2014, Espacio Tres / Χώρος 3 – ImaginariA 2011, Multeece Festival 2017, Φεστιβάλ “Χώρος Δράσης” Κρατικού Θεάτρου Βορείου Ελλάδος 2010, “Street Cinema”-50ο Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Θεσσαλονίκης 2009, Αντιρατσιστικά Φεστιβάλ 2008 / 2009, Eαρινό Φεστιβάλ Έδεσσας 2008, Eκδηλώσεις Δήμου Ηρακλείου «Ηράκλειο-Καλοκαίρι 2008), στο φεστιβάλ Δημητρίων (2017), στο Μέγαρο Μουσικής Θεσσαλονίκης (2019), σε φοιτητικές και ανεξάρτητες διοργανώσεις (Φοιτητικές Εβδομάδες 2008/09/10, Φεστιβάλ ομάδας Ν.Υ.Χ.Τ.Α/ΠΑΜΑΚ) και σε αυτοδιαχειριζόμενους χώρους (KNOT Gallery Athens/2011, Βιοτεχνία/2012, 1.Όροφος/2013), αλλά και χώρους παραστατικών και άλλων τεχνών όπως το Vitruvian Thing στη Θεσσαλονίκη.

Members and collaborators of 6daEXIt 2007-present(2020):

Vassilis Chatzimakris, Sapfo Pantzaki, Odysseas Gkallios, Katerina Reveltzi, Alexis Porfiriadis, Vassilis Kleftakis, Vasoula Delli, Konstantina Kastellou, Issidoros Papadakis, Antonis Rouvelas, Stelios Tsairidis, Zeses Seglias, Eleni Tsagkalidou, Marily Ventouri, Nontas Kopatsaris, Eva Giantzi, Anna Papoutsi, Olga Papakonstantinou, Maria Skeparnia, Andreas Stylianoudakis, Menelaos Toukas, Marise Triantafillou, Maria Mpatana, Vasiliki Spyrou, Danae Stefanou, Rania Chouridou, Andreas Papapetrou, Georgia Koumara, Chrisi Kyratsou, Eleni Notaridou, Eleni Ralli, Kostis Kilymis, Andreas Katsiavalos, Yorgos Holopoulos, Dafni Mantousi, Magda Papadopoulou, Chrisi Parpara, Jannis Dimitroudis, Jannis Milonelis, Alexandros Karagiorgis, Noula Papadopoulou, Lina Koukouli, Marilena Salta, Lazaros Souvaitzis, Minas Tsavdaris-Valianos, Stavroula Sotiri, Paraskevi Tektonidou, Vassilis Voudouris, Anastasia Peki, Fotis Lazidis, Zisis Bliatkas, Anastasia Koukioglou, Athina Sotiroglou, Ioanna Valsamara, Stefanos Kioridis, Dimitra Pavlou, Stella Dipli, Myrto Siohou, Xenia Lapratsioti, Drosia Triantaki

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PERFORMANCES

2020

  • 16/2 – Open Day 2020: Musical Ecologies – Performance of “fields have ears (4)” (2009) by Michael Pisaro (*1961) (greek premiere) at Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece

2019

  • 14/9 – Participation at “Enclosures|Pass-throughs (part 2)”: 6daEXIt improvisation ensemble and Drosia Triantaki – f_RAM_e: structured improvisation/real-time graphic score composition and realisation/contemporary dance performance at Thessaloniki Concert Hall
  • 2/6 – Live at To Pikap, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 6/2 – Participation at “Music connects the Onassis Stegi and the Panteion University, vol. 4”: performance of 5+1 20th- and 21st-century works from six countries, 4 of which were written specifically for the ensemble (4 world premieres) at Panteion University, Athens, Greece

2018

  • 15/4 – 6daEXIt 2008-2018 live at Vitruvian Thing, Thessaloniki, celebrating 10 years of activity
  • 24-25/3 – Participation in “Unit Motives: Cage” with a realization of John Cage’s “Variations I” (1968) with Drosia Triantaki at Vitruvian Thing, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 4/3 – Performance of 3 text scores by Karlheinz Stockhausen as part of the “Open Day | May ‘68” event at Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece

2017

  • 14/11 ­– MultEECE!!! festival day 2: separate collaborative performances of  6daEXIt members with other artists from Greece and abroad at Viologiko, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 13/11 ­– Performance at MultEECE!!! festival at Mondo Nuevo, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 14/10 ­– “New Stuff: Experimental Music of the 21st century” held at the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra Rehearsal Hall “Solon Michailidis”, Thessaloniki, during the 52nd Dimitria Festival
  • 10/3 – Performance at Balkan Art Gallery in Xanthi, Greece

2016

  • 24/5 – Performance with EmdY at Viotechnia, Thessaloniki

2015

  • 27/5 – Performance at “Art Theories, Art Experiences” interdisciplinary conference held at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 28/4 – Performance at the basement of the Department of Landscape Architecture in Drama, Greece

2014

  • 7/12 – Performance in Onassis Cultural Center Athens, “Stockhausen Open Day”
  • 22/4 – Performance in “Moving Silence Festival” in Thessaloniki

2013

  • 23/11 – Performance in 1.Orofos/Thessaloniki together with Fun with Nuns
  • 3/6 – Performance in Avgo Thessaloniki

2012

  • 26/6 – Performance in Viotechnia Thessaloniki, together with Andrew Dewar (Sax)
  • 19/4 – Performance in KNOT Gallery Athens

2011

  • 3/4 – Performance in Art Festival Imaginariain Kodra, Thessaloniki
  • 20/3 – Performance in KNOT Gallery Athens

2010

  • 5/11 – Performance at fine arts warehouse party, Thessaloniki
  • 20/5 – Festival of State Theatre of North Greece “To act or not to act?”, performance at Moni Lazariston Theatre, Thessaloniki
  • 18/5 – Festival “Student’s Week 2010”, performance at Ethnological & Folklife Museum, Thessaloniki
  • 7/5 – Performance at festival of the group “NYXTA”, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki
  • 23/3 – performance at Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos

2009

  • 20/11 – 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival ‘“Street Cinema” project, performance at Leontos Sofou parking lot
  • 10/11 – 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival ‘“Street Cinema” project, performance at A.U.TH. main campus
  • 12/5 – Festival “Student’s Week 2009”, performance at Vafopouleio theatre, Thessaloniki

2008

  • 6/8 – Summer festival City of Heraklion/Greece, performance at ‘Manos Hadjidakis’ open theatre
  • 29/7 – Performance at 6th Cultural Student Camping in Astritsi/Crete
  • 27/6 – Performance at 11th Antiracist Festival of Thessaloniki
  • 30/5 – Fluxus performance at Musicircus, organised by Danae Stefanou in AUTH
  • 13/4 – Spring Festival of Edessa/Greece, performance at “Gr.Alexander theatre”
  • 5/4 – Student’s Week Festival 2008, performance in Aneton theatre Thessaloniki