Noisy Words

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Noisy Words ist ein multimodales Festival für Klang, Lärm und Worte ist ein Festival, das zeigt, wie Lärm mehr sein kann als nur störendes Geräusch. Es bringt Menschen zusammen, die mit Klang, Sprache und Bewegung arbeiten – und lädt dazu ein, zuzuhören, zu sprechen und gemeinsam neue Formen von Kommunikation zu entdecken. Seit 2024 erkundet das Festival laute Räume begann und setzt sich mit Lärm als Ausdruck von Vielfalt, Widerstand und Verbindung auseinander.

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Evi Nakou
Evi Nakou is a musician, sound artist. Her practice is a hotchpotch of listening and sharing gestures of sound, text, and performance. Her work explores proximity and intimacy within situated stories in an improvised and semi-structured manner – stories often untold, unheard or erased. Evi is a co-founder of the music ensemble Breakfast Club quartet.

She has collaborated with organizations such as the Barbican Centre, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Women for Refugee Women, Melissa Network, Goethe-Insitut Athen, New York Philharmonic, CTM Festival, Greek National Opera, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Onassis Stegi, on the basis of conceiving and facilitating context-led pedagogies and performing arts practices.

She has curated and facilitated workshops on music and sound improvisation and collaborative composition with people from diverse backgrounds and life paths, locally and internationally, namely Beit AlMusica in Palestine, La Sonora in Argentina, and Drum Works in the United Kingdom, as well as the Korydallos Prison Complex, the Organization Against Drugs (OKANA), various schools, and hospice, health care, and detention facilities in Attica, Greece.

Evi is a graduate of the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (MMus Leadership). She is a PhD candidate at the University of Thessaly and an Onassis AiR fellow.