Costas Andreou

Costas Andreou
Native name	Κώστας Ανδρέου
Origin	Athens, Greece
Genres	Instrumental, ambient
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, sound designer
Instruments	fretless bass
Website	costasandreou.com

Costas Andreou (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.) 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.^[1]

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.^[2]^[3]

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.^[4]^[5]

In 2021 he wrote music for the documentary series Why 21? 12 questions by director Elena Lalopoulou on ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation).^[6]

Since 2021 he presents his production MIF (Musique Indépendante Francophone)^[7]. 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.^[8]

In 2024 he started presenting the DJ set Czech Jazz, as part of the Hudba cultural production, featuring contemporary Czech music.^[9]

Music/sound design

Theatre

Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)^[10]
Deirdre (William Butler Yeats)^[11]
Youth Without God (Ödön von Horváth)^[12]
The Burrow (Franz Kafka)^[13]
An Unknown From The Seine (Ödön von Horváth)^[14]
I Should Have (Franz Kafka)^[15]
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)^[16]
Places To Hide
Children's Tales
Blackbird (David Harrower)^[17]
Sabbathland (Lena Kitsopoulou)
The Small Things (Enda Walsh)^[18]
L'Hereux Stratagème (Pierre de Marivaux)^[19]
The Pillowman (Martin McDonagh)
Amphitryon (Heinrich von Kleist)^[20]
Tone Clusters (Joyce Carol Oates)
The Mandate (Nikolai Erdmann)
King John (William Shakespeare)
Far Away (Caryl Churchill)^[21]
Flirtations (Arthur Schnitzler)
City in a State of Emergency (Aghelliki Darlassi)
Mr Ouatson would like some more snow (Giannis Dumos)
Tabataba (Bernard-Marie Koltès)^[22]

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

Discography

Solo albums

Observation Point (2017)
Blind Journeys at Sea(2011)
Dolphin Dreams (2006)^[23]
Transpacific EP (2005)^[24]

Collaborations

Per Boysen & Costas Andreou – Nanetora (2008)^[25]

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

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↑ "Costas Andreou".
↑ "Costas Andreou presents Live Ambient". 3 October 2018.
↑ "Que faire à Athènes en Octobre ?". Bonjour Athènes. 5 October 2018.
↑ "Virtuoser Bassist im Fournos Theater". GRIECHENLAND.NET. 16 May 2019.
↑ "Οταν η Ιπποκράτους μπαίνει στo «Φούρνο»". ΕΦΣΥΝ. 16 October 2019.
↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14358588/fullcredits/
↑ "Οταν η μουσική γίνεται επαναστατική πρακτική". ΕΦΣΥΝ. 4 June 2023.
↑ "Γαλλική μουσική μέσα στους αμπελώνες στην Νάουσα Ημαθίας". www.amna.gr.
↑ https://athens.czechcentres.cz/program/jazz-and-vino-cesky-jazz-v-reckych-vinicich-dj-set-kostas-andreu-1
↑ "Twelfth Night - 13 May - 4 June 2024".
↑ "Deirdre - information about the theatre production".
↑ "Youth Without God - information about the theatre production".
↑ "Franz Kafka, The burrow".
↑ "An Unknown From The Seine - information about the theatre production".
↑ "I Should Have - information about the theatre production".
↑ "Πειραματική Σκηνή της Τέχνης - Μέρες ολόκληρες, νύχτες ολόκληρες". www.piramatikiskini.gr.
↑ https://digilib.gr:8080/lselia/rec.aspx?id=614306
↑ "The Small Things".
↑ "«H τέλεια στρατηγική»". ΤΑ ΝΕΑ. 26 June 2006.
↑ https://digilib.gr:8080/lselia/rec.aspx?id=614267
↑ BHMA, TO (24 November 2008). "H Τσέρτσιλ πάει «Πολύ μακριά»". ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ.
↑ ":: atraktos.net ::". www.atraktos.net.
↑ "Release group "Dolphin Dreams" by Costas Andreou - MusicBrainz". musicbrainz.org.
↑ "Release group "Transpacific EP" by Costas Andreou - MusicBrainz". musicbrainz.org.
↑ "Per Boysen & Costas Andreou - Nanetora". www.stockholm-athens.com.

[1] "Costas Andreou".

[2] "Costas Andreou presents Live Ambient". 3 October 2018.

[3] "Que faire à Athènes en Octobre ?". Bonjour Athènes. 5 October 2018.

[4] "Virtuoser Bassist im Fournos Theater". GRIECHENLAND.NET. 16 May 2019.

[5] "Οταν η Ιπποκράτους μπαίνει στo «Φούρνο»". ΕΦΣΥΝ. 16 October 2019.

[6] ttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt14358588/fullcredits/

[7] "Οταν η μουσική γίνεται επαναστατική πρακτική". ΕΦΣΥΝ. 4 June 2023.

[8] "Γαλλική μουσική μέσα στους αμπελώνες στην Νάουσα Ημαθίας". www.amna.gr.

[9] ttps://athens.czechcentres.cz/program/jazz-and-vino-cesky-jazz-v-reckych-vinicich-dj-set-kostas-andreu-1

[10] "Twelfth Night - 13 May - 4 June 2024".

[11] "Deirdre - information about the theatre production".

[12] "Youth Without God - information about the theatre production".

[13] "Franz Kafka, The burrow".

[14] "An Unknown From The Seine - information about the theatre production".

[15] "I Should Have - information about the theatre production".

[16] "Πειραματική Σκηνή της Τέχνης - Μέρες ολόκληρες, νύχτες ολόκληρες". www.piramatikiskini.gr.

[17] ttps://digilib.gr:8080/lselia/rec.aspx?id=614306

[18] "The Small Things".

[19] "«H τέλεια στρατηγική»". ΤΑ ΝΕΑ. 26 June 2006.

[20] ttps://digilib.gr:8080/lselia/rec.aspx?id=614267

[21] BHMA, TO (24 November 2008). "H Τσέρτσιλ πάει «Πολύ μακριά»". ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ.

[22] ":: atraktos.net ::". www.atraktos.net.

[23] "Release group "Dolphin Dreams" by Costas Andreou - MusicBrainz". musicbrainz.org.

[24] "Release group "Transpacific EP" by Costas Andreou - MusicBrainz". musicbrainz.org.

[25] "Per Boysen & Costas Andreou - Nanetora". www.stockholm-athens.com.

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