Description

The Greek National Opera’s online festival Waves of Light, in collaboration with the PPC and curated by Giorgos Koumendakis, features the first series of site-specific performances inspired by the Megalopolis Steam Power Station.

Memories from the Factory
Apostolos Armagos - Department of Music Studies (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Inspired by his visit to the PPC factory in Megalopoli, composer and sound designer Apostolos Armagos created an audiovisual work that features his own sketches in perfect harmony with the original music he composed and the sounds he recorded at the site.
Memories from the Factory is, in essence, a combination of a painting and music. The painting is gradually revealed during a three-and-a-half-minute video. The creator gathered photographs and sounds from the site that inspired his work. By using images he designed on a piece of paper during his visit and reworking the factory sounds, he created the musical composition that accompanies the video. Thus, with the memory of Megalopoli imprinted in him, he aims to present a child’s perspective through a handcrafted blend of representative images and beautiful music.


The Greek National Opera assigned the organisation of a cross-university / interdisciplinary arts workshop focused on the Megalopolis Steam Power Station to the Department of Performing and Digital Arts at the University of the Peloponnese, involving eight university arts departments from across Greece. As part of the online festival titled Waves of Light, 20 young artists and artistic teams from university departments throughout Greece drew inspiration from the striking sites of the old PPC factory in Megalopolis to create 20 new site-specific digital works for GNO TV, the GNO’s digital platform. These works are grouped into various genres that fall within the broader fields of performing, visual, and digital arts. The music and scripts in these works are inspired by the spaces, history, and people who worked there.
Participating in this workshop were students from the following departments: Department of Music Studies (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Department of Visual and Applied Arts (University of Western Macedonia), Department of Culture and Creative Media and Industries (University of Thessaly), Department of Theatre Studies (University of Patras), Department of Sound and Image Arts (Ionian University – undergraduate and postgraduate programmes), and the Athens School of Fine Arts.
PPC, a leader in Greece’s electrification through its emblematic factories, has evolved into an active cultural agent, offering its historical sites as a canvas for contemporary artistic creation. Through the Waves of Light online festival, PPC contributes to repurposing industrial landmarks into vibrant reference points between the past and the future, where energy meets art.

Creative team – Cast

CONCEPT – CREATION - MUSIC:
APOSTOLOS ARMAGOS 

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