SUBSET FESTIVAL 2025 - DAY 3

20:00 - NEW STAGE Alexandra Katerinopoulou—Sofyann Ben Youssef (AKA AMMAR 808) - LOSS [COMMISSION] LOSS is an immersive audio-visual installation by Sofyann Ben Youssef, the Tunisian music producer and composer celebrated for his fusion of traditional music with modern electronic soundscapes, and Alexandra Katerinopoulou, a composer who integrates traditional instruments, vocal arrangements, classical orchestral components, as well as analogue modular and digital synthesizers. Drawing inspiration from both Greek and Arabic traditions, the work dives headlong into the universal human experience of loss, exploring its personal, collective, cultural, and cosmic dimensions through an intricate fusion of sound, light, and sensory manipulation. By blending music, storytelling, and spoken word, the artists craft a transformative journey that guides participants through myth, sound, and darkness. The installation incorporates a 3D sound system, dynamic lighting, room scent, and temperature shifts to initiate an environment where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur, heightening emotional and physical engagement. Audience members are invited to engage as passive observers or active participants, moving from introspection to collective release. The installation’s circular progression—from darkness to creation and back—symbolises acceptance and renewal. More than just an art piece, and deeply rooted in the shared Mediterranean heritage of Greek and Tunisian cultures, LOSS offers a profound sensory journey that bridges personal and collective grief, inviting reflection, connection, and transformation. GENERAL ADMISSION €8 STUDENTS/ 65+/ ARTISTS’ UNIONS/ MULTI-CHILD FAMILIES/ FESTIVAL FRIEND €6,60 PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES/ UNEMPLOYED/ ART STUDENTS €5 Christina Vantzou - The Reintegration of the Ear, ft. Oliver Coates, Irene Kurka & John Also Bennett [COMMISSION] Christina Vantzou is a composer who explores concepts such as the expansion of time, atmosphere, and harmony through both electronic and acoustic instruments. In her latest work, she focuses on the shaping of ceremonial and affective spaces, where synthesizers, voice, and the language of ensembles mingle and form tendril-like sonic structures. The intimate practice of documenting her wanderings evokes the atmosphere of a travelogue-dream journal, while her minimalist arrangements and introspective compositions propose a subtle yet expressive sonic vocabulary. Her works are often defined by a meditative slowness, which invites contemplative listening. In her ensemble work, she delicately invokes the invisible, drawing audiences into profound depths with a light touch. The Reintegration of the Ear is a suite of electronic and acoustic sound sources that coexist with natural environments, both terrestrial and subaquatic. Comprising hydrophone recordings from Sifnos, field recordings from Lesvos, ARP synthesizer tones, and mist-like orchestrals, the piece undulates and unfolds with an acute awareness of space. GENERAL ADMISSION €12 STUDENTS/ 65+/ ARTISTS’ UNIONS/ MULTI-CHILD FAMILIES/ FESTIVAL FRIEND €9,60 PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES/ UNEMPLOYED/ ART STUDENTS €5 - 22:30 - ARTS FOYER Mouse on Mars AAI AV ft. Dodo NKishi Mouse on Mars, the Berlin-based duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, approach electronic music with boundless curiosity and unparalleled ingenuity. Operating in their own orbit within dance music’s nebulous echosystem, the duo’s hyper-detailed productions are inventive and groundbreaking, yet always infused with a signature joyful experimentation. Their genre-less embrace of cutting-edge technologies has ensured that every Mouse on Mars release sounds strikingly modern—a remarkable feat, especially when considering the duo’s 25 years of making music. Their latest album and live show, AAI (Anarchic Artificial Intelligence), takes Toma and Werner’s fascination with technology and undogmatic exploration a quantum leap further. Collaborating with writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei, a collective of computer programmers, and longtime Mouse on Mars partner/percussionist Dodo NKishi, the duo explores artificial intelligence both as a narrative framework and a compositional tool, summoning their most explicitly science-fiction-inspired work to date. GENERAL ADMISSION €8 STUDENTS/ 65+/ ARTISTS’ UNIONS/ MULTI-CHILD FAMILIES/ FESTIVAL FRIEND €6,60 PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES/ UNEMPLOYED/ ART STUDENTS €5