SUBSET FESTIVAL 2025 - DAY 2

20:00 - AMPHITHEATRE Lyra Pramuk Devotional music, at its core, embodies the deep-seated human urge to express our innermost, primal emotions. For Lyra Pramuk, devotion is ingrained in her futurist folk music, which harnesses the power and giddiness of technology to present the human voice as an object of limitless possibility. Growing up singing in choirs, Lyra struggled to conform to the images and expectations of her small Pennsylvania town, creating a deep and complex internet-fueled interior world in response. This world, in turn, presaged her view of digital worlds as extensions of our embodied consciousness—liberated from real-world notions of presentation and acceptable knowledge. A diligent student at the Eastman School of Music, Lyra discovered that her skills lay in breaking with and reinterpreting the traditions of the academically pure classical music she was expected to uphold. Her interests gravitated toward pop and opera, counting Björk, Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, M.I.A, and Missy Elliot as inspirations—artists who embody her mantra that “songcraft is a way of short-circuiting the structures we are sold as real differences in the world.” Carmen Villain - Music from The Living Monument The diverse sonic worlds that Carmen Villain has built over her career are shaped by her natural curiosity about sound. Her music hits a sweet spot between the languid yet vibrant pulse of dub and cosmic fourth-world* influences, creating evocative granular soundscapes and melodies with hints of instruments such as flute, voice, and clarinet. Her most recent studio album, Only Love From Now On, received rave reviews and was featured on multiple year-end best-of lists, including Pitchfork and Resident Advisor, with the latter hailing it “a masterpiece of jazz-informed ambient and downtempo.” Last year, she released Music from The Living Monument, a commissioned composition for Eszter Salamon’s contemporary dance performance with Carte Blanche. Carmen has brought her atmospheric live performance to prestigious venues and festivals such as ICA London, Berlin Atonal, Dekmantel, and Mutek. She has collaborated with an array of luminaries and like-minded artists, including Actress, Arve Henriksen, Biosphere, Huerco S, Dj Python and rRoxymore. Carmen Villain is half Norwegian, half Mexican, and lives in Oslo. *Fourth World: a term coined by composer Jon Hassell to describe a musical concept that merges elements of the primitive with the most contemporary trends in electronic music—originating not from the First or Third World, but from an imagined Fourth World. 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 BLIP - Chimeras BLIP (Yorgos Stenos & Yorgos Stavridis) is a duet that explores the inherent sonic potentials of materials, objects, and electronic circuits through construction, in-situ action, and improvisation. Their musical practice highlights the notion of texture, gesture, timbre, and rhythm, approaching listening, improvisation, and composition as interdependent acts, deeply connected to physical action, instrument-objects, and the given venue and time. For their newly commissioned work at the Subset Festival, BLIP propose a space for sonic play, open to diverse ideas and sound-generating media. This hybrid, spatial, and site-specific sound piece incorporates found objects, percussion, acoustic phenomena, self-devised circuits, and light, while further welcoming natural, amplified, and electronic sounds that interact, coalescing into an electroacoustic musical amalgamation. The sound sources are dispersed throughout the venue, with the musicians activating or pausing them at will—playing, listening or remaining silent. The audience is invited to wander within the space, observing, listening and experiencing the performance from various perspectives. Specifically designed for the Arts’ Foyer of the Athens Conservatoire, the work embraces the architectural and acoustic features of the venue. Beyond their activity as BLIP, its two members are also involved in the group Trigger Happy, the Centre for Research & Dissemination of Music Scheming, and the experimental radio platform Loskop.radio. GENERAL ADMISSION €8 STUDENTS/ 65+/ ARTISTS’ UNIONS/ MULTI-CHILD FAMILIES/ FESTIVAL FRIEND €6,60 PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES/ UNEMPLOYED/ ART STUDENTS €5