MEDIATHEK

City Lives is an intriguing and evergreen contemporary music theatre, which tries to deconstruct the every day life into subtle layers via which man connects and communicates by shaping different networks. “City Lives” received its world premiere in May 2014 by the Ergon Ensemble in the Athens Concert Hall. 

// The city is more than meets the eye: the buildings, the streets, the sidewalks, the parks, the town squares or its people. It is the relationships which, like a giant spider’s web, connect all the pieces of one chaotic puzzle. We are no mere physical entities. Our life no longer depends on our physical presence. Instead, we are multiple entities, veils, levels or concentric spheres that orbit within one another simultaneously. Our every activity, be it physical or mental, is one such sphere by which we are surrounded in the natural or virtual environment. Communication and communion with the equivalent spheres of other people connects and intergrates us in a different network each time, forming atypical groups, subcultures or networks. The urban space expands through its narrow geographical definition, taking in turn the form of the concentric circles: from our esoteric self to the vast social groups. We are multiple beings of different textures and composition that live many concurrent lives, whether overt or secret, esoteric or public. Together they form the totality of who we really are. Through this performance I try to approach every kind of ‘life’ as I imagine it to be. I want to deconstruct those different layers, focussing on the point of view not so much of the different sides of life in a city (City Life) but on the different lives created or formed by such defining factors as communication, money, the Media, religion, culture as well as our ideas and belief systems. (Street Life, Social Life, Media Life, Money Life, Inner Life, After Life etc.). 

// There are two options for the production of the work: 

1. New production: Score & Video by the composer; The organizer or the venue engage a local contemporary ensemble, singers, conductor, director, set designer, etc. 

2. Premiere production: Score & Video by the composer; Ergon Ensemble, singers, conductor, set designer, etc. travel from Athens.