debut LP release
Solo Percussion comprises an anthology of solo improvisations emerged as a need to investigate the performative aspects of music based on sound itself.
They document an act of exploration into the sound possibilities and interactions with percussion instruments, objects, and microphones.
An embodied practice of musical creation that focuses on texture and timbre as the central elements of sound composition, through a spatial, perceptual, and physical approach. It addresses the relationships between listening, improvising, and composing as inseparably connected and reciprocal, in continuous interplay with the temporality and site specificity of sound and music.
The pieces have been composed/improvised, considering that the environment and the specific circumstance of the recording process transform the ephemeral aspects of sound in space into the space of any playback medium, as well as into any potential schizophonic reproductions at any given point in time.
Each piece consists of specific instrumental choices, sound performing methods, and their resulting timbral, textural, and gestural relationships. Microphones and speakers are not treated as transparent devices of reproduction, but as instruments themselves, as active agents that contribute their own opaqueness and resistance.
All the pieces were recorded in one-shot takes, and no overdubs or further editing has been applied.
All music composed, performed and recorded by Yorgos Stavridis
Mastering by Mathhias Heinstein
Released January 30, 2026 by Heat Crimes
