Subset Festival ⊆ - New Music Festival
Lyra Pramuk
In co-production with the Athens Conservatoire
Curated by Stavros Gasparatos
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.”
The Subset Festival, the multifaceted music platform launched in 2023, held by the Athens Epidaurus Festival in co-production with the Athens Conservatoire, returns refreshed but always with a focus on the dialogue between contemporary music and new media.
Named after a mathematical term (subset ⊆), Subset Festival weaves together diverse versions of contemporary musical creation, incorporating a wide variety of artistic trends. From June 4 to June 8, the Conservatoire venues will host musical ensembles and soloists, established and up-and-coming alike, both from Greece and around the world, visual and sound installations and performances, as well as open-call workshops.
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