May 2023, TOY STORIES, ILALI STUDIO, Berlin

Live at Ilali Studio with Lisa Baeyens (flute, electronics, objects), Stephen Bradshaw (violin, electronics, objects). Playing with electronic and accoustic sounds. The audience joins us.

October 2022, OPEN MILPA LAB, Warta River, Short-Film, Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan
Wrote the soundscape for a short-film by Diego Gutierez Valladares and Roberto Nino Betancourt, within the context of Making Milpa
https://makingmilpa.net/Camp-4

October 2021, MILPA COLLABORATORY, Workshop, E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław
The Kitchen
Breathing + sound improvisations
https://makingmilpa.net/Camp-3

May 2021, MILPA COLLABORATORY, Waterless, Centre for Social Development, Szczytnicki Park, Wrocław
The Language of Water
Sound improvisation using the venue as an instrument
https://makingmilpa.net/Camp-2

Participate in ‘Making Milpa’, a translocal network of artists, makers, mediators, learners exploring forms of collaboration, ways of inhabiting spaces and creating learning environments towards diversity and non-hegemonic forms of thinking.

April 2021, SANA, Wanderlust, CASHMERE RADIO, radio, Berlin
Presented “Sana” as a combination of readings and soundscapes
https://cashmereradio.com/episode/wanderlust-72-sana/

September 2020, M4M Vol I, Sounds for Kinesis, Berlin

Commissioned to write music for movement by a Master Trainer.

March 2019, SOWIESO, afaab and friends live, Berlin

Live at Sowieso jazz bar with Lisa Baeyens (flute), Olga Tabita Xavier (vocals), Katharina Schmidt and Pietro Fornara (guitar). Improvising based on poems or phrases.

February 2019, TOP, SANA 2, live, Berlin

Video by Anassa
The second edition of the SANA concept taking place at a Transdisciplinary Project Space (TOP) in Neukoelln. This is an international collaboration between two groups “Room338” in Manchester and “afaab” in Berlin to make improvised experimental music. With Lisa Baeyens (Flute, Berlin), Stephen Bradshaw (Violin, RNCM), Abby Clarcke (Graphics, Manchester), Athanasia Kontou (Organ, RNCM) and Rob Oswell (Oboe, RNCM).

January 2019, THE EAR HAS TO TRAVEL #22, CASHMERE RADIO, radio, Berlin

Video abstract
Participated with “Sells Soil” to Katharina Schmidt’s broadcasting on http://www.cashmereradio.com/listen/. “The Ear Has to Travel #22 – Revisiting the Soundscape” is a sound journey via the Atlantic Forest, Greece, Vietnam, Japan and many other places, among them the insides of trees. “Sells Soil” (c.21min) is a soundscape recorded before and after the July 2018 Attica/Greece wildfires. Sound sources include toilet flashes, a ticket machine, hula-hoop, a church waterfall, breathing exercises, and more

December 2018, POD51, fifth improvisation event, Berlin

Video pre-event
Spontaneous gathering with Lisa, Pietro, Fabio, Mikele experimenting on everything.

May 2018, FUEL BAR, SANA, live, Withington, Manchester

An evening of improvised live music and painting. “Her name is Sana. Shaking, navigating, oscillating, shivering. She is travelling like a boat in the seas, discovering new lands. How would they sound?” A concept stemming from Basil Theodorou’s album Noice. The audience participated in the collaboration using sound-making objects to improvise a piece inspired by the Jorge Luis Borges short text “On Exactitude in Science”. Besides Basil, the navigators were Lisa Baeyens (Flute, Berlin), Caroline Bordignon (Live Painting, RNCM), Stephen Bradshaw (Violin, RNCM), Abby Clarcke (Graphics, Manchester), Athanasia Kontou (Piano, RNCM) and Rob Oswell (Oboe, RNCM).

October 2017, Dialogues/ A FLUTE AND A BOX, cd, Berlin

First cd release of “A Flute and a Box”, the improvisation project with flutist Lisa Baeyens initiated in late 2015. Recorded live or studio improvisations, solely based on the sound of the flute. HW & SW samplers blend with the classical instrument. Like in a dialogue, the flute and “the box” interact changing from one theme to another. Available in electronic form on bandcamp https://afaab.bandcamp.com/releases

August 2017, POD41, fourth improvisation event, Berlin

Video by Marissa Rae Niederhauser
Introduced dance improvisation with Marissa Rae Niederhauser; Gordon Milligan: Guitar, Piano; Katharina Schmidt: Piano, Guitar: Basil Theodorou: samplers

July 2017, ON THE UBAHN, Dance Film by Marissa Rae Niederhauser, Berlin
Wrote the music for a choreographic short film

July 2017, AUSSTELLUNGSRAUM FÜR BRAUCHBARKEIT, AFAAB Live, Köln

Video by Ansbert Rodeck
“A Flute and a Box” with Lisa Baeyens – an improvisation dialogue based on the sound of the flute. Presented at the finissage of ‘transient’ by French artist Thibault Duchesne.

April 2017, POD31, third improvisation event, Berlin

Free improvisation with Katharina Schmidt, Lisa Baeyens and Stephen Bradshaw. Mainly playing the flute, the cello, the piano and samplers

March 2017, MACONDO / OLA, Live, Wroclaw

Video by Karolina Kolacz
Presented field recording compositions based on the last cd release OLA but also included anecdotal songs. Commenced with the breathing song first performed in 2013 during Paul de Marinis “Séance” workshop at the Medienhaus Gallerie/Udk in Berlin. This way the audience interacted during the whole live.

August 2016, POD21, second improvisation event, Berlin

Organised the second POD31 free improvisation event. There were five participants. This time we focused on the piano and reading poetry while also experimenting with bottles.

July 2016, MINDSCAPE UNIVERSE / THE CONFAB, Live, Berlin

Video by Phii Micheli
A live show in two parts. Presented “Enemy Propaganda” concept album – solo and “A Flute and a Box” with Lisa Baeyens – an improvisation dialogue based on the sound of the flute. https://www.facebook.com/events/1716492158616785/

June 2016, THE EAR HAS TO TRAVEL / CASHMERE RADIO, radio, Berlin

Participated with a field recording and composition (Sunday) to Katharina Schmidt’s broadcasting on http://www.cashmereradio.com/listen/ with contributions from Martyna Poznańska, Gregor Riddell, Lukas Grundmann, and more.

December 2015, POD11, first improvisation event, Berlin

Set up a venue for free improvisation. During the first event seven improvisers came together.

September 2015 KLANG KUNST BÜHNE / ROOMS WITH ATTITUDE, Installation/Performance, Berlin

The “Toilet Room” and “Recipe Room” performance/installations were presented during Alvin Curran’s “Rooms with attitude” workshop at the Kammersaal Fassasenstrasse/Udk. These rooms manifest the arrogance of rule makers. The installations expose politicians to sounds of everyday needs.

April 2015 BETON 7, Live, Athens

Presented “Stop Go” as BiBi. A socio-political statement as a noise, dark, minimal, experimental narrative. An ambient collage of fragmented sounds, voices, text and movement. http://www.beton7.com/index.php/en/program/music/item/865-bi-bi-%CE%B1then-berlin-%E2%80%9Cstop-go%E2%80%9D-concert-apr-15.html

September 2014, BIOGRAPHY OF THE BREAD, Installation/Video performance/Photography, Nicosia, Athens

Composed the sound for Maria Paschalidou © 2014, “Biography of the Bread”. The installation has been presented at: – “BreadMatters – Crossing Boundaries Intersecting the Grain”, BreadMatters IV, ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus, Nov. 12-29, 2014. Curated by Ines Rolo Amado – “NICE!”, Cultural Center Manos Loizos, Nikaia, Greece, March 16-April 4, 2016. Curated by Yiannis Grigoriadis and Yiannis Isidorou. http://www.mariapaschalidou.com/photo/biography-of-the-bread/

November 2013 BIOTEXNIA, STOP GO Live, Thessaloniki

Presented the concept album “Stop Go” as BiBi. Support by Dr Cube.

October 2013 KLANG KUNST BÜHNE, SÉANCE, Installation/Performance, Berlin

The “Breathing” and “Chairs & violins” performances were presented during Paul de Marinis “Séance” workshop at the Medienhaus Gallerie/Udk. In “Breathing” five actors perform a breathing, movement and voice sequence, while in “Chairs & violins” two hidden violin players follow the sound patterns of two actors moving chairs in a highly-resonant space.

January 2012, DGT4, cd, Berlin

1st cd release as BiBi with guests, using poems/phrases instead of titles. Available in printed form, and in electronic form on this site.

October 2011 KLANG KUNST BÜHNE, THE SOUND OF (W)EIGHT, Installation/Performance, Berlin

“The sound of (w)eight” project was presented during Douglas Reppeto “Making Noise” workshop at HfM Hanns Eisler. In this installation, visitors were invited to listen to the sound of their weight by shifting it in figure eights.

May 2010, AT THE TOY ROOM, cd, Athens

A 2007 improvisation with Jim Andreou and Phii Micheli released under the label editions_zero of Nicolas Malevitsis
http://absurd.noise-below.org/_zero/z_avoros/z_avoros.html

December 2009, VINYL MICROSTORE, Radio, Athens
Presented a two-hour live internet radio program, partly with own music and partly with third party music

March 2007, DESPO HOUSE, Live, Amfissa
Live improvisation with Jim Andreou and Samakos

February 2004, SMALL MUSICAL THEATRE, Live, Athens
Presented “The human Voice” a concept live based on the four seasons as bb

February 2004, SMALL MUSICAL THEATER, Live, Athens
Live improvisation with Jim Andreou as CAM

January 2002, SMALL MUSICAL THEATER, Live, Athens
Ultra Sound test. Live improvisation with Jim Andreou as CAM