Fuga residency 2020 - Zaragoza, Spain
Photo Ilme Vysniauskaite
ABOUT
Filippos Raskovic is a composer, improviser and curator from Athens, Greece based in Vilnius, Lithuania.His work creates a sonic world; accidental and composed, recognizable and unexpected all at the same time.
As a composer, he often creates interdisciplinary work with visual artists and in close relation to instrumentalists with a particular focus on the acoustics of objects, sculptures and spaces.In 2021 he completed the performative installation; “Echo Chambers” in close collaboration with the sculptor D.Tampakis which was developed during his FUGA residency in Spain and together with the collective UN P R 18T (Un. Processed Realities), they created “POST EUROPEAN RAGEROOM TM” a performance & pop-up exhibition shown at Centrum Berlin. In 2022 he collaborated with composer Felix Nussbaumer for the creation of “viscous air for 6 musicians” site-specific composition created for the inside of the four reverberation towers “Klangtürme” at the Hochschule Luzern.
As an improviser, he self-released his first album “gentle presence'' in 2020 and has performed at the Monopiano Festival 2021 at Fylkingen, Sweden, State51 Studios, London, Flatterschafft - Basel, Flatterschafft: THE END - DefDefDefinitive, Studium P, Vilnius and Chimeres, Athens, amongst others. He is also a founding member of “illucid trio” with Kazimieras Jusinskas and Gediminas Stepanavicius. The trio explores the boundaries among free improvisation, jazz and composition resulting in long-duration improvisations.
In 2019 he co-founded the KRAMA collective and festival an independent initiative aiming to present a new outlook within the art scene of Athens and beyond.
Finally, he is a monthly resident host at the independent web radio "Radio Vilnius" and co-producer of the show Krama Entries at movement radio.
As a composer, he often creates interdisciplinary work with visual artists and in close relation to instrumentalists with a particular focus on the acoustics of objects, sculptures and spaces.In 2021 he completed the performative installation; “Echo Chambers” in close collaboration with the sculptor D.Tampakis which was developed during his FUGA residency in Spain and together with the collective UN P R 18T (Un. Processed Realities), they created “POST EUROPEAN RAGEROOM TM” a performance & pop-up exhibition shown at Centrum Berlin. In 2022 he collaborated with composer Felix Nussbaumer for the creation of “viscous air for 6 musicians” site-specific composition created for the inside of the four reverberation towers “Klangtürme” at the Hochschule Luzern.
As an improviser, he self-released his first album “gentle presence'' in 2020 and has performed at the Monopiano Festival 2021 at Fylkingen, Sweden, State51 Studios, London, Flatterschafft - Basel, Flatterschafft: THE END - DefDefDefinitive, Studium P, Vilnius and Chimeres, Athens, amongst others. He is also a founding member of “illucid trio” with Kazimieras Jusinskas and Gediminas Stepanavicius. The trio explores the boundaries among free improvisation, jazz and composition resulting in long-duration improvisations.
In 2019 he co-founded the KRAMA collective and festival an independent initiative aiming to present a new outlook within the art scene of Athens and beyond.
Finally, he is a monthly resident host at the independent web radio "Radio Vilnius" and co-producer of the show Krama Entries at movement radio.
