Composing Sound Paintings

By experimenting with these concepts individually and in groups, embodying the musical experience with movement and/or spatial ideas and writing down their own ideas, the young artists gradually move from the playful and educational phase to the creative phase. Concepts such as improvisation, sound and silence, time and space, noise, notation and finally composition are explored in the form of playful meetings. The composer Zesses Seglias then creates a compositional plan to which the children apply their ideas. In a next step, this draft is brought into a final form and rehearsals follow. As basic material for the composition, the children use various percussion instruments, homemade instruments and Orff instruments, as well as everyday materials such as paper and stones.

In addition, the children will be introduced to the world of electronic music through workshops led by Andrey Smirnov. These workshops focuse on sound art and creativity. The children create their own short pieces and experiment with acousmatics. The finished compositions will also be performed at the end.

The workshops take place at the Museum of Modern Art, where the Costakis Collection of Russian avant-garde art (1900–1930) serves as a source of inspiration for the workshops.

At the final concert, a composition by Zesses Seglias will be performed by an ensemble together with the students. The students’ composition will be integrated into this work. In addition, the piece will be framed by soundscapes created by the children with Andrey Smirnovs.

Composing Sound Paintings is supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

Further information:
momus.gr/en

Date

February 28, 2026
MOMus, Costakis Collection, Thessaloniki