Quick Facts
Biography
Costas Andreou (Greek: Κώστας Ανδρέου) is a musician and composer based in Athens, Greece. He processes the sounds of fretless electric bass in real time, creating multi-level soundscapes. He has written and performed the music and done the sound design for theatre performances and other artistic productions. His music has been used in various documentaries, films and television productions. His music is available to preview and download on his website.
His solo concert Live Ambient has been presented at Poli Theatre (Athens) on 10 October 2015, at Art Theatre Karolos Koun (Frinichou 14, Plaka) on 21 April 2016 and at Fournos Theatre (Mavromichali 168, Athens) on 15 December 2017, on 19 and 26 October 2018 and on 7 and 8 January 2019.
On 17 and 24 May 2019 he presented the concert Ippokratous at Fournos Theatre in Athens.
Music/sound design
Theatre
- Deirdre (William Butler Yeats)
- Youth Without God (Ödön von Horváth)
- The Burrow (Franz Kafka)
- An Unknown From The Seine (Ödön von Horváth)
- I Should Have (Franz Kafka)
- Woyzeck (Georg Büchner)
- "What Do You Say, Babis?" (Sakis Serefas)
- Riddance (Linda McLean)
- Leaves of Glass (Philip Ridley)
- Chroniques Des Jours Entiers, Des Nuits Entieres (Xavier Durringer)
- Places To Hide
- Children's Tales
- Blackbird (David Harrower)
- Sabbathland (Lena Kitsopoulou)
- The Small Things (Enda Walsh)
- L'Hereux Stratagème (Pierre de Marivaux)
- The Pillowman (Martin McDonagh)
- Amphitryon (Heinrich von Kleist)
- Tone Clusters (Joyce Carol Oates)
- The Mandate (Nikolai Erdmann)
- King John (William Shakespeare)
- Far Away (Caryl Churchill)
- Flirtations (Arthur Schnitzler)
- City in a State of Emergency (Aghelliki Darlassi)
- Mr Ouatson would like some more snow (Giannis Dumos)
- Tabataba (Bernard-Marie Koltès)
Film, documentaries
- Exploro
- Meridian
- The Navigator
- In The Wind
- Clementine
- Aerostat
- Devotion
- Southern Skies
- Moment of Torsion
- Kinetic
- Uptown
- Indirect Fire
- Easter Island
- Netrino
- Bella
- No Relation
- Behind A Cloud
- Walls Are Dancing
- Acquisition
- Red Chamber
- Sophia Girl
- Airborne
multimedia, audiovisual
- Flavescent
- Radioscopic
- Restless
- Spectrum
- Geo
Discography
Solo albums
- Observation Point (2017)
- Blind Journeys at Sea (2011)
- Dolphin Dreams (2006)
- Transpacific EP (2005)
Collaborations
- Per Boysen & Costas Andreou – Nanetora (2008)
Interviews
- Costas Andreou in fretless pathways on a rich musical journey!
- Costas Andreou: music improvisation and other stories
- Costas Andreou: I am interested in stimulating the audience's mind to create images
- Costas Andreou: Fretless electric bass is the instrument with which I express myself, it's a companion
- Costas Andreou: Every concert is a different journey that we take together
- Costas Andreou: Fretless electric bass has a lot in common with the human voice