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ANTONIA KATTOU 

Antonia Kattou Antonia Kattou (1999, Nicosia, Cyprus) is a composer-perfomer, researcher and sound artist currently based at the Hague. Her work encompasses acoustic and electroacoustic composition, improvisation and semi-improvisation, field recordings, analogue electronics, post-folk and storytelling. She experiments with nostalgia and transdisciplinary. Works of her have been commissioned and presented in PLUG Contemporary Music Festival, at St Andrews University - Intersections 2021, at Art making in the Anthropocene, at Festival Interrupted, at CoMA 2020 Festival of New Music - listed as one of the Young Generation Composers, at Royal Holloway, University of London and performed in the UK, Cyprus, Germany, the NL, Greece by various ensembles and soloists such as RCS Brass, RCS Accordions, Nordic Viola, Ruth Morley & Laura Bowler, Red Note Ensemble, RCS Composers Ensemble and New Music Collective RHUL. In 2022 she co-created her duo called Ichomagnetic Thoughts. In 2023 Antonia started her solo project Mystiki Fleva. Since 2024, Antonia performs with Sonia Killmann in their duo called AINO and in 2025 she leads the Antonia + orkest project; a modular orchestra of free jazz experimental electronics folk from the wider Meditterrenean. Antonia’s passion for ethnomusicology and composition led her to Royal Holloway, University of London where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Hons), 2:1. She holds a master degree in composition (MMus in Composition, summa cum laude, 1st) from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she studied with David Fennessy and Alistair MacDonald, supported by an RCS Trust scholarship. She is now a PhD student (summa cum laude) in Theory and Philosophy of Education at the University of Cyprus, studying with Marianna Papastefanou and currently (2Sept2024-June2025) an erasmus+ trainee/ project leader at the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague and student of Yannis Kyriakides at the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague.

MYSTIKI FLEVA (ΜΦ)

༄ Mystiki Fleva (ΜΦ) is the solo project of Antonia Kattou. ΜΦ unfolds electronic and electroacoustic compositions and semi-improvisations, field recordings and textural storytellings. Her work skin of water presented in 22o Halo, was a reflection of our gaze towards nature or our surroundings. In Liquid Hot Mess, she continues her artistic research collecting data and field recordings from the Cypriot landscape. The data of the synthesized track will be collected from the sound walks and from contactive objects of the immersive landscape - installation. 
Like Bruno Latour talks in Face à Gaïa, 2017, about the static landscape, which has become fluid in the last couple of years. Not any longer we are this small creature in an overwhelming sublime nature, but the giant crushing it. 
An entity seemingly so lasting turns out to be vulnerable. A feeling of decay.

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