Join us for Interiors, featuring StarWound, an alternative band based in Athens, Greece, and featuring members Konstantina Stavropoulou (vocals, synthesizer), Petros Bouras (piano, synthesizer), and Dimitris Azorakos (drums).

The trio will provide accompaniment to the poetry of Brenda Cárdenas, along with poems by participants in her August 24 workshop at Woodland Pattern. They will also play songs from their three studio albums.

The recent COVID pandemic, with its long quarantines and repeated lockdowns, led to prolonged periods of isolation, creating major social disruptions. People were forced to stay behind closed doors and maintain personal contact mainly through computers and cellphones. We frequently heard stories of psychological and emotional distress, such as increased depression and anxiety, as well as domestic violence and prolonged forays into social media. For some, the isolation also created opportunities for profound reflection. The Interiors project invites poets to interpret their own experiences based on the theme of “interiors” in poems that will be accompanied by music composed by StarWound. For this Interiors tour, StarWound received poems from professors Amy Ash, Carmella Braninger, Brenda Cárdenas, Chris Forhan, Jennifer Moore, and Nynke Passi, as well as poets in the communities of each city on their tour.

StarWound is a sophisti-pop trio based in Athens, Greece. Their music fuses a cabaret ambience with elements of EDM and synth rock genres. They have released three albums: Miles to Walk (2015), So Wrong (2018) and What Do You See? (2024).

Their lyrics, which arise from contemporary philosophical and social concerns, are characterized both by realism and poetry. They have participated in many popular festivals, including Eurosonic (Netherlands), CLAE Festival (Luxembourg), Colora (Belgium), Culturescapes (Switzerland), "River Party” and “Aisxyleia” (Greece), and they have performed concerts in Switzerland, UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, and Luxembourg. They have also collaborated with the Greek National Opera composing Dancing Cloud, a work dedicated to the memory of the principal dancer Sasha Neskov. Their last project, Interiors, brought them to the US, where they collaborated with contemporary poets and performed in distinguished US universities in four different states. For fall 2024, they have scheduled a new Interiors tour around Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, and Wisconsin.

Music and Poetry: Interiors featuring StarWound, Brenda Cárdenas, and more!