Saber Rider is a somewhat ambient, somewhat pop one-woman project that focuses on sampling techniques and their semi improvisational arrangements that eventually merge into an amalgamation of memory-like collages.
Tracks from Heaps have been commissioned for the BBC 3 TV Show “School Of Zen Motoring” (Vivian for 2022 upcoming show), West Den Haag museum (Heaps, 2020 campaign), London Travelwatch (4AM, 2022 Campaign), and the award-winning Pathologies of Everyday Life short film (Merry Go, 2019) supported by Onassis Foundation. Her debut album “Heaps” is out 17/12 by Just Gazing Records.
Aliki Leftherioti is an Athens – based composer, producer, performer, DJ & educator currently focusing on plunderphonics and analog synthesis, collaborating with film, mixed media and dance artists. In her free time, she is a ballet piano accompanist, a radio show host (Movement radio, Fade radio), a sound designer, a TV music supervisor, a post production engineer and other things. She studied composition and piano in Athens and London, as well as Brazilian percussion and music for film, having also served as the manager of UK Jazz Label F-IRE Collective in previous years. She is currently composing for Ζesty Dance Group (Ministry of the Arts 2020 Grant) and was a resident artist with Ergo Collective (April 2021). In Spring 2022, she will be a resident performer at Workspacebrussels in Belgium with dance artist Danae Vorvila.
As a composer and sound designer, she has had her work showcased at Athens International Film Festival, Drama Film Festival, SNFCC, Greek Film Archive, National Greek Television, International New York Film Festival, Athens Video Dance Project, London Graduate Fashion Week, Resonance FM, City University London and Goldsmiths University of London among others.
As a live artist, she has performed with collective and personal projects at various venues including Lovebox Festival, Café Oto, Brixton Academy, Brecon Jazz Festival, Olympic Park, London Pride, Goldsmiths University of London, Romantso, Bageion Theatre and many more.