And this is not the only question asked. What does the “postmodernism of today” represent? Are we at the beginning of a new movement of “art science”? Where does one begin and the other ends, how much do they compliment each other or are they just coexisting in our eclectic time when everything is possible? What are the future directions in music and, in spite of all the technology at our reach, are the traditional music and “pure” art announcing their come-back?
The two guest composers of Avaton answer these questions through their own compositions: Jasna Veličković from Serbia, a former student of Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, is presenting musical content within new forms, language and techniques of the anti-Germanic and anti-Romantic school, while Greek Cypriot artist Vassos Nicolaou represents the “German School” and the developments in electronic music today.
Overall, this is going to be a weekend for those who are really interested in music genres spanning from modernism and composers such as Schoenberg and Stravinsky, to avant-garde and postmodernist-aleatoric music of John Cage in 1950’s, minimalists in early 60’s with Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, to pioneers of electronic music like Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez, towards post minimalism and New Classicism, in the late 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. This is the audience that finds a meaning in new terms of art such as Deconstructionists, Conceptual art, Installation art, Multimedia and Electronic art.
Avaton Festival features the newest inventions and developments in electronic music through music experiments which will be presented for the first time in Cyprus. 
On Saturday Jasna Veličković will present her extended technique “playing the instruments without touching them” and next day Vassos Nicolaou shows his “new tendencies in music with live electronics”. After each lecture, discussions will be held encouraging attendants, regardless of their existing or non-existing musical background, to express their own views on the presented material.
Free workshops would be offered to composers and performers on each day of the festival after which two concerts will be held, ranging from the music of Anton Webern (1883-1945), Luciano Berio (1925 – 2003), Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992), Isang Yun (1917-1995), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ), György Kurtag (1946- ), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933- ), Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), to the music of Artemis Aifotiti (1986- ), Tychonas Michailides (1981- ), Bruno Mantovani (1974- ), Afroditi Kathimeridou (1956- ), Jasna Velickovic (1974- ), Vassos Nicolaou (1971- ) presented by the twelve musicians from Cyprus, Poland, France, Romania, Australia and former Yugoslavia.