Based on recordings of Athens center, done for the project “The Soundscape we live in”. Avoiding to disrupt the flow of recorded events, I looked for musical motives, and using various techniques I isolated prominent tonal or noisy parts of the spectrum. This way I ended up with a new musical flow, a distillate so to speak of the city noise.
Composer, sound designer, multimedia performer and engineer, born in Athens Greece 1971. Works with digital and analogue media, solo or through various collaborations, including music for dance, cinema, video, theater and interactive applications. His compositional output covers a wide range of styles, from acousmatic sonic art and noise to techno-dub, Afro-funk, jazz and folk. Other interests include circuit bending, improvisation and music education. With an electronic and bio-medical engineering background and extensive practical research in contemporary music and sound design: M.A. Digital Music Technology (Keele University), PhD. Electroacoustic Composition (University of Bangor). His pieces have been performed in festivals around the world and have gained international composition awards (Bourges 1999 / 2002, SAN Jeu de Temps 2003, Society for Promotion of New Music 2002 / 2005). Founding member of HELMCA (Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association). Plays with the folktronica band EleKtroBalKana and the jazz quartet RSLG.
