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Events
Below is a list of past and oncoming events_
17 March 2012
Thessaloniki, Greece
Toys [stereo version] performance at the dipart festival in Thessaloniki.
20 January 2012
San Francisco, U.S.A
Στέρφος performance at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival. You may read a review of the concert here.
4 December 2011
Rethymnon, Greece
Toys 8-channel performance at the Technological Institute of Crete during the Days of Electroacoustic Music 2011.
2 December 2011
Grenoble, France
Toys 24-channel performance at Hall Phelma Minatec, 3 parvis Louis Néel, Grenoble.
26 November 2011
ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Toys (24-channels fixed-media) will be premiered in the Klangdom at ZKM | Institute for Music & Acoustics.
9 November 2011
De Montfort University, Leicester (UK)
Acqua Alta performance at PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester.
9 - 14 September 2011
Música Viva Festival 2011, Portugal
Stressed Dust will be sounding through the walking hallway of the Belém Art Centre in Lisbon (along with 24 more soundscapes) during the 2011 Música Viva festival, from the 9th until the 14th of September.
Summer 2011
BYTE Gallery Summer 2011 International Exhibition, Transylvania University, (U.S.)
Στέρφος is being presented at the Byte Gallery International Exhibition.
24-26 June 2011
BEAM Festival, Brunel University, England
Acqua Alta at the online gallery of BEAM.
20 February 2011
About Gallery, Athens, Greece
ABSOLUT ATHENS performance at About Gallery in Athens.
4 December 2010
ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Στέρφος (8.0 surround) receives the Giga-Hertz Award for Electronic Music 2010 at ZKM | Institute for Music & Acoustics.
30 October 2010
City Hall,
Corfu, Greece
ABSOLUT ATHENS (live electronics) performance at the Days of Electroacoustic Music in Corfu.
26 May 2010
Ionian University,
Corfu, Greece
Στέρφος (8.0 surround) is programmed for a concert at the Ionian University in Corfu, Greece, 26/5/2010.
17 March 2010
Univeristy of Bangor, Wales, U.K.
Στέρφος (8.0 surround) performance at the Univeristy of Bangor, Wales.
23 April 2010
University of Limerick, Ireland
Kardaş (stereo)has been programmed for a concert organised by Ireland's Contemporary Music Centre.
27 February 2010
Rethymnon, Greece
Στέρφος (8.0 surround) was performed at the 2nd Greek Conference on Acoustic Ecology, Technological Educational Institute of Crete.
27 November 2009
Spain
Acqua Alta was finalist at the VII Electroacoustic Miniatures International Contest and will be re-released on a promotinal CD.
15 November 2009
Kefalonia, Greece
Στέρφος (8.0 surround) was premiered at the Days of Electroacoustic Music 2009 in Kefalonia.
Acqua Alta has been released on CD by Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF) and can be downloaded from this site.
19 October 2009
Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
ABSOLUT ATHENS & Acqua Alta will be performed at Ars Electronica Center as part of a SARC concert.
7 May 2009
SARC, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Watch two video excerpts from the concert at SARC featuring pieces for Santur, Kanun and live electronics:
Bourges, France
Both Kardaş and Acqua Alta were finalists in different categories at the 36th International Electroacoustic Competition at Bourges.
10 March 2009
Athens, Greece
Imago Dixit, an interactive installation for painting, sound & realtime gesture capture is exposed at Alef Gallery:
14-17 May 2009
Technopolis, Athens, Greece
Imago Dixit is exposed at the Athens Video Art Festival.
The interaction between image and sound in a physical way is the primary concern of this interactive installation. The viewer becomes a listener by touching the artwork. For every drawing there is a hidden sound-world that waits to be discovered by tactile interaction, hence the work is considered unfinished without the contribution of the audience. The way the system has been designed allows the user to unfold the piece of music at his/her own pace, probably also discovering elements through sound that the eye overlooked.
How to Play: Place your palm on the paintings exploring the soundscapes.
8 May 2009
SARC, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Acqua Alta (5.0 surround) is premiered at the Sonorities Festival.
April 2009
Brazil
Kardaş was lately performed in multiple concerts in Brazil. Click here for a list of performances.
January 2009
The latest album by interstellar overdrive titled Hibernation is out by Studio2 Records. You may preview the entire album
26 October 2008
Rethymnon, Greece
Kardaş (stereo) will be performed at the Days of Electroacoustic Music 2008.
Transduction (stereo) has had multiple performances and was also finalist at the 35th International Electroacoustic Competition at Bourges. The version for networked computer quartet was performed at ICMC2008 in August 2008.
11 November 2006
Texas,, U.S.
Ataxia,an interactive composition for Marimba, Percussion, Electroacoustic Sound/Sensors & Images was premiered at the Percussive Arts Society International Conference.
19 November 2006
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, U.K.
Ataxia has had a U.K. premiere at the Cambridge Music Festival. Other performance spaces in Europe include Conservatoire de Paris, Lemmensinstituut Conservatory (Belgium), Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Visit Daniella Ganeva's website for more info on this piece and read an article published at the Percussive News Magazine.
25 December 2006
Athens, Greece
The theatre performance of Israel Horovitz's play LINE premiered at Fournos theatre in Athens.
Composition
Click for a list of the most recent performances. Scroll down for the complete list of works, which are often accompanied by audio/video/score excerpts. By clicking on the players' images you are redirected to bandcamp where you can read program notes for the respective pieces.
2012
YörükSC Amplified String Quartet + random spatialisation
2011
Toys Surround 24-chanels fixed media.
->Commission: ZKM | Institute for Music & Acoustics
Stressed Dust Continuum for SuperCollider.
-> To be released by Helmca
-> Selected work for Música Viva 2011 SoundWalk
Atención Gringo - DanceRemix Stereo track | Audio Track
2010
I5-q16 Marimba + computer.
Atención Gringo Stereo track by interstellar overdrive for Stefanos Rokos' painting exhibition./ CD-release 11/2010:
2009
Στέρφος Surround 8.0 fixed media.
->Giga-Hertz Award for Electronic Music 2010
Acqua Alta Surround 5.0 fixed media/ utilising the MissSoundLibrary (under Creative Commons).
->Finalist at 36e Concours Internationaux de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges.
->Finalist at VII Electroacoustic Miniatures International Contest, Junta de Andalucia, Spain.
->Released by the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF) and also VII Electroacoustic Miniatures International Contest.
Absolut Athens Live Electronics (SC).
Imago Dixit Sound Installation featuring paintings + realtime gesture interaction./ video
2008
το Χάος! Santur + Live Electronics (SC)./ score excerpt/ video excerpt can be watched on the left column.
Πλάγιος Β' Kanun + Live Electronics (SC)./ score excerpt/ video excerpt can be watched on the left column.
Hibernation CD release by interstellar overdrive, Studio2 Records.
->Finalist at 36e Concours Internationaux de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges
Συνεχές: Continuum for Orchestra Chamber Orchestra./ score excerpt.
Transduction #2 Networked Laptop Trio, Visuals and soundfiles [networking by Renaud, visuals by McClelland].
Transduction Stereo fixed media. -> Audio Track
->Finalist at 35e Concours Internationaux de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges. Full version is available from CIME's site here.
2007
32.4 channels for a mono piece Acousmatic work for the Sonic Lab at SARC
Self Similarity [study] String Quartet + Live Electronics (msp).
Swarm Acousmatic work in stereo utilising the Sonic Swarm Controller
-> Audio Track
2006
Ataxia Marimba, percussion, electroacoustics/sensors, images./ score excerpt / audio excerpt as a computer realisation:
Line A series of pieces for the play by Israel Horowitz .
Sonography: [de]composing with a prepared piano Prepared piano + computer.
Mοιρολόγι Violin + computer.
2005
Entropy: Strange Violin Concerto Violin + chamber orchestra/ utilising the Blochnunga Sensor Costume (Max/Msp).
2 Studies 1. Music for oboe, tuba & violin. 2. Music for 9 two-string violas.
Study 1 Timpani, harps + celli.
Noise & Useful Objects by interstellar overdrive.Music for the painting exhibition by Stefanos Rokos released in 1500 copies (4 pieces of this catalogue are included within hibernation).
2004
Domingo Violin, crystal glasses + computer. / released by AMPublishing.
M Child choir, musical saws + double basses.
Look Ma, No Tape! Any number and combination of instruments.
2003
Surface b CD by interstellar overdrive, released by Pegasus Records.
Turntablismo [study] Electric violin, turntable, VCS3, toy piano + maracas.
2000
Debut CD release by interstellar overdrive, by Pegasus Records.
Karamanlis O., (2010) “How something is born, lives and dies: A composer’s approach for thematic evolution in electroacoustic music”, eContact! 12.4: Raisons d’être et perspectives sur l’œuvre électroacoustique.
This article describes a compositional strategy that is applicable to tape, mixed or live electroacoustic pieces. It suggests that envelopes can function as musical motives similar to the old traditional fashion. A particular energy-shape can be viewed as the common denominator around which complex gestures can evolve and group together forming higher-level structural blocks. The transformation of these shapes and their merging into an architectural whole takes after the homogeneity of traditional musical forms, yet the thematic evolution using electroacoustic techniques provides an entirely different musical utterance for the composer. The strategy is exemplified by analysing a recent composition for Santur and live electronics running on SuperCollider.
Karamanlis O., (2010) "Imago Dixit: Painting, Sound and Gesture Capture", Body, Space & Technology Journal, Brunel University
This short article describes Imago Dixit, an interactive installation that incorporates sound design, real-time gesture capture and painting. The text places the work in context considering some aspects of composition, interaction and perception. Any poietic analysis is primarily conducted from the auditory rather than the visual perspective. video can be found on the left
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Karamanlis O., (2010) "PhD Thesis: A Portfolio of Original Compositions".
The portfolio contains work that encompasses a wide spectrum of creative output and spans through different areas of computer music (mixed instrumental, acousmatic, live electronics, installation art). The compositions are accompanied by a collection of commentaries that echo the evolution of my thinking. They demonstrate an amalgam of thoughts and processes embodied i the creative act, providing an inside view to the compositions and placing the music in context. The written aspect complements the musical works by trying to reflect back on the mental schemas that gave rise to certain compositional decisions and investigate the reasons why an option might have been chosen instead of another.
Davis T., Karamanlis O., (2007) "Gestural Control of Sonic Swarms:
Composing with Grouped Sound Objects", in the Preceedings of the 4th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Lefkada, Greece.
This paper outlines an alternative controller designed to diffuse and manipulate a swarm of sounds in 3-dimensional space and discusses the compositional issues that emerge from its use. The system uses an algorithm from a nature-derived model describing the spatial behavior of a swarm. The movement of the swarm is mapped in the 3-dimensional space and a series of sound transformation functions for the sonic agents are implemented. The notion of causal relationships is explored regarding the spatial movement of the swarm and sound trans-formation of the agents by employing the physical controller as a performance, compositional and diffusion tool.
Blochnunga Sensor Costume: This costume is a musical instrument designed and built by [o.k.] back in 2006 at Anglia Ruskin University. As in the case of conventional instruments, considerable effort was required in order to learn the machine and understand its capabilities and limitations. Here you can find a rather old video (scroll & look for blochnunga!)
Brief Bio->
I have completed a PhD in electroacoustic composition at the Sonic Arts Research Centre and currently awaiting the summer.
If for any reason you are interested in reading a more thorough biography you may scroll down.
here's the full story amigos->
Born in Athens, Greece.
Initially studied Economics (B.Sc, 1996-2000) and Statistics (M.Sc., 2000-2003) in Athens by accident, Music and Music Technology (B.Arts, 2003-2006) in Cambridge and completed a PhD in Electroacoustic Composition (2010) at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Northern Ireland.
I've released few CDs with Interstellar Overdrive, an alternative band physically based in Athens. The music of this band has been used in film and theatre, art exhibitions and in collections of musical journals.The latest album was released in December 2008 by Studio2 Records.
I've written music for instrumental ensembles, fixed & mixed media, live electronics, the network, for images and the theatre. My works have been performed throughout Europe, in the US and Latin America and some have received awards and distinctions at international competitions.
In the past I collaborated with Anglia Ruskin's Music Department on a research project implementing sensor technology for mixed genre pieces and performed new music by participating in the Anglia Symphony Orchestra. Between 2006-2009 I was a teaching assistant at Queen's University & last year I taught at the Technological Institute of Crete.Currently I am a member of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association.
I like cats, sea, pasta, STEIM-Amsterdam, Easter, SuperCollider, ears (these with no particular order) and other stuff as well.
In the past I've been lucky to receive the McLeod Prize from Anglia Ruskin University and my PhD research to be funded by the Department for Employment & Learning.