Sound art

sun/stone [292-1348]

performed by the Athens State Orchestra

ensemble and tape

2025

2025	Anargyrios and Korgialenios School of Spetses, Athens State Orchestra, cond. Orestis Bilios

This work was written for the 2nd pilot laboratory of the Athens State Orchestra in 2025, mentored by Yannis Kyriakides. Epirus has a very rich polyphonic tradition, an imperfect and harsh kind of sound, used mostly for lamenting the dead. It also was the main – and most tragic – battleground of the civil war.

sun/stone [292-1348] begins with echoes of this choir, rebuilt through spectral reconstruction, which sets off a slow orchestral crescendo depicting the massacre on Makronisos in 1948. After that scene the music thins out almost to nothing, like the silence after a storm.

Archival photograph of the Makronisos camp: rows of tents and prisoners lined up below a hillside of slogans — Makronisos. Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Hand-drawn graphic score on black paper with a time grid in seconds — From the score

Spectrogram showing the overtones of polyphonic voices — Spectrogram from the analysis

technical sideAfter spectral analysis and mathematical recomposition of the frequencies, the material of the tape came to be, first on paper and then played with imperfect (analog) oscillators. A disorienting element was added to the tape for the end of the piece: a third speaker that works like a resonator delay to the piano, put to the back right side of the orchestra so that it is spatially differentiated from the sound source.

in the works catalog

Burn I

Technopolis/ΣΕΧΩΧΟ dance residency

dance
field recordings

2026

finished 1st part

2026	Athens Technopolis, ΣΕΧΩΧΟ dance residency, with Pinelopi Mousga and Vasia Koutsilianou

Composed as part of a residency program by the Greek Dancers’ Union. Almost all sounds and samples are recorded in Technopolis Athens: old machinery, the dancers’ breathing, reverb of the rehearsal room etc.

It starts with a stretched-out, broody soundscape, combined with lyrical singing and a sample collage, then moves to a rather humorous, microtonal beat. This is the first part, premiered in September 2026; the project is ongoing.

Two dancers on a wooden stage under a single spotlight, both bending backwards with arms spread, the audience in shadow behind — Pinelopi Mousga and Vasia Koutsilianou. Photo: George Spanos – Technopolis City of Athens

The two dancers in wide black trousers facing the audience, forearms raised in front of their faces, against a wood-panelled wall — Photo: George Spanos – Technopolis City of Athens

The two dancers seen from behind, one reaching towards a spotlight on the wood-panelled wall — Photo: George Spanos – Technopolis City of Athens

Printed programmes of the Technopolis dance residency Open Days, 19–21 September 2026, on a wooden table — The Open Days programme. Photo: Vangelis Patsialos – Technopolis City of Athens

technical sideTechnopolis is an old natural gas factory, filled to the brim with machinery that makes interesting sounds; these were captured as field recordings on a TASCAM DR-40 recorder. The rehearsal space had an interesting reverb, so all the voices were recorded there, on the same recorder. The goal was a project connected with the space, since the residency was held in part with Athens Technopolis.

in the works catalog

Do you dance?

“Adama” theatre company

theatre
live synths and piano

2021

2021–22	“Alkmini” theatre
2022–23	“Tzeni Karezi” theatre

Music composed for the production of the play, directed by Danai Katsameni, and played live on synths and piano. The work touches upon the grim theme of the Averof women’s prison in Athens after WWII and the civil war that followed. Its cells were filled with women fighters, soldiers, mothers and others who after the war were branded communists or sympathizers, and were left to rot or were executed.

Black and white poster for “Χορεύετε;” by the Adama theatre company: a woman in motion, half seen through a sheet of plastic — Poster of the production, by Ariadni Michailari

The spiral-bound score lit by a clip-on lamp above a stage piano, with red seats and plastic sheets on the stage behind — The score. Photo: Dimitris Androniadis

A modular synthesizer in a lit case and a small keyboard beside a stage piano with a spiral-bound score and a laptop; a performer in a long white dress on the dark stage beyond — First year’s setup (“Alkmini” theatre). Photo: Dimitris Androniadis

A modular synthesizer, a laptop and an upright piano with an open score, the empty auditorium behind them — Second year’s setup (“Tzeni Karezi” theatre). Photo: Dimitris Androniadis

Perforated cutout overlays for the Moog Subharmonicon's panel, laid out on the keys of a stage piano — Subharmonicon cutouts. Photo: Dimitris Androniadis

The modular synthesizer case and a stage piano with an orange stool, set against a rough stone wall — First year’s setup • alternate view (“Alkmini” theatre). Photo: Dimitris Androniadis

An upright piano with a red chair, a laptop and the modular synthesizer, facing a stage with a microphone stand and rows of red seats — Second year’s setup • alternate view (“Tzeni Karezi” theatre). Photo: Dimitris Androniadis

technical sideThe play posed many problems to solve. Analog synths were used heavily (Behringer Model-D and Pro-1, Moog Subharmonicon, KOMA Elektronik Field Kit FX), and their programming had to be mapped; the score had to work with the theatre text as well as with the instrument changes; the aesthetic choices and the overall mood had to be set accordingly; and everything had to be set up in time. The production ran for two seasons, with great success.

in the works catalog

The Yellow Wallpaper

music theatre work for the GNO Alternative Stage

music theatre
resonators
live electronics

ongoing

in progress

2027	Premiere in July, Greek National Opera

A new work, part of the Greek National Opera’s Music Theatre Workshop. Updates on its progress will appear here.

A printout of the first page of Charlotte Perkins Stetson's “The Yellow Wall-Paper”, with its drawing of a woman by a barred window, lying on a large analog mixing console — Stetson’s text. Photo: Dimitris Androniadis

A Max patch on a computer screen: a training section with buttons for vocal fry, whistle and normal voice, feeding a microphone's analysis into a dataset and a set of labels — Early attempts on a neural network. Photo: Dimitris Androniadis

technical sideThe project opens up technical questions that are still being worked out. First thoughts on the technology include resonators, neural networks and live sound manipulation, but everything is still at an early research stage.

in the works catalog

sun/stone [292-1348]

Burn I

Do you dance?

The Yellow Wallpaper