Splendid sense of drama and textures. Wish I could hear it in concert, but it is so well constructed that it actually works even on laptop speakers ! Congratulations.

1st prize, International Sonosfera Ambisonics Competition 2023, Pesaro (Italy)
Finalist, Fixed medium, MA/IN 2023, Matera (Italy)

Stereo reduction of HoA composed at ICST in Zurich in July 2022.

"The peculiarities of the monad and the hebdomad are the most beautiful "

Khemenu

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1st prize at the Open Circuit 2016 International Electroacoustic Competition / Mention at Foundation Destellos – VIII° Competition in Electroacoustic music.

The title of the work refers to a mode of seed dispersal. Fracturing of the seed pod releases stored elastic energy into kinetic energy launching its contents. The term reflects musical processes as well as timbral qualities of the work . .The events portrayed in this piece are fictitious, and any resemblance to real events, past, present, or future, is entirely coincidental but highly probable.

Ballistichory (Excerpt)

A male Superb Lyrebird giving mimicry and territorial song, recorded by me at Mt. Airly in NSW, Australia, 30th May, 1995.  This is a 3 minute extract from a sequence that lasted for over half an hour.  Equipment used, Sony TCD D10 DAT recorder, Sennheiser ME67 gun mic.


Superb Lyrebird

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Percussion Alexander Pepelasis

Granicus is the archaic name of a small river in northwestern Asia Minor, which was the site of Alexander  the Great’s first major military challenge. The name is also used for one of Mars’ great valleys. The rhythms of antiquity, through tradition, inspire here the coming together of different worlds in space and time. The work was commissioned by and is dedicated to Alexander Pepelasis.

Granicus, for Percussion and Tape (Excerpt)

Irides literally means rainbows. In Greco-Roman mythology, rainbows were thought to be bridges made by the goddess Iris and connected heaven and earth. Irides are multicoloured arcs caused by diffraction and dispersion of light by water droplets in the air. Similarly, in this composition, momentary sunny spells and droplets of rain give rise to spectra, bands of colours, arcs that form double, triple and multiple sonic rainbows that permeate the scenery of the piece. 
In terms of research and compositional method, the composition explores the relocation of the visual, gustatory, olfactory, and haptic environments into the aural space. It also examines interrelationships between music, time perception, timescales in different senses, memory and the listening environment.
The work was premiered in 2017 at the Sound of Memory symposium at Goldsmiths Great Hall, London. It has been subsequently selected for performances at the ISSTA (Irish Sound Science and Technology Association) conference at Dundalk, Ireland; at the Sound/Image conference in London; at the ICMC2017 (International Computer Music Conference) in Shanghai, China; at the Helicotrema festival in Venice, Italy, in a concert curated by Hildegard Westerkamp; at the SMC2018 (Sound & Music Computing) conference in Limassol, Cyprus; at the CIME/ICEM MUSICACOUSTICA 36th General Assembly organised by the Electroacoustic Music Association of China, in Beijing; at the Electroacoustic Music Days in Corfu, Greece; at the San Fransisco Tape Music Festival (Jan 2019); at the 'Electroacoustic Music in Great Britain: Past/Present/Future' conference in London (Jan 2019); at the 'Rediscoveries 11' concert series in Aberdeen (Feb 2019); at the ‘Mapping Spaces, Sounding Places’ conference in Cremona, Italy (March 2019); and at the 'Convergence' conference at De Montfort, Leicester (Sept 2019). A binaural version of a multi-speaker live diffusion of Irides is published by Sonos Localia.

Irides

https://www.kent.ac.uk/music-audio-technology/people/22/pasoulas-aki

Composer, Reader at the University of Kent.

Irides

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