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)

Paramnesia is a condition that causes confusion between reality and fantasy, resulting in distorted memory. Patients fabricate imaginary events to compensate for loss of memory, and they also experience déjà vu. The piece consists of two connected movements (‘Promenade’ and ‘Repose’) that represent daytime and night respectively. It explores decomposition and recomposition of reality, worlds that spring from the sound of a car or from a bird call. In Paramnesia there is no story unfolding apart from the distinction between day and night and a narrative of musical relationships forming out of a collection of events, which are taken out of their original context and re-assembled. The first movement is based on a recording made in the promenade of Alghero in Sardinia, and it was commissioned by the research unit CRiSAP.
Paramnesia was shortlisted at the Concours Internationaux 2009 in Bourges, France, and was selected for the SAW electroacoustic symposium in Cardiff, ICMC 2010 in New York, Festival Futura 2011 in Crest, France, the WFAE 2011 International Conference on Acoustic Ecology in Corfu, and the EMUFest 2011 international electroacoustic music festival in Rome. The composition is included in the ICMC2010 CD, published by the International Computer Music Association.


Paramnesia (2009)

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

Composer, Reader at the University of Kent.

Paramnesia (2009)

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