This piece was made as the first miniProject during my cursus in IRCAM 2025

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Konstantinos Baras, a Greek composer with a passion for complex and saturated sound, embarked on his musical journey following a diagnosis of HanDL syndrome at the age of 18. Baras is recognized for creating works that convey intense emotions and delve into the complexities of trauma, employing visceral, chaotic sounds marked by a continuous energy flow and aggressive gestures. 

Utilizing digital signal processing, noise, distortion and live interactivity, Baras extends the timbral profile of traditional instruments and seamlessly blends disjunct materials into unified structures. With interest in site-specificity and interdisciplinary collaboration, he works often with dancers and movement artists and engages creatively with space, lights, and visual effects. 

His continued entanglement with black metal and techno contributes to an arrestingly distinctive sound palette, exploring the potential of repetition and bodily mechanics to intensify a sound’s impact on the listener. Toward that aim, Baras organizes his compositions through various processes of iteration and fragmented circularity, manipulating duration and density, often utilizing repetitive material but subtly altering it with every reappearance. The end result is driving, gripping, and grave.

His music has been performed and commissioned by Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain Moscow Contemporary Ensemble (MCME), Vertixe Sonora Ensemble,Ensemble Multilaterale, among other, with performances in festivals and conferences such as, IRCAM ManiFeste, MIXTUR, Darmstadt, reMusik, ilSuono, Ticino Musica, among others.

Currently pursuing a PhD in Composition at Northwestern University, Baras holds Masters degree from Boston University, and Bachelors degree Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Not Underground. Not Mainstream. Just Left Ground.

Left Ground Music stands outside the boundaries of genres and scenes.
We are neither part of the mainstream nor the underground—we exist in the “left ground”, a space where sound refuses to conform.

From electronica, dub, and ambient to post-rock textures, our releases carve out soundscapes that demand attention, not background listening.
Born in Japan, our music captures the collision of urban noise and natural silence, offering listeners a sonic experience that feels both familiar and alien.

This is music for those who walk the edges of reality.
This is Left Ground.

Industrialistic hardware techno & mechanized soundscapes

towards apotheosis on the left hand path.this machine is heavy and filthy
raw and ruthless.for concentration and disorientation.exploring spiritual depths and unlock unexplored mysteries of the mind. there are tree sides to every story and not one of them is true.bend your mind and set your spirit adrift. hypermeditation

[Experimental Dark Psychedelic Artist] 

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Musician and photographer from Cheshire nurturing noise from acoustics, analogue electronics, tape and field recordings into compositions of all shapes and sizes with a catch-all, carefree approach.

Kostas Zisimopoulos (Greece, b. 1994) is a composer whose work investigates deviation, instability, interruption, and interference—concepts that shape both the structure and experience of his music. He focuses on the physical and perceptual dimensions of sound, developing immersive sonic structures that combine instrumental, vocal, and electronic media. Drawn to densely textured sonic materials and emotionally charged atmospheres, he often works across disciplines to explore form, perception, and the boundaries between sound and technology.  

He has received commissions and performances from ensembles, orchestras, venues and institutions such as Philharmonie de Paris, Berliner Philarmoniker, Belgrade Philharmonic, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Concertgebouw Brugge, Carnegie Hall, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, GMEM - Centre national de création musicale Marseille, Residentie Orkest, Gaudeamus, November Music, Grachtenfestival, Alexandrinsky Theatre and ARCo, while also has been collaborating with ensembles like Percussions de Strasbourg, Ensemble Multilatérale, Les Metaboles, Ensemble Fractales, Divertimento Ensemble, PHACE, Trio Estatico, Ensemble Taller Sonoro, Ensemble U:, Cikada, Meitar Ensemble, Ensemble NOMAD, Ensemble, Roadrunner Trio, United Instruments of Lucilin, TACETi, Ensemble Suono Giallo, Kaaos Ensemble, Vertixe Sonora, GAMEnsemble, ARTéfacts ensemble, Ensemble Terrible, Phoenix and KamerOrkest Driebergen.

His works have been heard in international festivals such as Gaudeamus (NL), Rainy Days (LUX), Ostrobothnian Contemporary Music Festival (FI), November Music (NL), Remus Georgescu International Music Festival (RO), The 21st Century Guitar Conference (USA), Grachten Festival (NL), Rondò 2023 (IT), UNK New Music Festival (USA), VIII St. Petersburg New Music Festival (RUS), ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week (IT), ARCO (AT), IYCA Ticino (CH), CEME (IL), Roadrunner Academy (NL), Mixtur Festival (ES), Curs Internacional de Composició Barcelona Modern" 7th Edition (ES), VII International Workshop for Young Composers (IT), isaMasterclass (AT), CML (CY) and Vienna Summer Music Festival (AT).

He has been awarded international composition prizes, honorable mentions, and has been a finalist in competitions such as the International Composition Institute of Thailand (ICIT), the 19th SUN RIVER PRIZE New Music Composition Competition, the II ARTSOM Musical Competition, the Ise-Shima Composition Competition, DYCE (Discovering Young Composers of Europe), the Bruno Maderna Composition Competition, the Da_sh Editions 3rd International Composition Competition, the Composition Competition at the Franz Schubert Konservatorium in Wien, and the INMF (Impulse New Music Festival). From April 2025 he will be an artist in residence in the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (FR). 

His music has received premieres and performances in France, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Estonia, Norway, Czech Republic, Spain, Greece, Serbia, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Israel, United Kingdom, China, United States, Thailand, Russia and Canada.

You can get 12" vinyl of all my albums on bandcamp.
Please follow my youtube channel for my videos-
and my instagram for my visual art.  Thanks!

Handmade (Experimental) (Ambient) Sound (Art)

Velvet Something Superdark is 1/2 of  https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen

BADTRIP_ADVISOR_#2 for electronics

BARAS