Stone Age (2022) for violoncello and electronics
Total Duration 8' 40" minutes.

Ensemble Holophony Project
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Studio edited mix © Panayiotis Kokoras

2022

Stone Age [cello & electronics]

The work is contrasting aural places of intimacy and enclosure with expansive spaces and propagates through their interaction.  The title is borrowed from a painting by René Magritte, depicting two coffins seated in a mountainous landscape. The source materials for the work have been recorded with an 18 channel microphones arrange in a globe shape, encoded in Higher Order Ambisonics. The work was completed with the support of Musiques & Recherches at the Métamorhose d'Orphée studio during in the summer of 2024. 

Par une belle fin d'apres-midi (stereo reduction)

Connotations (2015) for string orchestra and electronics
Total Duration 9' minutes.

Ensemble Holophony Project
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Connotations [string orch & elec]

Finalist in SCRIME  2008 electroacoustic composition competition.

The material for the work was developed out of simple and short sounds that
accidentally occurred in the digital studio during previous work: (clicks, pops, digital
distortion et cetera). These sounds were transformed into more organic, gestural
material using mainly the GRM Classic plug-ins in a Pro-Tools environment. The
only field recording used in the piece is the sound of crickets, used here to
establish a nocturnal soundscape. This is in contrast with the otherwise rather
abstract sound world, which exhibits timbral characteristics perceptually related to
materials such as wood, metal, water and combinations of thereof.

Resurrection

Full track available from electrocd.com
electrocd.com/en/album/5984/Niko…poulos/Micro-lieux

Selection at Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition 2008.

For James Mooney

Greek root poly, meaning "many", and choros meaning "room" or "space".

! Warning ! You should be fairly well acquainted with the convex uniform polyhedra and their symmetry groups, and somewhat well acquainted with the six convex regular polytopes in four-dimensional space and their symmetry groups, if this material is to make any sense to you.

The work was composed during a four week residency at the surround sound studios of the Culture Lab, Newcastle University. Many thanks to everyone at the Culture Lab for their support during the making of Polychoron.

Polychoron (Stereo Reduction - Excerpt)

Composer, Academic at Leeds Beckett University. MA Sonic Arts Lead Tutor. Music available from Empreintes Digitales. https://electrocd.com/en/album/5984/Nikos_Stavropoulos/Micro-lieux

Par une belle fin d'apres-midi (stereo reduction)

Nikos Stavropoulos