Program notes
You are invited to participate with your senses, entering a state of active listening—a mindset that fluctuates between fleeting moments of everyday life and an eternal, spaceless existence within the cosmos.

A kitchen of a bustling restaurant
Walking across a large parking lot
A summer morning, waiting at the bus station 

Floating among planetary satellites
Experiencing weightless stasis in outer space
Moving fearlessly towards a burning star at the speed of light

All sound in this performance is created through Ephemeron, an adaptive, non-linear feedback network. Ephemeron acts as an ‘intelligent’ instrument that continuously reacts to actions and gestures, analyzing the perceptual features of sound in real-time. As a listener-performer, your active listening engagement with these sounds directly shapes the construction of your sonic landscape.

Premiered at the  Australasian Computer Music Conference 2022 (New Zealand).

Cosmodemonia (2022 - Binaural Version)

Bienvenue dans une autre facette musicale de mon projet e-NOV, ici en collaboration avec Lucas Konstantinidis. Nous vous présentons « Sillons morphés dans le brouillard », une composition acousmatique, initialement prévue en 5.1, réduite en stéréo pour faciliter l’écoute. Nous avons enregistré des sons que nous avons traités avec différents effets. Ces sons sont accompagnés d’une improvisation sur le synthétiseur MicroFreak d’Arturia. Pour découvrir quelles formes de sillons interagissent dans le brouillard, prenez le temps d’écouter dans de bonnes conditions et laissez-vous emporter par votre imagination…

Enregistrement, composition et mixage : Lucas Konstantinidis et e-NOV
Mastering : e-NOV

Sillons morphés dans le brouillard

Sillons morphés dans le brouillard (stereo version)

EXTRA ALCHEMY live mix from the Institute of Contemporary Art & Radio Coyote takeover of Central On Air in Cambridge, MA.
This mix is the fourth in the series that I started fifteen years ago to showcase music from the murk that wasn’t created for a horror/thriller film score, but possesses the same acousmatic qualities.
The EA4 set is comprised of tracks from my vinyl collection and digital library accompanied by live sound design from my Norns-n-TX-6. As per usual with EXTRA ALCHEMY, witched-out radiophonics, pagan pop, drone zone and haunted sound collages.

Pocketknife Presents: EXTRA ALCHEMY 4 Live on Central On Air for ICA / Radio Coyote Takeover

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”  ― Victor Hugo
------------------------ RIP Dave Ball ----------------------------

Track list and start times:
00:00  Dave Ball – American Stories
03:22  Edgar Berdahl – Transmogrified Strings for haptic force-feedback devices
12:07  Sacred Seeds, Synthbiont & Anassimandrus – Fragments of Silence
16:54  Stan Magendanz – dujazahr
20:50  VESSITT – Epilogue for Everything
27:05  Akira Film Script - Union City Blue
32:04  Edwin Huet – Meridian
40:54  Llyn Y Cwn – Boscawen Uwn
46:14  The Grid – Floatation (Mark Barrott's Slo-Motion Reprise)
49:19  Scattered Order – Leaves on the line
52:58  AZRA – Ghostly apophenia (excerpt)
1:02:21  Dave Ball – Mirrors
1:09:50 Bruce Hamilton – Hennecker's Ditch Fantasy
1:15:40  Åreknuteknyterne – Untitled
1:23:02  The Newsical Professor – Mangled Thoughts (Gaza Grief Ambient Mix)
1:30:14  The Beatles – Flying (complete)
1:39:25  Sacred Seeds, Synthbiont & Anassimandrus – Warmth in Silence
1:47:15  Saffronkeira – Apophenia
1:54:21  Michaela Melián – Le Grand Orchestre de Kursaal
1:59:25  Scott Lawlor – Adagio for an Unexamined Life (excerpt)
2:04:47  Slowfoam – Silk Song & Viridescence
2:10:50  Tomonari Nozaki – Faded Violet
2:20:15  Tuonela – Jonkin (ambient remix)
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Image: Lexica.art


Eclectic current – The fallibility of reason, the illusion of control

ROOM OF ECHOES II continues the explorations begun in the first composition of the project with a different approach. Environmental and intrumental sounds merge in slowly moving and dreamlike masses, and sonic images of villages and countrysides appear and then dissolve into these abstract forms, which are marked by a strong sense of interiority. The resonances of the unfolding soundscapes, which are sometimes tranquil and sometimes turbulent, evoke spaces both real and imaginary. 

The composition was created for an octophonic system during the creative residency of the Apnées experimental music group in Grenoble, France, in June 2025. It was premiered at the Paysages Composés festival organized by Apnées on 4 October 2025. This stereo version is adapted for listening on speakers or headphones. 


ROOM OF ECHOES II prolonge les recherches entamées dans le premier volet du projet en tentant une autre approche. Les sons environnementaux et instrumentaux se fondent en masses oniriques qui évoluent lentement, et des images sonores des extérieurs apparaissent puis se dissolvent dans ces formes abstraites, qui sont marquées par un fort ressenti d'intériorité. Les résonances des paysages sonores qui se déroulent, tantôt tranquilles, tantôt turbulents, évoquent des espaces à la fois réels et imaginaires. 

La composition a été réalisée pour un dispositif octophonique lors de la résidence de création de l'association Apnées à Grenoble en juin 2025. Elle a été créée lors du festival Paysages Composés, organisé par l'association, le 4 octobre 2025. Cette version stéréo est adaptée à l'écoute sur haut-parleurs ou sur casque. 

Room of Echoes II

ECHOES  FROM  THE  PAST   5

RABIN  ASSASSINATION - 30  YEARS  OF  POST  TRAUMA

Música Eletroacústica Acusmática

Nova Coletânea SBME – vol. 01/2025
Comemorativos do Trintenário da SBME


https://sbme2.bandcamp.com/album/nova-colet-nea-sbme-vol-01
https://sbme2.bandcamp.com/track/eco-queen-vs-marks-2025

"Um grito pode perturbar um ambiente, mesmo que seja em uma intensidade bem baixa? E um amontoado de gritos? E se esses gritos não existissem? Seria um absurdo?". Esta composição é um experimento sonoro que utiliza técnicas de sequenciamento e e diversas técnicas de processamento em um conjunto de arquivos de áudio diversos. Motivado pelas perguntas iniciais, tento, com essa composição tornar sonoro as coisas que tenho pensado.

eco queen vs marks

2025 electro-acoustic music composition
https://aimusiccreativity.org/2025-aimc/

Premiered at AI Music Creativity - AIMC2025 
https://aimusiccreativity.org/2025-aimc/

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WHAT'S UNDER ME

Composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music
🎼🎶🎙🎸🔈📷💻

Interactive music composer / researcher / technologist, Phivos-Angelos Kollias is focusing his creative interest in applying innovative music technologies into music projects performed by musicians and algorithms for Interactive Music Performances, Virtual Reality Installations or Video Games. 

His music background is rooted in instrumental classical studies, including a PhD in interactive music composition (University Paris VIII), yet his music taste ranges from electronic music, rock/metal to noise and experimental music. He has studied composition in Cambridge (BA), London (MA) and Paris (PhD & DEA & MA) with the economic support of four foundations, and he currently lives and composes in Berlin. 

His music has received seven awards and nine nominations in international competitions, while the group projects he has participated in have won ten awards and distinctions.

Pocketknife began throwing parties as a teenager in rural Iowa when he befriended DJ Wolf (an original 70s disco and deep house jock who rocked it with Lil' Louis in Chicago). He then honed his craft with Theo Parrish (Sound Signature) while the two were in art school together.  Production was inevitable, as Pocketknife started to make tracks while splitting time between Detroit and Switzerland.  Now based in Cambridge, MA via Brooklyn, he continues to develop his diverse sound, remixing, DJing and producing with an open ear for a variety of labels and his own imprint, Wilde Calm.  

DJ Bookings and Remixing Inquiries: pocketknifejams@gmail.com

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

*****

Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

https://www.youtube.com/user/DRORELIMELECH120V

https://www.facebook.com/dror.elimelech.338/


ACOUSTIC AND   ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC  COMPOSER .
STUDIED  COMPOSITION WITH  SERGIU  NATRA .
ELECTRONIC AND  ELECTROACOUSTIC  MUSIC  WITH YIZHAK  SADAI .
PIANO  --  WITH  PNINA  SALZMAN  , BART  BERMAN  , AVI  SCHONFELD .
CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC  COMPOSER , ACOUSTIC ,
ELECTRONIC AND  ELECTROACOUSTIC   MUSIC , 
EXPERIMENTAL  MUSIC . SOUND  ARTIST .
IMPROVISATION AND INTUITIVE MUSIC .
PIANIST .
ACCORDION AND  RECORDER  PLAYER .
FOUNDED  AND  CURATED    2  SERIES  OF  CONTEMPORARY  CLASSIC  MUSIC   IN TEL AVIV  ,  ISRAEL  -- 
 " NIGHT  HAPPENING -  FORUM FOR EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC "    1986  -  2007
" OTHER  ISRAELI  MUSIC "      1985   -  1987
MANY COLLABORATIONS  WITH  POETS , ACTORS , DANCERS ,  PAINTERS ,
 VIDEO ARTISTS , PERFORMANCE  ARTISTS .
MORE THAN  120  PREMIERS  OF  NEW  CONTEMPORARY  CLASSIC MUSIC - 
ACOUSTIC , ELECTROACOUSTIC , MULTI-MEDIA  --  WERE  PRESENTED
IN  HIS  SERIES DURING  23  YEARS OF ACTIVITY .
HIS  MUSIC WAS  PERFORMED  IN  EUROPE , CANADA , USA .
WON  VARIOUS GRANTS AND PRIZES .

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