Blog Posts
Computer Aided Breathing: A Page of Madness
The Computer Aided Breathing trio performs a live score for Teinosuke Kinugasa’s experimental 1926 silent film A Page of Madness.
The Water Within (Hertzian Field #3)
An intimate multi-sensory environment of complete immersion in an interactive wet sauna combining WiFi sensing, machine listening, embedded 3D sound, hot steam and architectural design.
Hot Listening Booth
A venue for intimate listening under high temperatures: a 3-person dry sound sauna heated by infrared light.
Modern Body Festival 2016: I/WE/THEY
2nd biennial edition of Modern Body Festival, exploring the social body, how we exist and belong in today’s networked world, and what the cultural borders of a globalized society are.
Space Media Festival Taipei 2016: I/WE/THEY
Sister edition of Modern Body Festival 2016 taking place in Taipei, initiated by Modern Body and DEZACT architectural platform.
The current and its double
Analog electronics and magnetic tapes from Sonology’s voltage-controlled modular studio: Interconnected feedback networks spur reflexive growth and morphogeneses through layered live performance.
Bucket Brigade Attack
Year: 2016 Artist: Created for Paul Devens Type: Networked interactive embedded system (Development of software, hardware, network, sound design, interaction design) Description: 8 interactive networked nodes (Raspberry Pi, WiFi interface, […]
Hertzian Field #2
An augmented reality immersive performance exposing the sympathetic resonance of the body to the flows of telecommunication via WiFi sensing.
ZKM GLOBALE: The body as interface through interference
Talk by Stelios Manousakis at the ZKM GLOBALE: Performing Sound, Playing Technology symposium, titled “The body as interface through interference: Wireless Information Retrieval in the Hertzian Field”.
Loop Copy Mutate: Music from people and places
A project by the Genetic Choir directing ears towards city sounds. Together with laptop artist Robert van Heumen, programmer and sound artist Stelios Manousakis, and the public, the choir transforms sampled city sounds into voice and music compositions.
Loop Copy Mutate: New Music for a Digital Culture (software prototype)
A software prototype of a performative Music Information Retrieval system for the Genetic Choir’s project Loop/Copy/Mutate. Year: 2015 Artist: Created for Thomas Johannsen and the Genetic Choir Type: Research, software […]
Music for browsing
A first-person interactive generative soundscape; subversive ‘furniture music’ for Internet servers; a roadtrip soundtrack for the web traveller powered by the energy of browsing – doing useful things, and wasting time.
Proximity Effect 2
Year: 2015 Artist: Created for Paul Devens Type: Embedded system (Software & hardware development) Description: 8 channel stand-alone sound player for an installation by Paul Devens Exhibited at: Galerija Umjetnina, […]
Hertzian Field #1
An immersive augmented reality environment using WiFi sensing to expose the raw materiality of WiFi and explore its physical interaction with our spaces and bodies through sound.
Involuntary Cognition Faction in Contemporanea 2014 [taukay 156]
CD release of Involuntary Cognition Faction, for voltage-controlled analog electronics (March 2015). Published by Taukay Edizioni Musicali in Contemporanea 2014, together with other awarded pieces at the International composition competition Città di […]
Creative Feedback workshops
Harnessing feedback Input -> Process (‘black box’) -> Output-as-Input -> Process -> Output-as-Input-> … (and so forth). Feedback – diverting the output of a process or system into its input […]
Why is why of no stranger
A first-person sound-film without image, concerned with embodiment, mediated memory, and hyperreality and experienced as an immersive, spatially distributed acousmatic environment.
Modern Body Festival 2014: Art as research through experience
1st biennial edition of Modern Body Festival, exploring how we perceive our bodies – viscerally, psychologically, vicariously – and taking place at the former headquarters of Europol.
Proxy Kabinet: Raamweg 47
A collaborative site-specific installation taking over the control room of the former headquarters of the European Police (Europol).
Center no Distractor
An explosion of movement, physicality and gritty, thumping beats, for taiko and live electronics: dance for the ears, the body, the eyes and the mind.