Blog Posts

ZKM | IMA Lab No. 25: Stelios Manousakis

Stelios Manousakis, guest artist at the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics, in discussion with Ludger Brümmer giving insights into his work on a new system of spatial detection of the human body and its movements.

Palpebla Resonoj #1

An open composition for feedback-augmented clarinet and real-time processing.

‘Act so that there is no use in a centre’

An abstracted and deconstructed spatial radio play setting Gertrude Stein’s ‘Rooms’ from ‘Tender Buttons’ as a distributed, radio-transmitted, sound installation explored interactively.

Center no Distractor: Nothing aiming is a splinter EP [ir002]

Live recorded debut EP by Center no Distractor, taikos and electronics duo.

Involuntary Cognition Faction

A fixed medium work created in Sonology’s legendary voltage-controlled modular analog studio. Awarded at the International composition competition Città di Udine 2014.

Selva de Mar: Distrails

Fourth album and concerts by an eight-piece orchestra formed around the Selva de Mar duo from Barcelona.

‘What is the current that makes machinery’

A cycle of short pieces for female voice and surround live electronics setting Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, written for vocalist Stephanie Pan.

Teaching at the University of Washington DXARTS (2008-12)

University of Washington, Seattle, USA Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media 2008 – 2012 Instructor: DXARTS 490A (Instructor) – 2010 Real-Time and Interactive Computer Music and Algorithmic Media with […]

Feedback-augmented alto clarinet

The feedback-augmented alto clarinet is an acoustic instrument, an interactive acoustic filter, a resonator and feedback chamber, a digital control interface, and a sound diffuser. It is the central element of compound hybrid synthesis system that involves acoustic, analog and digital sound generation.

Anadrasi

General info: Anadrasi (‘Feedback’ in Greek) is a live performance instrument with two sections / sub-instruments: a semi-modular digital feedback synth and a granular synth. The instrument is fully hardware-software integrated, with […]

WLAN trilateration for musical echolocation in the installation ‘The Network Is A Blind Space’

New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2012 ABSTRACT: This paper presents the system and technology developed for the distributed, micro-telematic, interactive sound art installation, The Network Is A Blind Space. […]

The Network Is A Blind Space

The Network Is a Blind Space is a distributed, micro-telematic, interactive sound installation that explores the physical yet invisible electromagnetic spaces created by WiFi networks.

Reformation

A feature length film by Jeanette Groenendaal with music & sound design by Stelios Manousakis & Stephanie Pan. Premiered at IDFA 2011.

Feedback-augmented sopranino clarinet

The feedback-augmented sopranino clarinet is an acoustic instrument, an interactive acoustic filter, a resonator and feedback chamber, a digital control interface, and a sound diffuser. It is the central element of compound hybrid synthesis system that involves acoustic, analog and digital sound generation.

Megas Diakosmos in Mind The Gap compilation [gc103]

Megas Diakosmos by Stelios Manousakis published as an exclusive track at Mind The Gap #90. Mind The Gap is a bi-montly CD publication by Gonzo (circus) magazine, featuring a selection […]

Stelios Manousakis: Bestuurder van een sonisch ecosysteem

Artist presentation and interview of Stelios Manousakis at Gonzo (circus) magazine, 2011. Written by Robert Muis.

Megas Diakosmos

Fixed medium digital feedback piece named after Leukippos lost cosmological treatise from the 5th century BCE. Part of the suite Primeval Sonic Atoms.

Have robot dog, will travel

21 radio receiving robot dogs for multi-channel mobile sound diffusion, with power-off delay timers: Hardware (electronics, design, laser-cut objects) and software development for a new-media performance / theater piece by Stephanie Pan.

L’ Hypothèse de l’ Atome Primitif Sonore

Open composition / live set for digital feedback named after Georges Lemaître’s cosmological treatise mockingly dubbed the ‘Big Bang’ theory by its opponents. Part of Primeval Sonic Atoms.

SuperCollider, Real-time and Interactive: course (SC code)

Course code examples: “Real-time & Interactive Computer Music and Algorithmic Media with the SuperCollider Programming Language” (DXARTS 490a) About These files were made for a course I created and taught […]