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Digital Musical Instrument Design and Creation: course (Pure Data code)
Course code examples: “Digital Musical Instrument Design and Creation” (DXARTS 198b/DXARTS 198c) About: These examples were made for a course I created and taught at the University of Washington’s Center for […]
Musical Cybernetics: The Human and the Computational
Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) 2010 ABSTRACT: This two-part paper covers the written portion of the Qualifying examination for the DXARTS PhD Program at the University of […]
Observe, Recount, Distort!
A site-specific micro-telematic interactive installation that uses sound and network data to explore the observer effect and the distortion of information produced by social networks.
Iqaluit, Nunavut
A 3-week trip in the middle of winter to the Canadian north, in Iqaluit, Baffin island. A team of artists, Stephanie Pan, Stelios Manousakis and Barbara Ellison traveled to Iqaluit, Nunavut, during December 2009 […]
Non-standard Sound Synthesis with L-systems (LMJ19)
Leonardo Music Journal, MIT Press, issue 19, December 2009 ABSTRACT: This paper presents a new non-standard technique for waveform synthesis in the time domain using Lindenmayer system (L-systems), a formalism […]
Fantasia On A Single Number
A digital feedback open composition / live set taking its final form in live performance and reclaiming the idea of virtuosic performance for electronic music. Part of Primeval Sonic Atoms.
Keledón
An interactive autonomous kinetic sculpture conceived and modelled as an open cybernetic system consisting of a feedback network of aural, visual, and kinesthetic components.
The murmur of bees
Short film by Apryl Richards with music and sound design by Stelios Manousakis & Josh Parmenter.
Facts to Suit Theories
A 5-part open composition for voice, zither, wine glasses, loopstation and live electronics exploring the continuum between composition and improvisation.
stm.modular
stm.modular is a real-time algorithmic composition instrument with a modular architecture that emphasizes the generation of multiple layers of data structure as controllers for all possible parameters of DSP or data-engines.
Navigation
A 6-part open composition for four pipe organs, celesta, harmonium, voice, wine-glass, loopstation and live electronics, written for the Computer Aided Breathing trio and created in and for the Orgelpark in Amsterdam.
SelectInput at Soundmuseum.fm
SelectInput, the music trio of Stelios Manousakis, Pandelis Diamantides and Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris, was commissioned to make a new piece for the permanent gallery and launch of Sound Museum, an online […]
Growing Musical Forms With L-systems: Interpretations, Sound Synthesis and Control Schemata
2007 – available upon request ABSTRACT: This paper introduces Lindenmayer systems (or L-systems in short) as an algorithmic method for designing emergent musical structures in all the time-levels of a […]
SelectInput
A collaborative project by Pandelis Diamantides, Stelios Manousakis and Thanos Polymeneas Liontiris based on live-sampling, improvisation and interaction.
Computer Aided Breathing: Fukuoka Method [SIRcd002]
Debut album of the Computer Aided Breathing trio.
Breakcore Tapdance Collective
Breakcore Tapdance Collective (2006-2007): Tommy FFF: Computer Stelios Manousakis: Live electronics, Programming Marieke van der Ven: Tapdance
Computer Aided Breathing
Computer Aided Breathing is a trio for organs, voice, and live electronics, formed in 2006, devoted to the many different shades of live improvisation, from totally free to compositionally guided.
Undercover Harpsichord Agents Terrorize the Court
An electroacoustic fixed medium piece created by processing harpsichord recordings using a complex hierarchical network of Lindenmayer Systems and Genetic Algorithms.
Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees?
An electroacoustic fixed medium piece entirely synthesized using a complex hierarchical network of Lindenmayer Systems and Genetic Algorithms. Awarded at Gaudeamus 2007.
Two Poems by E. E. Cummings
Setting of two poems, l(a” and “NOISE”, by Edward Estlin Cummings for voice and live electronics. Written for Stephanie Pan.