Blog Posts

Palpebla Resonoj #2

A live set / open composition for feedback-augmented acoustic guitar and real-time processing.

DraMAYAma

DraMAYAma: a Space-Time Travel is a feature length film by Jeanette Groenendaal with music by Stelios Manousakis & Stephanie Pan. ​A journey inside, an astrological cosmic dance beyond the end of the Maya calendar.

An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: A full body workout radio play

A genre-blurring experience for solo audiences at home: Re-imagine your place through your movement, music and storytelling.

Primeval Sonic Atoms [IR011]

An album in which the intrinsic nature of digital technology becomes a metaphor for the origins of the universe.

Snow

A fixed medium sound composition for dance, contemplating the noise of being as a cosmology of the inner self. Part of Primeval Sonic Atoms.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Palpebla Resonoj #1

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

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.

Reformation

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

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.

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.

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.

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.