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[PhD] Hertzian Fields: Exploring WiFi microwave signals as a spatial and embodied sensing medium for art

PhD dissertation in Digital Arts and Experimental Media centered around a series of artworks exploring WiFi as a spatial and embodied sensing medium through a new WiFi sensing technique developed by the author.

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. […]

Stelios Manousakis: Bestuurder van een sonisch ecosysteem

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Musical L-systems

Master’s Thesis, Institute of Sonology, 2006 ABSTRACT: This dissertation presents an extensive framework for designing Lindenmayer systems that generate musical structures. The algorithm is a recursive, biologically inspired string rewriting […]

Proving the relation of music and language as inherent human capacities through the study of pitch

Bachelor’s Thesis in Linguistics National University of Athens, 2003 (Language: Greek) Bachelor’s thesis on the relationships between human and language.