An augmented reality lecture performance on WiFi sensing
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.
A live set / open composition for feedback-augmented acoustic guitar and real-time processing.
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.
A genre-blurring experience for solo audiences at home: Re-imagine your place through your movement music and storytelling.
Three experimental films by Tivon Rice speculating how Artificial Intelligences could have alternative perceptions of an environment. Sound composed by Stelios Manousakis and Stephanie Pan.
An album in which the intrinsic nature of digital technology becomes a metaphor for the origins of the universe.
A curated archive of found footage from protests demonstrations riots strikes and other political gatherings that occurred around the world during the last month of an increasingly turbulent decade.
A sound art exhibition curated by Modern Body exploring augmented sound perception. Part of the program of Musical Utopias #2: A festival of Sonic Embrace (2019).
A fixed medium sound composition for dance contemplating the noise of being as a cosmology of the inner self. Part of Primeval Sonic Atoms.
An international collaborative multimodal interdisciplinary project creating ‘gatherings’ of people action movement and sound.
An immersive multisensory performance that is part documentary part science fiction part ritual. By They Gather project.
A durational work in public space looking at our need for freedom and where when and how this exists and is expressed. By They Gather project.
A mass public participation work for audience community and artists exploring our need to connect to others to be seen and to be heard. By They Gather project.
A platform examining the nature of our current existence through thematic events that curate experiences: physical / visceral / immersive / intimate.
3rd biennial edition of the intermedial Modern Body Festival seeking confront and empathizing with the alien.
An intimate 20-minute experience of complete multi-sensory immersion in a reactive steam sauna sensing water molecules (in bodies and steam) via WiFi.
Loop/Copy/Mutate: I Am Legion is an Artificial Intelligence singer modeled after the improvisational method of the Genetic Choir.
Exhibition and performances curated by Modern Body to explore emerging themes and ideas in preparation for our next biennial festival edition.
An evening symposium on Alan Turing father of computer science and a pioneer in AI and encryption. Organized by Modern Body Festival in collaboration with Stichting ARTEk.
The Computer Aided Breathing trio performs a live score for Teinosuke Kinugasa's experimental 1926 silent film A Page of Madness.
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.
A venue for intimate listening under high temperatures: a 3-person dry sound sauna heated by infrared light.
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.
Sister edition of Modern Body Festival 2016 taking place in Taipei initiated by Modern Body and DEZACT architectural platform.
Analog electronics and magnetic tapes from Sonology's voltage-controlled modular studio: Interconnected feedback networks spur reflexive growth and morphogeneses through layered live performance.
An augmented reality immersive performance exposing the sympathetic resonance of the body to the flows of telecommunication via WiFi sensing.
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.
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.
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.
A first-person sound-film without image concerned with embodiment mediated memory and hyperreality and experienced as an immersive spatially distributed acousmatic environment.
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.
A collaborative site-specific installation taking over the control room of the former headquarters of the European Police (Europol).
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.
An open composition for feedback-augmented clarinet and real-time processing.
An abstracted and deconstructed spatial radio play setting Gertrude Stein's 'Rooms' from 'Tender Buttons' as a distributed radio-transmitted sound installation explored interactively.
Live recorded debut EP by Center no Distractor taikos and electronics duo.
A fixed medium work created in Sonology's legendary voltage-controlled modular analog studio. Awarded at the International composition competition Città di Udine 2014.
Fourth album and concerts by an eight-piece orchestra formed around the Selva de Mar duo from Barcelona.
A cycle of short pieces for female voice and surround live electronics setting Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons written for vocalist Stephanie Pan.
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.
A feature length film by Jeanette Groenendaal with music & sound design by Stelios Manousakis & Stephanie Pan. Premiered at IDFA 2011.
Fixed medium digital feedback piece named after Leukippos lost cosmological treatise from the 5th century BCE. Part of the suite Primeval Sonic Atoms.
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.
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.
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.
An interactive autonomous kinetic sculpture conceived and modelled as an open cybernetic system consisting of a feedback network of aural visual and kinesthetic components.
Short film by Apryl Richards with music and sound design by Stelios Manousakis & Josh Parmenter.
A 5-part open composition for voice zither wine glasses loopstation and live electronics exploring the continuum between composition and improvisation.
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.
A collaborative project by Pandelis Diamantides Stelios Manousakis and Thanos Polymeneas Liontiris based on live-sampling improvisation and interaction.
Debut album of the Computer Aided Breathing trio.
Breakcore Tapdance Collective (2006-2007): Tommy FFF: Computer Stelios Manousakis: Live electronics Programming Marieke van der Ven: Tapdance
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.
An electroacoustic fixed medium piece created by processing harpsichord recordings using a complex hierarchical network of Lindenmayer Systems and Genetic Algorithms.
An electroacoustic fixed medium piece entirely synthesized using a complex hierarchical network of Lindenmayer Systems and Genetic Algorithms. Awarded at Gaudeamus 2007.
Setting of two poems l(a" and "NOISE" by Edward Estlin Cummings for voice and live electronics. Written for Stephanie Pan.