Blog Posts
Why is why of no stranger
A first-person sound-film without image, concerned with embodiment, mediated memory, and hyperreality and experienced as an immersive, spatially distributed acousmatic environment.
Modern Body Festival 2014: Art as research through experience
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.
Proxy Kabinet: Raamweg 47
A collaborative site-specific installation taking over the control room of the former headquarters of the European Police (Europol).
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.
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.