Blog Posts
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.
Have robot dog, will travel
21 radio receiving robot dogs for multi-channel mobile sound diffusion, with power-off delay timers: Hardware (electronics, design, laser-cut objects) and software development for a new-media performance / theater piece by Stephanie Pan.
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.
SuperCollider, Real-time and Interactive: course (SC code)
Course code examples: “Real-time & Interactive Computer Music and Algorithmic Media with the SuperCollider Programming Language” (DXARTS 490a) About These files were made for a course I created and taught […]
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