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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.

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

A collaborative project by Pandelis Diamantides, Stelios Manousakis and Thanos Polymeneas Liontiris based on live-sampling, improvisation and interaction.

Breakcore Tapdance Collective

Breakcore Tapdance Collective (2006-2007): Tommy FFF: Computer Stelios Manousakis: Live electronics, Programming Marieke van der Ven: Tapdance

Computer Aided Breathing

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.

Undercover Harpsichord Agents Terrorize the Court

An electroacoustic fixed medium piece created by processing harpsichord recordings using a complex hierarchical network of Lindenmayer Systems and Genetic Algorithms.

Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees?

An electroacoustic fixed medium piece entirely synthesized using a complex hierarchical network of Lindenmayer Systems and Genetic Algorithms. Awarded at Gaudeamus 2007.

Two Poems by E. E. Cummings

Setting of two poems, l(a” and “NOISE”, by Edward Estlin Cummings for voice and live electronics. Written for Stephanie Pan.