lol<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/6 Marinos Koutsomichalis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marinos@agxivatein.com">marinos@agxivatein.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><br></div><div><div style="">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>Sorry for cross-postings-</div><div><br></div><div>**once again I included some of you in my list without asking, hoping you would be interested in being informed about my latest news - if this is not the case just say so and I' ll erase you from the list.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>LATEST PROJECTS </div><div><br></div><div>Complete Beethoven' s Piano sonatas : </div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I used a pair of PVDF piezo film tabs to record the sounds produced by the radiation and the electro-magnetic activity of a standard CRT computer screen, while scrolling through a file with the complete piano sonatas of L.V. Beethoven..... </span></div>
<div><br></div><div>listen to it here: <a href="http://marinoskoutsomichalis.com/works/page20/page20.html" target="_blank">http://marinoskoutsomichalis.com/works/page20/page20.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div>Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall organ session </div><div>(an improvised session willing to dominate space)</div><div><br></div><div>samples here: <a href="http://marinoskoutsomichalis.com/works/organ/organ.html" target="_blank">http://marinoskoutsomichalis.com/works/organ/organ.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Trevor Jones Studio Sessions :</div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3">Site-specific generative works were composed in order to challenge space aesthetically</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;">
<font face="Helvetica" size="3">The project was realised in 4 sessions @ the Trevor Jones Studio (University of York, Helsington, UK)</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>samples here : <a href="http://marinoskoutsomichalis.com/works/TJS/TJS.html" target="_blank">http://marinoskoutsomichalis.com/works/TJS/TJS.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>(my site is recently updated and you might it interesting to check other pages, too)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>CONCERTS :</div><div><br></div><div>I have no scheduled live concerts for the next months, yet, as I am really busy with an installation piece, </div>
<div>-but if somebody is interested in booking me in July or August for a live performance or lecture he may contact me.</div><div>there are 2 scheduled performances of acoustic works, though:</div><div><br></div><div>"ode to Carneades" for solo Clarinet will be performed live @ Endimburgh @ the 8th of June @ Traverse Theater by the red note ensemble </div>
<div><br></div><div>"3d string quartet - pandamator" will be performed on the 26th of June @ the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall by the Chimera Ensemble</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>RELEASES </div><div><br>
</div><div><div>ANASISEIPSYCHOS cd is just released by Entr' acte (E69)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://entracte.co.uk" target="_blank">entracte.co.uk</a></div><div><br></div><div>reviews follow</div></div><div>
<div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="2">"I never heard of Marinos Koutsomichalis but his work 'Anasiseipsychos' blew me away. Apparently it was recorded during a series of late-night improvisations, using sine waves, which he waves together. Perhaps this sound quite dull to you, as so many other people have used sine waves before, but Koutsomichalis does some pretty neat things with the sine waves. (...) Not an easy listening one, but certainly, when played not as loud as possible, this has a relaxing, ambient quality. When the volume is turned up things become a bit more grittier, but also more detailed. I'm reminded of Paul Panhuysen's work on Plinkity Plonk, but Koutsomichalis is more freely working around with the sine waves, and less conceptually based. A great work."</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="2">Frans de Waard (Vital Weekly)</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="2">"Multiple, richly layered sine tones, often acting in concert to give the impression of perpetually rising or falling (a la Tenney). The sonic effects, the eat drum-rattling and all are fine, but the conception struck me as too shallow, too science-experiment-y for me to find aesthetic purchase."</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="2">Brian Olewnick (Just in Time - Bagatellen - Squid' s Ear).</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="2">"</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3">Athens, Greece-based electro-acoustic composer and sound artist Marinos Koutsomichalis adopts an obviously different approach to Montgomery (Will Montgomery - Legend) in the single-track Anasiseipsychos. Koutsomichalis's interests lie in timbre, texture, and the “architectural possibilities of sound,” all of which are addressed in his hypnotic manipulations of sine tones in the hour-long piece. Multiple tones successively swoop up and down, typically in slow-motion and often pushed to their seeming breaking points, with Koutsomichalis winding up the pitch of tonal masses to almost unbearable degrees of tension (a little bit like a rocket ship shooting up into space). Adding to the disorientating effect, the overlaying of tones also generates a multitude of resonating beats and frequencies. The material turns especially forceful at about the forty-eight-minute mark when one tone, having ascended into the stratosphere, is then joined by a second, then third, and so on. Though his sonic palette is obviously minimal, Koutsomichalis's treatment of it proves seductive and the listener not so much willingly surrenders but more gets sucked into the inexorable pull of the spiraling vortex. One is advised to adhere to the composer's own instruction to “Play loud!” in order to reap maximum psycho-acoustic rewards.</font><font face="Helvetica" size="2">"</font></div>
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<font size="2">BIO :</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2"><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Marinos Koutsomichalis (Athens, Greece 1981 - ) composer, sound-artist.</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24px; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Active in the fields of both sound-art and notated music, Marinos Koutsomichalis profoundly indulges in sound and in auditorial stimuli, from within a philosophical viewpoint. He is interested in creating self-evident sonic experiences - organic life-forms that guide or inspire, in turn, their very maker. Usually in his works, traditional ideas of formalism, causality or transformation are abandoned and "musical" references are overwhelmed, for the shake of sound itself, which is no longer the carrier of an artificially planted "meaning" or "message" but the very message itself. </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24px; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">As a sound-artist, he usually works within a site- and time- specific context, utilizing DSP techniques,field recordings and generative procedures. His main focus is on the architectural possibilities of sound - how to occupy space sonically in meaningful ways - both through intuitive performances and scholastic installations. Phonographic techniques hold a distinct place in his arsenal, as a tool to interpret given space or found-sounds, and further to document his own work, always in respect to the boundaries medium-oriented reproduction imposes.</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24px; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Notation is just another medium for him to explore - its textural and timbral possibilities in particular. He is, also, into various side-projects or solo experiments, from time to time, when he feels he needs to do something different, trying to constantly re-establish his individual relationship with sound - and even-though this might introduce conceptualism sometimes, sound remains the only aesthetic criteria.</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24px; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">His work has been released by various labels including Entr' acte (uk) and EchoMusic(gr), while he both performs / is being performed around the globe - amongst others Usa, Greece, Uk, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. He is currently pursuing an MA by research in composition with digital media at the university of York, under the supervision of dr Tony Myatt, whilst he holds an offer to undertake a Phd in music in the same university. He also holds degrees in Harmony, Counterpoint and Management. He spends most of his time between York, Athens and Creta.</font></div>
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