Dimitri Voudouris

Dimitri Voudouris [Δημητριος Βουδουρης] - [born 1961 in Athens, Greece] an electroacoustic composer and pharmacist living in South Africa who pioneered UNYAZI,[1] the first electronic music festival and symposium on the African continent in 2005 that took place at University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. He lectures part-time at Witwatersrand University in electronic music composition.

He composes for acoustic instruments, electronic sound sources, multimedia, including dance and theatre. He bases his technical and theoretical compositional approach in research of cognitive psycho-acoustic behavioral patterns in humans and the behavior of sound in relationship to continued environmental changes. His socio-cultural interests have led him to research the survival of music in the 21st century and the impact that media and technology have on the composer.

His Impilo (2000-2001), which means life, uses field recordings and tries to capture both commercial media and wild-life. These natural sounds were then mixed together with electronic media to combine two extreme fields of sound. The composer said[1] that "I tried to create a warm, natural environment in which the listener is surrounded in everyday life." Voudouris added that this analysis of sound has allowed him to discover man and his environment, no matter how technical and complex it may be. "The energy flowing through both animate and inanimate objects is the same - it is the space that constantly changes our everyday experiences."

Contents

Compositions

Multimedia Theater

Contemporary Dance

Music and Contemporary dance theatre

ΞΩΡΑΑΚ

[2010] - Παρ.1,2 - Dancers, objects, audience, mobiles, triggers, sound projectionist, lighting Technician, choreographer, electronic music for 6 speaker diffusion system.

[2011] - Παρ.3,4 - music ensemble - [small metal objects, stones, wood, whirlies, balloons,wind machines, paper, sticks, short-wave receivers, bowed saws, narrators (with voice manipulation}, public speakers (with megaphones), xylophone]- amplified, audience with mobiles, musician as [conductor and sound projectionist], sound engineer, lighting technician, choreograher and electronic music with 8 channel speaker diffusion system.

[2012] - Παρ.5,6 - Παρ.5 - Harpsichord [amplified], midi harpsichord, whistles and electronic music,dancers, sound engineer, sound projectionist, light technician, for 14 x channel diffusion system.Παρ.6 - Electronic music for 6 x channel diffussion system,dancers,sound engineer, choreographer,sound projectionist, light technician.

Opera

Installation

a] Designed space for performance'

b] Designed space for game performance'

Piano and video projection or piano and audience

P1 - [ kode 1 - kode 16 ] - [2010-2011], P2 - [ kode 17 - kode 32 ] - [2010-2011], P3 - [ kode 33 - kode 48 ] - [2011-2012]

for amplified piano,video projection or amplified piano and audience. Kode 1 - kode 21 was commissioned by DOMUS, concept Mareli Stolp. 'in progress'

Film

Recordings

.NPFAI.1,Palmos,NPFAI.3,Praxis - [Pogal Productions]

.ΑΛΘ=Φ,UVIVI,1Θφ4,ΟΝΤΑ - [Pogal Productions]

References

  1. ^ Electronic Music Gallery programme, page 7, Grahamstown Festival, 2003

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