A.I.R
YIORGIS
SAKELLARIOU
Yiorgis Sakellariou is a member of the Athenian Contemporary Music Research Centre, the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association and the Lithuanian Composers Union. Since 2004 he has curated the label Echomusic. He is currently a lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University and an assistant lecturer at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
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He completed his PhD at Coventry University (April 2018). His research drew inspiration from ethnomusicological and anthropological contexts and explored the sonic symbolism and socio-aesthetic settings in ecstatic religious rituals in relation to field recording, electroacoustic composition and acousmatic performance.
Proceedings of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference, The Art of Electroacoustic Music - Sheffield.
(co’author: Costis Drygianakis). The Travelling Archive
Yiorgis Sakellariou is a composer, recordist and researcher.
https://mechaorga.wordpress.com/
Selected List of Music Publications
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-Fons et Origo [CD]. Lithuania: Music Information Centre, Lithuania (2022)
-Degti. [cassette tape]. Portugal: Cronica Electronica (2021)
-Auka. [mini-CD]. France: Taâlem (2020)
-Nympholepsy. [CD]. Greece: Noise Below (2019)
-Diapsalmata: A Collection of Short Works. [cassette tape]. Belgium: Tanuki (2018)
-In Aulis. [CD]. Belgium: Unfathomless (2018)
-Stikhiya. [cassette tape]. Portugal: Cronica Electronica (2017)
-Silentium. [CD]. USA: Pogus Productions (2016)
-Shift [digital]. Canada: No Type/Panospria (2016)
-Everything Emanating from the Sun [digital]. Portugal: Cronica Electronica (2016)
-Klaipeda. [CD]. Belgium: Unfathomless (2015)
-Cueb. [mini-CD]. Colombia: Eter-Lab (2014)
-30:13. [digital]. Colombia: Impulsive Habitat (2014)
-Fukushima 36:51. [digital]. Greece: Echomusic (2013)
-Brombron 25: ab-a-b. [CD]. The Netherlands: Kormplastics (2013)
-Mecha/Orga 40:43. [CD]. Japan: Label Oto (2013)
-Rotterdam 54:21. [CD]. Russia: Monochrome Vision (2012)
-Mecha/Orga 53:30. [CD]. UK: Very Quiet Records (2012)
-Mecha/Orga 27: 36. [digital]. Portugal: Green Field Recordings (2010)
Selected artist talks and paper presentations
“Navigating in the Multiverse: Possibilities and Limitations of Creative Practices in Online Environments” in Non-Machines: Playground of Perspective conference, Bauhaus University, Weimar (July 2023)
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“River Sounds: The Mythology of Eternal Flow in Electroacoustic Composition” in (online) Symposium of New Works and Research into Contemporary Composers: “Avant-Garde and Experimental Creative Considerations in Art Music” Department of Ethnomusicology, Nanhua University, Taiwan (July 2021)
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“Rituals in Electroacoustic Music”, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia (March 2020)
“Music and Sound Design in Film & New Media: Soundscapes and Immersive Sound”, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Vilnius, September 2019)
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“Composing (with) Silence: Music for Stan Brakhage's “Dog Star Man - Part 1” in Visuality 2019: Creative Communication in the Emerging Constellations”, Vilnius Gediminas Technical Universitry, Vilnius (April 2019)
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“Between the physical and supernatural: Sacred Soundscapes and Electroacoustic Music” in Architecture and the Senses” organised by Agosto Foundation, Plasy Monastery, Czechia (October 2018)
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“What’s really going on here?” in EMS15-Electroacoustic Music Studies Network “The Art of Electroacoustic Music” conference, University of Sheffield, UK (June 2015)