Bio

A composer, viola da gamba performer, sound researcher, and scientist — a metamodern, transdisciplinary visionary working at the intersection of music, architecture, and astrophysics. Her compositional work spans chamber music, electroacoustic and electronic composition, three chamber operas, algorithmic and site-specific works, performed internationally at venues including Mass MoCA, the Leipzig Opera, the Ancient Roman Agora of Athens, and Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, with commissions from Bang on a Can, the Greek National Opera, Korzo Theater, and the International Dance Festival of Kalamata, among others. As a performer, she moves between early and contemporary repertoire, multimedia performance, and improvisation, and develops a solo work for viola da gamba, analogue electronics, and voice — a dialogue between the archaic and the synthetic. Her academic research examines the relationship between silence and noise, space and sound at every scale of compositional thought, crystallised in the Hybrid Score: an original method for composition in spacetime within hybrid, interactive environments — the subject of her PhD at the Technical University of Crete. In 2018 she founded NGallery, a living laboratory where artists, scientists, and thinkers meet to create beyond boundaries and categories.

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Composing & Sound

In my lifetime engagement as a musician, I have experienced a wide range of sounds, musical genres and performance situations. This, I think, has given me volatility as a composer and performer, which always accompanies me in whatever I do and helps me accept challenges that otherwise I would not consider.

Whether it is vocal, instrumental, electronic, or theatre music I am composing, and improvisational or written score I am performing, what always lies at the centre of my interest is sound itself and its structure and organisation in time, through which I can achieve a directionality and clarity in what I am doing.  I have grown to like sparse sounds in such an organised set up, many times quiet, with a focus on timbre and subtle textural characteristics. The relationship of noise and silence at the micro level of sound fascinates me. My compositional work and academic research during the last few years focuses on the creation of organised sound based on other sources, the relationship between silence and noise and the relationship between space and sound. Having a personal definition of silence as a starting point, my work has evolved from composing acoustic works, electroacoustic works, to algorithmic compositions and creating sound based on spatial parameters. My research in music and architecture has given me a new perspective and direction as to how it might be possible to compose in space - time with a goal to create other environments and worlds.

Instruments

My first instrument was the voice.  Then came classical guitar for quite a few years and electric guitar for a few more.  Until I discovered the right instrument for me : the viola da gamba.