Yannis Kyriakides
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Yannis Kyriakides – Covertures I
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As a composer he strives to create new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and exploring spatial and temporal experience. He has focused in the majority of his work on ways of combining traditional performance practices with digital media. The sensory space where music happens is a particular preoccupation, and for this end a way of bypassing the conventional structures of how music is presented is sought. The question as to what music is actually communicating is also a recurring theme in his work and he is often drawn to the relation between emotion and language and how that defines our experience of music.
His has written over eighty compositions, of which recent large scale works include the multimedia operas such as, ‘The Buffer Zone’, ‘Spinoza (or The Thing Like Us)’ , ‘Escamotage’ (FNM Staatsoper Stuttgart) ‘An Ocean of Rain’ (Cryptic) , multimedia concert works such as ‘The Queen is the Supreme Power in the Realm’ (MusikFabrik, ZKM, Koln Triennale) , ‘Mnemonist S’ (ASKO) and ‘Dreams of the Blind’ (Ensemble MAE). Prizes have included the Gaudeamus prize in 2000 for ‘a conSPIracy cantata’, and an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2006 for ‘Wordless’ (12 sound portraits).
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Antichamber
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Wordless
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The Buffer Zone
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a conSPIracy cantata
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helloimjoshua
new album is nice
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IAmDillin
this is rly good
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TeatroAssente
his works with andy moor are amazing
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xezzy
Halfway through first track -- can't wait to praise. I think I liked it very much and then went to sleep.
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insomniacme
antichamber best title and release of 2010
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munk77436
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incubatetilburg
The performance of Yannis, together with Andy Moor as part of The Ex' curated evening at Incubate 2010, can be streamed here: http://inlog.org/2011/03/01/streamy-tuesday-an-evening-curated-by-the-ex-streams-online-now/
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electromostarda
Antichamber, what a wonderful and inspiring album!
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ikhon
this is weird.
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MeteoFestival
Yannis Kyriakides will perform in Festival météo (Mulhouse - F) on August 29th. see > http://www.lastfm.fr/event/1165670+météo+-+Mulhouse+Music+Festival
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Codswallop
The Buffer Zone is incredible.
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_duif
Kyriakides was in the first MIMEO line-up, but that didn't last long. he doesn't appear on any of their best work.
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quora
nice experimental electronica|sound collages from member of MIMEO
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