Date and Time: 23/05/2024 (21:00)
Location: Municipal Gallery of Corfu: People’s Garden
Hybrid Nature is an immersive sound installation (8.1 surround) combining synthesised and natural sound. The first part is a sound-modelling environment, where sounds are created algorithmically via the application "iNature" (pure data), developed by Thanasis Epitidios in his doctoral research on sound mimesis with regard to nature. The second part is a composition by Apostolos Loufopoulos, based on transformations of recorded sounds. The overall outcome brings together the natural world with an electronically-generated world, creating an amalgam of soundscapes, which either appear as discrete natural elements (wind, rain, birds etc) or combine into thunderstorms, passages and musical atmospheres.
Created as part of the HAL (Hub of Art Laboratories) research programme.
Apostolos Loufopoulos, composer, sound designer, Associate Professor at the Audio&Visual Arts of the Ionian University, studied at the Ionian University and City University, London. He creates sound and music for video, theatre, installations, audiovisual apps and autonomous music.
His music has received 19 international awards including Αrs Electronica (Austria), Bourges, Noroit, SCRIME (France) Metamorphoses, Space of Sound (Belgium), Franco Evangelisti (Italy), Musica Nova (Czech Rep.) , I. Xenakis, D. Dragatakis (Greece). He has appeared in renown festivals and venues and his published work includes discography by INA-GRM, Musiques & Recherches, Ionian University, CyberArts, Touch Records and scores by Zerboni (Milan) and Just Flutes (London). His research contribution includes a number of studies and publications on soundscapes, composition and sound design, having participated in international research projects, conferences and other organizations. He is a founding member of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers' Association (HELMCA) and the Greek Society for Acoustic Ecology.
Thanasis Epitideios graduated from the Department of Sound and Musical Instruments Technology of the Technological Educational Institute of Ionian Islands (currently Department of Ethnomusicology, Ionian University) and holds an MA in “Sonic Arts and Audio Technologies”, a postgraduate programme of the Department of Music Studies and the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University. He is into the field of electroacoustic music, soundtrack techniques with different audiovisual genres and multimedia. Since 2009, he has been an active member of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA) and he participates in the organization of the annual festival of electroacoustic music “Electroacoustic Music Days”. His works are performed both in Greece and abroad. Since February 2023 he has been working on his PhD research on "Nature and sound mimesis"
