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Phivos-Angelos Kollias : Curriculum Vitae

WEBPAGE: http://phivos-angelos-kollias.com

PRIZES

  • Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest, Toronto
  • Electronic Music Composition Teacher of the Year, Lessonface, USA
  • Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories Competition, Toronto
  • Aubagne Film Festival Competition, Aubagne, France
  • Competition, Rome
  • InNova Musica Competition, Andorra
  • Giuseppe Verdi Competition, Milan
  • Contemporary Music Workshops Competition -Megaron Concert Hall, Athens
  • Greek Festival of Chamber Music Competition, Athens

 

NOMINATIONS/DISTINCTIONS

  • 'Sounds of WERGO' retrospective collection
  • OSSIA Competition, New York
  • Franco Donatoni Competition, Milan
  • New Forum-Jeune Création Competition, Lyon
  • Chengdu-Sun River Competition, Sichuan, China
  • Antonín Dvořák Competition, Czech Republic/South Korea
  • Ville de Nice & Alpes Maritimes Competition, Nice
  • Free Style Competition, London
  • Italian Institute of Culture Competition, Melbourne

 

EDUCATION

2010-2017. PhD in Interactive Music, Université Paris 8

2010-2013. Composition Degree (DEM), Conservatoire de Boulogne, Paris.

2006-2007. Master in Computer Assisted Composition, Université Paris 8

2003-2004. Master in Instrumental Composition, City University, London

2000-2003. Bachelor in Music, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

  

INTERACTIVE MEDIA

  1. VOICES. Team leader and composer of Interdisciplinary-interactive project (Music, Visuals & AI Voice cloning technologies) Premiered at Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), organised by Transmediale (Berlin), IMPAKT (Utrecht), Privacy Salon (Brussels), and Werktank (Leuven). Funded by European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA).
  2. A Festival of Insignificance (for two musicians and electronics), funded by the German Music Council (Germany)
  3. Echorroes (Interactive Sound-Art Experience for young children) (link password: Echoprroes2023), funded by Neukolln Cultural District & Nobiwerk schools (Berlin), performed between July-December 2022  at three schools in Berlin
  4. Nostophiliac AI (AI-generated Audio-Visual Experience) won the 3rd prize at the Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest, Toronto, funded by Musikfonds Berlin, performed at: AI Music Creativity Conference-Festival (Japan), Sound-Image Festival (London), Resilience Festival (Italy), Passages of Time/A.D. Gallery (University of North Carolina, USA)
  5. Cooking Music Algorithms (Electroacoustic Music Video Performances), commissioned by Ensemble Ipse (New York), performed at Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas (Mexico), Sound-Image Conference (London), Let Them Eat Fake/Bad Art Presents at BWG Gallery (Soho Square, London)
  6. BabyMachine (Music VR), created as part of the Patchathon of the Nordic Game Conference
  7. Music Against Police Brutality (electroacoustic music video), released as part of the music album "PONAO – 37 composers against police brutality".
  8. 2008-2016. Ephemeron (adaptive electroacoustic music organism), commissioned by Z.K.M. (Karlsruhe)

 

ENSEMBLE/ELECTROACOUSTIC/MIXED MUSIC

  1. Cosmodemonia (electroacoustic), premiered at ACMC 2022 (New Zealand)
  2. Ferum (tenor saxophone & electronics), commissioned by Pedro Bittencourt (Rio de Janeiro), Premiered at Musicacoustica Festival (Beijing)
  3. And if… (electroacoustic), performed at "Art & Science Days 2016", Bourges; Cicada Consort, University of Alabama; "Electroacoustic Music Days 2014", Rethimno
  4. A l'intérieur (study for prepared piano & live electronics)
  5. Experientia (for ten musicians & electronics), premiered by Le Balcon Ensemble (Paris), Nominated at the OSSIA Competition, New York
  6. 2011/2018. Expérience [Auto-Référentielle], premiered in Acanthes Festival (France), released in album  Experiência by Abstrai Ensemble (Brazil)
  7. Dream – of Three Senses (flutist, clarinettist, violinist & violoncellist), commissioned by the Greek Composers Union, premiered at Goethe Institute Athens by the Greek Contemporary Ensemble
  8. Rembetologio (violoncellist, accordionist & guitarist), commissioned by Trio Salque-Peirani-Strouk
  9. Sur la Construction de Réalités (electroacoustic)
  10. Human – from the 'inside' (for seven musicians)
  11. True Story (saxophonist and electronics), commissioned by Z.K.M. (Karlsruhe), 3rd prize at G.E.R.M.I. Competition (Rome)
  12. Perception (communicator & eight performers), commissioned by ensemble ALEA III (Boston), 3rd prize at Verdi International Competition (Milano)
  13. Breath (two violinists, violist, cellist, contrabassist, percussionist), commissioned by Greek Ensemble of Contemporary Music, 2nd prize at InNova Musica International Competition (Andorra), 1st prize at Contemporary Music Workshops Athens
  14. Les Paradoxes de Zénon (clarinettist, guitarist, harpist, percussionist, cellist, subwoofer and tape)
  15. Descriptions of Some Flows (string quintet, piano & percussion) premiered by the Intermodulation Chamber Orchestra broadcasted on the Hungarian National Radio (Budapest)
  16. Le Quatuor de la Texture de l'Eau (string quartet) 1st prize at the Greek Festival of Chamber Music
  17. This Syntax (violoncello & piano) premiered at Darmstadt International Summer Courses

 

TEAM PROJECTS

  1. 2023 (in development). The Fall, VR Game, produced by High Roads Stories, Berlin
  2. 2022-2023 (in post-production). The Lost Glitches (video game), commissioned by Mimunga Productions/Honig Studios
  3. Place (VR Installation), commissioned by the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  4. Captured (Interactive Cinema), premiered at the BFI London Film Festival
  5. Symphony of Noise (music VR installation), prize of excellence in sound design at FIVARS Competition (Toronto), Forbes top XR installations of 2019, nominated IDFA Competition (Amsterdam) & VR NOW (Berlin), presented in festivals like VRHam (Hamburg), Reeperbahn (Hamburg), LEV Festival (Madrid), Zlín Film Festival (Czech Republic).
  6. Proper Motion (music VR), premiered at BFI London Film Festival
  7. El Hijo (video game), Multi-awards winning
  8. (in development) Impossible Bottles (music video game)
  9. FantaVentura (music VR installation)
  10. CinemaSound Orchestra (interactive music installation) commission by  Dell Computers
  11. Monk by the Sea (VR installation) presented in prestigious museums & festivals like Alte Nationalgalerie (Berlin), National Palace Museum (Chiayi, Taiwan), CPH:DOX Interactive (Copenhagen), Virtual Worlds, Munich.
  12. Milli Vol. 2 (online interactive story) commissioned by Honig Studios
  13. Milli (interactive music application) commissioned by Honig Studios, recipient of several awards: Pädi Award, GIGA Maus, Red Dot, Mobile of the Day, Exhibit of the Day, Power to the Pixel
  14. Là-bas, La Mer (music for a film, ten musicians and electronics), SIRAR award

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

  1. (in print) 'Nostophiliac AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Collective Memory'. Presented at: TECHNARTE International Conference on Art and Technology, Bilbao, Spain. To be published at Memory Studies Review, Brill.
  2. (in print). Co-authored with Angela McArthur. ‘Ambient Intelligence, Music, and Ecology: Balancing the Polarity between Anthropocentric and Ecological Perspectives'. Published by Greenwich University, UK.
  3. 2021. 'Ambient Intelligence in Electroacoustic Music: Towards a Future of Self-Organising Music', EMS21 Conference of Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, Leiceste, UK
  4. 2018. 'Overviewing a field of self-organising music interfaces: autonomous, distributed, environmentally aware, feedback systems', 23rd ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Intelligent Music Interfaces for Listening and Creation, Tokyo, Japan
  5. 2017. Vers une pensée musicale orientée-système : l’oeuvre musicale auto-organisante, PhD Thesis, University of Paris VIII, Paris, France
  6. 2013. co-author: Ioanna Symeonidou. 'SYN-THESIS: An insight into the correlations in architectural and musical algorithmic composition', International Conference of Music and Architecture "Knowing (by) Designing", Brussels, Belgium
  7. 2012. 'Ephemeron: Self-organising music and second-order cybernetics', International Conference Re-New/IMAC, Copenhagen, Denmark
  8. 2011. 'Experiencing the Self-Organising Work of Music', 2nd EU-China Cultural Forum, Beijing, China
  9. 2011. 'The Self-Organising Work of Music', Organised Sound, vol. 16; No. 2; Cambridge University Press
  10. 2011. 'Iannis Xenakis and Systems Thinking', International Conference of Iannis Xenakis, Southbank, London. Reprinted in: 2015, Edward A. Shanken (ed.), Systems; MIT Press
  11. 2010. 'Constructions of Beauty', 1st EU-China Cultural Forum Brussels, Belgium
  12. 2009. 'Applications of Systemic Principles in Music Composition', Sound, Sight, Space and Play International Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
  13. 2008. 'Ephemeron: Control over self-organised music', 5th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Technische Universität, Berlin.
  14. 2008. 'Music and Systems Thinking', 5th Conference of Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, Sorbonne, Paris