Investigating the impact of Electroacoustic Music in Greek Culture, through a portfolio of Electroacoustic Music works which explore religious and mythological aspects of Greece.

EPAMEINONDAS P. FASIANOS

My research investigated the viability of various electroacoustic music compositional approaches, which were used in a series of works that explored specific relationships between real-world and abstracted sound materials, through the strategic use of pitched, melodic, and non-pitched materials (as well as specific characteristics and behaviours of those materials) as integral elements in the composition. All of the compositions were linked to Greece in various ways, either directly or symbolically. My primary goal was to present transformed aspects of Greece while exploring all of these different levels musically through electroacoustic music. Furthermore, I attempted to explore new electroacoustic music territories by embarking on a journey from real-world instrumental and concrete soundworlds based on aspects of Greek culture (religion, mythology) to abstract soundworlds. Real-world soundworlds are made up of sounds, spaces, and places that have the potential to communicate human experiences such as familiar impressions, aural images, and evocations for the listener. Abstract soundworlds that emerge from real-world ones via various transformation processes include specific sounds, spaces, and places that can be notably different from those that emerge from real-world soundworlds. My main overall goal was to develop innovative techniques and processes that explore the intersections, contrasts, connections, and discourse between the two.

Recording Equipment

Software Used and Purpose of Use

[Table 2] Software Used and Purpose of Use.

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Soundman OKM II Binaural Microphone (Airplane Sounds and Piano Sounds) and two AKG Perception 150 Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphones (Stone and Pencil Sounds): Icarus

Two AKG C414-XLS Condenser Microphones: Time Travel

AKG CK80 High-Performance Stereo Shotgun Condenser Microphone Capsule accommodated in a RØDE Blimp Wind Shield and Shock Mount System (Entwistle Reservoir) and two AKG Perception 150 Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphones (Studio Environment): (Floghera, Piano, Guitar, Stone sounds and supplementary wood branches crackling sounds): Land of the Sirens

Software Used	Purpose of Use
Pro Tools	Use of GRM Tools, Filtering, Final Mix, Bounce
Logic Pro	Application of pitched resonance on non-pitched dry sound objects as well as time-stretched harmonic drone soundworlds. Application of time delays. Application of the Time Stretch Length to Locators algorithm for extension or reduction of the size of a waveform to a specified length set by the user.
BEAST Tools	Sound Transformations through pitch transformations and delays. The multichannel output was then inserted into Reaper.
Paulstretch	Time Stretch
Sound Forge Pro	Pitch transformations
Vegas Pro	Pitch transformation of a sound file without altering its time duration.
Cecilia	Granular Synthesis through the Pelletizer module. Application of pitched resonance on non-pitched dry sound objects through the Harmonizer Module.
Reaper	Conversion of multichannel BEAST Tools outputs to stereo image.
SPEAR	Temporal Deceleration of a sound file whilst it is depicted through a frequency-time graph (spectrum analyser). Selection of specific frequencies in the decelerated file in the frequency spectrum depiction.
AudioSculpt	Used only in Icarus. Selection of specific frequencies in a frequency-time graph depiction of the sound file.
Sapling	Used for remixing up to four audio files through real-time randomization algorithms. Designed in Max/MSP/Jitter.
SoundHack	Used for convolution of two different waveforms. Because of the fact that the volume level of the output is extremely low, multiple superimpositions of the same waveform generated by SoundHack were implemented in Pro Tools.
Atomic Cloud	Used for granular synthesis only in Land of the Sirens.

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