ArtistInfo

Dimitris Kamarotos

Soundtrack and Electronic

Dimitris Kamarotos (Athens, Greece 1954). Studied music and computers in Athens and continued composition, clarinet and electronic music, composition and music analysis in Paris with Daniel Charles, Emile Damais, Iannis Xenakis, electroacoustic music with Horacio Vaggionne and Marc Battier and music for films with Maurice Jarre. studying in the IRCAM the use of artificial intelligence as a compositional tool.He was invited composer at IRCAM (1983 ) and worked with the 4X computing system and research into the development of new techniques to controlling the sound of traditional instruments.In Greece, since 1985, he has been involved in the foundation of the Center for Contemporary Music Research (CCMR-KSYME) with S. Vassiliadis and I. Xenakis he created and directed contemporary and experimental music ensembles and worked as research supervisor.He collaborated with Brad Garton and Thanassis Rikakis (Columbia Univ.), Perry Cook (Princeton Univ.) in the foundation of the computer music studio in CCMR (Athens) and the IPSA (Institute for Music and Psychoacoustics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). He has particularly worked and published papers on the creation of physically modelled ancient instruments (prehistoric Sesclo aulos), and actually continuing (since 1997) the research project on automated retrieval of music patterns as raw data (in Athens Univ.) and timbre recognition (in the National Technical Univ). He is founder and director of many music ensemble projects aiming to the boundary between contemporary, free improvised and electroacoustic music (Pros Ensemble 1984, A_music Ensemble 1988, Intermediary Space 1991, Five froyd and Two 1998), Electric Breath (2002). He is actively participating through music composition and performance in an exploratory approach of music function in theater. In particular focusing on the common reactions and vocal functions of the Greek Tragedy chorus (khoros). He created music for more than 120 theater performances collaborating with the Greek National Theater, private theaters and international festivals. Notably some productions that participated with original music and sound dramaturgy these last years: “Dying as a country” (Théâtre de l'Odéon,2009), “Hercules Furens” (Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus 2011), “Phedre”( Comédie-Française, 2013), “The Circle of the Square”, (fest. Avignon 2014), «Faust» (Onassis C.C. 2014), “The Blind” (Greek Fest. 2015).

Genres

• Soundtrack
• Electronic
• Classical