We listen and make sense of the world. We compose our findings, deepening our ability to listen and understand further. The process of listening is deeply psychological, revealing the sounds character, meaning and place. It mobilises thought, and memory, evolving in union with the unfolding of sounds and music. It is driven and enriched by our imagination.When listening to music, we emotionally respond towards the sounds, experiencing texture, their movement, rhythms and spatial behaviour. We excavate for meaning through their vibrations, their association and musical role in the composition, we seek for the composer's intentions. We deepen our listening by our ability to form a mental space -field that encourages image making, related to the complexity of the sounds and our own experiences. We use our imagination to relate further into our emotions.
Biography
Orestis Zafeiriou is an electronic music composer and sound designer. In his compositions he delves into the material and aesthetic dimensions of sound in relation to the mental images that transpire during the act of listening. Through multi-speaker setups , he aims to use the physical space to envelope the listener and enhance the listening experience. To encourage the evocation of new, personal and unexplored “images”. He composes music for Theatre and Cinema, creates Installations and seeks to reveal sonic relationships between electronic music and other musical genres.
He was a member of the Sonology Institute, completing the master's program in electronic music composition and research. He also has a Mechanical engineering degree from the Technical University of Crete, focusing his thesis on acoustics. (“Active noise control with FEM”). He is a member of the electronic - heavy rock band Playgrounded, having released three albums and performing shows in Greece and abroad. He is also working as synths manufacturer in Dreadbox company.
Biography
Orestis Zafeiriou is an electronic music composer and sound designer. In his compositions he delves into the material and aesthetic dimensions of sound in relation to the mental images that transpire during the act of listening. Through multi-speaker setups , he aims to use the physical space to envelope the listener and enhance the listening experience. To encourage the evocation of new, personal and unexplored “images”. He composes music for Theatre and Cinema, creates Installations and seeks to reveal sonic relationships between electronic music and other musical genres.
He was a member of the Sonology Institute, completing the master's program in electronic music composition and research. He also has a Mechanical engineering degree from the Technical University of Crete, focusing his thesis on acoustics. (“Active noise control with FEM”). He is a member of the electronic - heavy rock band Playgrounded, having released three albums and performing shows in Greece and abroad. He is also working as synths manufacturer in Dreadbox company.
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Electronic
The Hague, May 2016
Experiments with recording and manipulating sounds and samples from house-hold objects and Rotterdam’s urban environment.
10-Channel
Electroacoustic
The Hague, June 2019
Abruptions on equivalence, calmness within a frenzied movement, irregular cries and silence. Images from memory and places unvisited but familiar, floating on energy, colour, time and textures of space.
A miniature exploring musical concepts and techniques from the Baroque Era. Point of departure was the Aria from the Opera “V’adoro, pupille”, by Händel, from the Opera “Julius Cesar.” The piece was later deconstructed and parts of it where used as sounds for a collaborative interactive - multimedia installation that attempted to represent characters and events from the Opera.
A travel trough spaces, differing in size, colour, movement and sounds, arising from the process of experience, formed by their interaction and connection, concluding as one. Speakers enhance and determine the boundaries of the physical and musical surroundings, embracing the listener and the present. The present that needs the recorded past in order to imagine the future.
In this installation the audio design attempted to explore spatial and psychological situations, where listening becomes the medium that connects dimensions together. The listener is invited to participate through touch, proximity and heat sensors, acting as a voyeur, intruder, and a conductor of their own experience.
Film Scoring
Sketches
Rotterdam, March 2017
Excerpts from the Dutch television movie "Het Bestand", where Orestis Zafeiriou worked as an assistant composer alongside Stavros Markonis, responsible for synths and electronics.
An installation at the Haagse Kunstring gallery, calling for the participants to enter a tent, reflect their listening experience and "capture" it on paper using several materials and textures.
"...let the waves invite you to their truth, flaming revolutions come to birth, incident emotions collect the dirt to indulge creation coming from the earth..."
Electronic
The Hague, May 2016
Experiments with recording and manipulating sounds and samples from house-hold objects and Rotterdam’s urban environment.
10-Channel
Electroacoustic
The Hague, June 2019
Abruptions on equivalence, calmness within a frenzied movement, irregular cries and silence. Images from memory and places unvisited but familiar, floating on energy, colour, time and textures of space.
A miniature exploring musical concepts and techniques from the Baroque Era. Point of departure was the Aria from the Opera “V’adoro, pupille”, by Händel, from the Opera “Julius Cesar.” The piece was later deconstructed and parts of it where used as sounds for a collaborative interactive - multimedia installation that attempted to represent characters and events from the Opera.
A travel trough spaces, differing in size, colour, movement and sounds, arising from the process of experience, formed by their interaction and connection, concluding as one. Speakers enhance and determine the boundaries of the physical and musical surroundings, embracing the listener and the present. The present that needs the recorded past in order to imagine the future.
In this installation the audio design attempted to explore spatial and psychological situations, where listening becomes the medium that connects dimensions together. The listener is invited to participate through touch, proximity and heat sensors, acting as a voyeur, intruder, and a conductor of their own experience.
Film Scoring
Sketches
Rotterdam, March 2017
Excerpts from the Dutch television movie "Het Bestand", where Orestis Zafeiriou worked as an assistant composer alongside Stavros Markonis, responsible for synths and electronics.
An installation at the Haagse Kunstring gallery, calling for the participants to enter a tent, reflect their listening experience and "capture" it on paper using several materials and textures.
"...let the waves invite you to their truth, flaming revolutions come to birth, incident emotions collect the dirt to indulge creation coming from the earth..."
Electronic
The Hague, May 2016
Experiments with recording and manipulating sounds and samples from house-hold objects and Rotterdam’s urban environment.
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10-Channel
Electroacoustic
The Hague, June 2019
Abruptions on equivalence, calmness within a frenzied movement, irregular cries and silence. Images from memory and places unvisited but familiar, floating on energy, colour, time and textures of space.
A miniature exploring musical concepts and techniques from the Baroque Era. Point of departure was the Aria from the Opera “V’adoro, pupille”, by Händel, from the Opera “Julius Cesar.” The piece was later deconstructed and parts of it where used as sounds for a collaborative interactive - multimedia installation that attempted to represent characters and events from the Opera.
A travel trough spaces, differing in size, colour, movement and sounds, arising from the process of experience, formed by their interaction and connection, concluding as one. Speakers enhance and determine the boundaries of the physical and musical surroundings, embracing the listener and the present. The present that needs the recorded past in order to imagine the future.
In this installation the audio design attempted to explore spatial and psychological situations, where listening becomes the medium that connects dimensions together. The listener is invited to participate through touch, proximity and heat sensors, acting as a voyeur, intruder, and a conductor of their own experience.
Film Scoring
Sketches
Rotterdam, March 2017
Excerpts from the Dutch television movie "Het Bestand", where Orestis Zafeiriou worked as an assistant composer alongside Stavros Markonis, responsible for synths and electronics.
An installation at the Haagse Kunstring gallery, calling for the participants to enter a tent, reflect their listening experience and "capture" it on paper using several materials and textures.
"...let the waves invite you to their truth, flaming revolutions come to birth, incident emotions collect the dirt to indulge creation coming from the earth..."
Electronic
The Hague, May 2016
Experiments with recording and manipulating sounds and samples from house-hold objects and Rotterdam’s urban environment.
