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Yannis Kyriakides (Greek: Γιάννης Κυριακίδης, born August 1, 1969) is a composer of contemporary classical music, and sound art. His music explores new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and highlighting the sensorial space of music.[1] He has focused in the majority of his work on ways of combining traditional performance practices with digital media, particularly in the use of live electronics. The relation between music and narrative has been explored in many pieces that utilize text films as a multimedia element.
Biography
Yannis Kyriakides was born in Limassol, Cyprus and emigrated to the United Kingdom when he was five years of age. He studied music at the University of York, and later moved to the Netherlands to study composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with composers Louis Andriessen and Dick Raaijmakers.[2] He currently lives in Amsterdam where he is artistic director of Ensemble MAE, co-founder of the record label UNSOUNDS and composition teacher at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He has been associated with ensembles such as the Asko Ensemble, musikFabrik, Ensemble MAE, Icebreaker, Seattle Chamber Players, and Ensemble Integrales and musicians such as Andy Moor from the Ex and trumpeter Marco Blaauw. He also regularly collaborates with visual artists and filmmakers HC Gilje, Joost Rekveld and Stefanos Tsivopoulos, as well as choreographers Leine & Roebana , Guy & Roni, and theatre maker Paul Koek. In 2007 he was featured composer at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and his opera An Ocean of Rain opened the Aldeburgh Festival in 2008. Prizes have included the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 2000 for his conSPIracy cantata, and an honorable mention for the CD 'Wordless' at the Prix Ars Electronica in 2006. He has written over 80 compositions.
Selected works
Memoryscape (2010) ensemble, soundtrack, text video [32'] for musikFabrik
Disco Debris (2010) interactive sound installation
Satellites (2009) ensemble and soundtrack [50'] for Seattle Chamber Players
An Ocean of Rain (2008) opera [85'] with Theatre Cryptic for the Aldeburgh Festival
The Queen Is the Supreme Power in the Realm (2007) ensemble, live electronics, video [45'] with hc Gilje for musikFabrik/Koln Triennale
Dreams of the Blind (2005) ensemble, soundtrack, text video [33'] for Ensemble MAE
Escamotage (2005) music theatre [60'] for FNM Staatsoper Stuttgart
Wordless (2005) sound installation [50'] for Argos Festival
Slow Wave Sleep (2004) string quartet, trombone quartet and electronics [45'] for Doelen Quartet and New Trombone Collective/ Gaudeamus Festival
The Buffer Zone (2004) music theatre [60'] for Festival aan de Werf
Subliminal: The Lucretian Picnic (2003) ensemble, soundtrack, video [35'] for ASKO ensemble / Festival in de Branding
Lab Fly Dreams (2003) ensemble, electronics, video [20'] with hc Gilje, Icebreaker Ensemble / Orkest de Volharding/ BBC commission
Spinoza (2002) music theatre [80'] with Paul Koek, ZT Hollandia
Scape (2001) ensemble, soundtrack, video [75'] with Isabelle Vigier, Joost Rekveld for Orkest de Volharding
Strobo (2001) 6 amplified glass panes, stroboscopes, electronics [30']
a conSPIracy cantata (2000) 2 voices, piano, electronics [45']
Four Maggots for viola and double bass (1992)
Selected discography
"Antichamber", Double CD of electroacoustic chamber music (UNSOUNDS, 21U, 2010)
"Folia" collaboration with guitarist Andy Moor (CD, UNSOUNDS, 19U, 2010)
"Wordless", 12 sound portraits (CD, UNSOUNDS, 13U, 2006)
"The Buffer Zone", audio theatre (CD, UNSOUNDS, 11U, 2005)
"The Thing Like Us", on Spinoza (CD, UNSOUNDS, 09U, 2003)
"a conSPIracy cantata" (CD, UNSOUNDS, 01U, 2001)
References
^ Jason van Eyk, Musicworks, Issue 106 spring 2010 -
^ *Rob Young, The Wire, Jan 2006 - Unsound Thinker
Sources
Jason van Eyk, Musicworks, Issue 106 spring 2010 - [1]
Andy Beckett, The Spying Game - Guardian Interview - Friday May 31, 2002 [2]
Rob Young, The Wire, Jan 2006 - Unsound Thinker
Peter Bruyn, Gonzo, de stem de taal en het muzikale verhaal [3]
Frits van der Waa, 'Elektronica toont innerlijke wereld', de Volkskrant, 9 October 2008 [4]
Stefano Isidoro Bianchi, Interview in Italian Music Magazine, BLOW UP #143, April 2010 [5]
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