I am a sound artist, composer and technologist born in Naousa and based in Athens, Greece. A lot of my research and sound work focuses on the cross-pollination of lived rhythms and modalities with electronic and stochastic interfaces, noise, improvisation, and acoustic performatives.
My work captures music for ensembles and DIY orchestras, field recordings in nature and in camps, sound that comes from relations of things, and archives. I have performed live in Nantes, Diyarbakir, Tirana, Beirut, Slemani, Berlin, Cyprus, Chania and Athens.
Founding member of the Khora Community Centre, an initiative aiming to provide open, social and cultural spaces for displaced people in the centre of Athens.
I have worked with various education-technology initiatives in Athens for newcomers to Greece and released 48-hour workshop-based course focused on 3D printing, circuits, sensors and physical computing.
I make location recordings in Athens and occasionally reflect on them:
Refugee Voices and the Right to Make Sound: Soundscapes of Citizenship in Athens. By Tom Western, and Sofia Zafeiriou.
An anthropology in sound. By Said Azim Karimi, Muhammad Sukarno Kurdi, Georgios Sourmelis, Tom Western, and Sofia Zafeiriou.
Always curious about the sounds of the Eastern Mediterranean and their movements, I play the violin. Member of the Intercultural Orchestra of the Greek National Opera, directed by Harris Lambrakis, an adventurous group of ~25 musicians with various backgrounds, performing and improvising for over 5 years now.
In 2018-2019, I studied [digital audio synthesis, computer programming and microcontrollers, aesthetics and philosophy of contemporary art, phenomenological and ecological approaches to sound, sensor interaction, multimedia, online music facilities, and other related matters] at Ubique, with Marinos Koutsomichalis, Stratos Bichakis and Akis Sinos.
Maker geek, avid xinomavro lover, designs processes.