Manolis Manousakis

Dates of residency: March till April 2019
Born:  1975
Nationality: Greek
Lives and works: Athens, Greece
Education: 
2017 Ph.D Electronic Music New-Media , De Montfort University
2007 MA Music technology - Electroacoustic Composition, Ionian University
1998 BA Music Composition, Columbia College Chicago 
Selected soundscapes: 
2019 Soma, Various Locations
2018 Echo and Narcissus, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens
2017 Soundscapes Landscapes / City Above – Life Below: Extended Reality Tour, Athens

 
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THE ARTIST:
Manolis Manousakis gained his footing in live theatre while in Chicago Illinois. Prior to his time in Chicago, he was deeply engaged in both independent avant-garde theatre and in the popular theatre of his native country. Since then, he has worked as a composer and sound designer. His works include compositions for small ensembles, solos, electroacoustic compositions, video art and multimedia shows. He has also composed the original music for theatre shows, documentaries, tv series, films and theatre dance shows. As a sound designer he has worked both in feature film projects, documentaries, advertising, theatre and short films. He has also recorded extensively the landscape of Greece and has been involved in major sound projects like the SoundscapesLandscapes a sound walk in Athens Greece and the village of Sellasia Sparta. He is a co-founder of Medea Electronique synergy of Artists and Koumaria Residency. 

RESIDENCY
During his time at BAR Manousakis investigated what lies beneath the visual reality of a city, specifically the dimension that lies concealed rich in sounds that transforms a city into an auditory experience. To the artist, “Beirut, along with Athens, have a special intensity. They have been a living, meaningful space since antiquity: Cosmopolitanism and localism, multiculturalism, the development and gentrification of the area, pockets of resistance, tradition and modernity, a working-class neighbourhood, immigrants, artists, night venues and clubs, alternative cultural spaces, tourists, and monuments of both the ancient and modern times”. Manousakis created various soundscapes to capture the essence of the city through recordings of various neighborhoods across greater Beirut. 

Manolis Manousakis’s residency is supported by Onassis AiR: an (inter)national artistic research residency program of the Οnassis Cultural Centre Athens, within the scope of the Onassis Future initiative.