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A concrete electronic collage with a touch of nostalgia
Dimitris Santziliotis aka bellerophone is a musician and sound designer who was born in Athens, Greece.
While his interest in music began quite early with piano and various instrument lessons, it was not until his late teens that he started experimenting with song forms and home recordings, guided mostly by intuition and his diverse influences. Iannis Xenakis’s death in 2001 marked a turning point for him, as this unfortunate event became his introduction to experimental, electronic music and Avant-Garde in general.
This interest developed through extensive reading, listening and attending various concerts in Athens and Edinburgh where he studied Sound Design with Martin Parker, composer, improviser and laptop soloist. He also started taking composition lessons and cello lessons, which he continues to this day.
His artistic practice primarily revolves around musique concrete, early electronic and drone music although his output includes also ambient and computer-generated music.
Since 2006, his music has been released on various Greek and International labels while he has performed and collaborated in Greece and abroad with artists and performers. Recent projects include “Uses of Gravity” (From A Tree Records) a dense conceptual noise/drone project, “In search of the riff” (Attenuation Circuit) and “Zivilisation” (Submersion Records) both a homage to Eliane Radigue and Luc Ferrari respectively.
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.…This led me to form a collage aesthetic, where sounds, sonic materials and sonic patterns can be combined freely through improvisation. The only intervening force allowed is my sensorium, the fulfillment of my sense of pleasure that can be obtained through sound. There is no prescribed structure or form that should be applied to the final result, nor targeted emotional expressions or nuances regarding the content.
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The driving force is constant testing and the identification of random sonic structures that develop through this “game”.
Soundscapes
The
process
extreme playback speed rates without pitch alterations
Archived tape loops presented under various types of treatment. Extensive use of frippertronics.
a raw production methodology
Aims to more abstract and spontaneous forms, towards a raw production methodology.
Using similar hardware and recording strategies bellerophone pays a tribute to those unique musicians projecting their sound in a 21st century dystopian atmosphere.
Tape loops
Performances
FEB 2017
Differences
4 different composers/musicians of contemporary Greek music will present their work – order of appearance ((gildedbrute)), bellerophone, Big Fat Lips, Antonis Livieratos
Organised by Stylianos Tziritas at 6 d.o.g.s, Athens
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May 2016
Encore vol. 1
Music festival, 6 d.o.g.s, Athens
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april 2015
Stylianos Tziritas & Kaprus + bellerophone
Live performance supporting Stylianos Tziritas W/ Kaprus at Six Dogs, Athens
MultiChannel Recording thanks to six dogs and Kostas Ekelon.