Vassilis Kokkas

Vassilis Kokkas (30-9-1965). Greek-German composer. He was born in Athens, where he lives and works. He studied the piano, higher music theory, and composition in Athens, (N. Bakopoulou, M. Travlos), and graduated in composition from the Superior School of Fine Arts of Berlin (HdK), under Walter Zimmermann. He also studied electroacoustic music at the studio of the Technical University TU, Berlin. His works for mixed instrument ensembles, voice, tape, symphonic orchestra, electroacoustic music and music for computers, and music for experimental films have been performed for the most part in small festivals and contemporary music series, such as Kryptonale, BKA, and the Academy of the Arts Festival in Berlin, or the Moments Musicaux Aarau Festival in Switzerland, which organized a two-day special feature on his work. Co-founder and art director of the Ensemble Mosaic, he has contributed to contemporary music concert exchanges between Berlin and Constantinople. He was Composer-in-Residence of the Academy of Arts of Berlin (1998) and the German Culture Foundation (2000). In 2001, he returned to Greece with the installation of the musical promenade The Black Box of Communication at the engine room of the Greek battleship Georgios Averoff in Faliro Bay. Attempting to integrate white noise and sine waves, in his recent compositions make use of mild digital processing of space recordings, while following different paths on a constant exploration of the aesthetic nature of sonic images and signals as the limits of collective, personal, and cosmic noise.
 
He has presented his works in Athens in collaboration with visual artists K. Grammenos, N. Kapokakis, S. Kyriakakos, K. Ioannidis, M. Showalter, and the YOS team. He is a key member of the Personal Cinema team (Greece's participation ARCO, Madrid 2004); he participates in Harris Kondosphyris's Athens-Beijing (Greece's participation in the 26th Biennale of Sao Paulo, 2004).
 

 
email: kokkas@mail.com