Costas Andreou
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Costas Andreou is a musician
from Athens
, Greece
. He processes the sounds of fretted and fretless electric bass
in real time, creating multi-level soundscapes. The organic instrument sound is processed with analog
and digital effects
and looped in real time, using various live looping techniques and a number of delay
, feedback
, tape
and loop
devices. The textures, the themes, the melodies and the soundscapes are created via improvisation
and often are further processed during mixing. He has collaborated with musician
s, film
and theatre directors, actor
s, dancers, visual artists, online applications designers and new media artists. His music
is available to preview and download from the iTunes Store
worldwide.
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
from Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. He processes the sounds of fretted and fretless electric bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
in real time, creating multi-level soundscapes. The organic instrument sound is processed with analog
Analog signal
An analog or analogue signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal. It differs from a digital signal in terms of small fluctuations in the signal which are...
and digital effects
Sound effect
For the album by The Jam, see Sound Affects.Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media...
and looped in real time, using various live looping techniques and a number of delay
Delay (audio effect)
Delay is an audio effect which records an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of time. The delayed signal may either be played back multiple times, or played back into the recording again, to create the sound of a repeating, decaying echo.-Early delay...
, feedback
Feedback
Feedback describes the situation when output from an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or occurrences of the same Feedback describes the situation when output from (or information about the result of) an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or...
, tape
Reverse tape effects
Reverse tape effects are special effects created by recording sound onto magnetic tape and then physically reversing the tape so that when the tape is played back, the sounds recorded on it are literally heard in reverse...
and loop
Music loop
In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material. Short sections of material can be repeated to create ostinato patterns...
devices. The textures, the themes, the melodies and the soundscapes are created via improvisation
Improvisation
Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or...
and often are further processed during mixing. He has collaborated with musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
s, film
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
and theatre directors, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
s, dancers, visual artists, online applications designers and new media artists. His music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
is available to preview and download from the iTunes Store
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...
worldwide.
Music/sound design for film
- Moment Of Torsion
- Kinetic
- Uptown
- Indirect Fire
- Bella
- No Relation
- Behind A Cloud
- Walls Are Dancing
- Acquisition
- Red Chamber
- Sophia Girl
Music/sound design for documentaries
- Fantastic Festivals Of The World - Garma And Darwin Festivals, Australia
- Fantastic Festivals Of The World - Highland Gathering, Scotland
- Blue Realm II, Shark Diver
- Blue Realm II, Manatees And Dugongs
- Airborne
- Sophia Girl
Music/sound design for theatre
- Woyzeck (Georg BüchnerGeorg BüchnerKarl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany...
) - "What Do You Say, Babis?" (Sakis Serefas)
- Riddance (Linda McLean)
- Leaves Of Glass (Philip RidleyPhilip RidleyPhilip Ridley is a British artist working with various media.- Biography :Ridley was born in Bethnal Green, in the East End of London, where he still lives and works. He studied painting at St. Martin’s School of Art and his work has been exhibited throughout Europe and Japan...
) - Chroniques Des Jours Entiers, Des Nuits Entieres (Xavier Durringer)
- Places To Hide
- Children's Tales
- Blackbird (David HarrowerDavid HarrowerDavid Harrower is a Scottish playwright who lives in Glasgow.His agents are Casarotto Ramsay.-Career:...
) - Sabbathland (Lena Kitsopoulou)
- The Small Things (Enda Walsh)
- L'Hereux Stratagème (Pierre de MarivauxPierre de MarivauxPierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux , commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist....
) - The Pillowman (Martin McDonaghMartin McDonaghMartin McDonagh is an Irish-British playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Although he has lived in London his entire life, he is considered one of the most important living Irish playwrights.-Life:...
) - Amphitryon (Heinrich von KleistHeinrich von KleistBernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.- Life :...
) - Tone Clusters (Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
) - The Mandate (Nikolai Erdmann)
- King John (William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
) - Far Away (Caryl ChurchillCaryl ChurchillCaryl Churchill is an English dramatist known for her use of non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes, the abuses of power, and sexual politics. She is acknowledged as a major playwright in the English language and a leading female writer...
) - Flirtations (Arthur SchnitzlerArthur SchnitzlerDr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.- Biography :Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter , was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian...
) - City In A State Of Emergency (Aghelliki Darlassi)
- Mr Ouatson would like some more snow (Giannis Dumos)
- Tabataba (Bernard-Marie KoltesBernard-Marie KoltèsBernard-Marie Koltès was a French playwright and director.-Life:Born in 1948 to a middle-class family in Metz, his life was violent and anchored in revolt. He tried his hand at writing at a very young age but later renounced it, and didn't take to the stage until the age of twenty...
)
External links
- Costas Andreou - official website.
- *Flowd - artist channel on *Flowd network.
- Google+ - artist profile on Google+ network.
- stockholm-athens.com - collaboration with Per Boysen.