News:
July 11 - First release of Hyperimage Theme.
June 06 - First release of Supersized Theme.
June 02 - Web section added to site with samples of my designs.
May 03 - Performance of Gaia with Tadeu Liesenfeld at
Puzzlefestival on 30th of May.
April 23 - Short video of Gaia Installation
available at Vimeo.
March 30 - Gaia Installation section added to site
with samples from my new work.
July 11 - First release of Hyperimage Theme.
June 06 - First release of Supersized Theme.
June 02 - Web section added to site with samples of my designs.
May 03 - Performance of Gaia with Tadeu Liesenfeld at
Puzzlefestival on 30th of May.
April 23 - Short video of Gaia Installation
available at Vimeo.
March 30 - Gaia Installation section added to site
with samples from my new work.
studio & workspace
My new home studio and workspace at Nea Smyrni Athens, with its relatively inspiring view to the garden and the passing-by cats.
My aim was to build a quiet and acoustic decent recording and processing audio suite, so I did some sound treatment to the ceiling (see my instructables page) and kept everything noisy, like external hard-disks, outside the room. Amazingly for me, this worked.
technical
main instruments:
Yamaha UX-1 Piano + midi
LP Classic Model Congas
Moog Minimoog and Polymoog
Zildjian Cymbals
Istanbul Darbukas
Korg SG proX Stage Piano / Controller
Novation Nocturn Controller
Korg nanoKontrol
recording:
Ableton Live
Ohmforce plugins
Apple Macbooks
Focusrite Saffire Pro40
Spirit Absolut 4p speakers
AKG C-3000 and C-1000 mics
Presonus tube preamplifier
Mackie LM3204 Mixer
Yamaha HS-50m monitors
Yamaha UX-1 Piano + midi
LP Classic Model Congas
Moog Minimoog and Polymoog
Zildjian Cymbals
Istanbul Darbukas
Korg SG proX Stage Piano / Controller
Novation Nocturn Controller
Korg nanoKontrol
recording:
Ableton Live
Ohmforce plugins
Apple Macbooks
Focusrite Saffire Pro40
Spirit Absolut 4p speakers
AKG C-3000 and C-1000 mics
Presonus tube preamplifier
Mackie LM3204 Mixer
Yamaha HS-50m monitors
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instructables
I'm very into How To and DIY so making things, fixing and soldering are part of my
everyday's agenda. This are the latest from my instructable video series:
soundproof ceiling
Last year (2008) I did some sound treatment to my studio's ceiling with great results.
It took me about 20 hours of work using a helpfull bar (Knauff) for lifting / setting the drywalls.
I also used stonewool and at the end some very cheap and easy to apply finishing material.
video
logicboard replacement
The Titanium Powerbook G4 was my first mac. Replacing the logicboard / motherboard was easier than I expected,
thanks to iFixit.com.
One helpfull tip is to have little bottles to put screws and little easy-to-loose parts.
video
floor transducer
I was in need of at least four transducers for capturing floor noise at my new project with LUMI Dance Company. Its a really simple and low cost construction, about 2,5 euros altogether. I used wood from a found old desk.
Video comming soon...
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capoeira
I practice capoeira for quite a while now, altough I have to admit that I play better pandeiro
than do the ginga, capoeira's basic step. My teacher is contra-mestre Paulinho
from Associação de Capoeiragem Senzala.
The thing with capoeira is that, part from being a dance and martial art, you have to become
sort of a musician in order to participate. The basic instruments that a student has to learn is
berimbau, pandeiro and atabaque.
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about
Lucas Tsolakian graduated from the bachelor degree program of music at Conservatorio Dramatico e Musical de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
After a computer programming degree from London Greenwich College he worked as musician at State School of Dance in Athens and the Greek National Opera.
During the last years, he focused on sound sculptures and particularly interactive sound installations. He exhibited his work at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, Athens Video Art Festival and FILE, the Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo 2006. He collaborated with dance companies such as Prosxima Dance Company and Rootlessroot.
His recently formed Lumi Dance Company performed at Greek Choreographers Festival and Athens International Dance Festival.
After a computer programming degree from London Greenwich College he worked as musician at State School of Dance in Athens and the Greek National Opera.
During the last years, he focused on sound sculptures and particularly interactive sound installations. He exhibited his work at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, Athens Video Art Festival and FILE, the Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo 2006. He collaborated with dance companies such as Prosxima Dance Company and Rootlessroot.
His recently formed Lumi Dance Company performed at Greek Choreographers Festival and Athens International Dance Festival.
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Feral
I formed Lumi Dance Company after several years collaborating with choreographers and dance companies. My aim is to combine my music and sound installations with choreography so as to consist part of a wider artistic frame, focusing mostly at experimental motive and exploring questions deriving from an artistic event.
Feral is the first creation of the company. It's a concept based on the philosophical experiment by Ibn Tufail "The Improvement of Human Reason" and concerns the relation of the human being with the dipoles life-death, soul-body, unit-total, knowledge-experience, connection-logout.
It incorporates my Lastixa Installation and choreography by Myrto Grapsa.
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Rootlessroot - Sudden Showers of Silence
Working with Linda Kapetanea and Josef Fruzek of RootllessRoot was as smooth as it could be.
I builded some custom sound sculptures for their "Sudden Showers of Silence" duet, presented at Athens Festival and several european cities.
My sound sculptures just gave the last touches at an almost ready setup.
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Lastixa
My new creation of sound sculpture / interactive installation is made of silicone tubes, aluminium and wire.
All sculptures are hanged from the ceiling and sound is achieved by pulling the silicone tubes, wich causes the attached aluminium parts to fall on top of each other producing a metallic, almost glassy sound.
Also the visual effect is quite impressing, caused by the light reflected by the aluminium parts.
Lastixa is also taking part in my new project of dance performance with Lumi Dance Company and plans are to have this installation and the Rodelophones Installation together in my first solo exhibition some time in the future.
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FILE - Festival Internacional da Linguagem Eletronica
It was wonderfull to return to Sao Paulo and take part at FILE.
The festival brings artists from all over the world to Sao Paulo to exhibit a real, comprehensive crop of electronic arts.
Prestigious names such as Zachary Lieberman and Young-hae Chang, already used to hype-exhibitions, share the gallery space with artists who are bravely facing their first bugs, error messages and victories in the Art&Technology world.
The festival is open to the general public, who will be able to interact with the works and take part in the other events, such as Symposium and Hipersonica.
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Installation at Athens Metro
Multitrab Productions in collaboration with Live Center celebrates, informs and presents at Athens Metro, Syntagma Station,
"a visual acoustic event dedicated to World Aids Day.
Comprises music happenings with special guests, Athens Video Art Festival projections, performances, installations and live presentations.The installations derives elements from everyday life and mirror through art peoples contemporary communications or none, in big cities.
Five new artists give their own approach inviting us all to express our fears, commitments, joy or sadness away from either imposed or self-imposed isolation."
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Pixeldance
Organized by "InFlux Art", the Pixeldance Festival took place at Kalamaria, city of Thessalonika.
It was my first visit to the city of Kalamaria. I had the opportunity to build a very large installation in the entrance of an old building used by the army long time ago.
The pictures that I like most are the ones with little children playing with the installation.
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Athens Video Art Festival
Athens Video Art Festival is a meeting point between public and video-art artists. Three days in touch with video-art, through projects of national and international artists.
Athens Video Art Festival presents a large number of artists and projects from video-art and video-installations. Athens Video Art Festival is the official Greek festival for video art.
It aims to the support of digital culture and the promotion of this modern and innovative form of expression, giving the artists additional motives to create and the chance to express themselves freely using all audiovisual means.
Through its very successful two previous materializations, the festival has been endorsed by national factors and media and has gained the support of a big number of artists around the globe.
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Prosxima Dance Company
Choreographed and performed by Maria Koleopoulou and Stella Zanou. Presented at Fournos Centre for Digital Culture, Chroma-Chroma Art Space and Athens School of Fine Arts.
This performance marks my first experiment with a sound-sculpture instrument, the monophonic rodelophone.
I did a lot of live sound experimenting and the soundtrack was a mixture of acoustic and electronic elements like kalimba, cup of water and straw, computer, synthesizer.
Prosxima - Explosions 4 by LucasTsolakian
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Sound Excerpts
These compositions are excerpts from performances, electro acoustics experiments and samples from my sound sculptures instruments. Sampling from these works are expressly prohibited.
Electro Acoustic
Sound Sculptures
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Gaia
Installation / Performance
2009/10 - in development
Gaia began as a frozen cloth experiment.
The project consists of frozen stripes of cloth hanging from the ceiling and detailed
stereo recordings of the installation, along with processed audio reproductions.
Gaia investigates the frosting / defrosting process and tell us the visual and acoustic evidence
about the environmental changes.
First performance is schedulled to 30th of May 2010 at Puzzlefestival in Athens. This presentation,
produced by Puzzefestival and Lumi Dance Company will include a performance by Tadeu Liesenfeld.
link to Lumi Dance Company
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Web
Supersized
Supersized is a Rapidweaver theme with a background slideshow, slide-in panels and integrated social networking.
It's suited for photography showcase, image and graphic work portfolios.
Key features:
• Resize images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio
• Cycle images/backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and preloading
• Content slide up/down via the small button on the right corner
• Slideshow navigation controls
• Full set of options for layout and colors
• Fast loading time
Supersized Demo-Site
Hyperimage
Following on the same path of Supersized, Hyperimage features a full browser slideshow / background image, slide in/out header and footer, 80% content area and a full set of options for the layout.
Key features
• Resize images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio
• Cycle images/backgrounds via slideshow with 6 transitions options and preloading ajax image
• Footer and Header slide in/out
• Slideshow navigation on-screen and keyboard controls
• Built-in 17 Social Networks
• no flash slideshows, iPhone compatible
Hyperimage demo-site
Runner
The Runner theme is a unique template and theme for the Rapidweaver.
It's based on the amazing JQuery Javascript Library and a bunch of add-ons. It's the theme I'm using for my (this) website.
Just take a look around!
It's based on the amazing JQuery Javascript Library and a bunch of add-ons. It's the theme I'm using for my (this) website.
Just take a look around!