Dimitris S . Kamarotos

Dimitris Kamarotos studied music, analysis, and electroacoustic composition. While in Paris, he worked at IRCAM and collaborated with Iannis
Xenakis.
Studied analysis and composition with Daniel Charles, Emile Damais, Iannis Xenakis, electroacoustic music with Horacio Vaggionne and Marc
Battier and music for films with Maurice Jarre. He continued studying in the IRCAM the use of artificial intelligence as a compositional tool.
He continued collaborating with Xenakis as part of the establishment of a sound research laboratory at the Contemporary Music Research Center
(CMRC) in Athens. He was responsible for educational activities with UPIC (Polyagogy System) and served as the research coordinator of the Center
for ten years. His music / sound works have been commissioned by the Greek National Theater, international festivals, Théâtre de l’Odéon in 2009,
Seoul Arts Center in 2005, Volksbühne theatre in Berlin in 2009, Comédie-Française in 2013, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre in 2018.
He created music and proposed sound dramaturgy for more than 200 performances (2024).
He is actively participating through music/soundscape composition and performance in an exploratory approach of music function in theater. In
particular focusing on the common reactions and vocal functions of the Greek Tragedy chorus (khoros).
He proposes and stages contemporary forms of Ancient Greek Tragedy developed around a core of sound and music. Some examples of such
productions include: Hippolytus”(Onassis Cultural Center 2017), “Eumenidae”(Greek Fest. Epidaurus 2018), “Prometheus Bound” (Stavros
Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center-Snfcc 2019).
With his main focus on music as the arrangement of sounds in time, regardless of structural system and aesthetics, he operates in spaces of
theatrical performances and other public visitation venues. His primary relationship with music remains the existence of form, whether it is closed as
in a performance or open as in a public space. He aims to tell stories through means other than words, alongside a text or without it, during a visit to
a space inhabited by sounds and objects: the dramatization of sound as a narrative medium.
Recent sound installation works:
“ Three Cities – The sound trees” in the entrance of the Onassis Cultural Center (2019)
and “The heart was beating the time” an auto-hovering and self-sounding electric guitar inside a abandonned electric factory. Expo: “This Current
Between Us” (2022).      www,dimitriskamarotos.com