Phivos-Angelos Kollias

Sometimes hands move through the air playing an invisible instrument, with sounds leaping out of each micro-movement. At other times hands reshape a malleable sonic sculpture, carving, stretching, or twisting the details of a precomposed phrase.

Naphántasto explores the ground between live electronics, acousmatic listening, and perceptual illusion. It uses a real-time gesture-controlled set of instruments combined with pre-constructed musical fragments, blending malleable noise textures, structured composition, and gestural narratives.

Taking inspiration from the craft of mentalists (mental magic), the work plays with hidden cause and perceived effect, inducing musical associations within the audience's imagination.

Ephemeron is a music living organism. During each concert, the work is born, evolves, and dies at the end of the performance. The performance space, including the audience, is the “natural environment” of this music organism.

Interactive music installation for ten computers and hand tracking sensor. Commissioned by DELL Computers for IFA Berlin International Exhibition.

The listener/user with her gestures was controlling the different combinations of the instruments through a gestural tracking deceive (Leap Motion). By moving up-down, left-right, front-back, she could conduct the orchestration in real time.

A series of sonic-gustatory experiences, of experimental electroacoustic ASMR video performances. The combination of a seemingly mundane cooking performance interacting with an autonomous music algorithm of a complex feedback network. A celebration of the mundane, a festival of insignificance contrasted by the meticulous video production of a complex-sounding sound-art performance.

Echorroes: Reflections on Tchaikovsky is a human-centered approach to Artificial Intelligence through interactive play with classical music, for children ages 1-3.

Created by the interdisciplinary team Echorroes and commissioned by the Greek National Opera, the project establishes a playful dialogue between AI and Tchaikovsky, enabling children to co-create and transform his compositions.

VOICES is an interactive sound installation, combining Interactive Music (MaxMSP), Interactive Visuals (Unity) & AI Voice Cloning (RVC/Python) interacting through a squeezing device (Arduino micro-controller).

The work invites participants to co-create a sound-art composition with their voices. Participants are asked to record a secret. In return, they can experience a composition of secrets from different synthetic voices. This immersive experience aims to shed light on the otherwise opaque inner workings of VT.

Inside a wooden barn, a hybrid techno-forest was created with smartphones hanging from trees, illuminated by dynamic lighting. Participants’ sounds were captured by suspended microphones, and every touch by hanging phones, transforming the sonic space into a live, interactive sound-art experience.

Everything you hear in this piece tonight is not real. Here’s a sonic kaleidoscope unfolds before your ears, made of synthetic reflections. Sound after sound is extracted from the human collective memory. Composed entirely of generative AI fragments—hundreds of them—this piece uses an algorithm that has hoovered up the music of every artist ever recorded, non-consensually incorporating it into an artificially constructed representation of collective memory. Feeding this algorithm with fragments of my own music spits out a conjured stream of sound drawn from the codified collective mind.

But do not be fooled.

This is not Music.

This is Fake.

We interact daily with algorithms that emulate human perception and collective memory. By trying to communicate with us, the algorithms sound, look and behave more and more like us by reflecting our perception and memory back to us.

What if we could play through those AI tools with the listener’s sense of familiarity by using shared cultural signs, tropes, or archetypes? Or if those AI tools become instruments of manipulation, taking advantage of the spectator’s intimacy of memories?

The project remixes videos using generative AI algorithms, in order to reflect, to suggest, to imagine, contributing to the new debate on the disruptive effects of AI.

The project went viral (Mike Patton remixed videos), contributing to the dialogue on AI authorship, authenticity, and identity.