Greek Boy Scouts

Greek Boy Scouts

The late Tony Kastanos and Panos Couros (panX) met as 9 year olds at the 17th Adelaide Greek boy scout troop. Years later in the late 90’s in Sydney they spent several years producing electronic music together under the moniker of Syren. They reestablished in 2018 to make music for the dance floor as Greek Boy Scouts.

Artwork: Dancers by Tony Kastanos

Crossing the Hay Plain

Crossing the Hay Plain

The Hay Plain is one of my favourite stretches of road. Ive driven it many times. I shot a stop frame animation on 8 Dec 2021, driving from Hay to Balranald, across the Hay Plain in NSW.

Soundtrack added on 18 Dec 2021 by Mx Robert Frost

Impulse Response

Impulse Response

“Impulse Response” was a 4-hour immersive installation where ceramics, sound, and video converged in a live, elemental dialogue. Master ceramicist Neville Assad-Salha commanded the wheel, shaping large clay forms that grounded the performance, while sound artists Mx Robert Frost and Panos Couros (Atunement) and video artist Liam Somerville (CAPITAL WASTE) amplified the experience. Contact and condenser microphones captured resonances from clay and airborne sounds, crafting an improvised soundscape that responded to the live clay-making process. Video projections intensified these impulses, merging sound, vision, and material into a powerful sensory experience. Audiences roamed freely, enjoyed the bar, and supported Beirut crisis relief through donations. The event was also live-streamed at 7:30 pm Adelaide time (ACDT) on Thursday, 5th December, 2024.

Pentatonic

Pentatonic

Pentatonic (2024)
 Nerikomi mid-fire porcelain, custom electronics, music

Pentatonic is a fusion of form and sound: five porcelain platters crafted in the Nerikomi style from stained clay, each serving both as a functional piece and a sound instrument. Resonating with the A minor pentatonic scale, these platters become speakers, activated by transducers powered by a custom microprocessor. This convergence of clay and sound creates a multi-sensory experience, allowing viewers to experience sound as a tactile presence and form as melody.

The universal pentatonic scale—essential in blues, jazz, Ancient Greek, and meditative music—provides the foundation, resonating through layered Nerikomi patterns that embody harmony and unity. Created using slab production, staining, and Nerikomi techniques, each platter showcases contrasting textures and subtle, curved forms, emphasised by a translucent matte glaze. Colours are chosen to harmonise with the ritual of serving food, adding a minimalistic, sensory dimension.

Pentatonic bridges my work as a sound designer with my passion for ceramics, merging auditory and tactile art.

Music by Atunement (Panos Couros and Mx Robert Frost)

Atunement is an experimental project blending modern electronics with musique concrète, drone, ambient, and noise. Driven by improvisation, Panos Couros and Mx Robert Frost unite their distinct approaches to create soundscapes that elevate consciousness, exploring the intersection of acoustic and electronic sound.

* All sound in video below emanates from the ceramic platters