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Compositions and sound design for theatre and dance – selected tracks
omphalos
Omphalos is the Greek word for navel, and it is often used to refer to the oracle at Delphi – which was considered to be the navel of the world in ancient times.
A sound installation comprising of seven large ceramic urns and a smaller central urn. The urns sing, emitting dreamlike resonances from within. The installation functions as an oracle and the audience may query it by speaking directly and intimately into the central urn (the Pythia). A gentle, ethereal voice replies with an answer to the query whilst the outer urns sing and dramatically accompany the oracular process. Kudos Gallery, Sydney Greek Festival. 2005.
Credits:
Principle Artist / Composer / Sound Designer : Panos Couros
Clay Artist: Neville Assad-Salha
Programmers : Alex Davies, Adam Hinshaw
Vocalists: Arianthe Galani, Gina Zoia, Anita Plateris
Voice of Pythia: Arianthe Galani, Marianthe Couros
Website: Graham Crawford
Creative development of this project was facilitated by Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre, Adelaide. Special thanks to Mirna Heruc
Developed with funding from the Australia Council for the Arts
soft cell
Fanny Bay Gaol – November 2012 Darwin Pride Exhibition
Each artist was given a prison cell or a part of the prison to respond to. My work featured a video projection where the window of the cell was. The projection was of clouds. The soundscape reflected the challenges and horrors of prison life.
Video / Sound installation
People’s Choice prize, highly commended
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the sound of missing objects
Panos Couros, Jonathan Jones, Ilaria Vanni
THE PERFORMANCE SPACE, SYDNEY
3 OCTOBER – 1 NOVEMBER 2003
A collaborative installation incorporating sound, text and objects discussing the history of the appropriation and colonial dissemination of Aboriginal artifacts in Australia.
rainforest soundscape
A 10 channel linear soundscape run from tape loops situated along the inner apex of the old glass walkway from Circular Quay to the Opera House. The sound was reconstructed rainforest sounds from Wian Wian state forest. Festival of Sydney Jan 1992.
This soundscape, driven by cassette loops and operated live throughout played daytime rainforest environments which in the evening traversed to night scapes, incorporating music from the operas that were playing on the night. Audiences leaving the Opera House would hear distant verses of the opera through a forest of night creature sounds.
