Dr. Phivos-Angelos Kollias’ work integrates emerging technologies and sonic narratives to examine the interplay between the human experience and its digital counterparts. Through diverse interactive mediums— such as classical instruments paired with interactive electronics, virtual reality music installations and video games—each project reinvents active listener engagement.
The audience’s role becomes central, the driving force behind each work. Listeners are encouraged to interact, whether through deliberate actions or heightened perception. Kollias’ projects focus on themes such as AI’s role in manipulation, multi-sensory interchange, and multidisciplinary collaborations. His aesthetic preferences are grounded on the fusion of electroacoustic music and classical orchestration, informed by interdisciplinary theories of Complexity, examining the interaction between sound and other senses or the challenges of technology.
Kollias has a PhD in electroacoustic music from the University of Paris VIII. He has studied classical music in Cambridge, London and Paris with the support of four prestigious foundations (Onassis Foundation, Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Leventis Foundation and Greek Composers Union) and currently lives in Berlin. He studied composition with influential composers Horacio Vaggione, Jean-Luc Hervé and Yan Maresz. He has taken master classes from leading figures such as Helmut Lachenmann, Georges Aperghis, Beat Furrer, Tristan Murail, Unsuk Chin and Agostino Di Scipio.
He has received nine awards and nine nominations in international competitions, including the Excellence in Sound Design Award at the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories Competition, Toronto, and one of the Musicworks Electronic Music Competition prizes. The group projects he has participated in have won twelve awards and distinctions, including the Apple TV Game of the Year award and the Gamescom Indie Award and listed twice in Forbes’ top lists.
His projects have been commissioned by various international institutions like ZKM (Karlsruhe), German Music Council, Musikfonds (Berlin), Dell Computers (USA), Transmediale (Berlin), Boston University (USA), Aubagne International Film Festival (Aubagne, France), Musiques d’un siècle (France), Ensemble Ipse (USA), Athens Concert Hall (Greece), Greek Composers Union (Greece).
His recent project “AI Reconstructing Realities” went viral, contributing to the dialogue on AI authorship, authenticity, and identity. The project remixes popular music videos using generative AI algorithms, sparking a heated debate. This innovative work was featured in articles across several magazines, including Louder, Belgian Radio-television of the French Community, MetalSucks, A Journal Of Musical Things, and The Pit.
His works have been performed by international ensembles and musicians in more than twenty countries around the world in more than seventy concerts.
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