Grit (2019)
for piano, fixed media, live electronics, and sound diffusion
Grit (2019)
for piano, fixed media, live electronics, and sound diffusion
Grit (2019)
for piano, fixed media, live electronics, and sound diffusion
Theocharis Papatrechas
composer | audio artist | sound researcher
biography
Originally from Greece, Theocharis Papatrechas is a composer, audio artist, and sound researcher based in Meanjin, Australia.
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Theocharis holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from University of California San Diego (UCSD) where he worked with Rand Steiger, Lei Liang, and Miller Puckette. Other leading institutions he studied at include the Eastman School of Music, IRCAM, and Sibelius Academy.
​Theocharis has held postdoctoral appointments at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Postdoctoral Scholar), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Research Associate), and Center for New Music & Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley (Visiting Composers and Researcher). His work integrates environmental data science and acoustics, focusing
on the development and implementation of innovative, multi-modal data rendering techniques to sonify ecosystems and extreme environmental events. The research aims to develop a deeper understanding of the impacts of climate change through the lens of acoustics.
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Praised for crafting "an intimate narrative" and achieving "beautiful instrumental intensity" (il giornale della musica), Theocharis's creative work draws inspiration from literature, poetry, mythology, philosophy, as well as the soundscapes of underwater and terrestrial environments. He integrates acoustic instruments, objects, data, electronics, and spatial audio to create immersive auditory experiences.​​ His artistic portfolio consists of instrumental, electroacoustic, acousmatic, sound art, and sound installation works that involve acoustic components, pre-recorded media, and generative and interactive processes, employing Dante networking systems and ambisonics in multichannel venues.
Renowned groups that have commissioned and premiered his works include the ensemble Intercontemporain, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Mivos Quartet, Vertixe Sonora, Ensemble Schallfeld, East Coast Contemporary Ensemble (ECCE), Divertimento Ensemble, Ensemble Multilatérale. Notable venues, at which works of his have been presented, include IRCAM, CCRMA at Stanford, SEAMUS at Berklee College, Anchorage Museum, SPLICE Institute, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), Vienna Konzerthaus, SpazioMusica, University of Montreal, and Shanghai Music Conservatory.​​
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His music has been released by ArsPublica. His scores are published and available by Babel Scores.
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For the past decade, Theocharis serves as the Artistic Director of the ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week. The program's core mission is to diversify the practice by bringing together emerging music creators of diverse socio-economic backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, gender orientations, and aesthetics to learn, share, and collaborate. The 21', 22', 23' and 25' editions were funded by the Ernst Von Siemens Music Foundation.
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Theocharis teaches Composition and Music Technology at The University of Queensland (UQ) and Music Composition with Technology at St Peters Lutheran College. Additionally, he works as Technical Audio Operator at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.
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