Manolis Manousakis

Born in Athens in Greece (1975). He studied composition and film at Columbia College Chicago in Illinois. In 2006 he graduated from the Ionian University with a Masters Degree in Electroacoustic Composition. He was awarded his Ph.D in Electronic Music and New Media in 2017 from DMU. He works as a composer and sound artist since 1998. He has composed works for small ensembles, solos, electroacoustic installations, video art and multimedia shows. He has also composed the original music for theater shows, documentaries, tv series, short films and theater dance shows. He is a founding member of Medea Electronique and helps run the collective residency Koumaria in Sparta Greece. Manousakis gained his footing in live theater while at Columbia College in Chicago, where he studied composition with Gustavo Leone before returning to study with Tim Ward and Andreas Mniestris at the Ionian University in Corfu, Greece. Prior to his sojourn in Chicago, he was deeply engaged in both independent avant-garde theater and in the popular theater of his native country. Since that time, he has rarely been without a film or stage project and as a result has embraced a wide variety of stylistic influences. He notes, "I found that, through composing for music for the theater, I could explore different paths of writing-from baroque music when composing for Shakespearean plays to hard core electronica when composing for independent shows."