Vassilios Kokkas, composer


Vassilios Kokkas, (*1965, Athens, Greece) is a greek german composer of new music in the western, modern traditional sense. Fundamental influences range from Bach to Debussy, to Darmstadt, Xenakis and Cage, Nono,  Mario Bertoncini, LaMonte Young and Alvin Lucier, through the richness of environmental soundscapes and noise, and the ancient polyphonic tradition of Epirus. Kokkas concluded formal studies in music at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Walter Zimmermann with a diploma of composition in 1996, after studies in piano, flute and music theory, analysis and composition in his birth town Athens. In consequence to his bicultural european origin (son of german painter Astrid Nehrig-Kokka and greek architect Christos Kokkas), his compositions emerge in intermediate territories in between sound art and music, objectivity and subjectivity, handwriting and algorithmic composition, fixed text and improvisation. Despite his academic curriculum, Vassilios stands for the qualities of being also a self-taught composer and musician on an unusual musical path with its own, individual, character.

Mr. Kokkas' public performances include compositions for diverse combinations of instruments, electroacoustic tapes, computers, sound generating algorithms, live electronics, site specific sound installations in exceptional spaces like a historical war ship engine compartment, a planetarium, underwater environment, short film, video, a virtual museum in the form of a video game, photography, dance and piano/computer improvisation.

His curatorial activities include the artistic management for the new music Ensemble Mosaik, Berlin, in its first year of existence, organization of concerts of new and electroacoustic music, and active participation in the core of the artist group Personal Cinema in Athens.

His academic teaching activities are extremely versatile: realization of digital acoustic art workshops as a visiting professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts postgraduate new media department, lecturing at the UdK Berlin Music and Architecture faculties, piano teaching, and graduate level composition teaching, along with lectures, workshops and seminars at reputed international universities. But also constructing instruments, working, improvising, and playing music with children of various ages.

inaugurated by Brazilian President Lula and soccer star Pele, Vassilios sound installation for the National Pavilion of Greece at the 2004 Sao Paulo Bienal, commissioned by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, reached over 2000 visitors per day. His music for the virtual museum in the form of a video game, The Making of the Balkan Wars, was commissioned by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture for ARCO Madrid 2004, where Greece was the honored country in that year. realized in the very center of Athens,  the large-scale audio-visual installation “Athena’s Gift” was commissioned by the City of Athens and AICA Hellas.

His works have enjoyed performances with highly qualified musicians, distinguished for their interpretations of contemporary music, as the Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, the Ensemble Mosaik Berlin, the Bass Clarinetist Jürg Frey, the Arte Saxophone Quartet, Basel, conductors Georgios Sfyridis and Olivier Dejours, recorder soloist Katja Reiser,  among significant other performers and ensembles. His work has been honored by composer portrait events by the Festival Moments Musicaux, the Institute for Research in Music and Acoustics, Athens, the Goethe Institute Athens and the DESTE International Cultural Foundation.

Vassilios Kokkas was Composer in Residence at the Künstlerhaus Lukas of the German Cultural Foundation in 2000 and Composer in Residence at the Studio for Electronic Music of the German Academy of the Arts, Berlin, in 1998.

His compositions have been recognized by commissions, stipend awards, invitations and residencies by the Greek Society for Aesthetics, The Vice-Mayor of Athens for Cultural Affairs, the Greek Association of Art Critics, the German Cultural Foundation, The Michelis Foundation, contemporary experimental music festival Moments Musicaux Aarau, Swizerland, the Akedemie der Künste zu Berlin and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

Vassilios Kokkas currently lives inbetween his daughters Zoe and Manuka and his sanga of seven dogs in Athens, composing a new work.
Scores and recordings of his works are currently distributed with the independent label Nice-Music.Org.


Homepage: www.kokkas.com






Vassilios Kokkas
Short Chronological Data List



Occupation
Composer



nationalities
Greek and German
languages spoken and written
Greek, German (native), English (fluent)




1965 Born, Athens, Greece

2000 Birth of first daughter Zoe Kokka

2004 Birth of second daughter Manuka Kokka





ACADEMIC ACTIVITY

2008 Guest Lecturer at Ionian University, Cofu, Summer Academy

2006 Professor for Music Theory, Kalamata Municipal Conservatory

2005 Guest Professor for Digital Acoustic Art, Athens School of Fine Arts, Digital Media Postgraduate Programme

2000 Teacher for Composition at Skalkottas Conservatory, Athens

1999 EASA 99, European Association for Students of Architecture, Lecturer

1998 Lecturer at the University of the Arts, Berlin in the faculties of Music and Architecture

1996 Passed graduation exam at the same school, Diploma of Composition

1991 Passed Composition Studies immatriculation exam at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin

1990 Higher Musical Theory Diploma in Orchestration and Fugue, Athens

1988 Higher Musical Theory Diploma in Counterpoint, Athens

1986 Higher Musical Theory Diploma in Harmony, Athens

1983 Greek University Maturity, Apolyterion





SELECTED EVENTS AND PARTICIPATIONS

2013 Metz Summer Festival Athens, Solo Evening Film Music

2013 Rehearsals and concert with Polyphono ensemble, traditional Epirus vocal polyphony. Folk instruments museum Athens

2012 Metz Summer Festival Athens, Solo Evening Electroacoustic Music

2008 FlorenceDance Festival, Florence, with Pericles Boutos, video/photography, Keith Ferrone, Choreography

2008 Electromedia Works, Festival for Electroacoustic Music and Mixed Digital Media

2006 Festival Synthese 2006, Bourges, France, Greek official national representation with the work “In Memoriam John Corbidge”

2005 Symi International Summer Festival, Greece, invitation, HydroAeolian Music

2005 Eugenideion Planetarium Athens, Rebirth Exhibition, Electroacoustic Solar Systam Installation Rebirth de Chiffre

2004 Sao Paulo Bienal, Co-creation of Greek National Pavillion with Charis Kontosphyris, commissioned by Hellenic Ministry of Culture

2004 ARCO Madrid, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, National Representation, MediaLab, Conte Duque, Personal Cinema Artist Collective core member

2004 Athens by Art, Athena's Gift, large scale open air electroacoustic olivegrove installation, commissioned by the Vice-Mayor for Cultural Affairs, with Sia Kyriakakos, Efi Strouza, curator

2003 49. Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen

2003 European Music Day 2003, Electroacoustic Marathon of the Hellenic Composer's Association, Monastiraki Square, sound director

2001 Battleship Museum Averoff Engine Compartment, Electroacoustic Ship Installation, Commissioned by Greek Society for Aesthetics

2001 medi@terra 2001, Lavrion - Sofia - Belgrade - Maribor - Frankfurt, De-globalizing / Re-globalizing

2000 Kryptonale VI, Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin

2000 Künslerhaus Ahrenshoop, Tag der Offenen Tür

2000 Deutsche Kulturstiftung, Artist in Residence at Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop

2000 Moments Musicaux Aarau, invitation, Composer's Portrait Vassilios Kokkas

1999 Deste Foundation, Athens, invitation, Composer's Portrait Vassilios Kokkas (Music for Films)

1999 National Cultural Radio, Kaleidoskopio Programme, Michael Mitras, Composer's Portrait Vassilios Kokkas

1998 Unerhörte Musik Concert Series, BKA Berlin

1998 Akademie der Künste zu Berlin, Artist in Residence Elektronisches Studio

1998 IEMA Athens, invitation, Composer's Portrait Vassilios Kokkas

1997 Akademie der Künste zu Berlin, Festival Künstlerhof Buch

1997 Ensemble Mosaik Berlin, artistic director, 1997-99

1995 Institut für Neue Musik der HdK Berlin, Collaboration with Ensemble Modern

1995 Senza Fine Berlin Composition and Installation Project, Studio für Elektroakustische Musik der TU Berlin

1993 Neue Musik im Foyer Concert Series, HdK Berlin

1988-90 2 years sea duty on military ship, Greek Navy





PARTICIPATION IN ART AND RESEARCH COLLECTIVES


GEMA, member


Personal Cinema, international artist group based in Athens


Greek Society for Aesthetics, Member


Rebirth Artist Group


IOS/VIRUS Artist Group, Athens


AFI: Komposition Konstruktion, Musik und Architektur, HdK Berlin, co-founder, coordinator, instructor


ESSIM/HELEMCA, Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association, founding member


Ensemble Mosaik Berlin, artistic director, 1997-99


ICMA, International Computer Music Assosiation, member 1995-97


do4d! Berlin, Max Zeitler Films, Fotopoulos Filmproduktion Berlin, Rotating Rabbit Films















Vassilios Kokkas
Longer Reference List of Past Works and Events



born
Athens, Greece, 1965



nationalities
Greek, German



education
Hochschule der Künste (HdK) Berlin, diploma of musical composition, 1996


Contemporary Conservatory of Athens, Higher Music Theory Certificate in the study of Fugue and Orchestration, 1990, Nicos Scalcottas Conservatory, Higher Music Theory Certificates Study of Counterpoint, 1988, Study of Harmony, 1986, Athenaeum Conservatory Athens, unconcluded advanced piano studies



solo presentations of works 2013 Metz Summer Festival 2013, Athens, Solo evening with experimental and experimental documentary film screening, with improvised piano episodes and discussion

2012 Metz Summer Festival 2012, Athens, Solo electroacoustic concert evening (Hermes – Mind Stills – Y'evan – Algorithm of Love)

2008 ElectroMedia Works Festival Athens, 18/5, The Algorithm of Love, 16-channel version with live spatialization by the composer

2005 Symi Festival 2005, Symi Island, HydroAeolian Music Evening

2004 Goethe Institut Athen, Film, Musik, Experiment, Rotating Rabbit Films

2002 Meetings of Electroacoustic Music, Institute for Research in Music and Acoustics / Ichon , Athens


Arsenal, Kino der Deutschen Kinemathek, Berlin

2001 Faculty for Communication and Mass Media, Panteion University, Athens

2000 Moments Musicaux Klangkunst-Performance-Experimentelle Musik, Aarau, CH


Festival Freier Film, KlangNovember, Aarau, CH


Kunstkaten, Ahrenshoop, D

1999 AFI: Komposition.Konstruktion, Workshop for Music and Architecture, HdK Berlin


National Cultural Radio, Kaleidoskopio Programme, Artist's Portrait


Deste Foundation, Athens

1998 Institute for Research in Music and Acoustics, Composer's Forum

1997 Studio für Elektroakustische Musik der Akademie der Künste Berlin


Motiv e.V., Berlin

1995 Hellenic Academics and Scientists Association, Berlin


Institut für Neue Musik, HdK Berlin



other concerts & presentations 2012 Antonio Panetta, Profezia, Guardini Stiftung Berlin

2008 Pericles Boutos, Video and Photography, Vassilios Kokkas, Electroacoustic Music, Keith Ferrone, Choreography, Etoile Toy Dance Theatre at FlorenceDance Festival 2008: The Novorossisk Films

2005 Athens Planetarium Eugenides Foundation, Rebirth, Rebirth de Chiffre

2004 26th Biennale Sao Paulo, Brasil, Territόrio livre, Greek Pavillon


Athens by Art, Athens Olympics 2004, Aegypt Square, Athens


Communal Swimming Pool, Neo Psychico, Athens, Blue Hour Stories


Communal Museum for Contemporary Art, Psychico, Epipleon


Cheap Art, Athens, Athens-Beijing


ARCO Madrid, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, National Representation, MediaLab, Conte Duque, Personal Cinema


medi@terra 6th international art + technology testival, Athens, From Text to Hypertext


Fournos Centre for the Digital Culture, Athens, Hybrid Nights


Goethe Institut Athens, Musics of the World, Electroacoustic Music Marathon ESSIM


Goethe Institut Athens, Electroacoustic Music Marathon Hellenic Composer's Association


Ionian University Corfu, ESSIM Electroacoustic Music Days


Athens School of Fine Arts

2003 Courçum Mosque, Trikala, Northwest Passages


49. Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen


European Music Day, Electroacoustic Music Marathon, Monastiraki Square Athens


Ionian University Corfu, ESSIM Electroacoustic Music Days


Forum 2003, Art Box, Thessaloniki, Personal Cinema

2002 Statement Contemporary Art, Athens

2001 Engine compartments of historical warship G.Averoff, Marina Trocadero, The Crew of Another Time


medi@terra 2001, Lavrion - Sofia - Belgrade - Maribor - Frankfurt, De-globalizing / Re-globalizing

2000 Künslerhaus Ahrenshoop, Tag der Offenen Tür


Unerhörte Musik, BKA Berlin, Vortrag Über Nichts


Deutsches Architekturzentrum Berlin, AFI: Komposition - Konstruktion, Werkstatt Musik - Architektur


Konzertsaal Bundesallee HdK Berlin, AFI: Komposition - Konstruktion, Werkstatt Musik - Architektur


Kryptonale VI, Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin

1999 EASA 99, European Association for Students of Architecture, Kavala Tobacco Silos, Sounding Spaces Workshop


SFB Musik der Gegenwart, Ensemble Mosaik Von Wegen

1998 Unerhörte Musik, BKA Berlin, D


Hochschule der Künste Berlin, AFI: Komposition - Konstruktion, Werkstatt Musik - Architektur

1997 International Short Film Festival, Drama


Thessaloniki-Berlin, National Conservatory, European Cultural Capital, Thessaloniki 1997


SFB Klanggalerie Berlin, Senza Fine Berlin

1996 Akademie der Künste, Künstlerhof Buch


Neue Musik im Foyer, HdK Berlin


International Short Film Festival, Drama

1995 Institut für Neue Musik der HdK Berlin

1994 Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt concert with sound diffusion algorithms created with Max

1986 Kalamata - Chios - Kriti - Athens, Dora Bacopoulos Students Pianistic Trip
CATALOG OF WORKS













electroacoustic public installations 2005 wheeled brazilian complex, Goethe Institute Athens, terace


Rebirth De Chiffre, acoustic simulation of solar system, Athens Planetarium, Eugenides Foundation

2004 Athena's Gift, multi-aural electroacoustic olive grove installation, Aegypt Square Athens


Athens Beijing, multi-aural electroacoustic installation of greek pavillion, 26th Sao Paulo Bienal

2003 Studies of Space and Time, atrium and open terace of the Athens Goethe Institute

2001 Blackbox of Communication, musical walk, historical warship Averoff engine compartments

1996 Waiting for News, interactive HTML table with parasitic MIDI files, Whole Earth 'lectronic Link



electroacoustic concert music 2005 eusebius fm florestan, 8 channel digital audio 96/24


1st public performance 2005, Oct.8, ESSIM electroacoustic marathon, Goethe Institute, Athens


La Floresta, Aquaeolian Music for an open public square, with computer performers, piano and saxophone


1st public performance 2005, Aug.1, Symi festival, Symi Island

2003 In Memoriam John Corbidge (days of October 2003 in Athens), 8channel digital audio 48/24


1st public performance 2003, Nov.15, Goethe Institute, Athens


Hermes-Crossings-Mnemosyne Parasites, 8channel digital audio 48/24


1st public performance 2003, Oct.10, Ionian Academy, Corfu

2000 Four Time-Space Studies, stereo digital audio 44/16


1st public performance 2000, Jul.12, Deutsches Architekturzentrum Berlin KOMPOSITION - KONSTRUKTION
MUSIK - ARCHITEKTUR - GESELLSCHAFT
Eine interdisziplinäre Versuchsreihe


Astarte at the Staircase of Fish, with a video by Gogo Pantouvaki, stereo digital audio 44/16 and recorder


1st public performance 2003, Jul.26, Unerhörte Musik, BKA Berlin, Katja Reiser, recorder


Astarte an der Aare, for stereo digital audio 44/16, 2 video tracks and bass clarinet


1st public performance 2000, Nov.5, Moments Musicaux Aarau, CH, Jürg Frey, bass clarinet

1998 Essere Felice – Mind Stills, stereo digital audio 44/16


1st public performance 2000 as film soundtrack

1995 Senza Fine Berlin Composition and Installation Project, Studio für Elektroakustische Musik der TU Berlin

1994 Narrations Géometriques Ι-X, stereo digital audio 44/16


1st public performance 1996, Aug.16 Akademie der Künste Berlin, Künstlerhof Buch



video game 2004 Personal Cinema, The Making of Balkan Wars: The Game, acoustic scenery composition, audio production




2013 A solo piano evening with Bach-Debussy-Skrjabin and improvisation, in Soubes, France
performances 2000 Astarte an den Buhnen, with audiovisual material from the Astarte sequence and solo instrumental improvisation


1st public performance 2000, June 6, Kunstkaten Ahrenshoop, Vassilios Kokkas, piano

1997 Nullpoint Datapiano, algorithmic performance for telephone networked pianists, sampler and Max, with Celio Vasconcellos

1995 Wirings, performance with an interactive Max algorithm, sampler, and a poem by George Seferis

1984 Intervention without an Allibi, performance group, dionysiac music walk through the center of Athens



music for mixed ensembles 2013 Little Lizzard Sand Dance, Miniature for Solo Guitar

2013 5 Miniatures for Violin and Piano

? DNA choral music for visual artist Yannis Melanitis

2000 Astarte an den Buhnen, version for Recorder and double video projection


World Premiere in Aarau

1998 Bravo Juliett - Les Anges Sont Blancs, saxophone quartett (SATBr)


1st public performance 1998, Apr.24, Unerhörte Musik BKA Berlin, SousCorps-Quartett

1997 Agapi ston Kremno (Townmaps of Thessaloniki) for mixed instrumental ensemble of 12


1st public performance 1997, May 22, State Conservatory Thessaloniki, Ensemble Mosaik, G.Sfyridis, cond.

1996 Aptontes Iptantai, for piano, marimba, tomtoms and 5 bowed cymbals


1st public performance 1996, June 30, Neue Musik im Foyer, Berlin, Tatch Ensemble, Vassilios Kokkas, cond.


Navigation in Metamorphosis/Circular Music, algorithmic music for symphony orchestra


unperformed, part of graduation project, July 1996


TSURU for soprano and church organ


1st public performance 1996, Sep.7, Hohenzollernkirche Berlin, Emi Abo, sop., Stefan Schuck, organ

1995 Fowl, Fish, Beast was flown, was swum, was walkd για Bfl, EH, BCl, Tp, Pos, Vc, Kb


1st public performance 1995, Institut für Neue Musik der HdK Berlin, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, O.Dejours, conductor

1994 Narrations Tautologiques for 12 Saxophones, algorithmic music


1st public performance 1995, Institut für Neue Musik Saxophonensemble der HdK, Vassilios Kokkas, cond.

1993 Four little pieces for flute and piano


1st public performance 2003, June 20, Neue Musik im Foyer, Esther Ibekken, Fl, Akiko Yamashita, P



music for variable instruments 2005 The Garden, performance for 3 performers, 3 female singers and interactive Max/MSP/Cyclops patches, with new media artist Yannis Melanitis
and audible sources 2000 Astarte, for stereo digital audio 44/16, 2 optical video tracks and solo intrumental impovisation

1998 Amour Fou, digital MIDI score, abstract algorithmic dance

1994 Waiting for News, digital MIDI score, abstract algorithmic dances



InterMedia 2013 Prophezia, for Pier Paolo Pazolini, music for film and performance by Antonio Panetta, Berlin

2006 Y'evan, electroacoustic tape with the poem Y'evan by Panos Bosnakis

2005 Rebirth Artist Group, Rebirth de Chiffre installation, diverse interactions


Athens - Beijing, by Charris Kontosfyris, with Panos Bosnakis, poetry, Orestes Davias, botanics, Vassilios Kokkas, electroacoustic installation (Greek Participation at Bienal S.Paulo 2004)

2004 Athena's Gift, large scale electroacoustic musical olivegrove in central Athens, with Sia Kyriakakos, Aegypt Square, Athens, commissioned by the Vice Mayor for Cultural Affairs and AICA Hellas for Athens by Art, Efi Strouza, curator http://www.aica-hellas.org/art2004/agr45.html


Blue Hour Stories, underwater sound installation, with Kosta Ioannides


Agapi Plani, sculpture with sound, with Cornelios Grammenos, at Municipal Gallery Psychiko, Athens


The Making of Balkan Wars, curatorial project and video game by Personal Cinema, at ARCO Madrid 2004, Sync Festival Lavrion, various places


IOS/VIRUS, letter to an unborn, by the IOS/VIRUS Artist Group, at the Byzantine Museum, Athens


Long Time Gone, with video artist Morgan Showalter, at Fournos Athens

2003 Je Est Un Autre, installation with armchair, projection and 4 channels of audio, with Niki Kapokakis, at gallery for modern art, Exarcheia, Athens


Prometheus, performance with interactive artificial scream, 2 performers and robot, with Yannis Melanitis

2002 Inside, installation in a dark room with a pillow and 8 channels of audio, with Niki Kapokakis



group projects 2004 Personal Cinema, The Making of Balkan Wars:

1997 Senza Fine, Studio für Elektroakustische Musik der TU Berlin http://olbrisch.eu/senza-fine.html

1994 Renga I-VII, Studio für Elektroakustische Musik der TU Berlin http://olbrisch.eu/renga.html



soundtracks

for experimental film and video

Experimental documentary


2004 Long Time Gone, by Morgan Showalter, DV

2002 Life of a Tortoise in the Middle East, by Felice Wonnenberg, 16mm/DV


The Gazelle Trap, by Felice Wonnenberg, 16mm/DV

2000 Topolo, image by Antonio Panetta, 16mm


Essere Felice – Mind Stills, 16mm, image by F.Wonnenberg and Antonio Panetta
TV / feature
Safety at Constructing with Iron, by Stefanos Modelos










1998 Das Drehen der Stille, about the shootings of the film "An Eternity and a Day" by Theo Angelopoulos
Fiction 2005? Cocoon, by Felice Naomi Wonnenberg, DV


“Masterpiece II”, by Stefanos Mondelos


“Masterpiece I”, by Stefanos Mondelos

2005 The History of the Conquest of Space, by Stephanos Mondelos, DV

1999 Virjule - Das Innere Berlin, 3d animation/compositing, 35mm, by Max Zeitler

1998 Staub, 35mm, by Giorghis Fotopoulos

1995 Deserteure, 35mm, by Giorghis Fotopoulos



sound design 2004 Long Time Gone, by Morgan Showalter


Personal Cinema, The Making of Balkan Wars: The Game

1999 Virjule, Das Innere Berlin, Max Zeitler, music composition, sound, sound production, post production supervision

1997 Casting, by Giorghis Fotopoulos



curatorial projects 2003 Music Day, Electroacoustic Marathon, co-programming, stage, direction of sound


Electroacoustic Marathon of the Hellenic Composer's Association, direction of sound


Electroacoustic Marathon of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Composer's Association, co-programming and sound

2002 Meetings of Electroacoustic Music, Athens, idea, programming, realization, moderator

2001 Coorganizer of 1st Symposium for Music Research, Cultural Ministry Amphitheater, Athens

2000 Ichon not for profit company for the support of experimental music, Athens, co-founder

1997 Ensemble Mosaik Berlin, artistic director, 97-99



proposals 2001 Athens Olympics 2004, topo-graphy, 17 processions, a philosophical framework of experimental art events



prizes and residencies 2003 3sat prize, Life of a Tortoise in the Middle East, 49. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen,

2002 Michelis Foundation, grant for soundtrack composition of movie "The Gazelle Trap"

2001 Michelis Foundation, grant for realization of Musical Walkway in the engine compartments of battleship Averoff

2000 Deutscher KulturFonds, Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop, composer in residence

1998 Elektroakustisches Studio der Akademie der Künste, composer in residence




2006-7 Kalamata Municipal Conservatory, Music History, Ear Training, Instruments Theory
lectures and teaching 2005-6 Athens School of Fine Arts, postgraduate studies department, guest lecturer, Immanent Aesthetics of Digital Sound. Postgraduate Workshop Seminar “Sound as Material”


University of Athens, Xenakis-Symposion, discussion, panelist


Ichon experimental electroacoustic lab, digital sound synthesis and media interaction with Max/MSP, workshop

2004 Catholic University of Sao Paulo, guest lecturer, Synergy of Aesthetic Media in the installation Athens-Beijing


Ionian University, Sound and Image Arts Studies, Electroacoustic Music Days, Corfu

1999 Institute for Research in Music and Acoustics, Athens


Sounding Spaces, European Association for Students of Architecture, Kavala

1998 AFI: Komposition Konstruktion, Musik und Architektur, HdK Berlin, coordination, instructor

1997 HdK Berlin, music dep.,Iannis Xenakis works, analysis seminar with Walter Zimmermann, assistant instructor


Piano, music theory, composition and Max, private teaching


Panteion University of Athens, comm. and mass media dep., guest lectrurer, Fermata and Chaos at Maler's 1st Sy


Thessaloniki State Conservatory, Music Topography


Panteion University of Athens, communication and mass media dep., guest lecturer, Navigable Music



member
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische Musik 1994-2000


International Computer Music Association 1996-98


ESSIM/HELEMCA, Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association, founding member


Hellenic Society for Aesthetics


Ichon not for profit company for the support of experimental music, Athens, Founder


Personal Cinema



discography 2000 Komposition – Konstruktion, Klang und Raum, UdK Berlin, Edition Wolke 2000, CD zum Buch Stadkarten von Thessaloniki, for 12 Instrument ensemble

2015 ESSIM/HELEMCA, Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association, ELECTROACOUSTIC MINIATURES 2015

2011 The Algorithm Of Love, Electroacoustic Music (Nice-Music.Org 2011)

2013 Vassilios Kokkas, Electroacoustic Concert Pieces (Nice-Music.Org 2013)

1998 Vassilios Kokkas, Ensemble Pieces 1994-1998 (Bootleg 1998)



selected bibliography 2004 26 Sao Paulo Biennale, catalog of the greek pavillon, Hellenic Minstry of Culture, 2004


http://www.harriskondosphyris.com/texts/mousikos-kyklos_eng.html

2000 Komposition – Konstruktion, Klang und Raum, UdK Berlin, Edition Wolke 2000






homepage
http://kokkas.com/





Vassilios in the theatre of Epidavros in
                  1999

listening to the sounds of the empty ancient theatre of Epidavros in year 2000