Thanassis Rikakis
Thanassis Rikakis is the Assistant Director of the Columbia University
Computer Music Center, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia
University Music Department and the Manager of the Program of
Psychoacoustics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received
his DMA in music composition from Columbia University in 1994. He has
studied composition with Chou Wen Chung, Roger Reynolds, Mario Davidovsky,
Bernard Rands, Karel Husa and Theodore Antoniou. He has attended
composition seminars with Ianis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen and Piere
Boulez. He has studied computer music with Bradford Garton and music
theory with Jonathan Kramer, Jacques Monod, George Edwards and Susan
Blaustein. He was the director of the 1997 International Computer Music
Conference (ICMC97).
Selected works:
The song of the tree (1998), for computer generated tape
A symphony of characters (1998), film score; for computer generated tape
A Third Perspective (1996), for computer generated tape
Orgia (1995), incidental music for the play Orgia; for computer generated
tape
Krisis (1994) for flute, bassoon, cello and trombone
Hard Silver (1993) for computer generated tape
Digital duo for trombone and cello (1992), experimental stimulus; for
computer
Komvos (1991) for chamber orchestra
Selected research projects/papers:
A system for microtonal composition; related pitch perception and brain
function issues (dissertation).
Pitch perception and computerized encephalography (with G.Petrides, G.
Soldatos).
Use of auditory display for the training and therapy of patients with
loss of propriocetion (with L. Dubois, C. Ghez, P. Cook, F. Lerdahl)
Music Perception in Alzheimer's patients (with S.Balogiannis, S.
Euklidou, et al.).
Physical modeling of ancient Greek avlos (with K.Tsaxalinas, P. Cook, K.
Tzedaki, K. Psaroudakis).
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