CURRICULUM VITAE


Dimitris Savva, Ph.D

Music Composer | Sound Artist | Educator | Researcher 


PROFILE


Awarded and published composer and sound artist with an expertise in electroacoustic, electronic, soundscape and multimedia music composition and sound design. Experienced educator with an expertise in composition, sound art, music technology, soundscape theory, acoustic ecology and electroacoustic music history and composition. Skilled researcher with an expertise in musical narrative and compositional practices and methods.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING


PHD IN ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC COMPOSITION -The University of Sheffield | 2015 - 2021

CERTIFICATE OF ASSOCIATE FELLOW - The Higher Education Academy | 2017

MUSM IN ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC COMPOSITION - University of Manchester | 2012 - 2013 | Distinction (72.1%)

BA IN MUSIC STUDIES WITH MAJOR COURSE IN ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC COMPOSITION AND MINOR IN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC COMPOSITION- Ionian University | 2006 - 2012 | Excellent (8.54 /10) 


ACADEMIC WORKING EXPERIENCE


VISITING LECTURER

Cyprus University of Technology

Fine Arts Department | 09/ 2022 - 12/2022

  • Taught the course Sound and New Media.

Multimedia and Graphic Art Department | 12/2021 - 05/2022

  • Taught the course Electronic/Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Cyprus University of Technology

Fine Arts Department | 04/ 2020 - 11/2021

Multimedia and Graphic Art Department | 08/2020 - 12/2021

  • Participated in various artistic projects as a researcher, music composer, sound designer, recordist and sound editor and engineer. The projects were led and supervised by Prof. Klitsa Antoniou, Asst.Prof. Yiannis Christidis. Asst.Prof. Doros Polydorou and Asst.Prof. Marinos Koutsomixalis

TEACHING ASSISTANT

Ionian University / Erasmus+

Music Department | 01/2018 - 06/2019

  • Teaching assistant for Asst.Prof. Theodoros Lotis in the courses Electroacoustic Music Composition and Live Electronics Performance.

Music School of Nicosia / Erasmus+ | 08/2022 - 12/2017

  • Co-taught a class on Electroacoustic Music Composition as part of the Music Technology program. The successful completion of this course resulted in an electroacoustic music concert, where the students had the opportunity to showcase their compositions in a surround 8-channel sound system, a first in Cyprus.

Sheffield University

Music Department | 08/2016 - 12/2016

  • Co-taught the course Music Technology.

REVIEWER

Committee reviewer of the electroacoustic music compositions submitted at:

  • SMC (Sound and Music Computing Festival), CY | 07/2018
  • MediSoup Festival, Masking - Unmasking, CY| 03/21
  • MediSoup Festival, Healing, CY | 04/22

FREELANCE AND ARTISTIC WORKING EXPERIENCE


MULTIMEDIA MUSIC COMPOSER | SOUND DESIGNER

Contemporary Dance and Performing Arts

  • Earth Voices - Dance Gate Lefkosia | 03/ 2022 - 05/2022
  • Disruption - Dance Cyprus | 08/2021 - 09/2021
  • Once there was a forest II - Konstantina Skalionta Productions | 10/2021 - 11/2021
  • Once there was a forest I - Konstantina Skalionta Productions | 01/2020 - 08/2020
  • Victor- Mad Lab Productions | 05/2021 - 06/2021
  • Pnoe/Breath - Asomates Dynameis Dance Company | 09/2019 - 11/2019
  • Echo- Asomates Dynameis Dance Company | 11/2014 - 12/2014

Installation Art

  • Making Waves - Klitsa Antoniou | 05/2022 - 06/2022
  • I'll see you in the trees - Nina Sumarac | 03/2022 - 04/2022
  • Something Exceedingly Strange is Happening this Spring - Klitsa Antoniou | 10/2021 - 11/2021
  • Stage/Theatrical Space - Kleopatra Hatzigiosi | 06/2022 - 07/2022
  • Rippening Utopia - Olga Doulkeridou | 09/2017
  • Eutopia- Olga Doulkeridou | 06/2017
  • The Journey of Reproductive Life - Kate Sully | 09/2016

Documentary | VR | Theatre

  • The Fall of R'Thea - Mad Lab Productions | 10/2022 - 11/2022
  • Sajppres- Yiannis Christidis & Konstantinos Koukoulis Productions | 09/2021 - 11/2021
  • Monaxia- Flash Art Productions | 04/2021 - 06/2021
  • Picture Perfect - SRSLYYOURS Productions 02/2021 - 03/2021

ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC COMPOSER

  • Nordic | 2020
  • Echo the Nymph of Reflection | 2020
  • Noise Triangle | 2018
  • Moments of Liberty IV Towards the Sea | 2019
  • Moments of Liberty III: Standing Without | 2018
  • Moments of Liberty II: Falling Within | 2017
  • Moments of Liberty I: Outside and Insight | 2016
  • Koxylia | 2014
  • Thalassa (2013) | 2013
  • Balloon Theories | 2013
  • Stous Theous | 2012
  • Telchines | 2012
  • Erevos | 2011

PUBLICATIONS


Scholarly Articles:

  • Savva, D. (2021) Dramatized-performative narrative: a novel method for composing electroacoustic music. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.
  • Savva, D. (2021). Expanding the classification of narrative phenomena in electroacoustic music: from intra and inter musical narrative to performative and dramatised-performative narrative[Paper presentation]. EMS 2021: Future Directions of Electroacoustic Music Studies, Leicester, UK.
  • Therapontos, N. and Savva, D. (2018). Electroacoustic Music Composition in the Music School of Nicosia - Proceedings of the 15th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2018): Sonic Crossings. Limassol, Cyprus.

Music:

  • Electroacoustic music composition Nordic published in the CD: Anthology of Contemporary Music From Greece, Various Artists, Unexplained Sounds Group, September 2, 2022.
  • Electroacoustic music composition Disruption published in the CD: Anthology of Contemporary Music From Greece, Various Artists, Unexplained Sounds Group, September 2, 2022.
  • Electroacoustic music composition Echo the nymph of reflection published in the CD: 8th Annual Report (Mid Year Edition), Various Artists, Unexplained Sounds Group, June 17, 2022.
  • Electroacoustic music composition Echo the nymph of reflection published in the CD: CIME 2020, Various Artists, Audiomat, 2020.
  • Electroacoustic music composition Echo the nymph of reflection published in the CD: Metamorphoses 2020, 11th Biennial Competition, Various Artists, Musiques & Researches, MR 2019, 2020.
  • Electroacoustic music composition Noise Triangle published in the CD: Deriva, Various Artists, Cronica 162-2020.
  • Electroacoustic music composition Thalassa published in the CD: Middle East Music Survey, Anthology of Contemporary Music From Middle East, Various Artists, Unexplained Sounds Group, August 2019.
  • Electroacoustic music composition Moments of Liberty II: Falling Within published in the CD: Metamorphoses 2018, 10th Biennial Competition, Various Artists, Musiques & Researches, MR 2018, 2019.
  • Electroacoustic music composition Stous Theous published in the CD: Electroframework, Various Artists, Unexplained Sound Group, 17 September, 2018.
  • Electroacoustic music composition Balloon Theories published in the CD: Metamorphoses 2014, 8 th Biennial Competition, Various Artists, Musiques & Researches, MR 2014, 2015.
  • Electroacoustic music composition Erevos published in the CD: Metamorphoses 2012, 7 th Biennial Competition, Various Artists, Musiques & Researches, MR 2012,2013. 
  • Electroacoustic music composition Blow published in the CD: SEAMUS Electroacoustic Works, 2013: Negative Space.

AFFILIATIONS


  • Media Arts and Design Research Lab, CY. | 08/2020 - Present
  • Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association, CY. | 01/2012 - Present
  •  British Electroacoustic Network ,UK | 01/2018 - Present
  • MediSoup, Mediterranean Soundscapes Projects Community, CY. | 03/2021 - Present

CONCERTS ORGANISATION AND CURATION

Co-curated, co-organized, and co-installed the multichannel sound system for the following electroacoustic music concerts:

  • Sound and New Media Student Concert, Cyprus University of Technology, CY. | 12/2022
  • Healing, MediSoup, Cyprus University of Technology, CY. | 04/22
  • Masking - Unmasking, Cyprus University of Technology, CY. | 03/21
  • Sotto Voce and Akousmata 2.0, Electroacoustic Music Days 2018, Lab for Electroacoustic Research and Application, Ionian University, GR. | 05/2018
  • 11th Sonic Arts Summer Academy & Festival, Ionian University, GR. | 07/2018
  • Sound composition II, Pancyprian Gymnasium, Nicosia, CY. | 01/2018
  • Sound Junction Satellite, Sheffield University, UK. | 03/2017
  • Sound Junction Satellite, Sheffield University, UK. | 10/2016

HONOURS - AWARDS


2021

Finalist at the 33th International Electroacoustic Music Competition Prix Russolo 2020/21, Annecy, France, for the electroacoustic music composition Echo the nymph of reflection.

The electroacoustic music composition Echo the nymph of reflection was selected by the British Electroacoustic Network to represent the UK in the 38th music festival of CIME (International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music).

Finalist at the 11th biennial International Electroacoustic Music Competition Metamorphose 2020, Brussels, Belgium, for the electroacoustic music composition Echo the nymph of reflection.

2019

Awarded the 3rd prize (out of 241 compositions) in the Iannis Xenakis International Electroacoustic Composition, Thessaloniki, Greece, for the composition Moment of Liberty II: Falling Within.

Received the 4th place in SIME 2019 International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Lille, France, for the composition Moment of Liberty II: Falling Within.

Received a "highly commented" mention from the Arts Electronica Forum Wallis 2019 festival, Switzerland, for the composition Balloon Theories.

2018

Received a "mention" from the 10th biennial International Electroacoustic Music Competition Metamorphose 2018, Brussels, Belgium, for the composition Moment of Liberty II: Falling Within.

2016

Awarded the Petrie Watson Exhibition grant to complete a composition project, to make a research presentation and to curate and perform a concert with works from USSS (University of Sheffield Sound Studios)-based composers as part of the 11th Audiovisual Art Festival organised by the Ionian University.

Finalist at the SIME 2016 International Electroacoustic composition competition, Lille, France, for the acousmatic composition Balloon Theories.

2015

The acousmatic composition Telchines was selected by the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Association to be performed in the Electronic Geographies Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. A festival was part of the European program MINSTREL, organised by Miso Music Portugal and the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre.

Awarded the University of Sheffield Faculty Scholarship to complete a PhD at the University of Sheffield.

2014

Received the Public Prize in the 8th biennial International Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition Metamorphose 2014, Brussels, Belgium, for the composition Balloon Theories.

2013

Received the Franz List residency-scholarship award in the 2013 biennial International Electroacoustic Composition Competition organised by the Franz List University, Weimar, Germany.

Received a scholarship by the Cyprus State Scholarship Foundation for a MA at the University of Manchester.

2012

Received the 1st prize ex aequo in the 7th International Composition Competition Metamorphose, Brussels, Belgium (student category), for the acousmatic composition Erevos.


PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS


  • Nature Sound: Recording, Composing, Performing, EMPACT, Cyprus University of Technology, CY. | 01/2023
  • Dramatised-Performative narrative: a method for composing electroacoustic music, AKOUSMATA 2022, Ionian University, GR. | 06/2022
  • Introductionary talk about my artistic practice, Performance Dates 2022, Cyprus University of Technology, CY. | 11/2022
  • Expanding the classification of narrative phenomena in electroacoustic music: from intra and inter musical narrative to performative and dramatised-performative narrative, EMS 2021, University of Leicester, UK. | 11/2021
  • Working with sound, Fine Arts Department, University of Nicosia, CY. | 05/2021
  • Ambisonic recording and multichannel compositional practices in electroacoustic music, 11th Sonic Arts Summer Academy & Festival, Ionian University, GR. | 07/2018
  • Narrative as a compositional practice in electroacoustic music, 10th Audio Visual Festival, Ionian University, GR. | 04/2016

ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC PERFORMANCES


2022

  • Electroacoustic Music Days 2022, HELMCA (Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association), Corfu, GR.
  • Exposition Electropixel - Hertzian Hybridities, Electropixel 12, La Plateforme Intermédia, Nantes, FR.
  • Audiovisual Arts Festival 2022, Akousmata, Ionian University, Corfu, GR.
  • Healing. Listening to a Brave New World, MediSoup, Limassol, CY.

2021

  • Ecos Urbanos Electroacoustic Music Festival 2021, Mexico City, MX.
  • L'Espace du Son 2021, Brussels, BE.
  • Prix Russolo 2021, Salle de musique: Phonotheque, Kobe, JP.
  • Prix Russolo 2021, The Western Pub Theater, Leicester, UK.
  • Prix Russolo 2021, Nova Alternativa, Prague, CZ.
  • Prix Russolo 2021, Gallerie Analix Forever, Geneva, CH.
  • Prix Russolo 2021, Annecy, FR.
  • Audiovisual Arts Festival 2021 (online), Akousmata, Ionian University, Corfu, GR.
  • New York Electroacoustic Festival 2021 (online), New York, USA.
  • Journées Art & Science 2021 (online), musinfo, Saint-Étienne, FR.
  • Sound Junction Electroacoustic Music Festival (online), April 2021, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

2020

  • 27th L' Espace du Son Acousmatic Music Festival 2020 - Metamorphoses competition finals, Brussels, BE.
  • Electroacoustic Music Days 2020 (online), HELMCA (Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association).
  • CIME (International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music) Electroacoustic Music Festival (online), September 2020.
  • BEAST Electroacoustic Music Festival (online), May 2020, University of University of Bermingham, Bermingham, UK.
  • Sound Junction Electroacoustic Music Festival (online), April 2020, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

2019

  • Sound Junction Electroacoustic Music Festival, November 2019, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
  • Electroacoustic Music Days 2019, HELMCA (Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association), Athens, GR.
  • 8-channel Music Composition from CubeFest 2019, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, USA.
  • International Competition of Electronic Music Iannis Xenakis, State Orchestra of Thessaloniki Concert Hall Solon Michailidis, Thessaloniki, GR.
  • Cube Fest 2019, Sound in Focus III, Moss Art Centre, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
  • Art and Science Days 2019, MusInfo, Déjà-vu concert, Saint-Étienne, FR.
  • Sime 2019, Semaine International de Musique Electroacoustique, Université de Lille, Lille, FR.
  • Akousmata 2.0, 13th Audio Visual Festival, Ionian University, Corfu, GR.
  • Electroacoustic Music in Great Britain, January 2019, University of Greenwich, London, UK.

2018

  • Electroacoustic Music Days 2018, HELMCA (Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association), Corfu, GR.
  • Sound Junction Electroacoustic Music Festival, November 2018, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
  • 25th L' Espace du Son Acousmatic Music Festival 2018 -Carte blanche à Adam Stanović-, Brussels, BE.
  • New York Electroacoustic Music Festival 2018, New York, USA.
  • 11th Sonic Arts Academy and Festival, Corfu, GR.
  • 15th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Limassol, CY.
  • 12th Audio Visual Festival, Ionian University, Corfu, GR.
  • Sound composition II, Pancyprian Gymnasium, Nicosia, CY.

2017

  • In Sonic 2017: Immersive Future, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, DE.
  • Electroacoustic Music Days 2017, HELMCA (Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association), Rethymno, Crete, GR.
  • Ecos Urbanos Electroacoustic Music Festival 2017, Mexico City, MX.
  • Sound Junction Electroacoustic Music Festival, November 2017, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
  • Mus Lab Electroacoustic Music Festival, Mexico City, MX.
  • Sound and Environment 2017 Conference, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
  • Klingt gut 2017 Symposium, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, DE.
  • Sound Junction Electroacoustic Music Festival, May 2017, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
  • Noise Floor 2017 New Music Festival, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trend, UK.
  • Sound and Memory Symposium, Goldsmith University, London, UK.
  • Sound Junction Satellite, March 2017, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK.

2016

  • Sound Junction November 2016, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK.
  • Ecos Urbanos Electroacoustic Music Festival 2016, Mexico City, MX.
  • 4th Hellenic Conference of Acoustic Ecology, University of Aegean, Lesvos, GR.
  • Sound Junction Satellite, October 2016, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK.
  • Festival Vision Sonoras 2016, CMMAS, Morelia, MX.
  • The Sound Around As Festival 2016, The Acousmatic Project, Vienna, AT.
  • Audiovisual Festival 2016, Ionian University, Corfu, GR.
  • Sound Junction May 2016, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK.
  • 3 X 3 Electroacoustic Music Concert, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

2015

  • Cmm + Akousma, Electrohoc No3, Montreal, CA.
  • Sound Junction October 2015, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK.
  • Ecos Urbanos Electroacoustic Music Festival, 2015, Mexico City, MX.
  • Emu Fest, Conservatorio Santa Cecilia Rome, IT.
  • The Art of Electroacoustic Music, EMS conference, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK.
  • Sound Junction May 2015, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK.
  • Silence Festival, Di_Stanze Sonic Art, Bari, IT.
  • Electronic Geographies 2015, Lisbon, PT.
  • Sound as Being 2015, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.

2014

  • Manca Festival 2014, Centre National de Creation Musicale, University Cote d' Azur, Nice, FR.
  • 2014 Bienal Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo, University Estadual Paulista "Julio De Mesquita Filho", Sao Paulo, BR.
  • Acousmatic Concert Weimar Mastercourse 2013, solo concert at Studio for Electronic Music (SeaM) by Dimitrios Savva (Franz Liszt Sholar 2014), Weimar, DE.
  • New York Electroacoustic Music Festival 2014, New York, USA.
  • 20th Acousmatique Internationale - La Grece, Musicques & Researches, Brussels, BE.
  • 19th L' Espace du Son Acousmatic Music Festival, International Metamorphoses Acousmatic Music Competition 2014, Brussels, BE.
  • Metanast Electroacoustic Music Festival 2014, Salford, UK.
  • 134th AES (Audio Engineering Society) Convention, Wave Synthesis Exhibition, Berlin, DE.
  • Electroacoustic Music Days 2014, HELMCA (Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association) Rethymnon, Crete, GE.
  • ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) 2014, International Computer Music Association, Onassis Cultural Center and the Institute for Research on Music and Acoustics, Athens, GR.

2013

  • 1st International Electroacoustic Music Festival by the Centre of Cypriot Composers, Nicosia, CY.
  • Electroacoustic Music Days 2013, HELMCA (Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association), Corfu, GR.
  • Mantis (Manchester Theatre of Sound) Springtime Festival 2013, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

2012

  • 7th Audio Visual Festival, Ionian University, Corfu, GR.
  • EPPHME (Lab for Electroacoustic Music and Application) Acousmonium 2012, Corfu, GR.
  • 19th L' Espace du Son Acousmatic Music Festival, International Metamorphoses Acousmatic Music Competition 2012, Brussels, BE.
  • Rencontres Festives Autour De La Musique Electroacoustique 2012, Lion, FR.
  • MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) Lunchtime Concert, 2012, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

2011

  • 6th Audio Visual Festival, Ionian University, Corfu, GR.

ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES


  • Lab for Electroacoustic Research and Application, Music Department, Ionian University, GR. | 01/2018 - 06/2019
  • Visby International Centre for Composers, SE. | 11/2014 - 12/2014.
  • Franz Liszt Scholar, Studio for Electro-Acoustic Music, University of Music Franz Liszt, DE. | 03/2014 - 17/2014

LIVE ELECTRONICS PERFORMANCES


2023

Natural Resonances Under Crisis, The art of thinking like a mountain seminars, EMPACT, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, CY.

2022

  • Machines of Mantic Stain, Mad Lab, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, CY.
  • Confusion / Irrational Collectiveness, Electropixel 12, Mad Lab, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, CY.
  • ΓουΤουΧούΠουΣου + Simon Smith + Dimitris Savva, 15th Audiovisual Arts Festival, Polytechno, Corfu, GR.

2019

  • ASABE, Walking Practices/Walking Art/Walking Bodies International Encounters/Conference, Prespes, GR.
  • ASABE, Kotatif, The Soundscape we Live In [EPHMME (Lab for Electroacoustic Research and Application)], Polytechno, Corfu, GR.

2018

  • ASABE, Tyto Alba, 12th Audiovisual Arts Festival, Sotto Voce [EPHMME (Lab for Electroacoustic Research and Application)], Ionian Vouli, Corfu GR.
  • [DI]AFANEIS HEROES, Apo_peira, Audiovisual Arts Festival, Sotto Voce [EPHMME (Lab for Electroacoustic Research and Application)], Ionian Vouli, Corfu GR.
  • Gregorio Jimenez Paya, Andreas Mniestris, Asabe, Pura Vida Helenica, Polytechno, Corfu, GR
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