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Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation University Faculty
Location Corfu, Kerkyra, Greece
Introduction Iannis Zannos teaches audio and interactive media arts at the Department of Audiovisual Arts and at the postgraduate course in Arts and Technologies of Sound of the Music Department at the Ionian University, Corfu since 2004. He has a background in music composition, ethnomusicology and interactive performance. He has worked as Director of the Music Technology and Documentation section at the State Institute for Music Research (S.I.M.) in Berlin, Germany, and Research Director at the Center for Research for Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has taken part at numerous international collaborative Media Arts projects and has realized multimedia performances both alone and in cooperation with other artists.
Interests Music, Sound Art, Media Art, Literature, the Arts in general.
Favorite Movies Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of Oharu
Favorite Music Frédéric Chopin: Polonaises, late Nocturnes, Sonatas 2 and 3, Études, Preludes, Bela Bartok: String Quartets, Györgi Ligeti: Cello Concerto, Luigi Nono: Stille, an Diotima. Iannis Xenakis: Metastaseis, Pithoprakta, J. S. Bach: The Kantatas, Johannes Passion, Matthäus Passion, Kanonische Variationen über "Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her", Ciaconna, Concerto for Flute, Violin and Cembalo, Orgelbüchlein, Goldberg Variations, Toccatas and Fantasias and more. Josquin des Prez: Missa "L'homme armé", Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: 5 and 6th book of Madrigals, Tenebrae, W. A. Mozart: The Haydn Quartets, the String Quintets, Divertimento for Strings, Piano Trios, Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, String Quartets, Piano Trios, Robert Schumann: Piano Trios, Brahms: Symphonies, Concertos, String quartets, quintets and sextets, Anton Bruckner, Cesar Frank, Ernest Chausson: Piano Trio op. 3, Claude Debussy: String quartet, Sonatas, Turkish music - especially the ney and Gazel, Greek music of all sorts, Indian music, especially the santur, Persian music, Japanese music - hougaku, Bubblegum Crisis, etc.
Favorite Books Lao Tsu, Chuang Tsu, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Philip K. Dick: "We Can Make You", "The Galactic Pot Healer" and others.