Lambros Pigounis

Lambros Pigounis is a composer and sound artist based in Athens. He studied violin at the Hellenic Conservatory in Athens, and electroacoustic composition at the University of Hertfordshire (UK). During his stay there, he joined the Hertfordshire Philharmonic Orchestra, as a second violinist, and attended seminars and masterclasses led by Jonathan Harvey. In 2001 he collaborated with the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, while in 2003 he graduated with an MA in Electroacoustic Composition from the City University of London.

Lambros serves at the faculty of the SAE Athens Institute of Technology. His artistic practice and research focus on electroacoustic composition, sound art performance, installations, and collaborations with choreographers, directors, and artists, in Greece and internationally. His most recent artistic activities include the long durational sound art performance “Micropolitics of Noise,” presented at Benaki Museum, Athens, and commissioned by the Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI) and NEON, as well as commissions by the Hebbel Am Ufer (HAU) Theater in Berlin, and Rimini Protokoll. He is currently researching the ethics and politics of sound in acoustic ecology through human agency at live electroacoustic music performances based on interactive systems.