Technique
"If there is anything interesting in composing, sound or image, with or without computers, is the opportunity to deal with abstract concepts while manipulating concrete material."
Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows - Material & Technique
Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows is a collection of audiovisual works, a digital granary of processed instrumental and electronic sounds, deconstructed human voices, and field recordings, intertwined with photographs, videos, and processed imagery gathered around the Troodos mountain range in Cyprus.
Using bespoke, custom-built software, I algorithmically process and transform these materials, generatively creating evolving configurations of sound and image. This process forms a collaboration between human and algorithm, an unfolding narrative of becoming that explores the porous boundary between the digital and the organic.
The collection also seeks to explore place and identity as mutually defining forces whose interactions cannot be simplified or easily represented.
“While creating the narrative of the performance I wanted to discover for myself what it is that connects me with the region, Cyprus, the Eastern Mediterranean, where I grew up and developed the foundation of my personality and view of the world. I realised that what we people accept as a place of origin is often what the establishment imposes on us, a fabricated idea of nation and country. I visited the area again and again, trying to understand what it means to me; nothing more than an introverted way of living, the experience of my reality, not a poor representation of it.”
— Pandelis Diamantides, interview with Oddstream Festival
Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed - Material & Technique
Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed is a collection of generative audiovisual works forming part of an ongoing research into the non-representational use of screens.
The collection reflects on visual overstimulation and the limits of perception. Rather than using the screen as a representational surface, the work treats it as a medium of light and energy, a field where colour, flicker, and rhythm construct direct sensory experience. Through rapid successions of light and colour, afterimages linger in the viewer’s vision, shaping how new visual information is received.
By carefully deploying light as material, afterimages from previous frames are superimposed onto new ones, creating optical layering that merges retinal memory with the present image. The screen becomes a luminous instrument that engages the neural mechanisms of perception, rendering the viewer an active participant, simultaneously observer and creator.
Παλμός - Material & Technique
Pulse. Heartbeat. Vibration. Παλμός (palmós) traces how emotion moves through body, crowd, and city, how the invisible rhythms of life create a shared field of resonance.
Using biometric data, movement, and light, the work translates physical rhythm into collective sound. Sensors capture the subtle variations of heartbeat and breath, transforming them into sonic structures that merge and evolve in real time. The audience’s physiological presence becomes part of the composition itself, forming a dynamic ecosystem of sound and light that responds to proximity, density, and motion.
Each pulse becomes an imprint, a signal of presence, a reminder that feeling is both individual and shared. The work listens to the body as landscape, to the heart as instrument, and to connection as frequency. Through this continuous feedback loop between inner motion and social vibration, Παλμός explores how empathy can be spatialised, how technology can listen, not to control or quantify, but to reveal the fragile synchrony between self and collective.
Technique
"If there is anything interesting in composing, sound or image, with or without computers, is the opportunity to deal with abstract concepts while manipulating concrete material."
Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows - Material & Technique
Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows is a collection of audiovisual works, a digital granary of processed instrumental and electronic sounds, deconstructed human voices, and field recordings, intertwined with photographs, videos, and processed imagery gathered around the Troodos mountain range in Cyprus.
Using bespoke, custom-built software, I algorithmically process and transform these materials, generatively creating evolving configurations of sound and image. This process forms a collaboration between human and algorithm, an unfolding narrative of becoming that explores the porous boundary between the digital and the organic.
The collection also seeks to explore place and identity as mutually defining forces whose interactions cannot be simplified or easily represented.
“While creating the narrative of the performance I wanted to discover for myself what it is that connects me with the region, Cyprus, the Eastern Mediterranean, where I grew up and developed the foundation of my personality and view of the world. I realised that what we people accept as a place of origin is often what the establishment imposes on us, a fabricated idea of nation and country. I visited the area again and again, trying to understand what it means to me; nothing more than an introverted way of living, the experience of my reality, not a poor representation of it.”
— Pandelis Diamantides, interview with Oddstream Festival
Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed - Material & Technique
Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed is a collection of generative audiovisual works forming part of an ongoing research into the non-representational use of screens.
The collection reflects on visual overstimulation and the limits of perception. Rather than using the screen as a representational surface, the work treats it as a medium of light and energy, a field where colour, flicker, and rhythm construct direct sensory experience. Through rapid successions of light and colour, afterimages linger in the viewer’s vision, shaping how new visual information is received.
By carefully deploying light as material, afterimages from previous frames are superimposed onto new ones, creating optical layering that merges retinal memory with the present image. The screen becomes a luminous instrument that engages the neural mechanisms of perception, rendering the viewer an active participant, simultaneously observer and creator.
Παλμός - Material & Technique
Pulse. Heartbeat. Vibration. Παλμός (palmós) traces how emotion moves through body, crowd, and city, how the invisible rhythms of life create a shared field of resonance.
Using biometric data, movement, and light, the work translates physical rhythm into collective sound. Sensors capture the subtle variations of heartbeat and breath, transforming them into sonic structures that merge and evolve in real time. The audience’s physiological presence becomes part of the composition itself, forming a dynamic ecosystem of sound and light that responds to proximity, density, and motion.
Each pulse becomes an imprint, a signal of presence, a reminder that feeling is both individual and shared. The work listens to the body as landscape, to the heart as instrument, and to connection as frequency. Through this continuous feedback loop between inner motion and social vibration, Παλμός explores how empathy can be spatialised, how technology can listen, not to control or quantify, but to reveal the fragile synchrony between self and collective.