Taxiarchis Diamantopoulos, Laboratory Teaching Staff

Sound composition & computer music: sound as an artistic expression, medium and form in contemporary visual arts

Born in 1965 in Athens Greece. First degree in Computer Science (TEI of Athens, 1989). MSc in Music Technology (University of York, 1990). Has been a member of the Computer Music group at the Athens CCMR (Center for Contemporary Music Research) contributing to several research and artistic projects in the 1990s. A foundation faculty member of the Music Technology and Acoustics Department (HMU – Crete), where he taught and organised Sound Synthesis and Music Programming subjects (2000-08). Since 2007 he teaches Sound Composition at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

In 2024 he completed his PhD thesis at the department of Art Theory and History of the Athens School of Fine Arts. Thesis subject: “Sound Space. A methodological approach to 20th century New Music”.

Αs author and co-author he has published a number of text books in Greek on Sound Synthesis, Computer Music and Electronic Music,.

He has a major artistic and research interest in Sound Space.

email: tdiamantopoulos@asfa.gr