Paul
Koutselos



Composer | Sound Designer









    exploring Sound





         conversing Sound





crafting Sound








Contact



paulkoutselos@gmail.com

CV

In a remote gas station in the heart of winter, a place where time stands still, three strangers cross paths and reshape time in their own way. An audiovisual journey that explores masculine hypersensitivity in a conservative and religious rural Greece.
40 compositions to support Ukrainian hospitals
The doomed journey of a young couple in the Greek Wasteland of the 1920's. Marilou and Christos are forced to escape after their plan to rob the rich American by the name of Joe goes horribly wrong. Their goal is to reach the nearest port before Joe's murderous bodyguard finds their tracks and exacts his payback. Boiling under the Mediterranean summer sun, their faith in fortune and their will to continue will be tested.
This compilation of 33 contemporary music compositions is the outcome of an initiative by 37 musicians who want to stand against police brutality as an action to the latest events in Greece. The citizens who were unnecessarily beaten by police in the events of Nea Smyrni want to take legal action. Thus, through the lawyer Thanasis Kampagiannis the artists want to support their goal. Your donation will go towards court fees.
Kostas and his lovely dog Abba live in a basement in Central Athens. A chained male dog lives in the appartment next door. In anticipation of the newly born puppies, Kostas is trying his best to fix and renovate their home.
Bodmin Moor is part of Cornubian Batholith, a large mass of granite rock formed roughly 280 million years ago. Walking across this moorland is a very mystical experience, time sort of dissolves as your body breathes in the lost history folded into the land. The landscape itself is wild, abstract and fierce - big jagged rocks obstructing out of rolling hills, wind tapered trees whispering Celtic myths and legends, miles and miles of bleak appearing landscape that screams history through its many stone circles, mining shafts and quarries. I often feel that when I am there past, present and future merge into this new (true?) rhythm of life. So often we do not experience this because we are obstructed with clock time, work time, city time - a complete over-analysis and obsession with a quasi rational sense of time?
password: LeJardin

This new work explores the garden through the primacy of phenomenology and the past, focusing on the five senses this film considers ways in which our bodies are the primary point of contact with the world around us. The film is informed by the medieval tapestry “La Dame à la Licorne” which depicts a woman and a unicorn among a garden full of animals and plants. This work investigates a possible sixth sense through the poetry of the garden, the insistence of ritual, and a different way of letting things grow…

Exhibited at The Pod, as part of the Coventry Biennial

pucafestival.com






This Halloween celebrate with a weekend of tales of Irish folklore, the Feast of the Samhain and haunting music at the Púca Festival in the land where it all began more than 2,000 years ago

How does communication get distorted in the virtual realm? How does the sharing of emotions get fragmented? An attempt to express the conflict between long-distance and honesty, lust and bonding, a situation that leads to confused and turbulent states of mind.

Exhibited at metro media space 'Ojaemidong', Seoul, as part of Obviously Video exhibition


Installation page


"Ghost Time is an imagined temporality that emerged out of a conversation between Paul and Alix, in which transgressions occur across realms, across what exists inside the rotting fruit, under the compost lid, alongside the cracks, inside repurposed bathtubs…. Ghost Time is an agitated-stillness, a still-agitation. A fomenting/fermenting ground. Water just before it boils. The soundscape, which loops the shift across Garden Time and Ghost Time, produces different readings of the space and artwork, but keeps the installation grounded inside the garden and at times pushes us out of the domestic feel of the work, of its pillows and book, drapes and clothes."

Exhibited at the Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, as part of Art, Space and Nature Studio Residency

An exploration of the musicality of sound that exists in urban and natural environments, through experimentation in recording sounds from water, air and different surfaces.
This polynomial mapping leads to a wealth of results depending on the values of different variables. Results that have been sonified, with a complex system of relationships revealed through the perception of harmonic intervals.

Strange Loops; consciousness in purgatory; awaking and going back into the darkness. A short about illusions/realities/dreams.


Exhibited at Austin's Experimental Student Film Festival and at Bristol Cube Cinema 'Blue Screen'.


Digital signal Processing of sounds recorded from a beer can and a piece of paper.

In a remote gas station in the heart of winter, a place where time stands still, three strangers cross paths and reshape time in their own way. An audiovisual journey that explores masculine hypersensitivity in a conservative and religious rural Greece.
The doomed journey of a young couple in the Greek Wasteland of the 1920's. Marilou and Christos are forced to escape after their plan to rob the rich American by the name of Joe goes horribly wrong. Their goal is to reach the nearest port before Joe's murderous bodyguard finds their tracks and exacts his payback. Boiling under the Mediterranean summer sun, their faith in fortune and their will to continue will be tested.
Kostas and his lovely dog Abba live in a basement in Central Athens. A chained male dog lives in the appartment next door. In anticipation of the newly born puppies, Kostas is trying his best to fix and renovate their home.
Bodmin Moor is part of Cornubian Batholith, a large mass of granite rock formed roughly 280 million years ago. Walking across this moorland is a very mystical experience, time sort of dissolves as your body breathes in the lost history folded into the land. The landscape itself is wild, abstract and fierce - big jagged rocks obstructing out of rolling hills, wind tapered trees whispering Celtic myths and legends, miles and miles of bleak appearing landscape that screams history through its many stone circles, mining shafts and quarries. I often feel that when I am there past, present and future merge into this new (true?) rhythm of life. So often we do not experience this because we are obstructed with clock time, work time, city time - a complete over-analysis and obsession with a quasi rational sense of time?
password: LeJardin

This new work explores the garden through the primacy of phenomenology and the past, focusing on the five senses this film considers ways in which our bodies are the primary point of contact with the world around us. The film is informed by the medieval tapestry “La Dame à la Licorne” which depicts a woman and a unicorn among a garden full of animals and plants. This work investigates a possible sixth sense through the poetry of the garden, the insistence of ritual, and a different way of letting things grow…

Exhibited at The Pod, as part of the Coventry Biennial

pucafestival.com






This Halloween celebrate with a weekend of tales of Irish folklore, the Feast of the Samhain and haunting music at the Púca Festival in the land where it all began more than 2,000 years ago

How does communication get distorted in the virtual realm? How does the sharing of emotions get fragmented? An attempt to express the conflict between long-distance and honesty, lust and bonding, a situation that leads to confused and turbulent states of mind.

Exhibited at metro media space 'Ojaemidong', Seoul, as part of Obviously Video exhibition

Strange Loops; consciousness in purgatory; awaking and going back into the darkness. A short about illusions/realities/dreams.


Exhibited at Austin's Experimental Student Film Festival and at Bristol Cube Cinema 'Blue Screen'.

40 compositions to support Ukrainian hospitals
This compilation of 33 contemporary music compositions is the outcome of an initiative by 37 musicians who want to stand against police brutality as an action to the latest events in Greece. The citizens who were unnecessarily beaten by police in the events of Nea Smyrni want to take legal action. Thus, through the lawyer Thanasis Kampagiannis the artists want to support their goal. Your donation will go towards court fees.
An exploration of the musicality of sound that exists in urban and natural environments, through experimentation in recording sounds from water, air and different surfaces.
This polynomial mapping leads to a wealth of results depending on the values of different variables. Results that have been sonified, with a complex system of relationships revealed through the perception of harmonic intervals.

Digital signal Processing of sounds recorded from a beer can and a piece of paper.


Installation page


"Ghost Time is an imagined temporality that emerged out of a conversation between Paul and Alix, in which transgressions occur across realms, across what exists inside the rotting fruit, under the compost lid, alongside the cracks, inside repurposed bathtubs…. Ghost Time is an agitated-stillness, a still-agitation. A fomenting/fermenting ground. Water just before it boils. The soundscape, which loops the shift across Garden Time and Ghost Time, produces different readings of the space and artwork, but keeps the installation grounded inside the garden and at times pushes us out of the domestic feel of the work, of its pillows and book, drapes and clothes."

Exhibited at the Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, as part of Art, Space and Nature Studio Residency