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Tag: Audio Works (MP3 Archive)

This page gathers selected MP3 audio works, including Byzantine chant, electronic and electroacoustic compositions.
The material reflects both artistic practice and research-based work.

  • 13-EDO music

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    Ioannis Spyrakis
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    This ambient electronic composition is based on the 13-EDO music scale. The tuning introduces unfamiliar interval relationships, shaping a calm, sustained sonic space with subtle shifts in pitch and harmony.

  • Roland Gaia

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    Ioannis Spyrakis
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    This composition features the Roland Gaia synthesizer alongside VST instruments such as Reaktor, Diva, and Pigments. The combination of hardware and software synthesis creates a rich and evolving sound environment, blending analogue-style textures with modern digital processing.

  • Planet Earth

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    Ioannis Spyrakis
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    Audio Planet Earth Description A slow-moving ambient electronic music composition shaped through analogue synthesis. The composition was created using the Diva synthesizer, which offers a warm analogue sound.

  • Rising concrete

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    Ioannis Spyrakis
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    A field recording soundscape capturing the sonic environment of a building under construction. The piece focuses on the raw textures of labor—tools, machinery, rhythmic impacts, and human presence—forming an evolving acoustic structure as the building rises.

  • Arturia Synthx synthesizer

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    Ioannis Spyrakis
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    My ambient electronic composition, created with Arturia’s Synthx, focuses on soft evolving textures and spacious atmospheric layers.

  • Μεγάλη Εβδόμαδα 2026

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    Ioannis Spyrakis
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    A restrained Holy Week sound study built around bell tones from Diva and the DX7. The Gaia provides the underlying pads, while the bells carry the weight and clarity of the piece—slow, deliberate, and focused.

  • Analog Piano

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    Ioannis Spyrakis
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    Analog Piano is an ambient electronic composition created as an experimental exploration using the J74 Progressive tool. The piece focuses on evolving harmonic textures and subtle chord movement, blending analog warmth with generative progression techniques. Through minimalism and atmospheric layering, it reflects a process-driven approach where technology and musical intuition interact fluidly.

  • Καμπάνες Άγιον Όρος

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    Ioannis Spyrakis
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    Ηχογράφηση πεδίου από τις καμπάνες στο Πρωτάτο Αγίου Όρους (2015).Καταγραφή στο πλαίσιο έρευνας για το ηχητικό περιβάλλον της βυζαντινής λατρείας. Το ηχητικό υλικό καταγράφηκε με μικρόφωνα Rode NT4 και καταγραφέα Fostex.Η ηχογράφηση αποτυπώνει το ηχητικό τοπίο του Πρωτάτου και τη λειτουργική χρήση των καμπανών.

  • New recordings

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    Ioannis Spyrakis
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    Νέες ηχογραφήσεις στο σχολείο με μαθητές των συνόλων και της ραδιοφωνικής ομάδας. Σύντομα θα αναρτηθεί το σχετικό υλικό.

  • Study of an impossible waveform

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    Ioannis Spyrakis
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    A study of a waveform that refuses to stay still.The synthesizer becomes a lens: oscillators drifting, filters bending,LFOs reshaping every contour before it can take form.Sound in continuous transformation.