Thanasis Kaproulias
Thanasis Kaproulias is an audio artist who CREATES noise music under the name of Novi_sad
Life and work
Thanasis Kaproulias was born in Greece in 1980. He graduated from the Economic University of Piraues and lives and works in Athens, Greece.
Kaproulias was influenced by the pioneers of audio art and began generating sounds in 2005. He uses amplified environmental recordings, drone manipulations, structured ambient soundscapes, microtones, overtones to create iconoclastic sounds.
Audio projects are primarily focused in architectural acoustics and the relationship between architecture and sound.
Novi_sad’s debut album ‘Misguided heart pulses, a hammer, she and the clock’ received worldwide critical acclaim. Recently, Novi_sad did a recording session at the prestigious VPRO studios in Amsterdam, for the Dutch National Radio. This work, will be released by Staalplaat [NL] in the ‘Mort Aux Vaches’ series. His latest piece ‘Dramazon’ is available on TouchRadio from the publishing house Touch.
Thanasis Kaproulias is published by Touch Music.
Selected festivals and performances
- 20/03/2006 live at Polytechnic University, Thessaloniki, Greece
- 25/03/2007 live at Ultrahung festival, Budapest, Hungary
- 20/05/2007 live at Videodance festival, Athens, Greece
- 15/08/2007 live at Field recordings festival, Berlin, Germany
- 30/11/2007 live at Lab w/Fennesz+KTL, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1/12/2007 live at Theater Terrier, Malmö, Sweden
- 4/12/2007 live at Plex Music Theater, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 20/2/2008 live recording session at VPRO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 15/03/2008 Silence, aircraft noises and harmonies in pain presentation in 8 channel soundsystem at festival Zeppelin, Sonoscop, Barcelona, Spain
- 16/05/2008 Hz vs Church presentation in 16-channel soyndsystem at Electromedia Works festival, Athens, Greece
- 20/05/2008 live at the Danish Institute Athens, in quadraphonic sound, w/Jacob Kirkegaard, Athens, Greece
- 22/06/2008 live at Observatori festival, Valencia, Spain
- 05/09/2008 live at Full-Pull festival, Malmö, Sweden
- 18/09/2008 live at MIR festival, Athens, Greece