About Efthymios

Efthymios (aka Tim) Chatzigiannis is a composer/sound artist born in Ioánnina, Greece. His musical training started at the age of 6 when he began classical piano lessons, which lasted for six years. At 14 he took up the electric guitar mainly interested in rock, blues and jazz. He started performing regularly with various bands until the age of 17, when he went to Venice to study Architecture at the Institute of Architecture of Venice. While in Venice he continued performing with various bands and studying classical harmony until he decided to leave after one year to the United Kingdom, and focus on his studies in music.

When he arrived in the UK he became acquainted with the music of Edgard Varése, Karlheinz Stockhousen, Alvin Lucier and other composers of the 20th century that influenced his thought on musical composition and sonic perception, and pushed him in exploring sound as a raw material. In 2005 he completed a BA program in Music at the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, and in 2007 he completed an MA in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Practices, specializing in Composition and Sonic Art at the Oxford Brookes University, where he is also undertaking a PhD study entitled: “The Musical Tendencies of Aural Evolutions”, exploring the creative possibilities of acoustic phenomena and the way sound’s identity is shaped by the interaction with the environment that surrounds it.

Efthymios is also composing electronic music, mainly using Logic Pro, Max/MSP and various free plug-ins. He is also using electronics in live performance on his own, with the improvisation ensemble TRATC, and improvised prog-rock band Nonstop Tango, exploring the creative possibilities of improvisation and “open” structures.