Constantinos Gallis
Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR

Hello, my name is Constantinos, & I am a Greek-Swiss artist, musician & student based in Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR. I am currently a dual degree student at MIT, pursuing a Master in City Planning & a Master of Architecture, & I hold a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University, where I graduated with departmental honors & distinction. I am curious about the effects of urban change on the natural environment & society, I have explored my interests through academic research, teaching, large scale installations, performances, audio-visual investigations, & practical work experience at firms in Athens. GR, New York, NY & London, GB.

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I am one half of Oo-PS, a collaborative research & design practice working across scales to produce narrative-driven artwork, writing, music & objects as ways of anticipating sets of future socio-environmental challenges & designing theoretical methods to meet them.

Oo-PS

I write, record, produce & occasionally perform music under the alias Shrinking Violet, a project that modulates between ambient, dreampop & indie rock in an effort to create music about memory, distance & uncertainty.

Shrinking Violet


Third PlacesBerlin, DE & Brooklyn, NY
Ambient Situational Sound Art
Third Places is collection of twelve sound-art compositions derived from twelve distinct points in Berlin, Germany. The collection is the result of an independent study I conducted entitled Twelve Views of the Fernsehturm: Klangunst Born from the Sights & Sounds of Berlin, advised by Paul DeMarinis, & supported by the Chappell Lougee Scholarship, Stanford’s most prestigious creative grant.

Third Places attempts to map & compare the audiovisual environments of different points in the city, exploring a new way in which sound art can produce work that is both informed by the environment, & informative to listeners. This project reveals the architectural differences of twelve distinct points in the city & the interplay between sound & space in each location. For each identified point in the city, I considered its spatial characteristics & identified a short phrase that acted as a spatial descriptor. Each descriptor then became the guiding theme for song. In each piece, the lyrics & instrumentation strive to reflect the descriptor.

[Listen to Third Places]
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