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[  MIC magazine

Article in the MIC magazine For the vinyl release :
MOMK Untuned in the magazine’s tribute: 2020 in Greece on 19 records.
MIC Magazine

[ National Radio of Greece Corfu department

Andreas Monopolis- MoCM Untuned album release presentation/interview on the Magic Mix Radiofonic broadcast with Spyros Chytiris 26/8/2020.

https://www.mixcloud.com/spyros-hytiris/magic-mixture-andreas-monopolis-interview-and-untuned-album-26-aug-2020/
(This show was 26th in the global interview chart and 37th in the global experimental chart.)

[  LandEscape

Review on Landscape online magazine

https://issuu.com/landescapeartpress/docs/special.edition/26

[ National Radio of Greece Corfu department

Andreas Monopolis- MoCM interview on the Magic Mix Radiofonic broadcast with Spyros Chytiris 22/3/2019

mixcloud.com/spyros-hytiris

[ Caferacers.gr

Review of the MoCM Motorcycle “City Feral”
www.caferacers.gr

[ ΕΡΤ – IN.GR Medea Electronique

www.in.gr

www.ert.gr

[ Le Monde

A. Monopolis giving an interview in the French newspaper Le Monde 27/6/2015
http://www.lemonde.fr/

[ Walk Αround ART

Walk around Art team, art and innovation in the beautiful old town of Corfu
ttp://popaganda.gr/

 

[ LIFO

There is a pure avant-garde music scene in Greece. Interview with Alexander Drymwniti on the LIFO (one of the top media in Greece) within the electronic music festival Electric Nights 2015…
www.lifo.gr

[ caferacers.gr

A. Monopolis from Corfu, is a Renaissance man and the MoCM Kawasaki GPZ 305 café racer is only a small sample of his activities
www.caferacers.gr

[ Radio Audiofobia

Radio Audiofobia is the radio program of the Art & Technology concept of Audiofobia. In this program we present the second part of the Nordlys live act at Audiofobia 2 OFFestival at OFFoff Art Cinema, Presentation of Andreas Monopolis from Greece: The genius and his creations, eLan the boy wonder from USA of the new Dilla Hop, Esther Venrooy preview track for Audiofobia 3 ONFestival. Enjoy…
www.mixcloud.com

 

[ fridge.gr – MoCM: Philosophy of Circuit Bending

The musician Andreas Monopolis explains to Tasos Papalias the philosophy of his Circuit Bending and speaks for the DIY synthesizers but also for his seminars.
http://fridge.gr

 

[ skouliki.net

 www.skouliki.net

 

[ www.alive.gr

MoCM all matter conversation with Andreas Monopolis…
www.alive.gr

[ Emission

“topicality” reportage for short films in Corfu on the local television channel START

[ Sound Maker Magazine  [10-11 /10]

SOUND RESENTATION: A laboratory of prototypes creations and electronic – hand made manufactures…

[ Radio of Czech Republic

Report and reproduction the work of Greek electroacoustics music composers from the producer Michal Rataj – Radio: Czech Radio 3
Program

[ SKAI television, emission “Shootings”[21 & 23/ 4 /08]

The journalistic research meets the travel through the SKYI television (gr) and the emission “Shootings”. Yesterday meet today and are elected the history, the tradition, the culture, the nature, the environment, the problems, the individual initiative and the collective action. Daily, permanent walking, in the television of SKY and in the radio of SKY. Came the hour for our acquaintance with Pelekas. In the way  to this we meet the astonishing murals from Pelekas Art Festivals, the juvenile events that become each summertime. In the village we calm down walking in narrow streets  and we speak with the persons that support the festival. www.girismata.skai.gr

[ SoundMakerMagazine [November 07 – No 53]

Andreas Monopolis interview : TheRoad To Zion.
If the province – and particularly the island – was composed from individuals as Andreas Monopolis, then perhaps the cultural level of things would be better……….

[ ΝΕT Report  


[ SoundMakerMagazine [October 06 – No 41]

DIRECT CONNECTION, Part I: Ιn Dub we Trust!
At  Pelekas Arts Festival, that took place in Pelekas Corfu 10th July, a collaborator of the magazine, Andreas Monopolis, in contact with one of the guest bands, DIRECT CONNECTION.….

[ Sound Maker Magazine [January 05 – No 27]

Software reviewChristos Zahos – Andreas Monopolis
MAXisagraphicalinterfaceofmusic programming. Launched in 1986 as a project of interactive music in IRCAM institute in Paris, MAX is now enriched by developing the MSP in order to contain audio data and by developing Jitter in order to contain images. 

[ Hardware review: [Andreas Monopolis  ]

Hardware reviewDr Pompei, ex researcher of MIT and founder of Holosonics (watertown Massachusetts) is consider to be one of the top innovators in the field of technology and sound due to the creation of the acoustic system Spotlight sound and the linear technology of listening. 

[ Kyma X [01 Jan 2005 ]

Τhe January 2005 issue of Sound Maker magazine features an article on Kyma X by Andreas Monopolis. A free CD included with the magazine features audio samples from Kyma and a “music video” summarizing the November 2004 seminar organized by Andreas Mniestris at Ionian University. The video opens with a moving shot travelling down a stone path and over the moat into an old castle where the music department is housed and includes several action shots of seminar presenters Carla Scaletti and Kurt Hebel demonstrating Kyma X.1, seminar participants using the Continuum Fingerboard (www.hakenaudio.com), and Scaletti using a bifurcation diagram overlay on the Wacom tablet interface controlling Kyma (www.symbolicsound.com/cgi-bin/bin/view/Company/KymaX1Released).….

[ Living arts exchange: JIM POTTS and JOHN LEE HOOKER sing ”death valley blues”

The six most recent tracks were recorded at Nikos Vrachliotis’  Studio Echo in Corfu, Greece, on May 17th, 2005, engineered by Andreas Monopolis. They include my interpretations of two famous John Lee Hooker standards, “Dimples” and “When My First Wife Left Me”, as well as Bukka White’s “Fixin’ To Die”…..

[ EARTHDANCE 2006 – International Peace Festival

In September 16, over 222 towns in 50 countries will be united under a dancing crescendo in order to support global peace.
The most interesting thing about Earthdance is the coinstantaneous internet conection (at 02:00 a.m.) when artists from all over the world that parteciapate in the festival synchronize their music in order to make an appeal for peace.
Early day hours in the Australian tropical forest, midnight in London, sunset far in the Amazon. This is a strong moment that unites people’s desire for global health and unity.
n Corfu, Earthdance will start on 16/09/06 at AU BAR with live internet connection and videos made by students of Ionian University Department of audio and visual art. On the decks, dj Petros Odin in a warm up set and the famous dj Hernan Kattaneo.
Coordinator : Α. Μonopolis

[ Musicians at Thisio concerts at theatre “Thision”

After midnight concert – (Saturday 24 April 2004)
Treatise  of the british innovative compositor Cornelius Cardew.
A band of 10 members will perform either from the theatre’s stage or from the auditorium. Performance of an important play in the history of music of the 20th century that combines improvisation and graphic score.
The performance is accompanied by video and slides projections of the play’s score and the audience in harmony with the duration and the after midnight concert, will have the chance to enjoy  the show seated, on feet or recumbent if they prefer.

[ Ich eammle klange

‘From me music is the root of other arts’‘.The one said this, his name was heinrich von Kleist, and he give the world on music, but literature. Andreas Monopolis could be a descendant from Kleist, because for him also music is the entrance to art…

[ Eleftheros Tipos Journal[4 April 05]

Color combinations with style, because cement can be transformed in paintings when fans of graffiti have the chance to create freely. This is what took place in the beautiful island of Corfu where the graffiti festival took place with the participation of many artists from all over Greece. Pelekas village welcomed the event and the young people and visitors from around the world.   

[ Eleftherotipia Journalv.9 No 308 (Christos Ksanthakis)

From June 30 to July 4, 170 entries from writers, music bands, djs, dancers and jongleurs from Greece and abroad, will meet in Pelekas village to celebrate colors and music. 

[ Kerkiraiki Apopsi Journal(Maria Melenti-Art Historian)

The municipal painting gallery of Corfu presents an innovative and different sculpting, engraving, painting and video exhibition. The main subject is the sky and the natural elements. Inaugurates in September 15 and finishes in October 10 2006.  

[ Eleftheria(Maria Melendi – Art historian)

As autumn passes by with its characteristic sky views, we decided to exhibit in the Municipal Painting Gallery the works of young artists that created, pictured and gave different interpretations of sky views. It’s the first of the four exhibitions that have as a main subject the four natural elements – wind, earth, water and fire.

[ Infinite Heaven[April 2006]

Το Infinite Heaven-foundation for the promotion for human happiness, awards Andreas Monopolis for his collaboration of vital importance in order to create the basis of the foundation.