Maniou Katerina
Academic Fellow
Research Interests: Sound Studies, Voice Studies, Systematic and New musicology. Opera, Music Theater, 20th and 21st cent.music, performance art and digital drama. Political philosophy, ontology, phenomenology, philosophy of language/psychology/technology. Anthropology of sound/ of performance and digital anthropology.
Vocal performer, musicologist, and independent researcher. PhD: “Aspects of Modernism and Postmodernism in Alfred Schnittke‘s work” (Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens) under the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). She holds Opera Singing (First Prize), Piano, and Music Theory Diplomas.
As a practitioner, she focuses on contemporary classical music, multimedia, improvisation, experimental voice and performance art. She has collaborated with Greek National Opera, Onassis Foundation (Sgt), Song of the Goat Theater Company (Wroclaw) , Medea Electronique, Alea III as well as with groups and individual artists from the opera, dance and theatrical performance such as Jenny Drivala, Joe Tornabene, Anna Tzakou, , etc.
She has published articles, created/ participated in performance lectures, broadcasts, sound installations and recordings in conferences/residencies/festivals in Greece and abroad. Lately she combines experimental vocal performance with independent research, drawing from interdisciplinary fields in a path of theorizing and artistically investigating voice.
