dr. kimon emmanouil grigoriadis

ninosgr (Kimon Emmanouil Grigoriadis) is a Greek composer, sound designer and maker. His work moves between the loudspeaker and the live performer: acousmatic music made from recorded sound, works for orchestra and ensemble, pieces in which dancers and players shape interactive electronics, and sound installations. Running through all of it is an interest in how we listen, and in what happens to sound when technology stands between it and the ear.

He trained in classical piano and guitar from childhood and graduated from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in 2005. The decisive step came in Wales, at Bangor University, where he studied composition with Professor Andrew Lewis. Lewis supervised both his MMus, completed in 2010, the year he also received the University's Parry Williams Prize, and his doctorate, supported by Bangor's 125th Anniversary Scholarship in Digital Sonic Art. Through Lewis he came into contact with the British acousmatic tradition of Jonty Harrison and BEAST, and with the thinking of Denis Smalley and Francis Dhomont. His doctoral portfolio, An Invitation to Listen: Exploring Engagement in Technologically Mediated Music (2016), combines acousmatic compositions with a written commentary on how listeners engage with electroacoustic sound.

At Bangor he taught music technology as a graduate teaching assistant from 2010 to 2013. He also assisted in the electroacoustic studios and with the concert series Electroacoustic Wales and Risk of Shock, including sound diffusion over a loudspeaker orchestra. He served as technical coordinator of INTER/actions, the University's symposium on interactive electronic music.

His acousmatic works include Magic Marble (2009) and Peri-Phonis (2011) for eight channels, the stereo work 7Doors (2014), and Strings On The Rocks (2014). They have been presented at Electroacoustic Wales, Risk of Shock and INTER/actions in Bangor, and at the University of Leicester. 7Doors was premiered at Pontio Arts Centre in October 2024, at the concert marking thirty years of Electroacoustic Wales.

Movement and interaction are central to his live works. In Allilepidrasi, for violin and iPhone, the phone becomes an instrument in its own right. It was performed at the INTER/actions Symposium, and was also heard at the Oxford Playground Festival and at the Kos Festival, both as an installation and with a jazz trio. In Pandora a dancer's movement, tracked by Kinect, shapes the electronics. Awakening, for violin and dancer, was performed at the Royal Academy of Music in London. His instrumental works include Ice for string quartet and clarinet, commissioned by Ensemble Cymru and premiered at the Bangor New Music Festival in 2012, and two works for large orchestra, Waves and Walking Tree (2010). In 2026 he created roundBloom, a generative sound installation shown alongside Milka Stojanovic's paintings at the Historical & Folklore Museum of Kos as part of the municipality's Hippokrateia programme.

Since his doctorate he has built software for music and beyond, working closely with artificial intelligence. moon.hands.core, a commercially released Max for Live device, is the first published part of the larger moon.hands family of tools. He is also developing Andorius, a platform of soundscapes for focus and calm. He is a woodworker and maker as well. Whether the material is sound, code or wood, he approaches it with the same craft.

He lives and works in Kos, Greece.