MEET THE COMPOSERS: HELEN PAPAIOANNOU
Helen Papaioannou’s work draws from her varied experiences across electronic music, performing in bands, improvised musics, and experimental ensemble compositions. She is based in Leeds (UK).
Across her music, Helen’s style derives partly from a fascination with minimal sound palettes and evolving patterns, matched with an unrelenting intensity that spills out into music that is at once stark, visceral, playful, and precarious. She indiscriminately mixes a jigsaw of ideas and sounds from cultures of industrial, drone, electronic music, no wave and contemporary composition.
Helen’s ensemble compositions have often played with systems that intensify a focus on the interpersonal and social aspects of coordinating rhythmic actions or patterns.
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