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ARTIST BIO

I am Mitsitron, an interdisciplinary sound artist from Greece, currently based at Rotterdam, NL. I have been shaped by heterogeneous soundscapes and active public spaces, austerity policies and forced categorizations, the deepness of grief and the urge to transform through it.

I am currently investigating queer methodologies for sound making, coming from a need for affection with bodies, the living world, technologies and soundwaves. Sound design interventions becomes my way to question binaries, research how listening is political and frames what is considered normal, desired, noise and monstrous.

This embodied research started on 2022 and took its first form with two sibling projects: the live coding performance “Thanks for Listening” and the auto-ethnographic thesis “An embodied journey on gender essentialism de.construction through a voice and a guitar”. In “Thanks for listening” I coded a situated, digital instrument that receives vocal input and stretches it in multiple ways, in order to iteratively modify the pitch and timbre of my voice. I urged to reverse the hierarchical relationship of a human agent manipulating sound through mastering technology, creating space to feel how sound and instruments are can also manipilulate our vocal expressions.

Through the text "An embodied journey on gender de.construction through a voice and a guitar" I reflected on the tensions of being a guitarist performing in hostile cis-heteronormative spaces, as well as on the violence of having a voice that gets externally classified to a gender binary; This writing of the self was an attempt to process personal experiences in order to reach more bodies marked by gender.

I approach my performances as emotional states where research can be practiced. For this I am expressing through a guitar, open source code, my voice, heartfelt confessions, electricity, my hands, frozen memories and less heard narations.

I have studied architecture in Patras Greece, with a focus on the politics of space, counter-memory and public space interventions and Experimental Publishing in Rotterdam, focusing more into sound, code, collective publishin, everyday technology, auto-ethnographic storytelling, marginal voices and queerness.

I am part of the Platform for Extratonality that organizes live events, broadcasts and workshops around dissident sound making and Varia a space for developing collective approaches to everyday technology.

EDUCATION

Master of Art in Fine Art and Design: Experimental Publishing / 2023 Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, NL

Master in Architecture / 2020 Patras School of Architecture in Patras, GR

GRANTS

2025 / Experiment Grant Scheme from Stimulerings Fonds for the project "Voicing Comlexities"

SOUND WORK AND PERFORMANCES (SELECTED)

Sound design, live coding, composition, performance
2025-ongoing / "Voicing Complexities" , practiced-based research on sound design and queerness
2024-ongoing / "Guitar is crying to grow" performance at Roodkapje event "Killer Toaster", Rotterdam, NL
2023-2024 / “Thanks for Listening“ performance
2024 / AMRO Festival at Linz, AT
2023 / Iterations Symposium at Rotterdam, NL
2023 / Kollektivkafe Kurbad at Kassel, GE
2023 / Slash Gallery at Rotterdam, NL
2023 / Extratonal Infrastructure #6 at Varia, Rotterdam, NL

Music curation for radio
2023 / “Infrastructure as Fragments” radio event at BAK, Utrecht, NL Composition, guitar, coordination

2023-ongoing / Post-talk (band)
2023 / Extratonal Infrastructure #4 at Varia, Rotterdam, NL
2023 / Expanded Radio: Re#sister at Radio Worm, Rotterdam, NL

Queer performance
2019 / filtig and friends
4th LGBTQIA+ Self-Organised Patras Pride Festival, Patras, GR

Queer performance
2019 / supporting act of FYTA
ASFA BBQ The Garden of Dystopian Pleasures, Athens, GR

Film audio mastering
2024 / “Eh” by Birds WG

Composition, guitar, coordination
2024-ongoing / (S)low Frequencies (band)
2024 / Extratonal Infrastructure #14 at Varia, Rotterdam, NL
2024 / Performing Arts Forum at St. Erme, FR

AUDIO PRODUCTION

2024-in-progress / (S)low Frequencies live EP
2024-in-progress / Self Publishing my tracks and audio performances as Mitsitron

ARTIST TALKS

2025 / Queer Code Meetup at Creative Coding Utrecht, NL
2024 / REMIX FESTIVAL at Media Park Hilversum, NL

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

Auto-ethnographic writing on sound and gender
2023 / An embodied journey on gender essentialism de.construction through a voice and a guitar
Blobshop Collective catalogue

Sound design, audio production, web publishing, concept, curation
2022 / Radio Implicancies: Methods to Practice Interdependences

CURATION (SELECTED)

Concept, coordination, production
2024 / Extratonal Special #3: “Sound is political” at Varia, Rotterdam, NL

FACILITATION (SELECTED)

Workshop facilitation
2025 / Extratonal Graphic Notation by the Platform for Extratonality at Rotterdam Illustration Festival, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, NL
Workshop Facilitation

2025 / Social in the Media getogether with Cristina Cochior and Benjamin Earl at Varia and Roodkapje, Rotterdam and at iii, Den Haag, NL

Residency facilitation
2024 / Extratonal Residency #1: “Trains Always Bring You To The Future” by Al Nik at Varia, Rotterdam, NL
Workshop facilitation

2024 / Extratonal Education #4: “Live coding jam” with Magda Arques at Varia, Rotterdam, NL

SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT (SELECTED)

Organisation, production and curation
2018-2020 / Self-organised LGBTQIA+ Patras’ Pride Festival
Collective discussion
2017 / Victoria Square: Questions on Social Art at Documenta 14, Athens, GR