Nikos Veliotis


Nikos Veliotis is a Greek musician, composer and cellist.

Biography

Nikos Veliotis initially studied classical piano until the age of 16. He
became involved in the Athens underground electronic
music scene and founded In Trance 95 together with
Alex Machairas in 1988. He took up the cello at the age
of 21. By the end of the 90s he was totally devoted to
the experimental field in both sound and image,
performing solo or in regular groups. During the early 2000s he started a collaboration with fellow Greek
musician Giannis Aggelakas with whom they released
two albums to date.
In 2008 he founded Mohammad
together with ILIOS Coti K. On 21 March 2009 he turned his cello into powder during a live performance with the title ‘Cello Powder ’ at the Install
Festival in Glasgow, U.K. He is the owner of a curved bow. He has composed music for dance, theatre and films. From 2000 to 2007 Veliotis organised the 2:13 festival of experimental music in Athens, Greece.

Selected discography

Solo

  • β, Confront Recordings
  • Radial, Confront Recordings
  • Folklor Invalid, Antifrost With Giannis Aggelakas

    Collaborations

  • 28/04/2001, absurd, with Costis Drygianakis
  • VW, absurd, with Dan Warburton
  • Quartet, Hibari Music, with Taku Sugimoto, Kazushige Kinoshita, Taku Unami
  • The Harmless Dust, Vectors, Headz, with David Grubbs
  • Οι Ανάσες Των Λύκων, Alltogethernow, EMI
  • Πότε Θα Φτάσουμε Εδώ, Alltogethernow, EMI
  • Slugabed, Hibari Music, with Klaus Filip
  • Caspian Black, Alt.Vinyl, with Xavier Charles

    Groups

  • In Trance 95
  • Cranc
  • Looper
  • MMMD / Mohammad / MMMD

    Compositions

  • V based on violin & cello recordings
  • qpdbqp for 6 musicians
  • aceghd for string quartet
  • FULL for cello overdubs
  • Mugs on Speed for 9 Mugs on Marble
  • 4D for 0 ensemble

    Compositions for Cello with [Curved Bow]

  • Haris Kittos - ÁTROPO 2002
  • Reynaldo Young - earlier person under the train 2002
  • Dimitris Kamarotos - 85:03:03 2002
  • Michalis Adamis - ANELIGMA 2002
  • Daryl Runswick - SONATA 2002
  • Dai Fujikura - Secret Breath 2001

    Intermedia

  • Vomvos 2003, for cello and video
  • Cello Powder 2009, multimedia performance for pre-recorded cello, video and live action