Kostas Antonakoglou

Hello world

I am writing this post from my freshly installed Fedora 16 (If you still haven’t downloaded and installed yet I suggest you do it). I am really excited and proud I am using Gnome 3.2. It has achieved a tremendous change on how we must start to perceive our desktop environment. It also does this with style (with minimal touches that I really love). And so far is doing great in terms of stability. No freezes at all. OK, some small details on some drivers is my weak point but I have to blame the manufacturers for that. Well, something I always wanted to yell on the internet: WHY ON EARTH DON’T YOU RELEASE LINUX DRIVERS? …sigh. Anyway everything runs smoothly.

Moving on to our next subject. Well, it’s about my studies. I am doing my master’s degree at the University of Athens. It’s an interdepartmental master of the Physics Department and the IT Department focusing on Electronics Automation…hell yeah. It’s not easy, but I enjoy it so far

Now, to the last subject. I uploaded my new album on Jamendo!!! It’s called “The pursuit of happiness“.I think it’s my best work so far…I have until now a very productive year. I hope the following years will be the same as this one. I don’t want to say much, it would be better if you just listen

Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you enjoy it !

Dear all,

I am glad to announce that I just published my new work. It’s a soundtrack for a theatrical play named “Έξι αρχεία κρυμμένα“  that means “six hidden files”. No it has nothing to do with Linux and you can’t unhide them with control+H.

As I already said, this album contains all the songs and effects used at the theatrical play of Tomas Diafas “six hidden files”. Six roles, six hidden documents. This play is inspired from last year’s incidents at the center of Athens, showing a different chain of events and personal misfortunes created from a protest. A theatrical play for the protests around us that reveal the protests inside us.

Download it in OGG format : http://bit.ly/fpaFbU

click to listen the album on Jamendo

===== Ελληνικά / Greek =====

Τα κομμάτια αυτά γράφτηκαν για τη παράσταση “Έξι αρχεία κρυμμένα” του σκηνοθέτη-συγγραφέα Θωμά Διάφα με πρωταγωνιστές έξι χαρακτήρες, έξι αρχεία κρυμμένα, εμπνευσμένη από τα περσυνά τραγικά επεισόδια στο κέντρο της Αθήνας και για το πως αυτά δημιουργούν μια αλληλουχία άλλου είδους προσωπικών επεισοδίων. Μια παράσταση για τις διαδηλώσεις γύρω μας που μαρτυρούν τις επαναστάσεις μέσα μας.Περισσότερες πληροφορίες:  http://bit.ly/hp1OBC

Ηθοποιοί:
Περικλής Ασημακόπουλος
Έφη Κατσαφάρου
Ελευθερία Κατσούπη
Νάντια Παυλάκη
Βασιλική Σκρέκου
Απόστολος Φράγκος

Σκηνοθεσία- Κείμενο: Θωμάς Διάφας
Σκηνικά – Κοστούμια: Δομνίκη Βασιαγεώργη
Επιμέλεια Κίνησης: Αφροδίτη Βερβενιώτη
Μουσική: Κωνσταντίνος Αντωνάκογλου
Βοηθός σκηνοθέτη: Αθανασία Ανδρώνη
Κομμώσεις- Μακιγιάζ: Καίτη Αραβαντινού

Yeah! I just uploaded my new album “Colourful Explorations” (under CC by-nc-sa.) on Jamendo! On Thursday, I also did my first live appearance with the band I am playing the keys and the guitar, the “Wonky doll and the echo”! (big name huh?)  Went great!

As you might have seen in each title,  one colour is mentioned! I started writing this album just before this year’s summer, other ideas were older others are quite new. I still have a few songs I didn’t publish, but it will be a surprise for the next album

Just a warning, please use good speakers (not usual laptop speakers) to enjoy all the album and to listen to it properly. I use a lot of low frequencies in many pieces that can not pass from these kind of sound systems.

Μια ακόμη συλλογή με instrumental τραγούδια, που αγκίζουν αρκετά όμως είδη μουσικής, έρχεται να κάνει παρέα στην πρώτη που ανέβασα πέρσυ στο Jamendo. Με άδεια Creative Commons by-nc-sa πάντα   για να την μοιράζεστε (και όχι μόνο) ελεύθερα.

Scream of a butterfly

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/67942

Guess what! A new album on Jamendo and of course it’s another creative commons by-nc-sa licenced one . It’s instrumental including various genres. I hope you will enjoy it

Hola! Esta es mi primera vez que escribo en español en mi blog personal. Es porque he cargado mi segundo álbum en Jamendo . Espero que os guste!

“Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. Share your music, download your favorite artists!”

A long time ago I just really felt I could share the music I make.Even before that one happened, I was experimenting with sounds and I was trying to play music that possibly exceeded my skills in order to become even better. Playing the piano or the guitar (the electric guitar actually) was sometimes the time to relax or to express various emotions.

So, the truth is that I wanted this whole project to be completed only with open source tools. And that’s what happened. For this project I used Fedora 10, JACK,  Qsynth and Ardour. There are even more tools I can use like Zynaddsubfx (extremely cool app) etc. Thanks CCRMA !

I know you may find the sound quality a bit disappointing but this is due to the insufficient amount of time I spent to set up the apps. Also, consider that every time I had to record I had to improvise (or remember the notes) because there was no music sheet.

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/43228

Disrupt the light cover