Anthony Pateras

 
Anthony Pateras (born 1979) is an Australian-born composer, pianist and electro-acoustic musician active since the late 90s. His music explores electro-acoustic orchestration, auditory hallucination and polytemporality.
His work has been recognised through the 2020 Michael Kieran Harvey Scholarship, residencies at Akademie Schloss Solitude, La Becque and ZKM, fellowships from Creative Victoria, Ian Potter & Sydney Myer Foundations, and representing Australia twice at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers.
Pateras has been commissioned internationally by INA-GRM, Südwestrundfunk, ensemble]h[iatus, Eklekto, Kitchen Orchestra, the City of Modena, Musica Sanae Festival, Festival Archipel and Synergy Percussion. His pieces have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC & Toronto Symphony Orchestras, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Golden Fur and ICE, among many others.
Anthony Patera also works with text and film, recently completing an adaptation of Jump Cuts by Sasha Soldatow & Christos Tsiolkas with James Rushford, music for The Man Who Disappeared by semiotext(e) founder Sylvère Lotringer, and Another Other, an audio-visual re-imagining of Ingmar Bergman's Persona with Natasha Anderson, Sabina Maselli and Erkki Veltheim for Chamber Made.
Pateras' longest running collaborations are with the composer/violinist Erkki Veltheim (in duo, in tētēma & in North of North with Scott Tinkler), and with the electronic musician Jérôme Noetinger, specialising in musique concrète environments using piano, electronics and tape machines.
He has also worked extensively with the programmer & mathematician Rohan Drape on multiple keyboard and ensemble works.
Pateras has also collaborated with Sunn O))), Anthony Burr, eRikm, Oren Ambarchi, Mike Patton or James Rushford on various recording projects, and notable bands include Thymolphthalein, PIVIXKI and Pateras/Baxter/Brown.
Anthony has published over 40 albums of his music on labels Tzadik, Editions Mego, Ipecac, All That Dust, Cave12 and Penultimate Press, and from 2012-2019 edited and produced the 15 volume Immediata text/music project.
From 2001-2008 he completed a Masters and PhD at Monash University which both focused on the intersection of composition, improvisation and electronic music, in relation to timbre and form.

See also Thymolphthalein (Natasha Anderson, Will Guthrie, Jérôme Noetinger, Anthony Pateras & Clayton Thomas); Extended Pianos (Erik Griswold, Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox); Astral Colonels (Anthony Pateras & Valerio Tricoli); North of North (Anthony Pateras, Scott Tinkler & Erkki Veltheim); 176 (Chris Abrahams & Anthony Pateras); Pateras/Baxter/Brown.

(external link : www.anthonypateras.com)
 
Anthony Pateras - Sept duos pour guitare acoustique & piano préparé (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
currently out of stock
The second collaboration between Stephen O'Malley and Anthony Pateras, this time entirely acoustic, based around an acoustic guitar and prepared piano: a music that seems suspended, captivating by its almost organic coherence and modal simplicity, behind which resonances and subtle plays of pitch develop.
Anthony Pateras - Collected Works Vol. II (2005-​2018) (5 CD box set)
2019
Immediata
60.00 50.00 €
A 5-disc overview of exploratory works written between 2005 and 2018, including long-form ensemble pieces, idiosyncratic trio combinations and a collection of 10 solos investigating various potential in teractions between instrument and tape.
Anthony Pateras - Albédo (vinyl LP + CD)
2019
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
A sound dialogue between eRikM and Anthony Pateras.
Anthony Pateras - Ellesmere (CD)
2018
Immediata
14.00 12.00 €
Sun-blasted organ music from Australia.
Anthony Pateras - Rêve Noir (CD)
2018
Immediata
sold out
Cross-continental tape exorcisms.
Anthony Pateras - Blood Stretched Out (CD)
2017
Immediata
14.00 12.00 €
21st century piano music (the first solo piano album by Anthony Pateras in 10 years, marking the mid-point of the Immediata series).
Anthony Pateras - Beauty Will Be Amnesiac Or Will Not Be At All (CD)
2017
Immediata
14.00 12.00 €
An hour-long percussion sextet featuring the instrumentation from Xenakis' Pleïades.
Anthony Pateras - The Slow Creep Of Convenience  (CD)
2017
Immediata
14.00 12.00 €
A single extended work presenting the pipe organ and electric violin as a unified timbral force, producing exquisite and hypnotic sensorial phenomena over 50 minutes.
Anthony Pateras - The Long Exhale (CD)
2016
Immediata
14.00 12.00 €
Seven meditations for clarinets, pianos and electronics: The Long Exhale catalogues psychoacoustic experiments and sparse acoustic excursions undertaken between 2014 and 2015 by Australian composer/performers Anthony Burr (clarinets, ARP 2600) and Anthony Pateras (piano, prepared piano).
Anthony Pateras - Entertainment = Control (CD)
2015
Immediata
(last copies available!)
14.00 12.00 €
Long-range acoustic hallucinations for violin (Anthony Pateras) and piano (Erkki Veltheim).
Anthony Pateras - Collected Works 2002​-​2012 (5 CD box set)
2012
Immediata
sold out
A 5-disc overview of exploratory works written between 2002 and ​2012.


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