stelios.exe is a musician/producer/performer based in Marseille. He builds bridges between Renaissance and post-club music, two genres born three centuries apart, but both linked by their abrasive, expressionist writing.
Renaissance counterpoint, a compositional technique that develops several simultaneous melodies, is integrated here into a post-modern maximalist approach, where codes and effects are exaggerated and pushed to the limit.
The Renaissance flute, played live, and the voice thus emerge from a radical electronic sound design, like rays of light through a distorting stained-glass window, where familiar elements are warped, altered...
The musician's approach is part of the deconstructive movement: it seeks to break down the barriers between genres and fuse popular influences with so-called "scholarly" concepts.