As a composer, I have written music for various theater, dance and media productions.
Composing music in my youth was regularly, along side studying the cello, I was minimising the lights in my room and starting creating sounds. I was often naming my sketches to names as ”dimension” or ”world” in order to dive into my feelings and thoughts or just while playing these tunes give myself a moment to enter this sound-(e)scapes.
Years later I returned into creating music in the same paths and style, and I always strive to capture the ephemeral moment with my music. Its nature is explorative and provocative, surprising and challenging. Coaxing electronically modulated sounds from just about every crevice of the instrument’s hollow body. My work draws huge cello synth-like overtones from manipulated pulls of the bow, electronic percussive elements and lines that skirt the periphery of neo-classical experimental electronic compositions.
Some of my notable projects as a composer
Sky Above
(for e-cello and live electronics)
Music written and performed by Antonis Pratsinakis (e-cello & live electronics)
Recorded at Nachtegaal , Amsterdam NL
Mixed & mastered by Jelle Goosens | The Mastering Factory, Eindhoven, NL
© & ℗ 2024 Antonis Pratsinakis. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited.
IL FAIT BEAU
(The Weather Is Nice)
short film soundtrack
DuStyCoTropy
for string sextet (vl.,v.l,va.,va.,vc.,vc.)
Lairon
for Roadrunner Trio
(acc. cl. vc.)
We ”ll meet again
for cello & erhu
dance performance
WE’LL MEET AGAIN
2020
A virus has stopped our world, our lives have been ‘cancelled’ for some time and we wonder whether we have a right to exist. Many art forms have now disappeared. Is art useless in times of uncertainties? No, art shares an unexpected quality with the corona virus, it abolishes our normal, safe existence, turns certainties upside down, breaks every routine, with that one difference: the virus keeps us inside, art takes us outside.
Choreography: Cunsong Xu
Music: Antonis Pratsinakis, Zheng Sun
Dancers: Gijs Hanegraaf, Maia Jadue, Tom Pham
Presenter: Lili Dong
Production: Rose Hendriks
Supporting organization:
China Cultural Center Dan Haag,
Dutch Chinese Youth Federation
Holland Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Association.
Thanks to:
Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund Amsterdam
Municipality of Heiloo
Unled
for e-cello and live electronics
Music written and performed by Antonis Pratsinakis (e-cello & live electronics)
Cinematographer / Director: Dennis Lubbers
Cast: Young woman: Thirza Riphagen Young man: Lo Walther Boer
Made with support by Sena
Special thanks to Hotel de Goudfazant
Recorded at Zeemanshuis Amsterdam, NL
Mixed & mastered by Jelle Goosens | The Mastering Factory, Eindhoven, NL
www.antonispratsinakis.com
www.dennislubbers.com
© & ℗ 2020 Antonis Pratsinakis. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited.
Blueroom
for e-cello and live electronics
Music written and performed by Antonis Pratsinakis (e-cello & live electronics)
Cinematography by Dennis Lubbers
Cast : José Carlos Domínguez, Violeta Michelle Marrero Carrilla
Recorded at Zeemanshuis Amsterdam, NL
Mixed & mastered by Jelle Goosens | The Mastering Factory, Eindhoven, NL
www.antonispratsinakis.com
www.dennislubbers.com
© & ℗ 2020 Antonis Pratsinakis. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited.
CELLECTRIC
solo cd album
e-cello and live electronics
Antonis invites his audience to join him on a journey through light and dark, the ultimate encounter with reality. CELLECTRIC creates an atmosphere that expresses emotions and desires that one cannot express in words: a trek through cinematic tunes with hidden contemporary elements and spiced up with elements of sadness, desire, joy and many other emotions life evokes.
Antonis captures the ephemeral moment with his music. Its nature is explorative and provocative, surprising and challenging. He approaches the cello composition as a mixing board. Coaxing electronically modulated sounds from just about every crevice of the instrument’s hollow body, Pratsinakis’s work draws huge cello synth-like overtones from manipulated pulls of the bow, electronic percussive elements and lines that skirt the periphery of neo-classical experimental electronic compositions.
Peony Pavillion
for solo cello and Chinese Opera traditional ensemble
During this collaboration we will explore and perform Kunqu’s Opera Masterpiece ”The Peony Pavilion / The Surprising Dream”. A new collaboration between dance group ”Groundbreakers” and ”Suzhou Kunqu Opera house” and me involved as composer and live performer.
Concept and Direction:
Fuhai Lu, Cunsong Xu
Choreographer: Cunsong Xu
Production : Roos Hendriks
Artistic advisors : Karin Post, Andrea Beugger Cellist (composision, performance) : Antonis Pratsinakis Singers: Yu Liu, Jiulin Yu, Fangguo Shen
Dancers: Tamara Kšírová, Gijs Hanegraaf Technic: Niels Runderkamp
Costumes: Magostudio
Final direction: Shaohua Cai, Bei Sun, Thea Beelen Thanks to:
Performing Arts Fund NL
Fonds Podium Kunsten
China Cultural Center Den Haag
Suzhuo Kunqu opera
Reviews from 19/09/2019, Zuiderstrandtheater, The Hague.
‘’The feelings of modern dance and the ‘’grandfather of hundred plays’’ Kunqu meet each other to create a creative artistic spark’’
‘’The addition of cello melody enriched the expression of the soundtrack’’
Xinhua News Agency, reporter Lin Liping
‘’The cello music of the modern dance group adds a new dimension to the peony pavilion’’
‘’This is the first cross-border cooperation between Kunqu and Modern Dance. The two art forms are different and complement each other allowing the audience to appreciate the classical subtle beauty of Kunqu opera and the tension and personality of modern dance.’’
reporter Yan Yuejia
The Nonsense Society
acoustic and e-cello | live electronics
dance performance
Jasper van Luijk delved into the life of composer Franz Schubert, who led a tough and short life. But he was also a man who was passionate about society. The central theme of this performance is desire. The desire that can be heard in Schubert’s work, his desire for better conditions, his desire for beauty. The desire for what has not been achieved and what might be unattainable. Inspired by this longing, Jasper reflects, together with his dancers and cellist Antonis Pratsinakis, on the life of Schubert. Compositions by Schubert are torn apart and merged with compelling new works by Antonis.
concept Jasper van Luijk
choreography Jasper van Luijk in partnership with the artists
dance Andrea Hackl and Mark Christoph Klee
composition, live performance Antonis Pratsinakis
text development Martin Rombouts
dramaturgy & support Sjoerd Vreugdenhil
light design Bas Vissers
costumes Carlijn Patermeijer
special thanks to Stacz Wilhelm, Leo Spreksel
‘Gradually and beautifully, the past merges with the present. Schubert is mixed with a new composition, acoustics are exchanged for electronic compositions and the projected text could just as well be
about an artist’s life and love in modern times’ de Volkskrant ****