Dr Philip Samartzis is a sound artist and academic based in Melbourne with a particular interest in field recording, musique concrete and surround- sound spatialisation. He uses field recordings of natural and constructed environments as his primary material to render densities of space and discrete zones of aural experience, arranged and mixed to reflect the acoustic and spatial complexities of everyday sound fields. Samartzis's work has been exhibited widely, including presentations at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris (2001); Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2002); Mori Arts Centre, Tokyo (2003); National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2007); National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow (2009); and South African National Museum, Cape Town (2010). He has curated five Immersion festivals focusing on the theory and practice of sound spatialisation, as well as Variable Resistance, a series of international sound art presentations for the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2001), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002) and Podewil Art Center, Berlin (2003). Samartzis is a senior lecturer and Coordinator of Sound at the School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne.
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