Levant Noir

Classically trained as a guitarist at the Hellenic Conservatory, shaped by masters of the Eastern Mediterranean mākam tradition and the Persian dastgāh — modal systems that breathe with Byzantine chant lineages. Studies in film composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Guildhall, alongside avant-garde electronic music and synthesis at Berklee, helped me navigate between intuition and form.

The Eastern Mediterranean mākams and Persian dastgāh remain at the core — breathing, migrating systems that mirror the movements of people and time. Sacred songs that crossed from Asia Minor, fading chants and modal fragments carrying shared memories across the Levant.

My work spans film scores, sound design for podcasts, theatre, and collaborations with visual artists, choreographers, and performers. Performances weave lavta, mandolin, bendir, and guitar with modular electronics — often recorded live, never repeated. I'm drawn to imperfection: the hiss of tape, the drift of feedback, the microtonal inflections of handmade instruments.

In modular synthesis, I follow the Buchla lineage — voltage as gesture, patching as composition. West Coast synthesis philosophy shapes my approach: complex oscillators, wavefolds, and low-pass gates that breathe with organic decay. The instrument becomes a collaborator, its unpredictability a form of listening.