Kostas Drygiannakis

Costis Drygianakis (born 1965) is a Greek composer, sound artist, and producer.

He works in the genres of electroacoustic music, musique concrète, field recordings, free improvisation, and electronica. He uses found sounds and field recordings in his compositions.

Drygianakis collaborated with other composers and musicians, such as Ross Daly, Savina Yannatou, Nikos Veliotis, Reinhold Friedl, and created music for film and theatre.

Early life Drygianakis was born on March 29, 1965, in Volos, Greece. In 1976, his father died from a heart attack. When Drygianakis was 11, his mother bought him a portable cassette recorder, which he used to start experimenting with sound. In 1981 he organised another band EgoPigo. The group, including Drygianakis, Kostas Pandopoulos and occasionally Nikos Xirakis, stayed active until 1984 and produced two cassette tapes in 1983 and in 1984. in 1984, inspired by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jani Christou, Einstuerzende Neubauten and the European free improvisation. Charonitis calls "Optical Musics" 'a narrative that always stays open, both towards the images, from which it emerged, and to the images it aspires to create'. ". The publication included a booklet with memories and comments from the band members.

1988–1994 During 1988–1994 Drygianakis recorded "The Pentheus Myth" (in collaboration with Kostas Pandopoulos, 2019), "Hours and Seasons" (1993) and "Optical Musics Volume Two" (2023). In "Optical Musics Volume Two", Ross Daly and Sokratis Sinopoulos played music of Ottoman traditions.

Drygianakis contributed to Graffiti, an electronic music studio in Larissa, Greece.

Drygianakis taught computer music at Exodos, a rehabilitation centre for drug users, from 2000 to 2004.

2013–2019 Drygianakis' mother Eleni died in 2012. The releases of "Blown into Breeze" (2013), "άδηλα και κρύφια" (2015), "Wings of winds" (2016), "k/l" (collaboration with Lambros Zafeiropoulos, 2017), "Chained to the world" (2019) and "The Approach" (2019) came out as a result of Drygianakis's mourning for his mother.

2020–2022 Drygianakis collaborated with Matt Atkins (2020), with Duso (2021), with Reinhold Friedl (2025), made soundtracks for "Back to Earth" (2021), "Salt for Svanetia", (2021), "Return to homeland" (2025), and published albums "Adrift Landscapes" (2020), "New Moon" (2021), "Lost years and beyond" (2022).

Since 2020, Drygianakis has been an associate of Volos Academy for Theological Studies.

Ethnography of music Drygianakis published music and archival material about local traditions.