# Jánnos Eolou

> Film Music | Post Modern - Neo Romantic Composer


## Posts

- [Silence](https://eolou.com/silence/): Hundreds of times I have felt the need to comment on the tragic issues of everyday life worldwide that surpass all fiction, dramas that a human being cannot even imagine, let alone capture or ‘comment on’, criticize or analyze. In my case, the lack of ‘speech’, and my involvement with orchestral music place me in […]
- [The night is our home, it is our shelter](https://eolou.com/the-night-is-our-home-it-is-our-shelter/): A huge contradiction: looking at the silent universe, where sound does not exist and when it is born it does not spread, and having so many sounds born in you, so much music composed over the centuries, so many words, texts, poems, verses, so many paintings, so many thoughts, dreams, promises, trips into our inner […]
- [Tangos, Borges, Labyrinth...](https://eolou.com/tangos-borges-labyrinth/): Theseus could not know that at the other end of the labyrinth was the other labyrinth, that of time, and that Medea was in a predetermined place. The ‘mitos’ is lost. So is the maze. This ‘mitos’, this myth we may find and lose in an act of faith, in a harmony, in a dream, […]
- [Recording of the Tangos of the Magic Reality – December 2022…](https://eolou.com/recording-of-the-tangos-of-the-magic-reality-december-2022/): Sofia, Bulgaria, December 2022.The center of an old city with a new facade, of a society that carries a heavy and dark history with specific bright ‘parts’. Music education is fortunately one of the brightest. The level of musicians and orchestral ensembles is excellent, and this is why European cinema very often records soundtracks in […]
- [1922: A Century in Ionia, Thrace and Pontus.](https://eolou.com/1922-a-century-in-ionia-thrace-and-pontus/): I was asked to compose music for the commemorative tribute organized by Thessaloniki International Trade Fair-Exhibition in September 2022. A tribute to the events that 100 years ago led hundreds of thousands of Greeks from Asia Minor, Pontus, Thrace to leave their lands and to run away as refugees to Greece It is a video […]
- [Unsurpassable Beauty](https://eolou.com/unsurpassable-beauty/): It is only in the 2nd half of the 20th century till today that beauty is so underestimated in art, almost demonized. No one is allowed to create something beautiful if he wants to be taken seriously. In painting because it resembles naïf and realistic painting culture of the Eastern European iron curtain, in music […]
- [The less, the more…](https://eolou.com/the-less-the-more/): As years go by, I find myself trying to compose for less and less instruments, striving for a more intimate voice, a closer ‘look’ to my thoughts and emotions.
- [What is the purpose of Art today?](https://eolou.com/what-is-the-purpose-of-art-today/): Have you ever wondered “why do we need Art today?” – or even better “do we need Art today?” Art, in the 19th and even early 20th century used to be associated with everyday activities like ‘entertainment’: a gathering at some friend’s living room or a collector’s exhibition room or a gallery later on, a […]
- [Nikos Kazantzakis, a Romantic](https://eolou.com/nikos-kazantzakis-a-romantic/): I am often asked about the people who influenced me most. And I often answer, ‘Puccini and Wagner’, and just after the two masters, Rimsky Korsakov. Puccini when it comes to melody and drama, Wagner when it comes to harmonic structure but also to his ideals about ‘Total Theatre’ and Rimsky Korsakov for his orchestration […]
- [La Forêt des Vœux  - The Forest of Oaths](https://eolou.com/la-foret-des-voeux-the-forest-of-oaths/): The Forest is a magic grid, a place where one is fully immersed, surrendered, a place that bares codes and secrets, incomprehensible connections, such as the nervous system inside our body has. In such a Forest, within our sympathetic and parasympathetic system, in a place residing amongst thoughts and feelings, subconscious projections, suppressed fears but […]
- [CORPUS AETERNUM (part 2)](https://eolou.com/corpus-aeternum-part-2/): While working on the Corpus Aeternum composition I strived to look upon Human Body as a ‘part of a structure’, that also holds, imbeds the ‘Whole’, as Hippocrates suggested. The Eternal Body that houses ‘the Whole’, ‘the One’, denotes, decodes it, allows it to interact but also provides with a solid reason to transcend its […]
- [CORPUS AETERNUM (part 1)](https://eolou.com/corpus-aeternum-part-1/): CORPUS AETERNUM A new composition for Mixed Choir and Piano More than a year ago I was asked to create a new work on/about/around the theme of Hippocrates, by my home town, Larissa (Greece). Not a lot of people know that Hippocrates, who was born in the island of Kos, spent his last 10 years […]
- [Why do we trust simplicity?](https://eolou.com/why-do-we-trust-simplicity/): A music theme is powerful, direct, understood, loved, remembered when it is simple! From nursery songs to Doctor Zhivango’s main theme, from Beethoven’s two notes in 5th symphony to Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, simplicity prevails! Who could argue with Einstein’s beautiful equation e=mc2? It resembles Newton’s first law f=ma. Simple, universal, powerful. Like life itself! […]
- [The myth of music being 'in front of/above' the film](https://eolou.com/the-myth-of-music-being-in-front-ofabove-the-film/): I have heard it so many times in my life, I just can not stay quiet anymore. First I’ve heard it from mediocre directors: ‘the music was far too important than the film’, or ‘the music took over the film’. It is a nice way to say that the film was bad – no? Now, […]
- [Going from A to B!](https://eolou.com/going-from-a-to-b/): All my life I am trying to go from A to B, and B keeps changing, drifting further away, becoming A suggesting another B further down the road. Kavafis said that we should wish the distance from A to B to be as long as possible, because it is not the destination that counts but […]
- [Why do we need stories?](https://eolou.com/why-do-we-need-stories/): Many times I have been asking myself this. Why do we like to hear (or watch) a good story? Is it because we are curious to see what happens in the end? But you have to be interested in the story before that, otherwise you wouldn’t care. Is it because we like to be ‘surprised’, […]
- [The next level for VST instruments](https://eolou.com/the-next-level-for-vst-instruments/): Have you ever wondered why VST instruments never sound like the real orchestras? I know you will tell me about all the subtle interpretations and phrasing of each musician which are not able to reproduce, all the processing into the musicians’ mind that changes from legato to spiccato, to glissando and so on, all the […]
- [The Ideal orchestra](https://eolou.com/the-ideal-orchestra/): Orchestras have a long story and has been changing their size, formation and tone, if I may say, over the centuries. Modern orchestras, mainly film orchestras that I mostly deal with, can be almost of any formation you can think of, including the traditional but also un-conventional instruments. We all have an idea of the […]
- [Composing for the Time Squatters Saga](https://eolou.com/composing-for-the-time-squatters-saga/): For quite some time now I’ve been working on the Time Squatters Saga. I’ve written the novel and composed the ‘Book Soundtrack’. A Book Soundtrack is basically a soundtrack that musically describes the scenes of the Book as well as the characters, the overall mood and more. In each chapter of the book there is […]
- [What is a personal voice in music composition?](https://eolou.com/what-is-a-personal-voice-in-music-composition/): We all agree that technology has advanced our lives in ways unimaginable a few years ago. One wouldn’t even want to think how life would be without the web, tablets, GPS, tweets every couple of seconds, a sequencer for composers or Sibelius (if you are still one of us who actually write notes on paper…) […]
- [How do you compose music?](https://eolou.com/how-do-you-compose-music/): If I had a ‘facebook like’ every time I get asked this question… Of course this is only hypothetical, since I do not have a facebook page. When I try to answer, although I state that I can’t answer the question, I slowly start to get an idea myself of how it should be done. […]
- [INTERSTELLAR – A great use of Dynamics](https://eolou.com/interstellar-a-great-use-of-dynamics/): By dynamics we mean the general perceived loudness of music (or sound in general). It is common knowledge, something like second nature in every one working with sound these last decades the ‘loudness war’. This is a war of trying to fit more ‘perceived loudness’ into the digital world by over-compressing the hell out of […]
- [Sound, part of nature...](https://eolou.com/sound-part-of-nature/): How often do we have the chance to be lost far in a forest, completely isolated by the rest of the world, the noise of the cities and modern life? Not as often as I would like, I admit. But for the last few days, I had the luck to experience it to the maximum, […]
- [The rhythm in editing is what makes music](https://eolou.com/the-rhythm-in-editing-is-what-makes-music/): Have you ever thought what makes music and image stick together? What makes us perceive it as if it was always there? I guess most people, although they know it isn’t true, they could be convinced that music was present on the live shooting set at some point or another of certain films. Is it […]
- [People are unhappy because there is not enough music in our lives](https://eolou.com/people-are-unhappy-because-there-is-not-enough-music-in-our-lives/): When I was a kid back in the 70s and 80s, as people of my age can remember, music was all around us. The glorious radio days were an introduction to this marvellous universe for most of the people. I remember having to rush home from school to listen to a specific radio producer who […]

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- [Reviews](https://eolou.com/review/): Reviews on Tangos of the Magic Reality‘…Jánnos Eolou transferred the tango feeling to his compositions with a constant transformation of tonality, melodies and of course orchestrations. He combined the restrained sadness and “underground” melancholy of tango with the seductive quality of magical realism to present multiple alternative views of the surrounding world in his “Tangos […]
- [Videos](https://eolou.com/videos/): ‘Elyseé‘ from the Tangos of the Magic Reality. String Orchestra, Piano and Accordion. (For full perfomance credits watch the end titles)   ‘Panther‘ from the Tangos of the Magic Reality. String Orchestra, Piano and Accordion. (For full perfomance credits watch the end titles) https://youtu.be/s8AugIbh13chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91pyBqop5HY ‘Mia Stigmi gia Panta‘ from the Christmas Tango (Tango ton Hristougenon). […]
- [Tangos of the Magic Reality](https://eolou.com/tangos-of-the-magic-reality/): TANGOS OF THE MAGIC REALITY Best Composer Best Original Composition Best Album Winner of the Year Best Instrumental Album   Honorable Mention Listen to the Album Playing Previous Song Play Pause Next Song / Long Summer Shaddows Panther Maze Wind On Sand Erased Notebook Star Necklace Skopelos Panama Hat Elyseé Trying To Remember What I Can't […]
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- [Personal Note](https://eolou.com/personal-note_2/): Music for me was always about creating stories, new worlds that I wanted to live in, or worlds I was afraid I might have to live in… So, I started composing literally even before learning how to play music because the journey just couldn’t wait… I also write novels and scripts… and when it came […]
- [Concerts](https://eolou.com/concerts/): Jánnos Eolou, in his career of more than 25 years, has scored many films and composed works for many different group sizes spanning from Full Symphonic, Choral, Chamber, hybrid with ethnic musicians and so on. STRING ORCHESTRA – TANGOS During the last 10 years he composes music in the genre of Tango crafting his own […]
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- [Music Works](https://eolou.com/music-works/): New Release Audio CD Visit the webpage for full description Music Player – 16 Selected Tracks (scroll down) PANTHER (Tangos of the Magic Reality) MIA STIGMI GIA PANTA (Christmas Tango Soundtrack) ESCAPE… TO BOY'S DREAM (Hero in Rome Soundtrack) LIGHT IS TO BLAME – Above and Beneath (Narcissus) CANTO DI SOLINO (Solino Soundtrack) ROSIE AT […]
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- [Random Thoughts](https://eolou.com/random-thoughts/): Recent Posts Recording of the Tangos of the Magic Reality – December 2022… Sofia, Bulgaria, December 2022.The center of an old city with… Read More Tangos, Borges, Labyrinth… Theseus could not know that at the other end of… Read More The night is our home, it is our shelter A huge contradiction: looking at the […]
- [Short CV](https://eolou.com/short-cv/): POST MODERN | NEO-ROMANTIC CONTEMPORARY MUSIC COMPOSERFILM SOUNDTRACK SCORING BEST COMPOSER – BEST ALBUM – BEST ORIGINAL COMPOSITION – WINNER OF THE YEAR 2023 – TANGOS OF THE MAGIC REALITY BEST INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM – TANGOS OF THE MAGIC REALITY BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – TANGO TON HRISTOUGENON (2012) – HELENIC FILM ACADEMY BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – […]
- [HOME](https://eolou.com/home/): Music for me was always about creating stories, new worlds that I wanted to live in, or worlds I was afraid I might have to live in…So, I started composing literally even before learning how to play music because the journey just couldn’t wait…I run with music when I have to, I fear through music […]


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