Professor of musicology at the University of Paris 8 (music department, "Aesthetics, musicology, dance and musical creation" laboratory) and honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Makis Solomos has published numerous works on current musical creation. His research focuses on the emergence of sound, the notion of musical space, new musical techniques and technologies, sound ecology..
An internationally-renowned specialist in the music of Xenakis, he recently published a comprehensive book on a decisive mutation in music: De la musique au son. L'émergence du son dans la musique des XXe-XXIe siècles (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013).
