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Nomads I Meet: Smomid from LA
We met at art residence. If you’ve ever met a person you felt very comfortable with right away, that’s how Nick is. He is a musician from LA, lived in NYC for many years. Nick is very creative and makes musical instruments by himself. This is his story.
Who is Nick Demopoulos? What’s your story as a a musician and when did you start nomading?
I ask myself who I am everyday and it’s constantly changing. Perhaps I am mentally a nomad as well as a geographic one. In short I am a musician who makes my own instruments that emit sound and light through LED animations, I was ultimately unsatisfied with the digital instruments that are commercially available so I started making my own in 2010. I make the software that goes with the instruments as well. I am fully taking advantage of the exciting times we live in as well, since my instruments use micro controllers like Arduino and Teensy, small computers like Raspberry Pi, and rapid prototyping methods like 3d modeling and CNC machines to fabricate my instruments.
In terms of music I started playing guitar when I was 14 years old. I was first attracted to heavy metal, then fusion, then jazz, then jazz funk, then experimental music, then electronic music. Today I really like almost every kind of music and I think, even though people try and categorize my music, or me as an artist, all the universal…
