The composer and visual artist Anestis Logothetis was born in Pyrgos, Eastern Rumelia (now Burgas, Bulgaria) in 1921 and passed away in Vienna in 1994. He was the brother of the visual artist Stathis Logothetis and father of the painter Julia Spitzer-Logothetis.
He settled in Thessaloniki with his family in 1934, where he graduated from the German School in 1941. He began his studies at the Vienna University of Technology in 1942 and continued at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (1945–1951). Later, he attended seminars and composition classes in Rome and worked at the WDR Electronic Music Studio in Cologne under Gottfried Michael Koenig, where he became well-versed in electronic music. He received numerous awards and distinctions for his musical work, primarily in Austria, as well as in Greece.
As one of the most prominent figures of the 20th-century European musical avant-garde, he left behind a rich body of work featuring radical proposals that fused image, sound, and text. His work re-evaluated the roles of the composer, performer, and listener in the music production process, and explored the sonic possibilities of computer-assisted composition. In the late 1950s, he developed a unique system of graphic notation (cf. similar innovations by W. Earl Brown, Sylvano Bussotti, and John Cage). His ‘polymorphic’ scores, filled with conceptual symbolisms, associations, and visual qualities, eventually came to be exhibited as autonomous art objects in art exhibitions, such as at the ‘TECHNI’ Macedonian Art Society (1964) and the ‘Desmos’ gallery in Athens (1975).