Dr Stace Constantinou

Stace Constantinou, PhD is a senior lecturer and programme leader for the Popular Music course at The University of Northampton. He has twenty-year’s experience as a musician, composer/ songwriter.  He makes monthly podcasts for UON, as well as the occasional radio programme, and sporadically writes about music.

A sound-and-music creative, he is currently working on a live, quadra+phonic, immersive framework and model for knowledge exchange. Recently he finished two Soundscapes for the Royal Society of Arts (RSA Augmented Society Network), an electronic music EP, The SAPIAN Trilogy about an imaginary AI, as well as submitting a book proposal on popular music analysis for OUP.

As a child won a scholarship to study piano, cello and composition at music school. A job waiting tables meant he could save up for a year to buy first AKAI synthesiser, later he bought an Alesis MIDI sequencer. At University he learned music technology and has gone on to compose and produce for the concert stage, radio and film. He is a Ricordi Prize for Best Composition prize winner, and Schillinger Composition prize winner.

Having collaborated with artists, film directors, other musicians, he has a dynamic, eclectic and natural collaboarative research dimension to his work. He uses mathemusic and technological aspect to his work, including patterning and concepts for musical composition/ production practice. Technology also plays a very important role in his music producing, with a strong capability in using various digital audio workstation (DAW) software including Logic X, Max, Pro Toosl, Ableton, and Sibelius.

Composes and produces a range of styles and mediums including for solo instruments, ensembles, popular, electronic, concert music and music for media. Having produced a number of radio programmes about music has also written a chapter on the Audio Object for Routledge.

His works have been performed in concerts, festivals and exhibitions in Britain, Greece, Finland, Australia and more recently in the USA and Japan too. His music has also been featured on the radio including Resonance FM and BBC national radio too.

Currently working on part two of a trilogy of programmatic electronic music works, exploring artificial intelligence in relation to science and ontological ideas, from writers as diverse as Joanna Zylinska, G. I. Gurdieff, Kurzweil/ Minsky, Nick Bostrom, Caroline Bassett and Kate Crawford.

Writing a book proposal on popular song analysis, using a new analytical tool.

Also investigating the potentiality of attempting to adapt reduced symmetry in mathematics into a digital signal process (DSP) for use in music production.

Other interests include:

• I'm also interest in sound as a creative medium with which to work with.
• Musical Creativity and Composition/ Songwriting.
• Novelty in Music.
• The impact and use of technology on musicmaking.
• Music analysis (popular music song analysis primarily).
• The nature and impact of patterns on music making.
• Machine learning in music creation (including the use of AI).

Resonance FM (including Resonance Extra)

Angel Studios, London

The Podcast Company

I am first supervisor to two practice based PhD in the arts students.

Gemma Boaden
The development and implementation of a hybrid voice practice for actors in various performance environments: a creative approach.

Michael W. Bell
Experiential Soundtracks: A Creative, Programmatic Approach Utilising Contemporary Spatial and Multichannel Audio Technologies (CS-MAT).