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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 also makes the occasional radio programme, sporadically writes about music, and has recently started making Podcasts.
He is currently working on a couple of projects including an electronic music EP, The SAPIAN Trilogy about an imaginary AI, as well as analysing popular music songs.
As a child won a scholarship to study piano, cello and composition at music school. Aged 13 got a job waiting tables and saved up for a year to buy first AKAI synthesiser, later also bought an Alesis MIDI sequencer. At University learned music technology and has gone on to compose and produce for the concert stage, radio and film – he won the Ricordi Prize for Best Composition.
Having collaborated with artists, film directors, other musicians there is a 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, 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:
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).
PhD, Processes of creative patterning : a compositional approach, Kingston University
Award Date: 1 Sept 2015
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article
Research output: Non-Textual Output › Digital or Visual Media
Research output: Non-Textual Output › Composition
Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Non-Textual Output › Composition
Stace Constantinou (Academic) & Julie Samuels (Academic)
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Exhibition › Research
Stace Constantinou (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication Peer-review and Editorial Work › Publication Peer-review › Research
Stace Constantinou (Author)
Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Invited talk › Research
Stace Constantinou (Author)
Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Seminar/Workshop › Research