Vlasis, Konstantine
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Website: https://www.konvlasis.com/
Dr. Konstantine Vlasis is an environmental composer, audio researcher, percussionist, NYU Torch Fellow, Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellow, Fulbright-NSF Arctic Research Fellow, Fulbright-Nat Geo Award recipient and National Geographic Explorer. His projects, public talks, and performances center on the ways that sound and listening mediate experiences of changing landscapes, and how music can be a form of climate communication and environmental storytelling.
As a composer, Vlasis has become a leading voice within environmental, art-science, and audiovisual composition. His music blends complex rhythmic structures, minimalist textures, and sound design to create environmentally conceptual and immersive pieces. In this regard, Vlasis explicitly builds his works upon pre-existing musical textures created by nonhuman entities, natural soundscapes, and environmental phenomena. His recent compositions expressly focus on ecological awareness, creative approaches to musical sustainability, and the efficacy of art-science collaboration.
Vlasis is a visiting lecturer at Listaháskóli Íslands, a research affiliate of Háskóli Íslands, an Innovative Percussion Artist, a performing member of APEX Percussion, and a National Geographic Explorer.[1]
Works for Percussion
2124 - Multiple Percussion/Environmental Work
Ablation - Percussion Quartet
A Song For Lost Trees - Percussion Quartet/Environmental Work
Three Short Songs - Percussion Duo
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