Konstantine Vlasis is an environmental composer, percussionist, audio researcher, 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 is a means for climate communication and environmental storytelling. As a composer, Vlasis has become an emerging voice within environmental, art-science, and soundart 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, "2124" (2024) and "A Song for Lost Trees" (2024), expressly focus on ecological awareness, creative approaches to musical sustainability, and art-science collaboration. Vlasis is an NYU Torch Fellow, Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellow, Fulbright-NSF Arctic Research Fellow, Fulbright-National Geographic Fellow, a Ph.D. candidate in music and sound studies at New York University, a visiting music lecturer at Listaháskóli Íslands, and a performing member of the percussion quartet, APEX Percussion.
Geographic Explorer. His projects, public talks and performances center on the ways that sound and listening mediate experiences of changing landscapes, and how music is a means for climate communication and environmental storytelling. As a composer, Vlasis has become an emerging voice within environmental, art-science, and soundart 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, "2124" (2024) and "A Song for Lost Trees" (2024), expressly focus on ecological awareness, creative approaches to musical sustainability, and art-science collaboration. Vlasis is an NYU Torch Fellow, Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellow, Fulbright-NSF Arctic Research Fellow, Fulbright-National Geographic Fellow, a Ph.D. candidate in music and sound studies at New York University, a visiting music lecturer at Listaháskóli Íslands, and a performing member of the percussion quartet, APEX Percussion.