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Danae Stefanou
Danae Stefanou is an associate professor at the School of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she teaches experimental music, critical studies and contemporary music history. She is founder and director of the AUTH Experimental and Improvised Music Ensembles, and two study groups on arts-based research (noise:muse) and critical historiography (critical music histories). In her research, she examines experimental and improvised music histories and aesthetics from a variety of ethnographic, archival and analytical perspectives. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals (JRMA, JIMS, Musicae Scientiae) and edited volumes, including the Cambridge Companion to Film Music (CUP, 2016), Studies in Greek Popular Music (Routledge, 2018) and Perspectives on Greek Musical Modernism (Routledge, forthcoming). As an improvising musician, she performs regularly solo, in ad hoc collaborations, and as part of the duo ‘acte vide’, with Yannis Kotsonis. She is also founder and co-director of Syros Sound Meetings, an initiative for experimental site-specific sound and intermedia projects in Syros, Greece.
Contact: School of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece.
