Konstantine Vlasis is a scholar and composer of ecological sound

My collection of work explores how sound, music, and listening mediate ecological relationships.

Soundscape recording, audio-based research, and music composition together shape my artistic and scholarly pursuits. My projects focus on climate communication and creative environmental storytelling in the form of composed musical works, data sonification, research podcasts, and audio essays. To this end, sound, music, and listening not only serve as my objects of study, but remain my leading methods for research and engagement.

My current project, “Listening With Glaciers: The Sounds and Songs of a Melting Landscape,” traces the human ecology of glaciers in Iceland through the overlapping domains of ambient sound and composed music, and uses the idea of “listening with” glaciers to develop a kind of “ecological aurality”—one’s auditory experience of changing landscapes, climates, or ecological relationships.

Moreover, music has always been a way that I connect with people. And my lifelong passions for collaboration and community have become cornerstones of my creative process.

Thank you New York University, The Leifur Eiríksson Foundation, Humanities NY, Háskóli Íslands, Listaháskóli Íslands, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Innovative Percussion, and Pearl/Adams Percussion for your support and affiliation.