Profiles
Aki Pasoulas
- Academic
- Composition
- Digital
- Electronic
- Environmental
- Experimental
- Installation
- Interdisciplinary
- Research Practice
- Site Specific
- Sound art
- London
Aki Pasoulas is an electroacoustic composer and educator. He holds a PhD on timescale perception in electroacoustic music, and has been teaching since 2004 at universities in London including City, Middlesex, and the Univ. of the Arts. His doctoral research was supervised by Denis Smalley at City University London, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and investigated the listener's experience and interpretation of time passing and the interrelationships among timescales in electroacoustic music. Research interests include electroacoustic music, particularly acousmatic music; time and timescale perception; psychoacoustics and sound perception; spatial sound; and field recording and soundscape ecology, especially in relation to listening psychology.
Aki is a Sound and Music (former SPNM) shortlisted composer, he wrote many pieces for various combinations of instruments, found objects, voice, recorded and electronic sound, lyrics and a number of poems. He took part in many concerts and key events worldwide, and composed music for the theatre and for short animation films. For more information visit his website aki-pasoulas.co.uk