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Dr Aki Pasoulas is a composer working mostly with recorded, environmental and processed sound. He is currently Reader at the University of Kent, and Director of Music & Audio Arts Sound Theatre (MAAST). He has served as Director of Education, Director of Music Programmes, deputy Director of Research, Co-Director of the Centre for Creative and Practice Research, Chief Examiner and Senior Tutor. He holds a PhD on timescale perception in electroacoustic music (AHRB-funded), and he taught at universities in London including City, Middlesex, and the University of the Arts.

He was the Principal Investigator of the research project ‘Sonic Palimpsest’, exploring our experience of heritage sites through sound; the Co-Investigator of the project ‘Liminal Spaces’ researching remote areas by uncovering their hidden voices and activities; and the Co-Investigator of the research project ‘Songs from the Shadows’, recreating the acoustic environments of Billy Waters, an African American amputee busker and street performer of the early 19th Century.

Aki’s interest in sound’s subjective experience was deepened through his research on time perception involving all senses, revealing the holistic nature of the sound perception process. His research interests include acousmatic music, time perception in relation to sound, psychoacoustics, spatial sound, and soundscape ecology. His scholarly and music works are published by KPM/EMI, ICMA, Sonos Localia, Stolen Mirror, Gruenrekorder, HELMCA, Pinpoint Scotland, Sounding Future, Cambridge and Oxford University Press, and his compositions are performed worldwide.