Greenfield-Casas
Stefan Greenfield-Casas
I am an English-born, South Texas-raised, and Mid-Atlantic-based writer, educator, musician, and collector.
My scholarly work primarily considers the multifaceted relationship between music, myth, memory, and media epics through varying critical theoretical lenses. I have examined this relationship in the context of a wide range of media and repertoires: from poet Ezra Pound’s use of Clément Janequin’s Le Chant des oiseaux in his Canto LXXV, to the Pokémon franchise and das Transmediagesamtkunstwerk; from the onslaught of postmillenial wuxia films in the early aughts, to the collaborative artistic ventures that underscored San Antonio’s tricentennial celebration. My recent scholarship has examined the classical arrangement and concertization of video game music and, separately, posthuman vocalities. My research on these topics can be found or is forthcoming in the Journal of Sound and Music in Games, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, the Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung, The Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies, The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound, and The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy Series, among others. My artistic practice is generally improvisatory in nature, and is concerned with theories of tuning, the gestural, paraphrase, assemblages, and sound mass/texture. I completed my PhD at Northwestern University, and have taught courses there and at the University of Richmond. In my free time, I enjoy playing video games, writing/reading poetry, and researching/collecting art and watches.
From top left, clockwise: a) Headshot. Northwestern University. 2019. (pc: Fred Hosken); b) High Wire Arts Gallery Performance. San Antonio, TX. 2014; c) Audible Futures: Media, Ecology, and Art presentation. Hanyang University, Seoul. 2025.
Selected CV
Academic Appts.
2022—2025
Education
2017 - 2022
2015 - 2017
2011 - 2015
Publications
2024
2023
2022
Presentations
2025
2024
2023
2022
Performances
2025
2022
2021
2019
University of Richmond
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Northwestern University
PhD in music theory & cognition
Certificate in critical theory
The University of Texas at Austin
MM in music theory
Certificate in interdisciplinary teaching
The University of Texas at San Antonio
BMus in horn performance, summa cum laude
Highest Honors distinction
“Video Games Alive: Ludic Liveness and (Re)playful Listenings in Video Game Music Concerts.” In The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound. Edited by William Gibbons and Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard.
"From the Screen (to the Screen) to the Concert Hall: Arrangement as a Worldbuilding and Worldbridging Device in the Kingdom Hearts Series." In The Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies. Edited by Ryan Raul Bañagale.
with James Denis Mc Glynn. “‘We are what they grow beyond’: Visions (and Sounds) of a Transnational Star Wars.” Musicology Now essay. December 18. https://musicologynow.org/we-are-what-they-grow-beyond-visions-and-sounds-of-a-transnational-star-wars/.
“Uematsu’s Postgame: The Music of Final Fantasy in the Concert Hall (and Beyond).” In The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy Series. Edited by Richard Anatone.
“Death and Transfiguration: (Ludomusical) Adaptation across the Scott Pilgrim Franchise.” Music and the Moving Image XXI. Steinhardt School of New York University, May 30-June 1.
“The Politics of Virtual Voice.” Audible Futures: Media, Ecology, and Art. Music Research Center of Hanyang University, Seoul, March 28-29.
“Beyond Voice and Stream: Fan Constructed Lore in the Age of the 2.5D.” Music, Media, and Narrative in the Streaming Age. Joint conference of the Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung and the International Musicological Society’s Music and Media Study Group. Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, June 6-7.
“Playing Between Forms: Intersemiotic Translation and the Classical Arrangement of Video Game Music.” Joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory. Denver, CO, November 9-12.
“Virtual Ventriloquism: The Live 2D Hyperreal.” Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media. Harvard University, May 11-13.
“Replayful Listenings and the Fantasy of (Musically) Relived Experiences.” Joint meeting of the American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, and Society for Music Theory. Hilton New Orleans Riverside, November 10-13.
University of Richmond Video Game Orchestra: "A Night at Karaoke."
March Caprice 2.0: Kingdom Hearts 20th Anniversary Celebration Concert: "Twilight Town Melodies" (Reconstruction/"Final Mix" by Kinode).
Darian Donovan Thomas' "Untitled." Voice sampled for fixed audio. BRIC, Brooklyn, NY.
Steve Parker’s “War Tuba” closing reception/experimental music showcase. Featured soloist (at the invitation of Parker). Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX.