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 current scholarship examines the adaptation and classicalization of video game and film scores into classical genres. My research on this topic can be found or is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies, The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound, The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy Series, The Journal of Sound and Music in Games, and Translight: A Contemporary Gaming Magazine. My artistic practice is generally improvisatory in nature, and is concerned with theories of tuning, the gestural, paraphrase, assemblages, and sound mass/texture. Having completed my PhD at Northwestern University in 2022, I am currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Richmond. In my free time, I enjoy playing video games, writing poetry, painting, 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) The Royal Music Association's Music and Philosophy Study Group's Conference. Strand Campus, King’s College London. 2019. (pc: Joseph Gabor)
Selected CV
Academic Appts.
2022—
Education
2017 - 2022
2015 - 2017
2011 - 2015
Publications
2024
2023
2022
2020
2018
Presentations
2024
2023
2022
Performances
2022
2021
2019
2015
2013-2015
2012
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.
"Rhythms of (Extreme) Play."
https://www.ludomusicology.org/2020/04/27/rhythms-of-extreme-play/.
“El Tricentenario: The Music of San Antonio’s 300th Anniversary.” https://musicologynow.org/el-tricentenario-the-music-of-san-antonios-300th-anniversary/.
“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.
“Video Games Alive: (Re)playful Listenings in Video Game Music Concerts.” Differentiating Sound Studies: Politics of Sound and Listening. Music Research Center of Hanyang University, Seoul, April 15-16.
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.
World Premiere of Jason H. Mitchell’s composition Thermal Bloom for horn and stereo fixed media (written for the performer). San Antonio, TX.
“Soundspace” Biannual Music Series. Featured artist. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX.
International Premiere of James Balentine’s composition Espirales Infinitas (for solo horn, guitar, and orchestra). “Bella Italia” Tour (Venice, Florence, and Rome).