Adam Stanović

Teaching

I am currently Dean of the Screen School, at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London. Prior to this, I was Programme Director (Head of Department) for Sound and Music, UAL. I have been lecturing for over 20 years, at various universities throughout the UK, and have held visiting lecturer posts and external examiner posts overseas. I occasionally take on private students that are interested in developing their compositional practices.

At UAL, I am extremely proud to supervise a number of wonderful PhD students , including:

  1. Julia Schauerman – Composing Acousmatic Stories: Hybrid strategies for exploring change, crisis and community through creative practice 
  2. Zhao Jiajing – Crafting Electroacoustic Sound Worlds
  3. Gareth Mitchell – Spatial Sonification of Patterns in Nature
  4. Chen Wang – Playing the Voice: sampling and OSC as composition and performance technologies in new music
  5. Berk Yagli – Hybridisation of Metal and Electroacoustic Music

Successful PhD students, include:

  1. Mario Cáceres – Successfully defended his Phd thesis in Dec 2024. Title: The electroacoustic song: Hybridisation of electroacoustic and popular music. Examiners: Professor Dale Perkins (Leeds Conservatoire), Dr. Rob MacKay (Newcastle University)
  2. Manos Kanellos – successfully defended his PhD thesis in Sept 2024. Title: Immersive Visual Music: How contemporary visual music practices have evolved and how immersive technologies can be employed to compose visual music works. Examiner: Professor Brett Battey (De Montford University)
  3. Rees Archibald – successfully defended his PhD thesis in Dec 2021. Title: The Sound was Already Inside: exploring textility through sound art installations, performances and compositions. Examiner: Professor Jonathan Impett (Orpheus Institute, Belgium).
  4. Chris Bevan – successfully defended his PhD thesis in Nov 2021. Title: Ambient Aesthetics in the Acousmatic Domain: a portfolio of original compositions. Examiner: Professor David Berezan (University of Manchester).
  5. Alejandro Albornoz – successfully defended his PhD thesis in July 2019. Title: Voice and Poetry as inspiration and material in acousmatic composition. Examiner: Professor John Young (De Montford University)
  6. Vanessa Sorce-Lévesque – successfully defended her PhD thesis in Dec 2018. Title: Environment in Electroacoustic Music Composition. Examiner: Professor David Berezan (University of Manchester).
  7. Mark Summers – successfully defended his PhD thesis in Sept 2018. Title: Augmenting an Improvised Practice on the Viola da Gamba. Examiner: Professor Jonathan Impett (Orpheus Institute, Belgium).

I currently have one space available for an additional PhD student; please message me via the contact page if you would like to discuss a proposal.