Danae Stefanou is Professor of Musicology and Sound Studies at the School of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). Her work is situated at the intersection of musicology, sound studies and critical practices, with a special focus on experimental and improvised music, speculative listening and intermedia artistic research. She has led research & training programs for a variety of EU projects and networks including COINVENT, Interfaces, Sounds Now and Transmissions, and has contributed chapters to peer reviewed volumes, including the Cambridge Companion to Film Music (CUP, 2016), Made in Greece: Studies in Greek Popular Music (Routledge, 2018), Contemporary Popular Music Studies (Springer, 2019), Music and Landscape / Soundscape and Sonic Arts (Universal Edition, 2019) and Perspectives on Greek Musical Modernism (Routledge, 2025). She has also co-edited a special issue on Creative Conceptual Blending for Musicae Scientiae (2018) and two collections of text and graphic scores resulting from participatory improvisation and interdisciplinary co-creation workshops (Multimodal Community Scorebook, 2022 and A Sound Sketchbook, 2025). Active as a performer since the 1990s and a founding member of Athens-based research-creation unit acte vide since 2006, she is the founder and director of σ.π.Α.Μ.* Experimental and Improvised Music Ensembles at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and and has performed, composed and devised hundreds of independent improvised actions and interventions in public spaces, DIY venues, arts institutions and educational establishments.