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Dr Aris Lanaridis

Senior Lecturer

Aris is a film & media composer, sound designer and music producer. With studies in performance, composition for film & TV and sound design, strong passion and professionalism, he creates sonic environments that take visuals to a higher level.

Aris currently lives in London and works as a freelance film & media composer and producer. He is also a lecturer in film composition and production at Leeds Beckett University. His work includes short films, documentaries, promo videos, videogames, theatre, digital theatre, dance theatre, slideshows, audiobooks and music productions.

Aris believes that music is a storyteller and he creates film music that tells stories that match the stories that movies tell. He is the inventor of the “Perform the Story” approach that connects music composition and interpretation to storytelling.

Current Teaching

MA Music for the Moving Image - Composition for the Moving Image
MA Music for the Moving Image - Analysis of Music for the Moving Image
MA Music for the Moving Image - Orchestration, Arrangement and Programming
MA Music for the Moving Image - Negotiated Skills Development
MA Music for the Moving Image - Research Practice
MA Music for the Moving Image - Final Individual Project
BA Music Performance & Production - Music for Film and Television
BA Music Performance & Production - Composing and Arranging

Research Interests

Aris completed his PhD on Communicating emotion through music: developing a model for exploring and testing emotional sharing between postgraduate student composers at Leeds Beckett University in 2022.

Aris' research interests are inspired by music composition as well as his performing practice. His research focuses on the transmission of narrative qualities and musical meaning from the composer and performer to the audience, and on social and psychological factors that may influence this transmission.

As a professional artist, Aris is acutely aware that composition and performance deal with transmission of meaning and emotion, and that contemporary innovative approaches to successful creativity build on insights from music psychology and semiotics.

In his research, Aris investigates this topic from a scientific perspective and is currently exploring theories of psychology such as Social Identity Theory, Social Representation Theory and Dialogical Self Theory to empirically research social and psychological aspects in identity and in musical appreciation and understanding and their effects on meaning transmission. Dialogical Self Theory, in particular, is a fairly new framework that has not been applied to music before, and because of his research, Aris was invited many times to International Dialogical Self Theory conferences to present workshops that links the Dialogical Self Theory to music.