Zack Moir
Zack Moir

Dr Zack Moir BA MMus PhD PGCAP PFHEA

Professor

 0131 455 2337

  Z.Moir@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

Prof Zack Moir is Professor of Music and School Academic Lead for Curriculum Design (School of Arts and Creative Industries). He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Zack’s research interests are in popular music in higher education, music education for social justice, and composition/improvisation pedagogies. Zack is the lead editor of ‘The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspective and Practices’ (2019), an editor of ‘The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education’ (2017), and an editor of ‘Action Based Approaches in Popular Music Education (2021).

Zack is the Chair of the International Society for Music Education's Popular Music Special Interest Group and is on the Board of Directors of the Association for Popular Music Education. Zack is also an active composer/musician. Recent compositions include pieces for saxophone and tape, solo cello, and a reactive generative sound art installation for the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Conference Organiser - Continental Drift: A century of jazz on record
  • Conference Organiser - Continental Drift: 50 Years of Jazz from Europe

 

Editorial Activity

  • Editor of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices
  • Editor of the Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education
  • Journal of Popular Music Education - Editorial Board Member

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External examiner for MMus Popular Music , Royal Northern College of Music
  • External examiner for MMus Popular Music Performance, Academy of Music and Sound
  • External Examiner for the INTO Graduate Diploma in Music, Newcastle University
  • External Examiner for MMus Popular Music Performance, University of West London

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

 

Invited Speaker

  • We Are NOT Neutral: A Freirian Critique of (Popular) Music in Higher Education (January 2020)
  • Stillie, B & Moir, Z. (2019) The development of new Scottish music qualifications. Presented to City of Edinburgh Council Instrumental Music Service. 8th January 2019.
  • Moir, Z. & Stillie, B. (2019) Haphazard Pathways: Routes to Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula Design. Presented to City of Edinburgh Council Instrumental Music Service. 7th January 2014

 

Media Activity

  • 'Featured Thinker' - LILA Interactions (Indian Magazine Site)
  • Newspaper Report Publicity for 'IDDM' (Composition) in The National
  • Radio Interview for 'IDDM' (Composition) - BBC Radio Scotland
  • Newspaper Report Publicity for 'IDDM' (Composition) in The Scotsman
  • National TV Coverage for World's First Real-Time Transatlantic Interactive Recording Session - ITV News
  • National Newspaper Coverage for Transatlantic Interactive Music Making Project - The Hearld

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Association for Popular Music Education - Elected Member of the Board of Directors
  • Association for Popular Music Education (Member)
  • Art of Record Production (Member)

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • 'Your Feedback is Important to Us' - Interactive Sound Art Installation at Edinburgh International Science Festival

 

Reviewing

  • Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
  • Journal of Music, Technology & Education (Book Reviewing)
  • Journal of Popular Music Education (Reviewer and Editorial Board Member)
  • Journal of the Art of Record Production (Reviewer)

 

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Real Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundaries

Book Chapter
Moir, Z., Ferguson, P., & Smith, G. D. (2019)
Real Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundaries. In Producing Music. London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212241
Inhabitants of the 21st century live and work in a world in which many aspects of daily interactions with other humans are no longer hampered by physical distance. Indeed, sch...

Haphazard pathways: Students’ perceptions of their routes to music study in higher education in the United Kingdom

Journal Article
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2018)
Haphazard pathways: Students’ perceptions of their routes to music study in higher education in the United Kingdom. Journal of Popular Music Education, 2(3), 199-216. doi:10.1386/jpme.2.3.199_1
This article reports on a qualitative study, which explored perceptions of fourteen first-year undergraduate music students in the United Kingdom regarding their secondary sch...

The Iron Harvest (by Oscar van Heek) - Sound Design

Digital Artefact
Moir, Z. (2018)
The Iron Harvest (by Oscar van Heek) - Sound Design
A film by Oscar van Heek for the centenary of the Armistice. Sound design by Zack Moir.

Review of 'Promising Practices in 21st Century Music Teacher Education'

Journal Article
Moir, Z. (2018)
Review of 'Promising Practices in 21st Century Music Teacher Education'. Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 11(2), 213-218. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.11.2.213_5
No abstract available.

Music From The Mundane: Found Sounds and Popular Music Composition

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2018, June)
Music From The Mundane: Found Sounds and Popular Music Composition. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Education Annual Conference, Tennessee, USA
No abstract available.

Towards a Critical Consideration of Higher Popular Music Education: 5 Questions and some proposed answers

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2018, June)
Towards a Critical Consideration of Higher Popular Music Education: 5 Questions and some proposed answers. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Education Annual Conference, Tennessee, USA
No abstract available.

IDDM

Other
Moir, Z. (2018)
IDDM. Online Publication
For solo saxophone and tape.

Recording Across Town and The Ocean.

Presentation / Conference
Ferguson, P., Moir, Z., & Bennett, J. (2018, April)
Recording Across Town and The Ocean. Paper presented at Network Performing Arts Production Workshop, Miami, USA
No abstract available.

Experiences of Remote, Real-Time Music Production.

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., Ferguson, P., & Smith, G. D. (2018, April)
Experiences of Remote, Real-Time Music Production. Paper presented at NowNet Arts: Artistic and Technological Strategies for Public and Private Networks, New York
No abstract available.

Your Feedback is Important to Us.

Exhibition / Performance
Moir, Z. Your Feedback is Important to Us. Performed at Edinburgh International Science Festival. 14 April 2018 - 14 June 2018. (Unpublished)

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Moir, Z. Your Feedback is Important to Us. Performed at Edinburgh International Science Festival. 14 April 2018 - 14 June 2018. (Unpublished
Interactive, generative sound art installation.

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • Devolved Researcher Award (£1680)
  • Principal's Teaching Award Scheme (£8777)
  • Higher Education Academy Workshop and Seminar Grant (£750)

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