The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy
Journal Article
Donn, R., Stillie, B., & Moir, Z. (2024)
The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy. Music Education Research, 26(1), 58-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2024.2309204
This article, which is intended as a contribution to wider conversations around music literacy, explores current conceptions of music literacy within the UK, using the area of...
Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption
Journal Article
Medboe, H. (2023)
Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption. Jazz Research Journal, 16(2), 129-146
This article examines environmental consequences in the manufacture and dissemination of recorded jazz alongside the ecological impacts of jazz festivals as sites of fandom an...
T/ensor/~ 0.3
Conference Proceeding
Papageorgiou, D. (2023)
T/ensor/~ 0.3. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2023
T/ensor/~ (version 0.3) is a prototype of a dynamic performance system developed in MAX that involves adaptive digital signal processing modules and generative processes towar...
Sound Dramaturgy for Poetic Documentaries
Journal Article
Stutterheim, K. (2023)
Sound Dramaturgy for Poetic Documentaries. International Journal of Film and Media Arts, 8(3), 59-73. https://doi.org/10.24140/ijfma.v8.n3.04
Sound dramaturgy as part of the aesthetic design of documentary films is invisible but most relevant, although often overlooked. The chapter gives a short introduction to dram...
‘Keeping the Machines Alive’: Repairing and Maintaining the Fairlight CMI.
Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2023, June)
‘Keeping the Machines Alive’: Repairing and Maintaining the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at Innovation In Music Conference 2023, Edinburgh, UK
The story of the Fairlight CMI is a story of misuse. Designed primarily as a digital synthesizer for the imitation of acoustic instruments, it was used in the worlds of popula...
Beyond Sustainability: The Music Industries Declare Emergency on Planet Earth – or do they?
Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2022, August)
Beyond Sustainability: The Music Industries Declare Emergency on Planet Earth – or do they?. Paper presented at IASPM UK and Ireland Conference, University of Liverpool
In December last year, a number of record labels based in the UK signed the Music Climate Pact in which they committed to reducing the emission of greenhouse gases by 50% by 2...
‘There it is, another code ready to be used’. Repurposing comprovisation [Lecture-recital].
Presentation / Conference
Papageorgiou, D., & Sánchez Díaz, F. (2022, June)
‘There it is, another code ready to be used’. Repurposing comprovisation [Lecture-recital]. Presented at Performance Studies Network International Conference 2022, Department of Music and Media, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
‘There it is, another code ready to be used’ is a notational environment and a system for improvisation on any instrument of the saxophone family (with or without live electro...
Jawbreaker: Literary Punk and Authenticity
Book Chapter
Keeble, A. (2022)
Jawbreaker: Literary Punk and Authenticity. In R. Durkin (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature (395-405). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367237288-39
Solareye at Sonica 2022 - Live Performance at sonic visual arts festival
Exhibition / Performance
Hook, D. (2022)
Solareye at Sonica 2022 - Live Performance at sonic visual arts festival. [Live Performance]. 11 March 2022. (Unpublished
Just as the Covid crisis first hit the UK, Solareye – aka SAMA-winning, Stanley Odd frontman Dave Hook – was putting the finishing touches to a new set of solo works, imaginin...
'Kids rock Akademiks but they're not academic': hip-hop, academia and the liminal spaces between
Presentation / Conference
Hook, D. (2022, January)
'Kids rock Akademiks but they're not academic': hip-hop, academia and the liminal spaces between. Paper presented at PANTHEON: Hip-Hop’s Global Pathways to Cultural “Legitimacy” (European Hip-Hop Studies Network Meeting), Paris, France
Presenting a ra/p/aper, demonstrating and arguing that hip-hop practice is hip-hop studies. Building on AD Carson’s artist-research in the form of mixtap/e/ssays (Carson, 2020...