Seminar Archive

Research Seminar Series - Professor Suk-Jun Kim & Dr Christina Ballico & Guests

Futures of Listening: Water Knowledges from Two Cities

Research Seminar Series - Dr Robert Fokkens

Making Opera in Liminal Spaces, or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Boulez's Bombs

Research Seminar Series - Dr Sean Foran

Reimagining musical improvisation through poetic inspiration: a creative practice investigation

Research Seminar Series - Dr Matthew Machin-Autenrieth

Resonant Histories: Echoes of Al-Andalus in Granada' documentary screening with Q+A

Research Seminar Series - Dr Kay Dickinson

Global ABBA: Markets and Margins

Research Seminar Series - Dr John De Simone

In conversation with Professor Phillip Cooke, John will reflect upon his status as a mid (possibly late) career composer who works in academia. He will explore how his work is framed within an institutional research context whilst trying to pursue an authentic musical and artistic voice grounded in lived experience.

Research Seminar Series - Dr James Cook

Join Dr James Cook (ECA Director of Research and Senior Lecturer in Early Music at the University of Edinburgh) to talk about the interplay between fantasy and "authenticity," especially considering the ways in which the composers work creatively to give an immersive and coherent soundworld, within the limits of what...

Gender, Arts and Culture. Punk, post-punk and gender in Portugal

This presentation aims to contribute to the understanding of the emergence of (sub)/(post)-subcultures in Portugal, focusing particularly on female participants, and analysing the territorialisation of punk’s egalitarian and interventionist ethos as both an aesthetic and a reflexive praxis. Although women have been present since the beginnings of punk, their visibility...

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour and The Other Side of Money

Objects are not difficult to acquire because they are valuable, but we call those objects valuable that resist our desire to possess them. - George Simmel Nobel prize winner Elias Canetti says, “the crowd…wants to experience for itself the strongest possible feeling of its own animal force and passion,” and at...

Female independent musicians, DIY ethos, and platformed audiovisualities

Event Details Based on my PhD thesis, Platformed audiovisualities by female independent musicians, I present a study that analyzes the audiovisual processes on platforms by female independent musicians from Milan and Porto Alegre during the Covid-19 pandemic. The theoretical framework combines audiovisualities, technoculture, logics and dynamics of the independent music scenes,...

Department of Music Postgraduate Student Research Seminar

Join us to hear about the research of three of our current PhD students - Yi Wang, Elizabeth Walsh and Conner McCain.

Adapting Story to Song

Composer and songwriter Gareth Williams creates opera, music theatre, and song that transforms existing texts and stories into new musical works. His practice is rooted in adaptation and collaboration, working with writers, artists, and participants to develop pieces that are often deeply personal, whilst taking their roots from stories and...

Researching 'From the Bottoms Up': Queer Nightlife, Community Care, and Co-Creative Research Methods

In 2020, a consortium of more than 40 queer, intersectional rave collectives in Berlin organised a fully functioning mutual aid network within a month of the COVID-19 lockdown shuttering the city’s once-thriving electronic music scene. How was this possible, in such a short time? What latent skills and lived experiences...

The Unbearable "Lightness" of Life: Noise, Power Structure and the Studiolization of Nature

Noise is a complicated concept which definition is controversial. Depending on the objective decibel value and the subjective understanding of what is considered as unwanted sound, there can be various interpretations. When technology developed into the industrial age, noise was completely changed and has become both a serious social issue...

In Search of Home, Sweet Home, c. 1871

Few songs of the British nineteenth century have had the staying power of ‘Home, Sweet Home’. With music by Henry Bishop and words by John Howard Payne, it first appeared in Clari; or, the Maid of Milan (1823) at London’s Covent Garden. The song remained in the repertory well into...

"The Boston I Knew is Lying on the Ground:" Music, Memory, and Redevelopment in Boston

Though conceived and recorded as novelty, Francis Whiting Hatch's 1965 LP Urban Redevelopment and other Swan Songs of Old Boston (Bert & I Records) captured a transitional moment - at the ground level - for one of America's oldest and most contested cities. Hatch came from a prosperous Boston family,...

What are we going to do with our health once we've recovered it?

In this Lecture/Workshop Dr Dave Camlin, performer, composer, teacher, Community Musician, and researcher will explore the idea of music making (muiscing) as a resource for imagining possible futures.  Through presentation, discussion and practical examples, Dave will highlight the value of musicing as a resource for human evolution and sustainable development, through the...

Music, mental health and wellbeing research seminar

Music’s therapeutic benefits are well established for musicians and audiences alike. In recent years however, an emergent thread of research is revealing the severity of the negative mental and physical health impacts pursuing a career in music can take. Studies such as Can Music Make You Sick? (Gross and Musgrave,...

Ecologies of Pain

In this performance lecture artist-researcher Sarah Hopfinger will discuss and reflect on her ongoing project Ecologies of Pain, which is a performance research project that creatively explores the insights between living with chronic pain and living with, and relating to, wider ecological pain. Living and working with chronic pain can...

Department of Music Postgraduate Student Research Seminar

Join us to hear from three of our current PhD students about their research.

In conversation with Kate Molleson

Join leading broadcaster and music journalist Kate Molleson and Lecturer in Music, Dr Aaron McGregor who will be in conversation to explore the roots behind how we separate and define musical genres today, and how this affects the status ascribed to certain types of music. Taking the intersection and separation...

Dr. Jane Stanley: Hauntological aspects of my music.

This talk explores aspects of my creative process and output, paying particular attention to the textural, gestural and formal dimensions of my music. I will explain how I have recently begun to reflect upon my pieces and working method through a conceptual lens of hauntology, as well as accounting for...

Drilling down: audiovisual aesthetics and horror in recent films and television series located on offshore oil rigs

Dr Annette Davison discusses Petrocapitalism in the media.

Dr. Jane Stanley: Hauntological aspects of my music

This talk explores aspects of my creative process and output, paying particular attention to the textural, gestural and formal dimensions of my music. I will explain how I have recently begun to reflect upon my pieces and working method through a conceptual lens of hauntology, as well as accounting for...

Musical Wellsprings in a Parched Landscape: The Evolution of Steve Reich's Harmonic Language in The Desert Music (1984)

Join Professor Pwyll ap Siôn (Bangor University) to explore the evolution of Steve Reich's harmonic language in The Desert Music.

The chronourbanist music city: A consideration of the disconnects between two placemaking strategies.

Increasingly recognised for the vital role it plays in our day to day lives, music is globally acknowledged for its capacity to contribute strongly to place-based creative and cultural identity initiatives within our cities and our neighbourhoods. To this end, the uptake of music city frameworks has grown exponentially around the...

Futures of Listening: An Interim Report of an Art-Research Project

Join Professor Suk-Jun Kim (University of Aberdeen) to explore their recent research into the future of listening.

Songs and Dances: Exploring Piano Variations of the Belaieff Circle

Join Chai Jie Low (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music) to explore piano variations of the Belaieff Circle.

Music Seminar: Dancing with Pain: Ecologies of Pain

This seminar was cancelled

In this performance lecture artist-researcher Sarah Hopfinger will discuss and reflect on her ongoing project Ecologies of Pain, which is a performance research project that creatively explores the insights between living with chronic pain and living with, and relating to, wider ecological pain. Living and working with chronic pain can...

Music and deviance in Early Modern Scotland

Join Dr Aaron McGregor for a research seminar examining Scotland's musical history

Music streaming, diversity, and cultural inequality

Join Dr Raquel Campos Valverde for the latest of our music research seminars.

Musical Wellsprings in a Parched Landscape: The Evolution of Steve Reich's Harmonic Language in The Desert Music (1984)

Join Professor Pwyll Ap Sion for the latest of our music research seminars.

From Acousmatic to Acousmagic-Slains Castle: Where Sonic Realities and Fictions Meet

Join Dr Ali Rennie for the latest of our music research seminars.

Imagining a Just and Green Future for Music Cities: The Case of Glasgow as a UNESCO City of Music

Join Professor Matt Brennan in the first of our music research seminars.

Jazz in Education Research Meet

Jazz in Education UK would like to invite you to an online research networking/sharing event.

Understanding Qur'anic Recitation: A View from Granada, Spain

Online demonstration and Q&A session with Ali Keeler

Music Research Seminar - Amin Hashemi

Integration and the Making of Subjectivity of Migrants via Musical Creativity

Workshop: Arab-Andalusian Music and Flamenco: An Intercultural Dialogue

Presentation and Workshop by Suhail Serghini (invited from Granada)

Music Research Seminar - Fiorella Montero-Diaz (Keele)

Sounding a Queer Rebellion. LGBTI Musical Resistances in Lima, Peru

Music Outside? Join the Conversation for Jazz in Education

event now moved online due to rail strikes

Music Research Seminar - Mollie Carlyle & Paul Hayward

Minstrelsy, Music Hall and Marches: Popular Music and Sea Shanties during the 19th century

Workshop: Come and Play Steel Pans

Come along and try out some Caribbean Steel Pans in a fun, relaxed event open to everyone no matter what your experience.

Music Research Seminar - Shane Lestideau - Melbourne

Tropical Strathspeys: Exploring Historical Scottish-Australian Music Collections

Music Research Seminar - Frauke Jurgensen

Translating Theoretical Treatises

Music Research Seminar - Lee Higgins

In this session Lee will present the key findings from the Ethno Research project, including the final report, the animations and short films that support the research. Ethno is JM International's programme for folk, world, and traditional music, aimed at young musicians 13-30. Founded in Sweden in 1990, Ethno is...

Music Research Series - Samuel Llano

From Cairo (1932) to Fez (1939): Western Listening Epistemologies and the Emergence of an 'Arab' Ear

Music Research Series - Aki Pasoulas

Sonic Palimpsest

Music Research Series - Professor Phillip Cooke

Like Distant Bells and Half-Heard Songs: Transfiguring a New Repertoire for Piano

Music Research Series - Sarah Hopfinger

This seminar was cancelled

Crip Performance Practice: Dancing with Chronic Pain

Music Research Series - Zack Moir

We are Not Neutral: (Popular) Music Education, Creativity, and the Creation of a Graduate Precariat

'Sonic Conversations in the Western Mediterranean'

Prof. Aomar Boum (3rd May 2022 at 17:00) 'The Female Jewish Troubadour: Imaachar and Narratives of Purity and Danger in Tahala, Southern Morocco'

Music Research Seminar Series - Dr Julia Hamilton

The Department of Music welcomes Dr Julia Hamilton (Columbia) to give a talk "British Abolitionism on the Marketplace for Musical Scores, 1787 to 1838, as part of the Music Research Seminar Series at the University of Aberdeen.

Sonic Arts & Composer's Forum

Dr Phillip Cooke - University of Aberdeen

Sonic Arts & Composer's Forum

Al-Qadima Escola Trio

Music Research Seminar: Eleanor Haward (Music) and Lauren Hossack (Elphinstone Institute/English)

Eleanor Haward: "Words and their influence on text-setting in sacred choral music: a quantitative analysis project and original composition portfolio" This research project explores the role of word meaning and word perception in informing composers’ choices. Through data analysis and original composition it examines the connection between words and harmony in multiple...

Sonic Arts & Composer's Forum

Tobias Patrick Wolf - PhD student University of Aberdeen

PopGirlz Scotland

The Department of Music will be hosting PopGirlz Scotland in guest lectures in two courses. We are opening the first of these to the public, which will take place as part of a seminar in the MMus course Research Communication. Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom.

Sonic Arts & Composer's Forum

Daniele Minns

Music Research Seminar Series - Simone Eringfield

The Department of Music Welcomes Simone to the Research Series.

Sonic Arts & Composer's Forum

Dr John De Simone - University of Aberdeen

CoMA Festival of Contemporary Music for All: Side by Side with Any Enemy and Spectrum

Join us for an afternoon of playing and performing new music together with new music ensembles Any Enemy and Spectrum. Repertoire will include new works commissioned by CoMA. 

CoMA Festival of Contemporary Music for All: Singing Day with Edwin Hillier

Dust off the winter blues, be adventurous, enjoy singing again with other people and discover the fun and challenges of vocal new music.

Choral Workshop with the Dunedin Consort

This workshop is open to anyone who would like to improve their choral singing and learn some new repertoire. Join us for a relaxed, fun-filled day of music making, and the chance to share what you’ve learned with friends and family at the end of the day. Led by celebrated soprano...

Music Research Seminar Series - Dr Kathleen Turner

The Department of Music is delighted to welcome Dr Turner from University of Limerick.

Sonic Arts & Composer's Forum

Mark Dunsmore - PhD Student University of Aberdeen

Music Research Seminar Series - Dr Benedict Taylor

The Department of Music is delighted to welcome Dr Taylor to the Seminar Series from University of Edinburgh.

Music Research Seminar Series - Professor Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco

The Department of Music Welcomes Professor Castelo-Branco from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Music Research Seminar: Dr Matthew D Morrison (New York University/University of Edinburgh)

The Department of Music hosts various seminars and forums that promote a vibrant research culture among staff and students. Music Research Seminars take place during term-time throughout the academic year and offer a wide range of music and interdisciplinary research themes.

Sonic Arts Forum: Dr Suk-Jun Kim (University of Aberdeen)

Sonic Arts Forum, organised by members of SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group), is a fortnightly informal forum for students, staff and anyone interested in sonic arts and related issues of technology and aesthetics.

Composers' Forum: Calum Carswell (PGR, University of Aberdeen)

Composers' Forum is a fortnightly informal forum for all staff and students who have an interest in composition and new music, not necessarily as composers.

Music Research Seminar: University of Aberdeen PhD Presentations

The Department of Music hosts various seminars and forums that promote a vibrant research culture among staff and students. Music Research Seminars take place during term-time throughout the academic year and offer a wide range of music and interdisciplinary research themes.

Sonic Arts Forum: Lise Olsen (PGR, University of Aberdeen)

Sonic Arts Forum, organised by members of SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group), is a fortnightly informal forum for students, staff and anyone interested in sonic arts and related issues of technology and aesthetics.

Sonic Arts Forum: Eden Mikula (PGT, University of Aberdeen)

Sonic Arts Forum, organised by members of SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group), is a fortnightly informal forum for students, staff and anyone interested in sonic arts and related issues of technology and aesthetics.

Music Research Seminar: Dr Mia Pistorius (University of Huddersfield)

The Department of Music hosts various seminars and forums that promote a vibrant research culture among staff and students. Music Research Seminars take place during term-time throughout the academic year and offer a wide range of music and interdisciplinary research themes.

Sonic Arts Forum: Dr Maja Zeco (Robert Gordon University)

Sonic Arts Forum, organised by members of SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group), is a fortnightly informal forum for students, staff and anyone interested in sonic arts and related issues of technology and aesthetics.

Music Research Seminar: Dr Jane Forner (University of Aberdeen)

The Department of Music hosts various seminars and forums that promote a vibrant research culture among staff and students. Music Research Seminars take place during term-time throughout the academic year and offer a wide range of music and interdisciplinary research themes.

Composers' Forum: Dr Tansy Davies (Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University)

Composers' Forum is a fortnightly informal forum for all staff and students who have an interest in composition and new music, not necessarily as composers.

Composers' Forum: Pascale Criton

Composers' Forum is a fortnightly informal forum for all staff and students who have an interest in composition and new music, not necessarily as composers.

Book Launch and Music Research Seminar: Professor Edward Campbell (University of Aberdeen)

The Department of Music hosts various seminars and forums that promote a vibrant research culture among staff and students. Music Research Seminars take place during term-time throughout the academic year and offer a wide range of music and interdisciplinary research themes.

Composers' Forum: David Fennessy (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)

Composers' Forum is a fortnightly informal forum for all staff and students who have an interest in composition and new music, not necessarily as composers.

Q&A with Help Musicians Scotland

Join Suzanne Miller in this online session for professional musicians to find out what support Help Musicians Scotland can offer, such as funding sources and health and welfare services.

Sonic Arts Forum: Reading Session (Hungry Listening by Dylan Robinson)

Sonic Arts Forum, organised by members of SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group), is a fortnightly informal forum for students, staff and anyone interested in sonic arts and related issues of technology and aesthetics.

Music Research Seminar: Dr John De Simone (University of Aberdeen)

The Department of Music hosts various seminars and forums that promote a vibrant research culture among staff and students. Music Research Seminars take place during term-time throughout the academic year and offer a wide range of music and interdisciplinary research themes.

Composers' Forum: Dr Ailie Robertson (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)

Composers' Forum is a fortnightly informal forum for all staff and students who have an interest in composition and new music, not necessarily as composers.

Wirds an Soonds: Doric & Cello and 'We Need to Talk' Showcase

Join cellists, composers and writers involved in Wirds an Soonds and 'We Need to Talk' in conversation with Sound Festival's Fiona Robertson and UoA WORD Centre's Helen Lynch

Sound Art Workshop with Pete Stollery

Join Professor of Electro-Acoustic Music, Pete Stollery, in Cruickshank Botanical Gardens/Seaton Park for an outdoor workshop in soundscape listening, recording and editing sounds for a virtual sound map.

'Speaking of Sound': Online Sound Art Workshop with Nathan Wolek

Join this interactive online workshop with Professor Nathan Wolek of Stetson University, Florida, to learn about layers or specific features of the soundscape around you.

Online Talk - The Futures Past of al-Andalus: Reflections, Refrains, Returns

Join a public keynote with Professor Jonathan Shannon exploring "The Musical Afterlives of al-Andalus: Identities and Encounters beyond History" as part of a European Research Council-funded project "Past and Present Musical Encounters across the Strait of Gibraltar".

The Launch of 'Walter Scott and Song': Celebrating Scott 250

Join us for a virtual celebration of the 250th anniversary of Walter Scott's birth, and the opening of the University's new online exhibition, Walter Scott and Song: Retuning the Harp of the North, on Tuesday 17 August from 6pm (BST).

Digital Networking for Music

The Department of Music at the University of Aberdeen is hosting an informal session on digital networking for music. This is open to ALL music students, from undergraduates to postgraduate researchers. It should be of interest to anyone, regardless of your focus (e.g., communities, education, performance, composition, etc.). Some current students will...

Music Research Seminar: Dr Nathan Wolek

Documenting Coastal Soundscapes from Florida to Scotland

Composers' Forum with Dr Phillip Cooke

Join the next Composers' Forum at the University of Aberdeen Music Department with the Head of Music.

Music Research Seminar: Dr Anna Bull

'Getting it right' Classical Music as a Middle-Class Social Practice

Dr Frances Wilkins - University of Aberdeen

Engaging Community and Landscape: The Role of Sacred Singing as a Soundscape to a Way of Life

Professor Dwight Reynolds - University of California, Santa Barbara

As part of our series Sonic Conversations in the Western Mediterranean, our next speaker will be Professor Dwight Reynolds.

Dr Amanda Hsieh - Chinese University of Hong Kong

Listening to commedia dell arte in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Die tote Stadt

Michael Zaugg - Conducting Residency

In a unique opportunity, Michael Zaugg will be working with Students at the University of Aberdeen in a five day residency giving an insight into all aspects of conducting.

Dr Chris Stover - Queensland Conservatorium

Sun Ra's Fletcher Henderson

Ben Ponniah - PGR Student University of Aberdeen

Composer Ben Ponniah will be talking about his recent work.

Dr Amanda Babington - Royal Northern College of Music

The 'other' Stuart bagpipe: Bonnie Prince Charlie's Musette