Seminar Archive

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...

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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’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,...