Seminar Archive

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

Dr Annette Davison discusses Petrocapitalism in the media.

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...

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

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...

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