Seminar Archive

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.