Academic year 2019-20
Links to previous events in the Music Research Seminars series from AY 2019-20.
Included here are only events which actually took place. Due to industrial action and the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, many of this year's planned seminars were cancelled or postponed.
Martin Parker discusses the creative decisions and wider implications of his sound installation Sonikebana.
Charlotte Bentley discusses opera in New Orleans in the early nineteenth century.
Oct 02 2019
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Workshop: Organising academic events
A session to provide information on some of the funds available to organise postgraduate workshops and conferences.
Oct 09 2019
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Panel discussion: Should concerts have quotas?
Why are there so few women composers on concert programmes? And why does this matter? A panel of invited guests discuss.
Michele Duccheschi provides an introduction to principles and history of digital sound synthesis, concluding with a showcase of applications developed by the Reid School's Acoustics and Audio Group.
Andrew Green explores how Mexican hip-hop reflects the challenges facing a relatively new democracy.
Sujin Hong discusses what brain imaging research can offer to research into the links between music and emotion.
When a hologram performs, who is performing, is it "live", and why does this matter? Nick Prior investigates.
Lisa Colton investigates the history and possibly international connections of the fourteenth-century English composition 'Omnis/Habenti'.
Ian Cross investigates shared processes underlining music and speech, and what this tells us about human communication generally.
Inja Stanović discusses the use of recordings to study historical performance practice.
Ananya Jahanara Kabir explores music and dance in Portuguese Goa and how it reflects Goa's historical position at the centre of an intercontinental web.
Feb 12 2020
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Thomas Butler | Mapping as a compositional tool
Thomas Butler discusses the ways that maps and mapping have influenced his recent compositions.