Music Research Seminar Series

Tenley Martin, University of Leeds 
Thursday 01 October 2015, 16:30-18:00
Flamenco Britannica – ‘This is my culture too’: The impact of the individual driver in the appropriation and transmission of UK Flamenco

Sophy Smith, DeMontfort University 
Thursday 08 October 2015, 16:30-18:00
Transmedia Performance Practice and Creative uses of Social Media

Alinka Greasley, University of Leeds 
Thursday 15 October 2015, 16:30-18:00
Hearing aids for music: exploring the music listening behaviour of people with hearing impairments

Vic Gammon & Arthur Knevett, Newcastle University 
Thursday 22 October 2015, 16:30-18:00
The Idea of the Peasant and the English Folk Song Collectors (c.1830-1925)

Laura Hamer, Liverpool Hope University 
Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:30-18:00
Catharsis, Commentary, Protest: Elsa Barraine’s Deuxième Symphonie (1938)

Naomi Norton, Royal Northern College of Music 
Thursday 05 November 2015, 16:30-18:00
Health and Wellness Education for Musicians: Investigating Music Teachers’ Perspectives

John Dack, Middlesex University 
Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:30-18:00
Pierre Schaeffer, Musique Concrète and the Instrument

Pedro Alvarez, composer
Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:30-18:00
Situational composition and its conjunction with improvisation

Liza Lim, University of Huddersfield 
Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:30-18:00
Thinking through sensations via analogy

Jo Hutton, University of Southampton 
Thursday 03 December 2015, 16:30-18:00
Electric Storm: Inventions, Systems and Techniques in Electronic Composition (1950-80s)

Sumanth Gopinath, University of Minnesota 
Thursday 10 December 2015, 16:30-18:00
Speculative Hermeneutics, Scottish Memory, and James Dillon’s String Quartet No. 6

Owen Coggins, Open University 
Thursday 28 January 2016, 16:30-18:00
Drone Metal Mysticism: Religious Language and Protest in Extreme Metal Music

Mark Knoop, University of Southampton 
Thursday 04 February 2016, 16:30-18:00
Clicks and tricks: Solving problems of synchronisation in musical performance

Sally Anne Gross, University of Westminster 
Thursday 11 February 2016, 16:30-18:00
State of Emergency: The Production of Music is Out of Control

John Sloboda, Keele University  
Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:30-18:00
Audiences for live classical music: why do they attend (or not), and how can composers, performers, and promoters better engage them?

David Patmore, University of Sheffield 
Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:30-18:00
Commerce, Competition, Consequences: The British Record Industry 1923-1931

Danielle Hood, University of Leeds 
Thursday 03 March 2016, 16:30-18:00
Doubles and Duplicity: Topics in Vienna around the long fin-de-siècle, 1874–1928

Clive Brown, University of Leeds  
Thursday 10 March 2016, 16:30-18:00
Editing Brahms’ Sonatas: Reading between the Lines of the Notation

Bret Battey, DeMontfort University
Thursday 17 March 2016, 16:30-18:00
Wayfinding, Algorithm, Impermanence

William Baldry, University of Leeds 
Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:30-18:00
The application of hip-hop turntable technique within avant-garde contexts

James Dillon, University of Minnesota  
Thursday 28 April 2016, 16:30-18:00
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