Full details of our forthcoming seminars can be found on the Music Research Seminars series website.
The Music Research Seminars series is our main seminar series for research into the cultural, historical, political and social dimensions of musical life. With contributions from researchers and musicians from within the Reid School and beyond, it’s a place to encounter and discuss new ideas, and gain fresh perspective on some old ones.
Previous seminar series
2021/22
30 Sep 2021 | The Manifestation of Human Agency in Digital Composition and Performance | Nicholas Canny | Alison House, Lecture Room A | 5.15pm - 6.45pm
7 Oct 2021 | MP3 Compression Artefacts as Creative Material | Jim Reeve-Baker | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 5.15pm - 6.45pm
14 Oct 2021 | Tasteful DSP: how can compositional desires be embedded into live electronics? | Jack Walker | Alison House, Lecture Room A | 5.15pm - 6.45pm
21 Oct 2021 | MUSIC.OLOGY.ECA Edition 2 Launch | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 5.15pm - 6.45pm
18 Nov 2021 | Title TBC | Matthew D. Morrison | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 5.15pm - 6.45pm
25 Nov 2021 | Title TBC | Phil Alexander | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 5.15pm - 6.45pm
2020/21
7 Oct 2020 | Loving Music Till It Hurts, William Cheng | Online | 4.15pm
21 Oct 2020 | ‘The Concertina’s Deadly Work in the Trenches’: Soundscapes of Boer War Suffering, Erin Johnson-Williams | Online | 4.15pm
3 Dec 2020 | Youn Kim (University of Hong Kong) | 1pm
2019/20 seminars
18 Sep 2019 | Sonikebana: rich immersion and responsive play, can we have both?, Dr Martin Parker (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Reid School of Music) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
25 Sep 2019 | New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819-1859, Dr Charlotte Bentley (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Reid School of Music) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
2 Oct 2019 | Workshop: Organising academic events | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
9 Oct 2019 | Panel discussion: Should concerts have quotas?, Hilary Brooks (Scottish Women Inventing Music), Gavin Reid (Chief Executive, Scottish Chamber Orchestra), More speakers to be confirmed | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
16 Oct 2019 | Physical modelling audio plugins: myths, truths, and plenty of demos from our own research, Dr Michele Duccheschi (University of Edinburgh, Acoustics and Audio Group) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
30 Oct 2019 | Rapping the unknown: Mexican hip-hop, silencing, and the post-authoritarian imagination, Dr Andrew Green (University of Glasgow, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
6 Nov 2019 | Music and emotion in the brain: individual and group experiences, Dr Sujin Hong (University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
13 Nov 2019 | Panel discussion: Impacts of music on health and wellbeing – Positives, and negatives | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
20 Nov 2019 | On the Singing Hologram: Miku, Love and Labour, Prof Nick Prior (University of Edinburgh, Sociology) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
27 Nov 2019 | Ecological Listening: Sounding Environmental Noise, Dr Linda O Keeffe (University of Edinburgh) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
15 Jan 2020 | Getting to know a “completely unintelligible” English motet of the ars nova, Lisa Colton (University of Huddersfield) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm | View event >
22 Jan 2020 | Sociability, affiliation and the phatic: music as communication, Ian Cross (University of Cambridge) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm | View event >
29 Jan 2020 | Performing, Recording and (Re)constructing: A Guide for Historically-informed Performance, Inja Stanović (University of Huddersfield) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm | View event >
5 Feb 2020 | Transoceanic creolisation and the music and dance of Goa, Ananya Jahanara Kabir (King's College London) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm | View event >
12 Feb 2020 | Mapping as a compositional tool, Thomas Butler (University of Edinburgh) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm | View event >
26 Feb 2020 | Cancelled | Addressing the Gender Imbalance in Theatre Sound, Clare Hibberd (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
4 Mar 2020 | Title TBC, Nicola Dibben (University of Sheffiled) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
12 Mar 2020 | Cancelled | Title TBC, Anna Papaeti (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
18 Mar 2020 | Sound and Music in Three Dimensions: Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Spectacular Demonstration of Stereophony, Gascia Ouzounian (University of Oxford) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm | View event >
25 Mar 2020 | Title TBC, Dimitris Papageorgiou | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
1 Apr 2020 | Ecological Listening: Sounding Environmental Noise, Dr Linda O Keeffe (University of Edinburgh) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm | View event >
2018/19
17 Sep 2018 | Collecting and archiving music histories from political detention centres in Pinochet's Chile (1973-1990), Katia Chornik (University of Manchester and Surrey County Council) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
27 Sep 2018 | Representing Renaissance Rome – Beyond Anachronism in Showtime’s The Borgias, James Cook (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
4 Oct 2018 | Working with Words – Revisions of Declamation in Fanny Hensel’s Lied Autographs, Harald Krebs (University of Victoria) | Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
11 Oct 2018 | Decolonising music education, Diva Mukherji (VP Education, EUSA), Radhika Govinda (University of Edinburgh), 皚桐 (Glasgow School of Art POC Society), chaired by Diljeet Bhachu (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
17 Oct 2018 (Rescheduled date, time and location) | How-to session: Organising a postgraduate conference | Student Common Room, Alison House | 2pm - 4pm
18 Oct 2018 | A Scattered Heritage – Britain’s Georgian Legal Deposit Music, Karen McAulay (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
1 Nov 2018 | Anne Desler (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
15 Nov 2018 | The Curious Case of Cluas-chiùil (‘Musical-ear’) – Evidence for Early Musical Semantics in Gaelic Scotland?, William Lamb (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
22 Nov 2018 | Panel discussion: Teaching music history in higher education | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
29 Nov 2018 | “Music is a way of listening” – Liberal personhood and auditory labour in English music education policy, 1973-1992, Patrick Valiquet (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
17 Jan 2019 | Fostering musical autonomy through playing by ear from recording, Maria Varvarigou (Canterbury Christ Church University) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
24 Jan 2019 | Being moved by music – A prosocial emotional response?, Jonna Vuoskoski (University of Oslo)| Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
31 Jan 2019 | Hearing Impairment: Disability, Autonomy, and Jazz Performance Practice – A Case for Lennie Tristano, Marian Jago (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
7 Feb 2019 | Politics of Emotion and Feeling in Music | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
14 Feb 2019 | Perspectives on the nineteenth-century Bach revival, Tom Wilkinson (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
28 Feb 2019 | Traditional Cultural Practices and HIV Interventions in South Africa, Nanette de Jong (University of Newcastle) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
7 Mar 2019 | Music, asylum-seeking and the mobile phone: accountability in a post-peace era, Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway University of London) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
14 Mar 2019 | Listening and Learning with Link: Explorations in Listening to Video Games, Tim Summers (Royal Holloway University of London) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
21 Mar 2019 | The American ‘lady composer’ in Hollywood musicals of the 1930s: Towards a history of fictitious female composers, Matthew Head (King's College London) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
28 Mar 2019 | Improvisers, instruments and nonlinear dynamics, Tom Mudd (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
4 Apr 2019 | Conceptual (in)congruence in Marvin Hamisch’s score for "The Informant!", Dave Ireland (University of Leeds) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
