The Aberdeen art gallery will host this Saturday at 1pm the first performance of You can’t get there from here, a collaborative composition by Francis Macdonald, Sonia Allori, Colin Broom, Drew Hammond (University Teacher at the Music subject area), John De Simone and Oliver Searle. The project originated from a New Music Scotland composers’ weekend… Continue reading
Dr Louise Harris, a lecturer in Sonic and Audiovisual Practices at the Music subject area, will work in the multi-channel/Ambisonic studio at Bowling Green State University (Ohio USA) during Spring 2016 as the recipient of a Klingler ElectroAcoustic Residency (KEAR). Dr Harris explains that her project for the residency ‘will be concerned with realizing the… Continue reading
Earlier this month, the University of Glasgow’s Music subject area hosted the Ninth International Conference on Music since 1900. From 7th to 9th September, about 90 delegates from fifteen different countries enjoyed two and a half days of keynote lectures, papers, panels and lecture-recitals on a variety of aspects of music and sound in the… Continue reading
Dr Eva Moreda Rodríguez is LKAS Research Fellow at the Music subject area. She specializes in the political and cultural history of Spanish music in the 20th century. By the time the Francoist army defeated the Republican troops and put an end to three years of Civil War in April 1939, more than four… Continue reading
Lecturer in Music Dr Jane Stanley writes about her experience of writing music for a specific space: the Królikarnia Museum in Warsaw. I am very excited to be composing a piece for Emilia Sitarz (piano), Barbara Kinga Majewska (mezzo soprano), and Magdalena Kordylasińska (percussion) to be performed in the Królikarnia Museum in Warsaw later this year.… Continue reading
David Code, Reader in Music at the subject area, talks about his recent experience with public engagement – from Debussy to PJ Harvey. I greatly enjoyed participating in a couple of public engagement events in recent weeks, both of which will soon be available online. First of all, I was invited (on the recommendation of… Continue reading
Dr Louise Harris is an electronic and audiovisual composer who currently lectures on sonic and audiovisual practices at the University of Glasgow’s Music subject area. Three of my most recent works are ‘doing the rounds’ at the moment, in a variety of different contexts. Here’s a little bit of information about the pieces and where/how… Continue reading
Dr David McGuinness is Senior Lecturer in Music and director of the early music ensemble, Concerto Caledonia, who have just released the album Purcell’s Revenge. He is currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, Bass Culture in Scottish Musical Traditions. I was at TradTalk on Saturday, where I’d been asked to kick the day… Continue reading
Elizabeth Ford is a PhD student in the Music subject area. Her thesis explores the flute in the musical life of eighteenth-century Scotland. In my research into the repertoire for the flute in Scotland in the eighteenth century I have uncovered many things, some expected and some unexpected. Possibly the most unexpected is the evidence… Continue reading
By Professor Martin Cloonan Martin Cloonan is Professor of Popular Music Politics at the University of Glasgow’s Music subject area. He is currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project The Musicians Union: A social history. In early January I joined other contenders aiming to be chosen by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to… Continue reading
