Dr Eva Moreda Rodríguez is Lecturer in Music and specializes in the political and cultural history of Spanish music in the 20th century. By a rather fortunate coincidence, the publication of my book Music and Exile in Francoist Spain with Ashgate last month coincided in time with the launch of three separate CDs containing music… Continue reading
By Professor Martin Cloonan Martin Cloonan is Professor of Popular Music Politics and Principal Investigator of the AHRC- and ESRC-funded project The Musicians’ Union: A Social History. My colleague John Williamson and I are currently moving towards the end of a four year project examining the history of the British Musicians’ Union (MU). The project… Continue reading
Three pieces by Dr Louise Harris have been made available under the title Auroculis in ‘expanded audio’ format by the international label deepwhitesound, dedicated to the free dissemination of innovative, experimental work. Auroculis can be downloaded here. Auroculis – which includes the pieces fuzee, ilsonilus:1 and pletten – marks a further step in Louise’s pioneering work… Continue reading
The Dunedin Consort’s recording of Bach’s Christmas Cantata and Magnificat, conducted by Prof John Butt, and the exhibition at the Mitchell Library marking the end of the research project The Musicians’ Union: A Social History have both enjoyed press coverage during the Christmas holidays. Prof Butt discussed the genesis of Bach’s Magnificat and Christmas Cantata… Continue reading
Professor John Butt is Gardiner Professor of Music and musical director of Edinburgh’s Dunedin Consort. He has recently released a musical reconstruction of J. S. Bach’s first Christmas service in Leipzig to great critical acclaim; you can find out more about the project here. My research has necessarily been quite fragmented over the last… 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 October 2015 Routledge published the book Popular Music Industries and the State: Policy Notes, co-authored by Shane Homan… Continue reading
October has seen staff in the University of Glasgow’s Music subject area engaged in a variety of research-related activities, including performance, conference participation, publication, and public engagement. Drew Hammond’s You can’t get there from here was performed in Aberdeen as part of the Sound festival last Saturday, whereas Jane Stanley’s D-re-A-mi-N-gl-Y will be premiered at the Królikarnia museum… Continue reading
As part of their Australian Music Podcast, Australian broadcaster ABC Classics FM has launched a podcast about Ensemble Offspring featuring a full performance of Dr Jane Stanley’s Helix Reflection. Drop in from 40’30” to hear members of Ensemble Offspring talk about the piece, followed by a full performance. Sydney-based Ensemble Offpspring is committed to celebrating… Continue reading
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
