Staff research interests
- Dr Newton Armstrong - Composition; improvisation; issues of human agency, embodiment, and intentionality in electroacoustic and improvised musics; phenomonelogical and cognitive aspects of listening and performance; formal theories and models of musical structure and behaviour; software and hardware design and development; interdisciplinarity and collaborative process.
- Dr Alexander Lingas - Music and liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church; especially Byzantine chant; music and identity in contemporary Eastern Europe and the Balkans; diaspora studies; modern Greek song; music and liturgy; philosophies and theologies of music; performance practice.
- Dr Miguel Mera - Composition for the moving image; film, television and videogame sound; contemporary instrumental, electronic and digital music; popular music; collaborative processes in music creation.
- Dr Laudan Nooshin - Middle Eastern musics; contemporary developments in Iranian music; music, power and ideology; music and issues of globalization.
- Professor Rhian Samuel - Instrumental and vocal composition; contemporary instrumental techniques; contemporary composers; women composers; vocal music, text-music relations from the 16th century to the present.
- Professor Denis Smalley - Electroacoustic music, particularly acousmatic music; the sound world in general (not only music); sound and space; music perception, reception, and listening strategies.
- Professor Steve Stanton - Oriental music, African-American music; Eastern European folk music; ethnochoreology; intercultural music; music theatre; composition.
- Dr Christopher Wiley - Musical biography; reception history; gender studies; music and literature; popular music; musical multimedia.
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