The University of Sheffield
Department of Music

Research Seminar Series, February - April 2010

Monday Research Seminars, 4.10-5.30pm in Ensemble Room 1 (G.03), Department of Music, Jessop Building, 34 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD.

The Research Seminar Series is a series of talks by leading researchers at this university and elsewhere. The series is aimed at postgraduate students and staff but undergraduates and external visitors are welcome at every talk.

Selected Research Seminars are now available to registered students as vod-casts. To view seminars, and participate in online discussion, go to the "Research Seminar Vod-casts" course in MOLE.

February 2010

February Details
8th Robert Adlington (University of Nottingham)
'Peter Schat, Situationist'
15th Colin Roth (Sheffield University)
'Being Seen: an interactive session on work in progress'
22nd Barry Truax (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
'Interacting with Inner and Outer Sonic Complexity: from Microsound to Soundscape Composition'

March 2010

March Details
1st
 Vic Gammon (Newcastle University)
'The Street Ballad Singer in Pre-and Early Industrial Society'
8th Ensemble 360
‘Learning new repertoire as an ensemble’
15th Jonathan Stock (Sheffield University)
‘Pig-killing, beer-drinking, collective prayer and communal musical performance: sharing values and valuing shared experience in a Taiwanese aboriginal village’

April 2010

April Details
19th Giles Hooper (Liverpool University)
'Sounding the last post: what is/was postmodern music?'
26th Adrian Moore (Sheffield University)
'Fracturing the Acousmatic: ongoing surgery'

May 2010

May Details
10th Eduardo Coutinho (Sheffield University)
‘The affective meaning of sound: psychoacoustic principles underlying the perception of emotion in music and speech.’