The University of Sheffield
Department of Music

Research Seminar Series, October - December 2008

Monday Research Seminars, 4.10-5.30 pm in the Lecture Room, Department of Music, 38 Taptonville Road, Sheffield S10 5BR.

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.

October 2008

October Details
6th Ensemble 360
‘Exploring Elgar’s Piano Quintet’
13th Kate Stevens (University of Western Sydney)
‘Unspoken Knowledge: communication in contemporary dance: experimental investigation of audience response’
20th Gilles Gobeil
‘Some elements of my musical language’
27th Sally Beamish
'Different Voices'

November 2008

November Details
3rd Phil Powrie (Sheffield University)
‘The haptic moment: sparring with Paolo Conte in Ozon’s /5x2/’
17th Peter Elsdon (Hull University)
‘Fairy tales and near-death experiences: the music of Sigur Rós’
24th Julian Johnson (Royal Holloway College, London University)
'Like an axe-blow': Silencing the Voice in Mahler

December 2008

December Details
1st Nicholas Till (Sussex University)
‘Hearing Voices: transcriptions of the phonogram of a schizophrenic. Music for performer and audio-visual media’
8th Rachel Cowgill (Leeds University)
‘The rise and fall of the Metropolitan Police Minstrels, 1871-1933’
15th Tim Cooley (University of California, Santa Barbara)
‘Semiotics of surfing music’