2025-6, Semester 1

Meetings this semester:

  • Mon 1 Sep, 15:30-16:30 – [Before the new semester really starts – let’s think of this one as a late-summer session…. ]  Hazel will test-run her conference presentation for the Society for Music Production Research taking place next week in Victoria, BC.  The presentation shares Hazel’s model of music-related ‘listening’ as both a cognitive and communicative process for sound production researchers and practitioners.
  • Thu 18 Sep, 15:00-16:30 – Welcome back – introductory session to reconvene as a group plus work shared by Peter (conference presentation test-run: Seeing People Through Instruments: Interdisciplinary Avenues Towards Organology as Social Historical Science)
  • Mon 29 Sep, 15:00-16:30 – Hands up if you think that a ‘situated approach’ is important in your research! Christoph Seibert’s chapter in Music and Consciousness (2019, eds. Herbert, Clarke & Clarke) maps out some ideas for what ‘situated approaches’ can and can’t do for music research. Let’s discuss, with our own individual and collective interests in mind.
  • TBC – Thu 23 Oct, 15:00-16:30 – Positionality in improvisation pedagogy (Una) – draft article share session
  • TBC – Thu 6 Nov, 15:00-16:30 –  [Topic suggestion: Research design for the study of wellbeing through music as situated practice]
  • TBC – Mon 1 Dec, 15:00-16:30 –  [Topic suggestion: Interpreting experimental music perception research findings]
  • ANOTHER SUGGESTION:   Writing retreat day on Thursday 8 January, 2025?

All meetings hybrid as usual:  Please email Nikki or Una if you would like to attend, or check the MS Teams page.

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