Salford Seminars in Sound and Music

Join us for a panel discussion bringing together composers, sound artists, and researchers to explore the intersections of sound, music, and environment. We will investigate how place and environment shape creative work, how we perceive our everyday soundscapes, and how artistic practices can raise awareness of acoustic ecology. Speakers Professor Bill Davies (University of Salford) […]

This research seminar showcases cutting-edge work from the University of Salford exploring how play, serious games, and playful interaction can address real-world challenges. From education and health to environmental awareness and social transformation, our invited researchers investigate how playful design fosters learning, engagement, and meaningful change. Speakers Dr Chloé Germaine Reader in Environmental Humanities at […]

An evening of music and discussion as practice researchers Shirley Smart (Royal College of Music) and Dr Sarah Raine (University College Dublin) join forces to showcase their work and reflect on gender and inclusion in contemporary improvised music worlds. Speakers Dr Sarah Raine Researcher at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the PI of Improvising […]

Successfully integrating abstract issues of inspiration and creative motivation with concrete musical technique is essential for any composer. Referencing my points of musical inspiration, folk music in particular, necessitates a recompositional technique which allows these materials to be developed and explored more flexibly than through arrangement or simple quotation alone. Arnold Schoenberg’s concept of motivic […]

Join Alex Stevenson (Leeds Beckett University), Brendan Williams (University of Salford) and Dave Fortune (University of Salford) as they discuss machine aesthetics in contemporary popular music practice from multiple perspectives. The panellists consider how production technologies have influenced instrumental performance and the cyclical reciprocity of how these performances are presented in a contemporary recorded context. […]