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My article ‘Rock Spectrale’: The Cultural Identity of the Electric Guitar in Tristan Murail’s Vampyr! is published in the October edition of Tempo. It is based on my PhD research about the influence of the electric guitar’s popular cultural identity within contemporary music, and focuses on a piece for solo electric guitar composed by Murail in 1984. This is my first time publishing in an academic journal, and I found it to be an interesting, although at times rather scary(!) experience. Going through the long process of drafting and re-drafting my work, presenting at conferences, and finally going through the editorial and production process was tough, but rewarding, and has helped me developed valuable skills as an academic musician.

My article can be read on the Cambridge Journals website here:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0040298215000340

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Ensemble Fractales visit Southampton

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Following successful premieres in Brussels, Ensemble Fractales came to Southampton to play postgraduate composers’ works in a lunchtime concert at the Turner Sims concert hall on the Southampton University campus. This concert was the culmination of this year’s collaboration between the Southampton composition deparment and performers studying the manama advanced masters programme in contemporary music performance in Brussels. My piece Construction in Metal received its second performance, alongside works by Olly Sellwood, Martin Humphries, and Enno Poppe’s fantastic Gelöschte Lieder.

You can read more about the project on the music department blog here:

https://blog.soton.ac.uk/music/2015/05/15/cross-channel-collaboration/

and hear my piece here:

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Conference in Bowling Green OH

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At the end of March, I travelled to the USA for the first time, to take part in the Electric Guitar in Popular Culture conference at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. I presented my paper on Tristan Murail’s Vampyr!, gaining valuable feedback as I prepare it for publication, and heard many fascinating papers.

I wrote a post about my experiences for the Southampton University music department blog (I am grateful to the Faculty of Humanities and AHRC for helping fund my travel expenses):

https://blog.soton.ac.uk/music/2015/04/21/electric-guitar-conference-in-bowling-green-usa/