Research
My research explores the cultural production of contemporary music and sound art, and the coproduction of subjectivities, bodies, and objects. I often draw on materialist, psychoanalytic, and critical theory to do this.
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New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity
(Routledge, 2021)
Musical Materialisms
Special issue of Contemporary Music Review (2020), co-edited with van Elferen & Sergeant
Music—Psychoanalysis—Musicology
(Routledge, 2018)
Journal articles & book chapters
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Cage, Reich, and Morris: Process and Sonic Fetishism
In The Sound of Žižek Musicological Perspectives on Slavoj Žižek. Edited by Mauro Fosco Bertola. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2023.
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Strategies of Conquest and Defence: Musical Encounters with the Object in Twentieth-Century Music
Journal of the Royal Musical Association 145/2 (2020), pp. 457-484.
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Musical Materialisms (Plural)
Coauthored with Isabella van Elferen and Matthew Sergeant, editors’ introduction to a special issue of Contemporary Music Review 39/5 on ‘Musical Materialisms’ (2020), 517-525.
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Musical Time in a Fast World
In The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music. Edited by Mark Doffman, Emily Payne, and Toby Young. Oxford: OUP, 2021 (online)/2022 (print).
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Notes on Adorno’s “Musical Material” During the New Materialisms
Music & Letters, Vol. 99/2 (2018): 260–275.
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The Composition of Posthuman Bodies
‘The Composition of Posthuman Bodies’, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 13/2 (2017), pp. 137-152.
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Does the Psychoanalysis of Music Have a “Subject”?
In Music – Psychoanalysis – Musicology. Edited by Samuel Wilson. London and New York: Routledge, 2018.
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Valentin Silvestrov and the Symphonic Monument in Ruins
In Transformations of Musical Modernism. Edited by Julian Johnson & Erling E. Guldbrandsen), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 201-220.
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Building an Instrument, Building an Instrumentalist: Helmut Lachenmann’s Serynade
Contemporary Music Review 32/5 (2013), pp. 425-436.
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Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Music After the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989 [Book review]
Twentieth-Century Music 15/1 (2018), pp. 131-136.
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After Beethoven, After Hegel: Legacies of Selfhood in Schnittke’s String Quartet No. 4
International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 45/2 (2014), pp. 311-334.
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Neoliberal Reason, Contemporary Music, and Proximal Critique
Twentieth-Century Music (in press, 2024/25)
