Sound Art and Music

Dr John Dack is a musicologist who lectures in Music, Technology and Fine Art at Middlesex University. He studied at City University and Goldsmiths, UK, has lectured and published internationally, and co-translated and co-published key texts from French including Pierre Schaeffer’s In Search of a Concrete Music and Treatise on Musical Objects. His current research areas include the history, theory and analysis of electroacoustic music, the music and works of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales and serial thought.

Dr Tansy Spinks is an artist, performer, musician and lecturer who has exhibited and taught nationally and internationally. She runs the MA in Fine Art at Middlesex University, UK. Her current research interests engage with sound in live, site-specific art performance, modes of listening, concepts of audiation, instructional text scores, improvisatory performance, sound and materiality and sound and narrative.

Dr Adam Stanović is an electronic music composer whose works have been heard in over 400 international concerts around the world, published on 12 different CDs and featured in the finals of many composition competitions. His writings, previously published under the name Stansbie, address various topics relating to electronic music, including compositional methods and reflections on the many philosophical dilemmas that electronic music seems to produce. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK.