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Sounding Board

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The Sounding Board is our steering committee;Ìýa group of music experts from across Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê who provide feedback, ideas and insights on activities under the initiative.
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  • Manuel Arroyo-KalinÌý-ÌýAssociate Professor at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÌýInstitute of Archaeology. Manuel was involved in the organisation of theÌýMusic Archaeology of Latin America dayÌýconference that took place on 11/2019 at UL Senate House (led by Diane Scullin (Bristol), Henry Stobbart (RHUL), and Bill Sillar (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Archaeology)). His researchÌýinterest in the Amazon basin involves a comparative consideration of indigenous music.
  • Ìý-ÌýProfessor of Music and Anthropoloy, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÌýAnthropology. Georgina is working on a 5-year ERC-funded project:Ìý
  • Ìý-ÌýAssociate Professor, Department of Computer Science. NicolasÌýis an interdisciplinary computer scientist and musician, with research interests at the intersection of arts, humanities and sciences and particularly in computer music for creative practice, analysis, healthcare, and education. He is interested in new interfaces for musical expression – including aÌýÌýwhich previously performed at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Festival of the Arts. Also involved in an EU funded project about music in healthcare, working with IoE on music and making, working with lego, and interested in ethics and musical technology.Ìý
  • Annika LindskogÌý-ÌýLecturer in Scandinavian Studies,ÌýSELCS.ÌýAnnika has a particular research interest in music as cultural history, often intertwined with landscape ideologies and cultural memory structures. She developed a cross-disciplinary module on ‘Hearing Cultures’. She is also a Chamber music player, and a singer.Ìý
  • Ìý-ÌýCoordinator for Sustainable Cities and Transformative Technology, Grand ChallengesÌý(currently on secondment to Urban Lab).ÌýSophie plays violin in theÌý, a community orchestra focused on decolonising classical music set up by Hannah Catherine Jones; whilst working in Palestine, Sophie volunteered withÌý, playing traditional ceilidh music for Dabke dance nights; she workedÌýwith Sam Lee (Extinction Rebellion, Music Declares founder) to put on a programme of acoustic folk concerts in outdoor spaces throughout London called "". She is interested in music making for wellbeing and community cohesion, improving access to music, and representation/research that opens up the classical archive
  • Ìý-ÌýHead of Programmes, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Grand Challenges of Cultural Understanding and Justice & Equality.ÌýSiobhan is interested in music as memorialisation; music and memory (also in relation to misremembering).
  • Jayne ParkerÌý-ÌýProfessor of Fine Art, Head of Graduate Fine Art Media,ÌýSlade School of Fine Art. Jayne is an artist filmmaker who has made many 16mm films featuring the performance of music, new contemporary and experimental. She is particularly interested in the structure and form of music in relation to the materiality of analogue film, the act of performance and expression of music, as well as the instrument itself. She is interested in the way we experience and encounter music.
  • Ìý-ÌýAssociate Professor of Music Education,ÌýIoE.ÌýRoss isÌýinvolved in a wide range of music education-based research. At present, this embraces the exploration of young people’s engagement with musical activity via geospatial analysis, along with interdisciplinary projects exploring the combination of music, coding and Lego construction. HeÌýalso hasÌýan interest in the history of English music education. Recent publications have also included skill acquisition and ethical awareness in music technology.Ìý
  • Jennifer RushworthÌý-ÌýAssociate Professor, SELCS. Jennifer is working on a book on Proust and song. HerÌýBritish Academy conference on '' tookÌýplace on 30 September/1 October 2021. She sings and plays piano andÌýhas worked with Bloomsbury Theatre.Ìý—> Rushworth, JF (2019)ÌýÌýFrench Studies Bulletin , 40 (150) pp. 21-24. (2019)
  • Lisa SampsonÌý-ÌýAssociate Professor (Early Modern Italian Studies), Director of Italian Studies,ÌýSELCS. Lisa researches on early modern Italy, focusing especially on courts and academies which were key settings for some of the most innovative practical and theoretical experimentation with music, theatre and literature in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In particular, she is interested in how female performers (including singers) influenced musical and creative practices (including the rise of opera).ÌýÌýShe ran theÌýVirtuosa Singer in the Academies of Early Modern ItalyÌýconcert with professional musicians/lecture (Sept. 2018), and has an open access volume currently under contract for Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Press onÌýDrama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The life and works of Leonora Bernardi (edited byÌýVirginia Cox and Lisa Sampson, forthcoming 2022).Ìý
  • Thomas WesternÌý-ÌýLecturer in Social and Cultural Geography. His teaching and research centre on movements and migrations, cities and citizenships, relations and imaginations, activisms and anticolonialisms – working with methods that foreground sound and voice. Tom works primarily in Athens, Greece, where he studies and contributes to migratory activisms and creative citizenship movements. He is a member of the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum (SGYF), with whom he runs theÌýÌý– a space for amplifying citizenship work, youth activism, and collective research and knowledge production. Based on this work, Tom is currently writing a book titledÌýCircular Movements: Migratory Citizenships in Athens. The book hears how people in Athens creatively contest the logics of borders and citizenship regimes, reimagining questions of being and belonging in the city, and remaking citizenships against citizenship.