Research

Publications

• Review of the book, Einstein on the Beach: Opera Beyond Drama, by Jelena Novak and John Richardson (eds.), New Sound, No. 56, II/2020
• ‘Existential Soundtracks: Analysing Semiotic Meanings in Minimalist and Post-minimal Music’, Eero Tarasti (ed.), Transcending Signs (Mouton de Gruyter, forth.), Transcending Signs (Mouton de Gruyter, forth.)
• ‘Philip Glass’, The Grove Music Guide to American Film Music (Oxford University Press, 2019); published in Grove Music Online (26 March 2018)
• Numerous entries in the Companion to Welsh Music (Cydymaith i Gerddoriaeth Cymru) (Y Lolfa, 2018)
• Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music, Multimedia and Post-minimalism (Ashgate, 2015)
• ‘Thesis and Antithesis: Resolving the Dialectique in the First Movement of Debussy’s Violin Sonata’, Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology, 14 (Poznan University, 2014)
• “Open Ended’ Interactions? Exploring Similarities in Minimalist Music, Plastic Art and New Media’, Signs and Media, 8 (Spring 2014)
• ‘Analysing Minimalist and Post-Minimal Music: an Overview of Methodologies,’ in ap Siôn, Gann and Potter (eds.), Companion to Minimalist and Post-Minimal Music (Ashgate, 2013)
• ‘Existential Soundtracks? Examining the semiotics of post-minimal multimedia’, Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Musical Signification (Academy of Music in Krakow, 2013)
• with Pwyll ap Siôn, ‘Parallel Symmetries? The Relationship Between Minimalist Music and Multimedia Forms,’ in Graeme Harper (ed.), Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview (London and New York: Continuum, 2009).
  

 

• Reviews for Welsh language current affairs magazine Barn, vols. 570/571 (July/August 2010); 572 (September 2010); 573 (October 2010); 585 (October 2011); 586 (November 2011); 609 (October 2013); 610 (November 2013);611/612 (December/January 2013/14)

 

Conference and Research Seminar Papers

• Keynote address (paper title TBC), Narrative and Music conference, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (15-17 November 2021)
• ‘Transatlantic Virtuosi: Early Ravelian Piano Recitals in North America’, French Musicians and the Conquest of North America: Musical Travels and Cultural Politics’, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (3-4 July 2017)
• ‘‘Open-ended Interactions’: Interpreting intersections in postminimal music, art and new media’, Research Snapshot series, School of Music, Bangor University (3 March 2015)
• ‘Interactive Minimalism: Glass and Beck’s REWORK_ project’, Fourth International Conference on Music and Minimalism, California (October 2013)
• ‘‘Open-ended Interactions’: Examining intersections in minimalist music, art and new media’, Noises of Art conference, organized by Aberystwyth University in collaboration with the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Aberystwyth Arts Centre (4–6 September 2013)
• ‘Exploring Intermediality in Post-Minimal Film Music’, 12^th International Congress on Musical Signification, Louvain (April 2013)
• ‘Philip Glass’s Dracula: Movie Soundtrack or Music Drama?’, 3rd International Conference on Music and Minimalism, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (12-15 October 2011)
• ‘Post-minimal Unfoldings? Temporality and (Anti-)narrativity in Film Music and Opera’, Opera symposium, University of Sussex, Brighton (8 June 2011)
• ‘Temporality and Narrative in Post-Minimal Film Music and Opera’, 26th International Summer School for Semiotics and Structural Studies, International Semiotics Institute, Imatra, Finland (5-8 June 2011)
• ‘Analysing Minimalist and Post-Minimal Music: an overview of methodologies’, Colloquium organized by the Society for Music and Minimalism, Birmingham (8-10 April 2011)
• ‘Existential Soundtracks? Examining the semiotics of post-minimal multimedia’, 11th International Congress on Musical Signification, Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland (1 October 2010)