Sean Albiez - academic, electronic musician & writer

Biography

Sean Albiez is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Southampton Solent University. He has lectured in popular music studies, music technology and media and cultural studies since 1991, and has been involved in electronic music making since the mid-1980s. He researches and writes on a range of subjects in the broad field of popular music, and produces electronic music as obe:lus and SuckDisco!.

Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop edited by

Sean Albiez & David Pattie out now.

Amazon - Book and Kindle edition

The Wire Bookshop

Brian Eno: Oblique Music edited by

Sean Albiez & David Pattie out 2014.

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Soundcloud obe:lus, SuckDisco! and Remixes

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Scoop.it! Hauntology

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Brian Eno: Oblique Music

posted 17 May 2013 02:42 by Sean Albiez

Currently working with David Pattie on this - due out 2014. Here's what we aim to do ...

'On the back of his published diary Brian Eno describes himself variously as: a mammal, a father, an artist, a celebrity, a pragmatist, a computer-user, an interviewee, and a 'drifting clarifier'. To this list we might add rock star (on the first two Roxy Music albums); the creator of lastingly influential music (Another Green World; Music for Airports); a trusted producer (for Talking Heads, U2, Coldplay and a host of other artists); the maker of large-scale video and installation artworks; a maker of apps and interactive software; and so on. All in all, he is one of the most feted and most influential musical figures of the past forty years even though he himself has consistently downplayed his musical abilities, describing himself as a non-musician on more than one occasion. This volume examines Eno's work as a musician, as a theoretician, as a collaborator, and as a producer. Brian Eno is one of the most influential figures in popular music; an updated examination of his work on this scale is long overdue.'

Hauntology

posted 1 May 2013 13:55 by Sean Albiez [ updated 14 May 2013 14:54 ]

I recently gave a presentation - 'Curating Hauntology' - as part of the Timecode: 20 Years On Hauntology symposium at the Bradford International Film Festival. I explored issues in locating the 'past inside the present' through reflections on the Hauntology 'online archive' I've been putting together over the last 18 months or so.

A Man Cuts Down a Tree and it has Consequences

posted 18 Jan 2013 00:45 by Sean Albiez

The short film A Man Cuts Down a Tree and it has Consequences made by Meat Bingo - and that I contributed an amount of 'sonic manipulation' to - has been made available online after recently featuring at the London Short Film Festival.

POP SOUNDS: Klangtexturen in der Pop- und Rockmusik

posted 24 Sep 2012 11:53 by Sean Albiez [ updated 24 Sep 2012 12:03 ]

The 2003 German and English language book POP SOUNDS: Klangtexturen in der Pop- und Rockmusik that I contributed a chapter to is now available for free here

Print the Truth, Not the Legend: Sex Pistols, Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 4th June 1976

posted 4 Mar 2012 14:58 by Sean Albiez [ updated 5 Mar 2012 11:54 ]

I have just uploaded a revised version of my study of the legendary 4th June 1976 Sex Pistols gig at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall. I wrote the first version in late 2003 [it was published by Ashgate in 2006]. Since I wrote this new information has come to light, and I have also unearthed a few more details that I felt necessary to add to correct and develop the piece. If I come up with more material I'll add further updates.