Current Research Projects

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 electronic popular music, and produces music as obe:lus.

Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop edited by

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Future Sounds – Between & Beyond: liminality and contemporary electronica

I am currently developing a body of research in support of my creative musical practice for the obe:lus project. The research focuses on issues in the creative and experimental use of music technology in the fields of electronica, idm, glitch and emerging areas of contemporary electronica.

A more detailed overview of the theoretical context of this research can be found here: PDF
A research bibliography, including links to online material, can be found here: PDF

Alongside some work for a music dictionary on Television, Jonathan Richman, The Police and Kraftwerk, I'm currently developing a range of potential research / publication projects and ideas on Electro; Kraftwerk, Techno & Germany; Joy Division; Eno and The Rise of Popular Electronic Music in the 1970s.

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