Dr Sean Albiez is a popular music academic, writer, editor and musician. He is currently Visiting Research Fellow with the Sonic Research Group at London South Bank University. He has also recently held posts as a Principal Lecturer in Music at Anglia Ruskin University and Solent University. In both institutions, as well as in his time at Plymouth University, he designed and led innovative courses in popular music and related areas, and has a track record of successful HE curriculum development reaching back to the mid-1990s. He has taught popular music studies, music technology and media and cultural studies since 1991, and has a particular teaching specialism in electronic music. He has been involved in electronic music making since the mid-1980s. He currently researches and writes on a range of subjects in the broad field of popular music, and produces electronic music with Martin James as Nostalgia Deathstar. He is the co-editor of well received academic collections on Kraftwerk and Brian Eno, and has published widely on electronic music, music technology, punk and post-punk.
My current creative music / research practice as obe:lus is in the broad field of experimental electronica. My projects range from techno through to industrial-ambient-drone. Further details and downloads can be found here.
