Staff in the Department of Music

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Dr Guy Baron

Associate Lecturer
g.baron (@gold.ac.uk)

Guy conducts practice-based research in music production and works as a singer-producer under the name Semi Precious.

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James Bulley

Research Associate
j.bulley (@gold.ac.uk)

James Bulley is an artist, curator and researcher whose practice explores locative sound, spatialisation and site-specific installation.

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Imogen Burman

Events Manager
i.burman (@gold.ac.uk)

Imogen organises all the performance based activities in the department, including rehearsals, concerts, degree shows and visiting guest artists, performers and lecturers.

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Dr Alex de Lacey

Lecturer, Admissions Tutor for BMus Music
a.delacey (@gold.ac.uk)

Alex’s work centres on group creativity and live improvisation. His doctoral thesis, entitled Level Up: Live Performance and Collective Creativity in Grime Music, examined crew interactivity and the development of new stylistic tropes in situ at London pirate radio stations and raves.

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Mr Simon Deacon

Co-Head of Department, Senior Lecturer. Pathway Convenor for MMus in Popular Music
s.deacon (@gold.ac.uk)

Simon has overseen the development of a performance culture within the Music department and is a founder of NX Records.

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Professor John Levack Drever

Professor of Acoustic Ecology and Sound Art Head of the Unit for Sound Practice Research (SPR)
j.drever (@gold.ac.uk)

Intersecting sonic arts, soundscapes and acoustics, John’s research is an inquiry into everyday environmental sound.

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Dr Pete Furniss

Lecturer in Performance and Pathway Leader, MMus in Performance
p.furniss (@gold.ac.uk)

Pete has performed internationally across a variety of genres, including orchestral and chamber music, a wide variety of contemporary and electronic musics, free improvisation and improvised theatre.

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Dr Iris Garrelfs

Pathway Leader for MMus in Sonic Art and Co-Head of the Unit for Sound Practice Research (SPR)
i.garrelfs (@gold.ac.uk)

Iris works on the cusp of music, art and sociology across improvised performance, installation and media projects.

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Mr Mikko Gordon

Head of Goldsmiths Music Studios
m.gordon (@gold.ac.uk)

Mikko is a music producer and mixing engineer, who has worked with artists such as Thom Yorke, Pete Townshend and Gaz Coombes. He is responsible for the Goldsmiths Music Studios.

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Dr Stephen Graham

Head of the School of Arts and Humanities, Senior Lecturer in Music
s.graham (@gold.ac.uk)

Stephen's research theoretically analyses a wide range of current music, from underground to popular and avant-garde.

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Hugh Jones

Associate Lecturer
music (@gold.ac.uk)

Hugh Jones is a musician and instrument builder who produces music under the name Crewdson. He has released two full solo albums on the Slowfoot Records label and has produced remixes for the likes of Ninja Tune, Lo Recordings, Sunday Best, One Little Indian and Brownswood Records.

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Dr Jenn Kirby

Lecturer in Electronic Music and Technology
j.kirby (@gold.ac.uk)

Jenn is a composer and performer of experimental electronic music, interested in instrument design and laptop ensemble

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Dr Naomi Matsumoto

Senior Lecturer in Music; Convenor of the Integrated Degree in Music, Foundation Year Programme; International Admissions Tutor
n.matsumoto (@gold.ac.uk)

Naomi has scholarly interests in Italian opera, Purcell and Monteverdi and Baroque period performance practice.

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Joe Newman

Lecturer in Music
j.newman (@gold.ac.uk)

As a guitarist and performer, Joe has toured and recorded with Mercury Prize-nominated artists Jessie Ware, Ghostpoet and Eska, as well as Tom Jones, Miguel and Bilal.

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Professor Tom Perchard

Professor of Music, Director of Research, Programme Convenor for BMus Popular Music
t.perchard (@gold.ac.uk)

Tom’s teaching and research centres on the cultural history and historiography of jazz and popular music.

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Professor Keith Potter

Emeritus Professor of Music
k.potter (@gold.ac.uk)

Keith’s present research includes a book on the American composer, Steve Reich; and conference papers, and a journal article, on the Dutch composer, Simeon ten Holt.

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Brenda Rattray

Associate Lecturer
music (@gold.ac.uk)

Brenda is an Educator, Composer, Performer and Artist. Her specialism is a passion for teaching expressive voice to people in all areas of the community from high profile psychiatric prisons to special schools, Montessori nurseries to the BBC Concert and Symphony Orchestras.

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Roger Redgate

Professor in Composition, Director Contemporary Music Research Unit
r.redgate (@gold.ac.uk)

Roger works in jazz, improvised music and film and his compositions have been performed across Europe and the USA.

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Dr Lauren Redhead

Co-Head of Department, Senior Lecturer, Head of Undergraduate Studies
l.redhead (@gold.ac.uk)

Lauren’s research spans composition, performance and contemporary musicology., with a focuses on the music and aesthetics of the 21st Century and the methodological critique of practice research.

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Emma Winston

Associate Lecturer
music (@gold.ac.uk)

Emma is an ethnomusicologist and popular musicologist with particular interests in non-professional musical activity, and the role of the internet and social media in subculture, genre and style.

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