Islay Jazz Festival
Journal Article
Medboe, H., & Maclean, D. (2020)
Islay Jazz Festival. Jazz Research Journal, 12(2), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.40304
This article considers the ecologies and stakeholder interests that overlap in the staging of an annual jazz festival on a small Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides. Through...
Ignorant Populists
Digital Artefact
Moir, Z. (2020)
Ignorant Populists. [https://open.spotify.com/album/2GfAPBIUTkp9Ykntx0UiHN?si=LypQjQUtSxml7cMUDkC6oA]
Moir, Z. (2020). Ignorant Populists. [https://open.spotify.com/album/2GfAPBIUTkp9Ykntx0UiHN?si=LypQjQUtSxml7cMUDkC6oA]
We are NOT Neutral: A Freirean Critique of (Popular) Music in Higher Education
Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2020, January)
We are NOT Neutral: A Freirean Critique of (Popular) Music in Higher Education
2018 saw the 50th anniversary of the publication of Paulo Freire’s book ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’, which has become an important text that has influenced many progressive ed...
Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI
Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2019, December)
Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at This Woman's Work: A Kate Bush Symposium, Edinburgh College of Art
I’m a big fan of Kate Bush’s music but my priority in this paper is not to praise her many achievements. Instead, I want to look at how she was using music technologies in the...
Networked Improvisation: Playing for Peace
Exhibition / Performance
Moir, Z., & Ferguson, P. Networked Improvisation: Playing for Peace. [Real-Time Networked Improvised Performance]. Performed at New York. 10 November 2019 - 10 November 2019. (Unpublished))
Moir, Z., & Ferguson, P. Networked Improvisation: Playing for Peace. [Real-Time Networked Improvised Performance]. Performed at New York. 10 November 2019 - 10 November 2019. (Unpublished
This was a multi-site (Edinburgh, New York, California, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany) networked real-time improvised performance in response to music that was being broad...
Eudaimonia And Social Good Through Technologically Mediated, Collaborative Music-Making
Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & Smith, G. D. (2019, November)
Eudaimonia And Social Good Through Technologically Mediated, Collaborative Music-Making. Paper presented at NowNet Arts, New York
Humans often tend towards working in groups of various kinds. Following childhood and the family unit we seek those groups in mutual interest groups and activities. One of the...
Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace
Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & Ferguson, P. (2019, November)
Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace. Paper presented at NowNet Arts, New York
This presentation will comprise three related sections, outlining recent and imminent projects. We will begin by discussing work that the authors have recently undertaken in w...
Haftor Medbøe Scandinavian Group: live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013
Digital Artefact
Medboe, H. (2019)
Haftor Medbøe Scandinavian Group: live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013. [Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album]
Musicians:
Haftor Medbøe: Guitar
Gunnar Halle: Trumpet
Espen Eriksen: Piano
Eva Malling: Bass
Benita Haastrup: Drums
Konrad Wiszniewski: Tenor sax on "New Happy"
Recorded li...
Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2019)
Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world. In T. Howell (Ed.), The Nature of Nordic Music (123-138). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315462851
Jazz has been a global music since its inception. In conflating Scandinavian jazz with the production of the ‘Nordic tone’, several accounts of European jazz present the music...
Cult Sound Studies: hand claps, orchestra hits, and the production of popular music
Journal Article
Harkins, P. (2019)
Cult Sound Studies: hand claps, orchestra hits, and the production of popular music. Sound Studies, 5(2), 213-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2019.1648029
No abstract available.