Contributors to issue 5:2
- Contributors to issue 5:2
Marios Aristopoulos is a PhD student at City University London. His research focuses on video game music and user experience. He holds a BMus (Hons) and an MMus degree in acoustic composition from Goldsmiths College, as well as another MMus in ethnomusicology from SOAS. He has composed music for a variety of films, video games, documentaries, TV series, and plays in Greece and the UK. He is currently producing and presenting a weekly prime-time radio show in Athens (BHMA FM 99.5) titled ‘The World of Soundtracks’. marios.aristopoulos.1@city.ac.uk
David Collier is a composer, engineer, researcher, and media artist. He graduated with a Mechatronic Engineering degree from Dublin City University in 2009 and has recently finished a Master’s in Music and Media Technology in Trinity College Dublin, where he studied composition with Linda Buckley and Donnacha Dennehy and has previously studied with Dan Trueman. He is a founding member of the Dublin Laptop Orchestra and a member of the Irish Composers’ Collective and Engineers Ireland. His work explores the intersection between several disciplines including audio, film, coding and interactive design. More information can be found at davidbcollier.com davidjbcollier@gmail.com
Mervyn Cooke is Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of A History of Film Music (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and recently edited The Hollywood Film Music Reader (Oxford University Press, 2010). His other books include Britten and the Far East, several volumes of Britten’s correspondence, and monographs on the same composer’s Billy Budd and War Requiem; he has also edited Cambridge Companions devoted to Britten, twentieth-century opera, and jazz. He is currently co-editing the sixth and final volume of Britten’s letters, to be published to celebrate the composer’s centenary in 2013, and writing an analytical study of the early ECM recordings of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. mervyn.cooke@nottingham.ac.uk
Claudia Gorbman is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. She is the author of Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music (Indiana and BFI, 1987), co-editor (with John Richardson and Carol Vernallis) of the Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2012), translator of five books by Michel Chion (including the prize-winning Film, A Sound Art, 2009), and author of numerous articles and book chapters on film music, film sound, and French film. gorbman@u.washington.edu
Áine Mangaoang is a doctoral student at the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool. Her research interests focus on digital participatory cultures, [End Page 203] viral videos, Filipino musical identity, and postcolonialism. Her PhD is supported by the 21st Anniversary IPM Scholarship and AHRC/FACT. a.mangaoang@liverpool.ac.uk
John Mundy was Professor in Media and Head of the School of Media, Music, and Performance at the University of Salford, where he remains a Visiting Professor. He currently works for the Higher Education Academy, and previously worked at the Universities of Manchester, Chester, and Central Lancashire. His published works include the books Popular Music on Screen (Manchester University Press, 1999) and The British Musical Film (Manchester University Press, 2007). In addition to interests in the musical and screen music, his research and teaching interests include aspects of broadcasting history, British cinema, and comedy. His book Laughing Matters: Understanding Radio, Film and Television Comedy will be published in 2012. john.mundy@heacademy.ac.uk
Jelena Novak works as a musicologist, theorist of art and media, cultural analyst, researcher, and dramaturg. She lectures and writes on contemporary performing arts, especially recent opera. Novak is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and her current research is based on voice, corporeality, and new media in postopera. She is founding director of CHINCH (www.chinch.org), one of the founders and members of TkH (Walking Theory) (http://www.tkh-generator.net), and a member of Centre for Studies of Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM, New University of Lisbon). She is an author of three books – Divlja analiza (Wild Analysis: Formalist, Structuralist and Poststructuralist Analysis of Music, 2004), Opera u doba medija (Opera in the Age of Media, 2007), and...
