MMP Conference 2025 Schedule
Date: Tuesday 18 March 2025
Venues: Rooms G20, G21, G23 – Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh Napier
Each session will be chaired by a member of the conference committee who will be leading the proceedings, and will be supported by an academic member of staff from the Music team.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
| SESSION 1 | ROOM G20 | CHAIR – Lea Shek Lecturer present – Dr Dimitris Papageorgiou |
| TIMESLOT | PRESENTER | PRESENTATION |
| 09:50 – 10:00 | CHAIR | Welcome/Introductions |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Jamie Cook | Birthright Ballads: understanding the relevance and importance of ‘truth’ through the practice of folk song and remembering |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Maddy Tully | Beyond the Shore: Musical Interpretations of Scottish Selkie Mythology |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Lea Shek | Spring Is Coming: Reunification and Reconciliation through Music |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | BREAK | BREAK |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Josh Simpson | Music as a Record |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Liam Laverty | Music and Image – Protest Aesthetics |
| 11:50 – 12:00 | BREAK | BREAK |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | DISCUSSION | Group discussion Chair concluding remarks |
| SESSION 2 | ROOM G21 | CHAIRS – Angus Walker & Kasia Jurek Lecturers present – Prof Haftor Medbøe Dr Paul Harkins |
| TIMESLOT | PRESENTER | PRESENTATION |
| 09:30 – 09:40 | CHAIR | Welcome/Introductions |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Jakub Zalewski | The Recording Studio and its People |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Chelle Logan | Composing for Adaptive Video Game Music: Vertical and Horizontal Techniques |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Kasia Jurek | Order In The Cosmos – Designing a Contemporary Multimedia Practice |
| 10:40 – 10:50 | BREAK | BREAK |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Angus Walker | Tacit Dialogues Between Performer and Machine |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Owen Dougan | Heavy is The Head that Captures the Sound: The Application of Binaural Recording Techniques and Workflows in Interactive Media |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Cynric Acosta | Development of Analog effects circuitry; Overdrive |
| 11:50 – 12:00 | BREAK | BREAK |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | DISCUSSION | Group discussion Chair concluding remarks |
| SESSION 3 | ROOM G23 | CHAIR – Michael Palmer Lecturer present – Prof Zack Moir |
| TIMESLOT | PRESENTER | PRESENTATION |
| 09:50 – 10:00 | CHAIR | Welcome/Introductions |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Lewis Robb | Music education and the neurodiverse. How music teaching can be made better for people like me |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Michael Palmer | This Is Me – An interdisciplinary exploration into musical practice as a reflection of the sel |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Aidan Kavanaugh | Taking the Long Way Round: Recording Liveness and Creating Authenticity in Rock Music |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | BREAK | BREAK |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Max Kiesele | Siren Songs – How Freudian drive theory, Nick Cave’s love songs and Greek mythology can help us write compelling songs about desire |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Thomas Tribe | An Exploration Of Sampling Techniques And The Worlds They Create |
| 11:50 – 12:00 | BREAK | BREAK |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | DISCUSSION | Group discussion Chair concluding remarks |
