Bea Hebron a singer-songwriter, composer, producer, writer, and researcher, based in London.
Her musical practice embraces both experimental and popular music traditions, working at the intersection of songwriting and verbal scoring.
She focuses on process, reciprocities, unfinishedness, and embodied knowledges, playing with tendrils of transdisciplinarity. With a background in film, curation, production, and comparative literature, her work foregrounds contamination.
She holds a Fellowship with Advance HE (FHEA) and at present, she teaches at City St. George's, University of London.
Research interests: composition, process, the body that sings, poetics, improvisation, and multimodality.
Committee Member: Music and/as Process RMA Study Group.
Contact:
bea.hebron[at]gmail.com
Academic Background:
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PhD Music — City St George's, University of London, Oct 2024 - Present
Continued practice-based doctoral research across songwriting and verbal scores, exploring songs as process -
PhD Music — Goldsmiths, University of London, Sep 2021 - Sep 2024
Practice-based doctoral research across songwriting and verbal scores, exploring songs as process -
MMus Creative Practice — Goldsmiths, University of London, Oct 2020 - Sep 202
Distinction
Thesis: Songs as Process / Practice as Movement -
MA Culture, Criticism & Curation — Central Saint Martins, UAL, Jan - Dec 2018
Distinction
Thesis: FUCKIFIED: Artistry and Narrative Potential in the Presence of Heavily Manipulated Sound in Contemporary Popular Music -
BA Comparative Literature with Film Studies — King’s College London, Sep 2014 - Jul 2017
First Class Honours
Thesis: An Exploration of Intentionality in Beat Art, Anchored in Space, Sight & Sound

[drawing by Jackson Carroll]