Conferences

Organised by Bea Hebron, this RMA Study Day offered ‘Music

as Life Practice’ as a thematic anchor to invite practitioners and researchers across different music communities and genres to explore the contours of a widening understanding of experimental music practices and ground these firmly within lived experiences. Music here was framed a taking place, as a

gathering together of the threads of life, with the everyday forming a significant site of experimental practice.

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This day focused primarily on participatory activities with workshops and

provocations by Emma Bonnici, Henry Mcpherson (University of Manchester), Niamh Gallagher (Goldsmiths, University of London), Bea Hebron (City St George’s, University of London), and Ao Shen (Goldsmiths,

University of London). This was a deliberate response to an ongoing discourse and desire within Practice Research communities to carve out opportunities to music together, to explore those material realities and

the conversations that arise from it. Get in a room together and do.

Onion Soup: a multimodal articulation of process​

An intimate relationship between songwriting and verbal scoring

Ruptures and Repetition: Collapsing Hyper-Familiarity in Songwriting

For Embodiment in Music Performance

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(with Mira Benjamin, Scott McLaughlin, Emily Worthington, and Niamh Gallagher)

Transformative Epistemic Intimacy: Erotics of Practice

The Path of Good Resistance

Songwriting & Composition Panel

Friendship Makes Thieves of Us All: Cross-Contamination and

Cross-Pollination of Disciplines within Songwriting and Research Practice