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Music and Sonic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, is a group of multidisciplinary researchers exploring the musical beats and sonic streets of Manchester and beyond.

Digital Worlds: Music, Sound and Sonic Spaces. Lecture series 2021-2022.

Join us as we explore the music, sound and sonic spaces of digital worlds. Drawing on debates from sociology, media studies, sound studies, gaming, film, literature and music, we investigate the role of music and sound in the digital era. We discuss the intersections between embodied and virtual experiences, activism and participation, production and consumption, and individual and collective experiences of sound and music that contribute to virtual world-making.

Lectures are free to attend and everyone is welcome. You will be sent the relevant Zoom link on registering for a ticket. The series continues on the third Thursday of each month until May 2022. Please note we have several events happening in May due to covid-related disruptions earlier in the year.

April 28: Computational analysis of film audio. Nick Redfern has been teaching and researching about film since 2001.

May 5: The Pivot to Digital in Music Festival Offerings and Ethnographic Research: Reflections from FestiVersities Irish Case Studies (2020-21). Aileen Dillane. Senior Lecturer. Centre for the Study of Popular Music, Popular Culture, University of Limerick.

May 19: Music in Video Games. Philip Kirby. Lecturer in Social Justice, Kings College London.

May 26: Monstrous Hybrids: Horror Podcasts and Digital Storytelling. Lesley McMurtry. Lecturer in Radio Studies, University of Salford

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January 20: Livestreams and the collective potential of digitalized concerts. Femke Vandenberg. Department of Arts and Culture Studies at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

December 16: Voicing Manchester's streets through soundmaps and psychgeography. Markus Hetheier, electronic music producer, sound artist and PhD researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University.

November 18: Entrepreneurial artistry in a Digital Age. Grime's Three Pathways to Power. Orlando Woods, Associate Professor of Humanities at Singapore Management University.

October 28: Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era. Dr Shara Rambarran is a lecturer in Music Business and Media at the University of Brighton, and a musicologist.