Academic Output

  • 2023   “Djent and the aesthetics of post-digital metal’. In The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music, edited by Jan Herbst. Cambridge: CUP.
  • 2021    Recording the Classical Guitar. New York: Routledge. More information here.
  • 2020 “Exploring the Potential of Looped Material in DAW-based Music Creation” In The Music Technology Cookbook, edited by Adam Bell. New York: OUP.
  • 2020 “Women in Music Production: A contextualized history from the 1890s to the 1980s.” In Perspectives on Music Production: Gender in Music Production, edited by R.Hepworth-Sawyer, J. Hodgson, Liesl King and Mark Marrington. New York: Routledge (forthcoming).
  • 2019 “The DAW, electronic music aesthetics and genre transgression in music production: the case of heavy metal music.” In Perspectives on Music Production: Producing Music, edited by R.Hepworth-Sawyer, J. Hodgson and Mark Marrington. New York: Routledge.
  • 2018 Journal of Music Technology and Education (Special MPEC Edition), guest editorial with R.Hepworth-Sawyer, 11/3 (2018).
  • 2017 “From DJ to Djent-step: Technology and the Re-Coding of Metal Music since the 1980s.” Metal Music Studies, 3/2 (2017).
  • 2017 “Composing in the Digital Audio Workstation.” In The Singer-­Songwriter Handbook, edited by J. Williams and K. Williams. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
  • 2016 “Mixing Metaphors: Aesthetics, Mediation and the Rhetoric of Sound Mixing.” In Perspectives on Music Production: Mixing Music, edited by R.Hepworth-Sawyer and J. Hodgson. New York: Routledge, 2016.
  • 2016 “Paradigms of Music Software Interface Design and Musical Creativity.” In Innovation in Music II, edited by R.Hepworth-Sawyer, J. Hodgson, J.L.Paterson and R.Toulson. Shoreham-by-Sea: Future Technology Press, 2016.
  • 2016 “Denis ApIvor’s Variations Op. 29: Introduction to the Guitar Music of a Pioneering British Modernist.” Soundboard, 42/3 (2016).
  • 2016 “Reconciling theory with practice in the teaching of songwriting.” In Cambridge Companion to the Singer Songwriter, edited by J. Williams and K. Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • 2015 “Serial Technique in the early works of Denis ApIvor.” British Music, 38 (2015).
  • 2014 “ ‘Music of the Cactus Land’: a consideration of musical style and text setting in Denis ApIvor’s The Hollow Men.” British Music, 36 (2014).
  • 2011 “Experiencing Musical Composition in the DAW: The Software Interface as Mediator of the Musical Idea.” Journal on the Art of Record Production, 5 (2011). See https://www.arpjournal.com/asarpwp/experiencing-musical-composition-in-the-daw-the-software-interface-as-mediator-of-the-musical-idea-2/
  • 2006 “Denis ApIvor and the classical guitar.” Guitar Review, 132 (Fall 2006).
  • 2005 “Denis ApIvor and his contribution to British opera and ballet” Musical Times, 146 (Summer 2005).
  • 2004 Obituary for Denis ApIvor, Classical Guitar.
  • 2004 Obituary for Denis ApIvor, Dancing Times.
  • 1997 Reviewer for The Consort (Early Music Journal). Score review of Rudolph Dolmetsch, Concertino for Viola da Gamba and small orchestra; CD review of Hopkinson Smith, Instrucción De Música Sobre La Guitarra Española.
  • 1996 “Aural Training for Guitarists” Classical Guitar (6 instalments across the year).