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Presenters
Charlotte Doesburg
Dr Charlotte Doesburg is a Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Research
Fellow at the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and a Junior
Research Fellow of Somerville College. Her current research project
explores identity negotiations in the metal music scene of the
transnational region of Karelia. Charlotte obtained her PhD from UCL
in 2022, focusing on the role of Karelian Finnish folk poetry in Finnish
metal music. Key topics of her work are popular music and identity.
Chenyu Xiao
Chenyu Xiao is a PhD student exploring how contemporary composers
from East Asia use sound and style to navigate cultural identity. Her
scholarly interests include composition techniques, cross-cultural
musical analysis, and theories of musical hybridity. She is interested
in how modern composers “sound” their heritage in global contexts.
As an active presenter, Xiao has shared her research at leading
conferences such as the SMA (The Society for Music Analysis),
SMT(The Society for Music Theory), and other International
Conferences, and currently teaches music theory as a PGR assistant.
Chris Hill
Chris is a PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham, now based
in the West London area, currently in the final stages of a PhD Thesis
on flute pedagogy. He is a keen performer and musicologist, with
specialisms in woodwind performance practice and ludomusicology.
He is particularly interested in how music and sound design contribute
to characterization in games, and orient the player in the game world.
He has co-edited a special edition of the Journal of Sound and Music in
Games on the music of the roguelike game Hades (2020), and has an
article forthcoming in a later edition of JSMG on the game's
interweaving of leitmotif into its gameplay and narrative. He is also a
keen performer, giving lectures and recitals on the flute around the
country. When not musicking, he enjoys playing video games, wildlife
photography, and coffee.
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