Music and Cats / Book of Abstracts - Catalog - Page 62
Presenters
Jack Harrison
Jack Harrison is an Assistant Professor of the English Studies’ Institute
at the University of Warsaw. His research sits at the intersection of
music and human-animal studies and explores what might be revealed
about music’s relationship to sociality when society is framed in terms
of multispecies entanglements. His key publications include the book
chapter “Musicking with the Enemy: Mosquito Agency, Control, and
Representation on Film” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage, 2024), the
special issue “Figurations of Interspecies Harmony in North American
Literature and Culture” as co-editor (European Journal of American
Studies, 2024), and the journal article “From the Horse’s Mouth:
Musical “Originality” in Freestyle Dressage” (Ethnomusicology Forum,
2020).
James Edward Armstrong
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James Edward Armstrong is a lecturer and early career researcher at the
University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Farnham, UK. Prior to UCA,
James completed a PhD at the University of Surrey, Guildford,
combining environmental psychology and music performance studies
to understand the impact of built environments on a musical
performance beyond acoustics. James recently hosted the inaugural
Contemporary Ambient Research Symposium as part of the Audio
Research Cluster at UCA. Current research interests include
contemporary ambient and experimental music, field recording,
sonification, musical subcultures, and musical intervention in dementia
care.
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