Professor of Music, Carleton University
I specialize in music and sound in the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular the interface between news and music (newsreels, television news music) and disability/debility (pandemic among others) and music.
Oscars 2024: How ‘Poor Things’ music scoring brilliantly invents a fresh world for cinematic sound
Mar 06, 2024 22:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
At first glance the British composer Jerskin Fendrix (the stage name used by Joscelin Dent-Pooley) does not seem an obvious candidate for scoring Poor Things, now nominated for best original score at the upcoming Academy...
Dec 13, 2023 14:23 pm UTC| Entertainment
At the beginning of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the 1965 Peanuts Christmas movie, the storys anti-hero, Charlie Brown, expresses sentiments with which many of us can identify at this time of year: Christmas is coming, but...
These lesser-known songs deserve to be on your summer playlist
Aug 01, 2020 14:39 pm UTC| Entertainment
Tired of all the news about COVID-19? Why not take your ears on holiday with a summer listening playlist, assembled by music faculty from Carleton University. If youre tired of the old playlists yet are likewise...
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