Newcastle University

Graduate Student, Music

School of Arts and Cultures

Thesis Title: Affect, Sensation and the Political Potential of Noise Music

About

I am currently an AHRC funded PhD student at Newcastle University, supervised by Dr Ian Biddle and Professor David Clarke. My thesis critically considers the relationship between noise and noise music,  with reference to the work of thinkers such as Deleuze, Spinoza, Michael Hardt, Brian Massumi and Donna Haraway. My research aims to develop an interdisciplinary definition of noise as affect, allowing noise to be posited as a productive, disruptive force. Subsequently, the thesis will examine how noise music, with its creative (mis)use of technologies, aesthetics, bodies and voices, can come to function as a noise within the socio-political systems it occupies, by existing as a problem for binaristic modes of thinking. It will be argued that noise music thus has the potential to provide a voice for Donna Haraway's figure of the cyborg. 

My other research interests include avant-gardist artistic practices on both sides of the purported high/low divide, cultural theory, questions of gender and sexuality in music and aesthetics.

I am also regularly audible as a practitioner. I perform individually as Tragic Cabaret, in the duo, Ghostly Porters, in the band, Beauty Pageant and as part of Newcastle's audiovisual collective, Kira Kira.

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http://soundcloud.com/tragic-cabaret

 

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