Promoting new thinking
with and about music
Building Communities
Our goal is to generate and platform a community of enquirers interested in music from all possible perspectives and approaches. Our multi-platform, anti-disciplinary network is an invitation to researchers, practitioners, fans, and anybody else interested in music to join an active dynamic exchange to work towards new understandings of the importance of music, the work that it does, and how it works.
Exploring New Ways of Knowing
We do not so much want to talk about music as speak from the living musical worlds that shape our lives. We ask questions more than we look for answers. We need new languages, concepts, and frameworks that come from music itself. We do not seek to be authoritative, but to question and explore, and to try out new ideas and methods. We seek to build new knowledge in collaborative processes through open conversations rather than defensive positioning.
Dynamic Open Conversations
The combination of our different platforms and publications are different knowledge-making processes. Social media moves fast and creates conversations for generating and testing new ideas across a broad audience. Our journal and symposia stay longer with ideas, questioning in greater depth and substance. Extended research projects and longer publications invite researchers and writers to argue and explore knowledge creation in a slower more meticulous way.
Where conversations become research
Socials
A public-facing, active, responsive, and fast-moving social media network, based in Youtube, Substack, and chat sites, using long and short form outputs, visual, written and sonic, and subsequent discussion, to build a community of enquirers interested in music from all possible perspectives and approaches. We platform panels, discussions, interviews, reviews, seminars, symposia, conferences, educational aids, essays, lectures, and more. This public question and answer form of engagement generates new ideas and multiplies perspectives which feed into and promote our more in-depth research in the journal, projects, and longer publications.
Journal
We publish the academic journal Music. This is an open source publication, with no cost to authors. It works on the basis of a democratisation of the publishing and review process. Authors are offered the options of a blind peer review and a more consultative open community review process, or both. The editors maintain a well-moderated policy on comments to ensure productive, collaborative contributions. The journal maintains links into the monthly thematic content of the socials and the longer term projects.
Projects
We maintain and support longer term projects to create new knowledge in important areas of research into music. Project teams report on progress and findings of the projects on the socials to invite discussion from the community. They make more substantial reports in the journal and longer form publications. The community is consulted to respond and contribute at all stages of the projects.
