Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

Archive

Biographies of Contributors

_______________________________________________________________

Bennett Hogg is a free improviser, composer of electroacoustic and instrumental/vocal music, as well as a cultural theorist and musicologist.  He studied composition with Nigel Osborne and Denis Smalley, among others, ethnomusicology with Robert Provine, and completed his PhD research under the supervision of Richard Middleton and Ian Biddle.  He is currently lecturer in music in the International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University, UK.  He is the director of the CETL-funded postgraduate project “Post-Vernacular Musics”, and founder and co-director of the research symposia “Music and Machines” with Sally Jane Norman, with whom he is currently curating and editing a themed issue of the Contemporary Music Review on “Resistant Materials in Musical Creativity”.