Remy is wearing a navy jacket and black top. He has some light stubble and brown eyes.

Dr Remy Martin

Senior Lecturer in Music
Academic Quality Lead
London College of Music
remy.martin@uwl.ac.uk

Remy is a Senior Lecturer in Music and sits on the London College of Music executive committee as Academic Quality Lead. He is an active interdisciplinary researcher and is currently presenting and publishing on musical creativity and aesthetic experience. His work combines the analytical, theoretical and empirical (notably the use of phenomenological interviews with musicians and listeners). He is a member of the Bodies in Concert project, led by researchers at the University of Oslo, which explores the movement and physiology of concert participants using state-of-the-art technologies and qualitative methods. Recent research concert events have featured the Danish String Quartet, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, and The Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Remy’s recent collaborative work across music psychology, musicology, and philosophy can be read in an open-access special collection in the journal Music and Science. Remy is co-author of a third edition of the internationally renowned Rock: The Primary Text: Developing a Musicology of Rock (Routledge) with Allan F. Moore.

Previously, Remy led the teaching of popular music analysis and practice at Leeds Conservatoire, where he received the 2018 ‘Most Inspiring Teaching’ award, and at the University of Surrey. In 2021 he moved to Norway to undertake a research fellowship at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion (University of Oslo), a Norwegian Research Council centre of excellence. There he also taught and supervised at MA and PhD level. Remy has given workshops and masterclasses internationally as well as invited talks on higher education music pedagogy. He has served as external expert adviser for higher education music programmes and as External Examiner and External Award Examiner. Before turning to musicological study, Remy specialised in guitar performance and has gigged as a rock, pop, folk and country guitarist.

  • Qualifications

    • PhD
    • MMus (Dist)
    • BMus (First Class)

  • Memberships

    Nordic Society for Aesthetics (NSAE)
    International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
    Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)

Research

  • Research and publications

    Swarbrick, D*., Martin, R*., Høffding, S., Nielsen, N., & Vuoskoski, J. K. (2024). Audience Musical Absorption: Exploring Attention and Affect in the Live Concert Setting. Music & Science, 7. https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043241263461

    Martin, R. & Nielsen, N. (2024, June 13-15). Affective Framing, Care, and (En)Action in Musical Encounters [International Conference Presentation]. Annual Conference of the Nordic Society for Aesthetics. Reykjavík, Iceland.

    Martin, R. & Nielsen, N. (2024). Enacting Musical Aesthetics: The Embodied Experience of Live Music. Music & Science, 7. https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231225732

    Martin, R. (2024, March 21). Mindsurfing Panel Discussion [invited speaker]. Mindsurfing Workshop, University of Oslo, Norway.

    Martin, R. & Martin, A. (2024, Apr 11–14). Collaborative Songwriting and Musical Consciousness: Affect, Time, and Materiality in Creative Encounters [International Conference presentation]. IASPM Conference 2024, Philadelphia, United States.

    Martin, R. (2023, November 2–4). Aesthetic Resonances: Senses of Self in Rhythm, Musical Time, and Space [International Conference presentation]. Second International Conference on Beauty and Change. Turin, Italy.

    Martin, R. (2023, October 26). What can one learn from naturalistic concert research? Panel Discussion [Invited speaker]. MusicLab Copenhagen Special Collection Launch Event.

    Høffding, S., Bishop, L., Burnim, K., Clim, M.-A., Good, M., Hansen, N. C., Lartillot, O., Martin, R., Nielsen, N., Rosas, F., Sørbø, S., Swarbrick, D., Upham, D., Vuoskoski, J. K., Yi, W., & Jensenius, A. R. (2021). MusicLab Copenhagen Dataset/Published Data. [Data set] OSF. https://osf.io/ac6yt/

    Martin, R. (2019). Authenticity: An Experientialist Aesthetic (doctoral dissertation). University of Surrey.

    Moore, A. F. & Martin, R. (2018). Rock: the Primary Text: Developing a Musicology of Rock (3rd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429490170

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