Remy Richard Martin

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Summary 

My background is in musicology and my current work is focused on analysis and interpretation, the phenomenological study of musical engagement, and the ethics of musical experience. I am particularly interested in how senses of self (including agency, ownership, affirmation, and affiliation) manifest when listeners are engaged with—in—rhythm and musical time. A combination of hermeneutics, phenomenology, and 4E cognition forms the theoretic framework of my research fellowship project. Several big questions drive my research including, what mechanisms enable us to make sense of rhythmic-temporal structures and engage with them in meaningful ways? How can we robustly document such phenomena? Why does experiencing self in musical encounters (existentially, socially, ethically) matter?

I am co-author of the musicology title Rock: The Primary Text: Developing a Musicology of Rock (3rd Edition) with Professor Allan F. Moore. The book was published in 2019 by Routledge. In my interdisciplinary PhD thesis—supervised by Professor Allan F. Moore (University of Surrey) and Dr Nanette Nielsen (University of Oslo)—I examined ‘authenticating’ popular music listening experiences drawing from musicology, phenomenology, social theory, ethics, and cognitive science.

Prior to joining the University of Oslo as a researcher, I was Senior Lecturer and then Curriculum Manager at Leeds Conservatoire, where I helped oversee the design, delivery, and development of the BA Music (Popular Music) programme. I taught across the Popular Music and Songwriting pathways and delivered lectures, seminars, and workshops on a range of topics and styles from analytical, cultural, and creative perspectives. In 2018 I received the student-led Leeds Conservatoire 'Most Inspiring Teaching' award. I also previously led the teaching of popular music analysis and hermeneutics as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Surrey. 

I have given several invited talks on higher education music pedagogy and have acted as an expert advisor on programme validations. I currently hold External Examiner and Award Examiner positions at the University of Gloucestershire. Before turning to musicological study, I specialised in guitar performance and have gigged as a rock, pop, folk, and country guitarist.

PhD Supervision 

Martin Peter Pleiss / Project title: Towards a phenomenology of novelty: perceiving and engaging with Virtual Reality

Teaching 

Methods in Music Studies (PhD course, Department of Musicology)

MUS3090 Bacheloroppgave i musikkvitenskap 

MUS4007 Gender and Music

MUS2445 Musikkens Historie 2

 
Tags: Musicology, Popular music, Music and Philosophy, Phenomenology, Perception, Music Cognition, Ethics

Publications

Rock:The Primary Text: Developing a Musicology of Rock (3rd Edition)

Image may contain: Musical instrument, Guitar accessory, String instrument accessory, Music, Musical instrument accessory.This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book, now co-authored with Remy Martin, incorporates new material on rock music theory, style change and the hermeneutic method developed in Moore’s Song Means (2012). An even larger array of musicians is discussed, bringing the book right into the 21st century. Rock's 'primary text' – its sounds – is the focus of attention here. The authors argue for the development of a musicology particular to rock within the context of the background to the genres, the beat and rhythm and blues styles of the early 1960s, 'progressive' rock, punk rock, metal and subsequent styles. They also explore the fundamental issue of rock as a medium for self-expression, and the relationship of this to changing musical styles. Rock: The Primary Text remains innovative in its exploration of an aesthetics of rock.

  • Swarbrick, Dana; Martin, Remy Richard; H?ffding, Simon; Nielsen, Nanette & Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina (2024). Audience Musical Absorption: Exploring Attention and Affect in the Live Concert Setting. Music & Science. ISSN 2059-2043. 7. doi: 10.1177/20592043241263461.
  • Martin, Remy Richard & Nielsen, Nanette (2024). Enacting Musical Aesthetics: The Embodied Experience of Live Music. Music & Science. ISSN 2059-2043. 7. doi: 10.1177/20592043231225732.

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  • Moore, Allan F. & Martin, Remy (2018). Rock: The Primary Text: Developing a Musicology of Rock (3rd Edition). Routledge. ISBN 9781472462404. 348 p.

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  • Nielsen, Nanette & Martin, Remy Richard (2024). Affective framing, care, and (en)action in musical encounters.
  • Martin, Remy Richard; Cross, Ian; Upham, Finn; Bishop, Laura; S?rb?, Solveig & ?land, Frederik (2023). What can one learn from more naturalistic concert research?
  • Martin, Remy Richard (2023). Sensing Contexts: An Audio Walk Through the Nasjonalmuseet.
  • Martin, Remy Richard (2023). Our Aesthetic Categories.
  • Martin, Remy Richard (2023). Ultima Listeners.
  • Martin, Remy Richard (2023). Aesthetic Resonances: Senses of Self in Rhythm, Musical Time, and Space.
  • Nielsen, Nanette; Martin, Remy Richard & Bernhardt, Emil (2023). Entrainment, free will, and musicking: an enactivist perspective.
  • Martin, Remy Richard & Bernhardt, Emil (2023). Entrainment, free will, and musicking: an enactivist perspective.
  • Martin, Remy Richard & Bernhardt, Emil (2023). Entrainment, free will, and musicking: an enactivist perspective.
  • Martin, Remy Richard (2022). Senses of Self in Rhythm and Time.
  • Martin, Remy Richard (2022). Affordance and Autonomy .
  • Martin, Remy Richard (2022). Music and Identity.

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