The Electric Guitar in Popular Music - A One Day Symposium

Fri 12 July, 9am - 6pm, free

DO.0.14, Daphne Oram Creative Arts Building

This one day symposium presents are range of research in the field of the electric guitar’s role and use in popular music, including jazz. The presentations have been collected around the themes of:

• Electric Guitar Soloing and Tonal Improvisation
• Electric Guitar as Rhythm and Texture
• Electric Guitar Design and Technology
• Electric Guitar Culture
• Electric Guitar Technique

We are delighted that Professor Milton Mermikides, will be giving the keynote presentation: Hertz so Good: Expressive Dissonance and the Electric Guitar.

Milton Mermikides (www.miltonline.com) is a composer, lecturer, writer, academic, electronic musician, illustrator and guitarist from London. He is the 37th Gresham Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music at University of Surrey, Professor Jazz Guitar, Royal College of Music, and Senior Research Fellow and Composer in Residence at the Centre of Eudaimonia & Human Flourishing (Linacre College, University of Oxford).