Sean Albiez

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I am an independent scholar with 30 years experience teaching full-time in popular music studies, music technology and media and cultural studies. I have extensive experience as a Senior Lecturer, Principal Lecturer and Associate Professor in instigating, leading and managing undergraduate curriculum development in media, music, popular music, music technology and electronic music in a number of HE institutions.

I co-edited the books 'Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop' [Continuum 2011], 'Brian Eno: Oblique Music' [Bloomsbury 2016] and 'The Velvet Underground: What Goes On' [Bloomsbury 2022] with David Pattie. We are currently working on another edited collection on Talking Heads. I have also published widely on electronic music, music technology, punk and post punk. I am a Contributing Editor (Music Technology) for the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, with a particular focus on music formats, recording technology, and electronic music genres.

I have been involved in electronic music making since the mid-1980s, beginning with industrial-electro-EBM band WMTID, with album and single releases on Rouska Records, Concrete Productions, D.O.R. and Released Emotions. I completed my practice-led creative music technology PhD [Sounds of Future Past: the Poetics of Electronica] in 2013. I currently produce and release ambient and electronic music as ghost elektron, electronic music with Martin James as Nostalgia Deathstar, and avant-pop with Gary Monaghan as Mad Elektrons @ State of Bass.

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[Book] Albiez, S. and Pattie, D. (eds) The Velvet Underground: What Goes On

ISBN: 9781501338410, 2022

Though The Velvet Underground were critically and commercially unsuccessful in their time, in ens... more Though The Velvet Underground were critically and commercially unsuccessful in their time, in ensuing decades they have become a constant touchstone in art rock, punk, post-punk, indie, avant pop and alternative rock. In the 1970s and 80s Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico produced a number of works that traveled a path between art and pop. In 1993 the original band members of Reed, Cale, Morrison and Tucker briefly reunited for live appearances, and afterwards Reed, Cale and briefly Tucker, continued to produce music that travelled the idiosyncratic path begun in New York in the mid-1960s. The influence of the band and band members, mediated and promoted through famous fans such as David Bowie and Brian Eno, seems only to have expanded since the late 1960s. In 1996 the Velvet Underground were in inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, demonstrating how far the band had traveled in 30 years from an avant-garde cult to the mainstream recognition of their key contributions to popular music. In these collected essays, Pattie and Albiez present the first academic book-length collection on The Velvet Underground. The book covers a range of topics including the band's relationship to US literature, to youth and cultural movements of the 1960s and beyond and to European culture - and examines these contexts from the 1960s through to the present day.

[Book] Albiez, S. and Pattie, D. (eds) Brian Eno: Oblique Music. New York: Bloomsbury Academic

ISBN - 9781441129123, 2016

Brian Eno: Oblique Music [published on 11th August 2016] is the first academic collection to take... more Brian Eno: Oblique Music [published on 11th August 2016] is the first academic collection to take a detailed multi-perspectival look at the work of one of the most influential figures in popular music. Edited by Dr Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK) and Professor David Pattie (University of Chester, UK), the book features studies by a number of academics based in the United Kingdom and United States. The contents are:

Introduction: David Pattie & Sean Albiez - Brian Eno: A Problem of Organization

PART ONE - Eno: Composer, Musician and Theorist

1 David Pattie - The Bogus Men: Eno, Ferry and Roxy Music
2 Cecilia Sun - Brian Eno, Non-Musicianship and the Experimental Tradition
3 David Pattie - Taking the Studio by Strategy
4 Chris Atton - Between the Avant- Garde and the Popular: the Discursive Economy of Brian Eno's Musical Practices
5 Mark Edward Achtermann - Yes, But Is It Music? Brian Eno and the Definition of Ambient Music
6 Hillegonda C. Rietveld - The Lovely Bones: Music from Beyond
7 Sean Albiez - The Voice and/of Brian Eno

PART TWO - The University of Eno: Production and Collaborations

8 Sean Albiez & Ruth Dockwray - Before and after Eno: Situating 'The Recording Studio as Compositional Tool'
9 Kingsley Marshall & Rupert Loydell - Control and Surrender: Eno remixed – Collaboration and Oblique Strategies
10 Elizabeth Ann Lindau - Avant-Gardism, 'Africa' and Appropriation in My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
11 Jonathan Stewart - Eno and Devo
12 Noel McLaughlin - Another Green World? Eno, Ireland and U2
13 Martin James - Documenting No Wave: Brian Eno as Urban Ethnographer

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[Book] Albiez, S. and Pattie, D. (eds) Kraftwerk - Music Non-Stop. New York: Continuum International Publishing

ISBN - 9781441191366, 2011

'No one but C-3PO makes love to Kraftwerk. No one liked them much to begin with - certainly not i... more 'No one but C-3PO makes love to Kraftwerk. No one liked them much to begin with - certainly not in Germany.Yet they eventually managed to attract sufficient critical mass to create a new star. And everyone else found themselves firmly in orbit.This book of original essays scrutinises their cultural influence from all angles. Here, Kraftwerk are cast as Cousins of Iggy Pop, Duchamp, Gilbert and George, Heirs to Hitler, Stockhausen, Gropius and The Beach Boys. Brothers of Beuys and Bambaataa, Kin to Kiefer, Godfathers of British Pop, Uncles of Rave, Midwives of Detroit Techno, Sperm Donors of Dance - as mysterious and potent as the monoliths in 2001, as daft as Punk, as indispensible to understanding modern culture as Musclebuilding, Warhol, or Strictly Ballroom.If this book were a film, it would move from macro to micro every scene, if it were a meal it would be prepared by Heston Blumenthal. It's a mutation waltz, a stumble rumba, a nimble mambo, a complex minuet - and proof that cultural critics can dance.' [John Foxx, synthpop pioneer and multi-media artist]

'Overall, one comes away from Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop with the impression of Hutter, Schneider and co creating a multifaceted oeuvre on a par with that of Andy Warhol's, a brief phase from either's artistic corpus capable of generating an entire career for lesser talents.' [The Wire]

'It is refreshing to encounter Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop, a new collection of academic essays on the band, which spurns fashion and firmly returns the emphasis to ideas. Editors Sean Albiez and David Pattie have assembled a compendium of rigorously argued and illuminating discussions of the band, one that more than compensates for the shallower latter-day ramifications of what Alex Seago termed in 2004 the "Kraftwerk-Effekt".' [The Oxonian Review]

Papers by Sean Albiez

[Book Chapter] Unfrozen Borderlines: Nico, John Cale and Brian Eno at the Berlin Nationalgalerie

The Velvet Underground: What Goes On, 2022

[Book Chapter] The Late Musical Voice: John Cale and Lou Reed in the Twenty-First century

The Velvet Underground: What Goes On, 2022

REVIEW | The Production and Consumption of Music in the Digital Age

IASPM@Journal, 2016

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