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Jonathan Packham

Departmental Lecturer in Music Composition, Faculty of Musicat University of Oxford
Oxford,
United Kingdom
Focus area: Experimental Music

Jonathan Packham is a composer and researcher with interests in a variety of contemporary experimental music and sonic arts. He completed a DPhil in Music at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford in 2021, supported by an AHRC DTP studentship. Some of his recent compositions include a tetralogy of club-adjacent releases under his electronic alias SALINGER via EXPO, pavilion lovesong number 1, commissioned by SONCITIES, and SLOWLY SHRINKING WORLDS, commissioned by trombonist Sebastiaan Kemner. In 2020 he won the EMPRES Award for Experimental Electronic Music for his collaborative composition FISSION, co-written with producer Xactus. Since late 2016 he has been experimenting with live-generated video scores in virtual environments using VR headset technologies, as exemplified in 2019’s SECRET ANIMALS. Jonathan has published writing on experimental music and sonic art, both in peer-reviewed academic journals Leonardo and TEMPO and in an essay collection titled Crafting a Sonic Urbanism: the Political Voice II convened by Theatrum Mundi.
Jonathan is Departmental Lecturer in Music Composition at the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, Postdoctoral Research Assistant on Cyborg Soloists at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford.

Journal Articles:
Special Section: Music and Sound Art

Toward a Spatial Understanding of Openness: Richard Sennett’s “Five Open Forms” and/in Music

October 2024