Paul Sanden
Dr. Paul Sanden is Assistant Professor of Music History and Music Theory in the Don Wright Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario, where he was awarded the Ph.D. in Music for his dissertation, “Performing Liveness: Musicians, Machines, and Mediatization” (2008; supported by a Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada). He also holds a Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance from the University of Calgary and a Master of Music degree in flute performance from the University of Western Ontario, for which he wrote a thesis, “Glenn Gould and the Beatles: Creative Recording, 1965-1968” (2003). In addition to Dr. Sanden’s work at Western, he conducts the McMaster University Flute Ensemble in Hamilton, Ontario.
Dr. Sanden’s scholarship draws from several disciplines and musical traditions, but remains rooted in the practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and particularly in issues of contemporary performance. His most recent work examines the concept of live music, and the various ways that concept has been reconfigured by recent employments of electronic technologies in several musical practices. Some of this research will appear in the December 2009 issue of Current Musicology (volume 88). Dr. Sanden is actively engaged in the study of art music and popular music, and holds a keen interest in the past, present, and future of music in Canada. He is currently working on a project titled The Virtual Virtuoso, which examines the practice and concept of musical virtuosity in a digital era.
Website: www.paulsanden.com
Email: psanden2@uwo.ca
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