Rupert Till

Prof

Associate Dean - International, School of Music, Humanities and Media
Department of Music and Drama
Member, Centre for Music, Culture and Identity

Phone01484 472141
Emailr.till@hud.ac.uk
Websitehttps://research.hud.ac.uk

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Popular Music Studies; Popular Music Composition; Art of Record Production; Popular Music Practice; Music Archaeology; Sound Archaeology; Archaeoacoustics; Music, Religion and Spirituality; Music and Ritual; Electronic Dance Music; Electronic Dance Music Cultures; Songwriting; Celebrity and Stardom.

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Personal profile

Biography

Dr. Rupert Till is Professor of Music in the Department of Music and Drama, having worked at the University of Huddersfield since 2002. He is also Associate Dean International in the School of Music, Humanities and Media, responsible for overseeing international development and recruitment. In addition he is Director of the Popular Music Studies Research Group.

He has research interests in popular music and sound archaeology. He is a member of the executive committee of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music UK and Ireland Branch. He directs Huddersfield activities within the European Music Archaeology Project, a large 5 year European Union Culture Programme funded project.

He previously worked at Bretton Hall University College, and studied composition with minimalist Gavin Bryars, Scratch Orchestra founder member Christopher Hobbs, sound artist Katharine Norman, and with George Nicholson. His PhD included film music, music for dance, ambient techno and electronica compositions. He continues to write electronica and music for screen, and is also an active performer, he plays piano, keyboards, guitar, bass, percussion and sings. He has appeared on TV and Radio, including BBC Breakfast, BBC News, the Sky at Night, Mystery Quest, BBC Radio 2, 4, 5, 6 and World Service, LBC, various international stations, and speaks regularly on BBC Radio Leeds and Sheffield on popular music subjects.

Research Expertise and Interests

Electronic Dance Music and its culture
Popular Music Composition
Popular Music Performance
Popular Music and Religion
Stardom and Celebrity Culture
Arhcaeoacoustics, Music Archaeology and Sound Archaeology
Postmodern Composition and Performance
Art of Record Production

Research Expertise and Interests

Electronic Dance Music
Popular Music Composition
Popular Music Performance
Popular Music and Religion
Stardom
Celebrity Culture
Archaeoacoustics
Music Archaeology
Sound Archaeology
Postmodern Composition
Performance
Art of Record Production

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Projects 2013 2014

1 Finished

Songs of the Caves: acoustics and prehistoric art in Cantabrian caves

Till, R., Fazenda, B. & Scarre, C.

1/02/13 → 31/03/14

Project: Research

Research Output 2010 2019

8 Article
8 Digital or Visual Products
6 Chapter
4 Editorial
6 More

Sound Archaeology: A Study of the Acoustics of Three World Heritage Sites, Spanish Prehistoric Painted Caves, Stonehenge, and Paphos Theatre

Till, R., 9 Aug 2019, In : Acoustics. 1, 3, p. 661-692 32 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

World Heritage Site

archaeology

cave

acoustics

acoustic property

Apollo and Dionysus: Sounds From Classical Antiquity. European Music Archaeology Project Volume 5

Till, R., Conner, S., Brown, B., Armstrong, C., Sutkowska, O., Kenny, J., Willberg, J., Till, R., Till, R. & Lake, D., 2018

Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

Apollo

Classical Antiquity

Dionysus

European music

Sound

Dub Archaeology

Till, R., Conner, S., Salama, M., Hagel, S., Egevad, A., Egevad, J., Potengowski, A. F. & Lake, D., Aug 2018

Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

Archaeology

Albums

Amazon

Huddersfield

European music

Ambient Music

Till, R., 6 Apr 2017, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music. Partridge, C. & Moberg, M. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, (Bloomsbury Handbooks in Religion).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Music

Religion

Spirituality

Stillness

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