Michael Hooper

Something very satisfying about generating power. New maximum for a day today.

Music, New Media and the Archive This book explores the representation of music and new media in the archive as well as interrogates 20th and 21st-century musical engagements.

New Book edited by Sarah Kirby that looks very interesting.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Where do all the children violins go? Seems like there should be a sea of 1/8and 1/4 size violins available second hand, but how to find them?

Smalley’s Magic Piano: Reconstructing Transformation Roger Smalley’s Transformation was composed during a period of prolific output, intense creative development, and extensive international touring—one ending with the composer’s 1976 immigration to ...

Adam Pinto and Christopher Tonkin, 'Smalley’s Magic Piano: Reconstructing Transformation,' new in Musicology Australia.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

CFP: Music and Risk Symposium
27th November, 2025
Convened by Dr. Ellen Hooper (UNSW), A/Prof. Chris Stover (Griffith University), A/Prof. Michael Hooper (UNSW)
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Notation Is Not All That It Appears to Be: Roger Smalley on Changing Musical Relationships This article considers Roger Smalley’s conception of notation from the point of view of the relationship between playing and writing. It argues that notation was one of the ways in which Smalley un...

New article by me:
'Notation Is Not All That It Appears to Be: Roger Smalley on Changing Musical Relationships,' Musicology Australia.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#musicology #openaccess #academicsky #performance #musicnotation #prose #composition

I see the Sydney Conservatorium of Music is expanding with a new campus in Parramatta. UNSW is still the place to be for dual degrees that include music: it's not possible to run a dual degree across campuses and to have good student experience.

My brother is a Plato scholar so I asked him. He said he has been discussing this very point with a colleague recently, and in the context of Rancière, too! And so was able to direct me to Laws 7.789b-790a.

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Jacques Rancière (2004) The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible (Continuum), p. 19.

Unexpected parenting advice. #ranciere

Wow that’s really horrible.

Why would doctors not want to prescribe the first line treatment for ADHD??

One of the aspects of academic life I like least is that there are so few people to talk to. So many days go by where I sit at a desk alone or walk around campus and there is no one to speak to.

Inspired by two great instruments, a wonderful space, two great composers, and a great friend - with Nicola LeFanu, Daniel Parker (x2), Mozart, and Morgan Goff at the end of an amazing day at the 12th century church of St Mary Iffley. Photos thanks to Malene Sheppard Skaerved & Gerald Garcia

11 days ago! Still reading it… Though I have read other things too, and it’s nice to read texts like this slowly, too.

‘If the ghost is the living-dead or the half-dead person, the baby is a dead-living or a half-alive person.’ Thoroughly enjoying Agamben’s Infancy and History.

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

Congratulations!!

Sarah Collins being presented the Dent medal by Simon Keefe.

Sarah displaying her Dent medal.

A close-up of the impressive Dent medal itself.

Congratulations to our Dent medallist Prof. Sarah Collins! Sarah gave a brilliant keynote lecture yesterday, titled 'Habits of Realism'.

Sarah was presented the Dent medal by the RMA President Simon Keefe.

Current train reading.

Going to an event that includes drinks and ‘canopés’, which I guess are tasty preserved organs that will be served in cute little jars?

Decision to close Meanjin criticised as act of ‘utter cultural vandalism’ Shutting long-running literary journal, which published emerging writers as well as the cream of Australia’s literary talent, described as ‘enormous loss’

Denials everywhere but no explanation.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

You know that spelling is called spelling because it’s magic, right??

Nicola LeFanu - Prelude after Grinling Gibbons YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved

After the glorious afternoon working on Nicola Lefanu's wonderful new Duo, which Morgan Goff and I premiere in Oxford next month, here is the solo piece she wrote me based on a Grinling Gibbons sculpture www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy3-...

My university just switched all its wifi to eduroam and it’s excellent.

UTS academics describe ‘culture of fear’ as enrolments put on hold for nearly a fifth of courses The freeze comes as the university pursues $100m in cost cuts and after it announced in April it could axe 400 jobs * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Academics at the University of Technology Sydney have described feelings of stress and a “culture of fear” after the educational institution temporarily paused student enrolments for nearly a fifth of its courses, leaving staff wondering if their jobs will be among the hundreds set to be axed. The university has stopped taking in new students for 120 of its 615 courses, including masters degrees in teaching primary and secondary education. More than 50 of the affected courses were international study options attached to other degrees. The pause will last until the end of the autumn 2026 semester. Continue reading...

UTS academics describe ‘culture of fear’ as enrolments put on hold for nearly a fifth of courses

Doing some work on philosophies of Art and Freud, and I finally found the chapter that looked good from the abstract. Turns out that the capitalisation of ART is not because it's very definitely about high ART and not everyday art, but because it's actually about Assisted Reproductive Technology. 🤨

Finishing the reading I started in 1999. (I forgot I didn’t finish it.)

Teaching done for the term. This term I was teaching critical musical practices and a course on live performance. Very good work by students and a lot of interesting ideas. Now for the marking.

You better not be wearing the isolator when I get there

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