Gordon Kerr

Gordon Kerr

Senior Lecturer in Music

Senior Lecturer

Music Technology

Department of Music, Writing & Performance , School Of Arts And Creative Industries

Gordon Kerr has a large body of published works as a music composer and producer. He also exhibits and receives commissioned works.

Areas Of Interest

  • Music Technology
Gordon Kerr

OVERVIEW

Gordon Kerr has a large body of published works as a music composer and producer. He also exhibits and receives commissioned works. Gordon had a successful twenty-five-year career working within the music industry as a composer, performer, and record producer, signed as a recording artist with major record companies such as Virgin and Sony BMG. He has also worked with a host of independent labels as both an artist and music producer.

External roles

  • Link Tutor LESOCO FdA Music Performance and Production

CURRENT RESEARCH

A Subcultural Heritage. 

Music as a mediator in the union of originating cultures and diversities. A specific interest in the formative early post-punk independent music scene in Scotland and the subsequent progression into Rave culture. Commissioned works explore this area such as: "What's it called Cumbernauld",  "Sheer Height←→ Total Shite" and "Scheemie". Gordon works from an archive of audio and visual material, observer/participant recordings from the party and post-party culture of the time.

Gordon has an ongoing interest in education, with a history of creating intervention arts projects London-wide, working with disenfranchised young people through community action research projects. He is currently working with Professor Andrew Ravenscroft on RadioActive, a ground-breaking research project based at UEL, RadioActive: Rethinking radio as radical pedagogy for inclusion, engagement and informal learning for social impact.

MODULES

  • PA4304: Sound Design
  • PA5307: Live Studio Production
  • PA6302: Final Project 
  • PA6012: Placement Supervision
  • PhD Supervision: Psychoeducation, At-Risk Youth & Participatory Radio

Publications

The last four years of publications can be viewed below. 

Full publications list

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