Nikita Braguinski (n.braguinski.uni@gmail.com) is an independent researcher and was a 2023–24 Fellow at RWTH Aachen University. He is a musicologist and media scholar specializing in the interactions between musical practices and technological systems. He is the author of Mathematical Music: From Antiquity to Music AI (Routledge, 2022) and of ‘Using Music Streaming Data for Research: A Relational Approach’, Popular Music, 44.4 (2025).
Daniel X. Y. Fong (danifo@uio.no) is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo. His scholarly interests are found at the intersection between opera performance and production, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, and Deleuzian philosophy. His previous publications include his autoethnographic account as an effeminate operatic baritone in Lambda Nordica, 29.2–3 (2024).
Samuel Horlor (s.p.horlor@durham.ac.uk) is Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the Department of Music, Durham University. His research has focused on street music and music in public spaces, especially in China, and he is also interested in Chinese-language performances in the UK and audience research. He is the author of Chinese Street Music: Complicating Musical Community (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and co-editor, with James Williams, of Musical Spaces: Place, Performance, and Power (Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2021).
Hermann Hudde (hermannh.hudde@ucr.edu) teaches music courses at UCLA, UC Riverside, CSU Fullerton, Claremont Colleges, Cambridge Centre for International Research, and Soka University of America. His research on Latin American music has appeared in the Journal of the Society for American Music, Oxford Bibliographies, Current Musicology, Latin American Music Review, Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review, and the Harvard Review of Latin America. He was awarded a Future of Music Faculty Fellowship at Cleveland Institute of Music (2022–23) and a Latin Music Research Grant (2016).
Claire McGinn (claireeileenmcginn@gmail.com) is a musician and teacher. She worked as a mechanical music curator/researcher at Museum Speelklok and Utrecht University on a Horizon 2020 funded project, supervised by Floris Schuiling and Maaike Bleeker. With Rosamund Portus, she explored relationships between species loss and environmental sound in ‘Bees, Extinction and Ambient Soundscapes’, MDPI, Humanities, 8.3 (2019). She also created 12 Stories of Women Organ Grinders, a risograph zine with illustrations by Natsumi Chikayasu.
Chris Marshall (chris.marshall@bcu.ac.uk) is Associate Professor in Professional Development at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. For thirty years, he was a programme maker at the BBC, principally for BBC Radio 3. His research interest lies in the interaction between individual artists and large organizations, in particular the networks surrounding composers and the BBC. He has previously published a chapter entitled ‘Calling the Tune, A Commissioning Fund for the BBC Proms, 1960–1985’, in Financing Music in Europe, ed. by Étienne Jardin (Brepols, 2022), pp. 363–82.
Jean-Paul C. Montagnier (jean-paul.montagnier@univ-lorraine.fr) is Professor of Musicology at the University of Lorraine. His PhD from Duke University focused on music of the French baroque. His articles have appeared in numerous leading journals, and two of his latest books have been published by Cambridge University Press: The Polyphonic Mass in France, 1600–1780 (2017) and Julie Reisserová (1888–1938): Czech Composer and Feminist (2025). His new edition of Ravel’s ballet Ma Mère l’Oye is forthcoming from Breitkopf & Härtel.
Lara Pearson (lara.pearson@uni-koeln.de) is Professor for Ethnomusicology at the Institute of Musicology, University of Cologne, and also Research Professor at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, at the University of Oslo. Her work explores music as movement and interaction, focusing on performance and learning in the Karnatak music tradition of South India. She has published in journals including Music Analysis, Cognitive Science, the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Empirical Musicology Review.
Rainer Polak (rainer.polak@imv.uio.no) is Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Rhythm Research at the Department of Musicology, and Principal Investigator at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, University of Oslo. His research investigates multimodality and interaction in West African music and dance, as well as rhythm and meter perception and production from culturally situated and cross-cultural perspectives. His work has appeared in Music Perception, Empirical Musicology Review, Music Theory Online, Anthropos, Cognition, and Nature Human Behaviour.
