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Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2023). Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3616195

Audio Mostly is an interdisciplinary conference on design and experience of interaction with sound that prides itself on embracing applied theory and reflective practice. Its annual gatherings bring together thinkers and doers from academia and indus... Read More about Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference.

Piano teachers’ perspectives on educational and professional aspects of instrumental graded exams in the United Kingdom (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marinelli, A., & Moir, Z. (2022, September). Piano teachers’ perspectives on educational and professional aspects of instrumental graded exams in the United Kingdom. Presented at 44th International Conference of the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA), Guimaraes, Portugal

Formal assessments in instrumental music education are much more than a snapshot-like summary of an achievement, although rarely considered within the entirety of their professional, social, economic and institutional context. Given the size of the m... Read More about Piano teachers’ perspectives on educational and professional aspects of instrumental graded exams in the United Kingdom.

Free Improvisation As Radical Musicing in Higher Popular Music Education: Community, Belonging, and Dialogic Space (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2020, August). Free Improvisation As Radical Musicing in Higher Popular Music Education: Community, Belonging, and Dialogic Space. Paper presented at International Society for Music Education World Conference, Helsinki

Moir, Z. (2020, August). Free Improvisation As Radical Musicing in Higher Popular Music Education: Community, Belonging, and Dialogic Space. Paper presented at International Society for Music Education World Conference, Helsinki.

Piloting ‘Creative Musicianship’ in Scotland: An analysis of the experiences of students and teachers (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2020, August). Piloting ‘Creative Musicianship’ in Scotland: An analysis of the experiences of students and teachers. Paper presented at International Society for Music Education World Conference, Helsinki

Secondary music courses in Scotland currently do not provide applicants with the necessary knowledge, understanding or skillsets to be able to engage with music study at HE. Based on research conducted by the authors in 2016, it is clear that there i... Read More about Piloting ‘Creative Musicianship’ in Scotland: An analysis of the experiences of students and teachers.

Trying Something New: Student and teacher responses to the pilot of an alternative secondary music curriculum for Scotland (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2020, July). Trying Something New: Student and teacher responses to the pilot of an alternative secondary music curriculum for Scotland. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education World Conference, Edinburgh

Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2020, July). Trying Something New: Student and teacher responses to the pilot of an alternative secondary music curriculum for Scotland. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education World Conference, Edinburgh.

Free Improvisation as Radical Musicking: Community, Belonging, and Dialogic Higher Popular Music Education (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2020, July). Free Improvisation as Radical Musicking: Community, Belonging, and Dialogic Higher Popular Music Education. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education World Conference, Edinburgh

Moir, Z. (2020, July). Free Improvisation as Radical Musicking: Community, Belonging, and Dialogic Higher Popular Music Education. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education World Conference, Edinburgh.

Social Inequalities in Music Education: Whose Problem? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2020, July). Social Inequalities in Music Education: Whose Problem?. Paper presented at Association For Popular Music Education World Conference, Edinburgh

Moir, Z. (2020, July). Social Inequalities in Music Education: Whose Problem?. Paper presented at Association For Popular Music Education World Conference, Edinburgh.

Piloting ‘Creative Musicianship’ in Scotland: An analysis of the experiences of students and teachers (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (in press). Piloting ‘Creative Musicianship’ in Scotland: An analysis of the experiences of students and teachers. Journal of Popular Music Education,

Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (in press). Piloting ‘Creative Musicianship’ in Scotland: An analysis of the experiences of students and teachers. Journal of Popular Music Education.

We are NOT Neutral: A Freirean Critique of (Popular) Music in Higher Education (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2020, January). We are NOT Neutral: A Freirean Critique of (Popular) Music in Higher Education

2018 saw the 50th anniversary of the publication of Paulo Freire’s book ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’, which has become an important text that has influenced many progressive educators, internationally. The concepts and ideas set forth in this work hav... Read More about We are NOT Neutral: A Freirean Critique of (Popular) Music in Higher Education.

Eudaimonia And Social Good Through Technologically Mediated, Collaborative Music-Making (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Smith, G. D. (2019, November). Eudaimonia And Social Good Through Technologically Mediated, Collaborative Music-Making. Paper presented at NowNet Arts, New York

Humans often tend towards working in groups of various kinds. Following childhood and the family unit we seek those groups in mutual interest groups and activities. One of the fundamental ways that people make profound meaning is through creating mus... Read More about Eudaimonia And Social Good Through Technologically Mediated, Collaborative Music-Making.

Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Ferguson, P. (2019, November). Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace. Paper presented at NowNet Arts, New York

This presentation will comprise three related sections, outlining recent and imminent projects. We will begin by discussing work that the authors have recently undertaken in which communication technologies and commercially available audio software w... Read More about Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace.

Music From the Mundane (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2019, June). Music From the Mundane. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education Annual Conference 2019

Developing an HE Aligned Music Curriculum (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2019, June). Developing an HE Aligned Music Curriculum. Presented at Association for Popular Music Education Annual Conference 2019

Abstract not available.

International Online Collaborative Music Making (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., Stillie, B., & Krikun, A. (2019, June). International Online Collaborative Music Making. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education Annual Conference 2019

Abstract not available.

Live Improvised Performance Over Networks. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Ferguson, P. (2019, April). Live Improvised Performance Over Networks. Presented at Network Performing Arts Production Workshop

No abstract available.

Recording Across Town and The Ocean. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ferguson, P., Moir, Z., & Bennett, J. (2018, April). Recording Across Town and The Ocean. Paper presented at Network Performing Arts Production Workshop, Miami, USA

No abstract available.

Experiences of Remote, Real-Time Music Production. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., Ferguson, P., & Smith, G. D. (2018, April). Experiences of Remote, Real-Time Music Production. Paper presented at NowNet Arts: Artistic and Technological Strategies for Public and Private Networks, New York

No abstract available.

Pathways Towards Popular Music Education in the UK (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2018, February). Pathways Towards Popular Music Education in the UK. Paper presented at Teaching Fellows Conference

No abstract available.

Can You Hear What I Feel? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2017, December). Can You Hear What I Feel?. Paper presented at Art of Record Production

No abstract available.

Jamming in the 3rd Room. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2017, September). Jamming in the 3rd Room. Paper presented at Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, Liverpool, UK

No abstract available.

Learning to Create and Creating to Learn: The Importance of Popular Music Composition in Popular Music Education (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2017, June). Learning to Create and Creating to Learn: The Importance of Popular Music Composition in Popular Music Education. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Education Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado

This session will focus on Popular Music Composition (PMC) in undergraduate popular music degrees. The presenter will outline several important issues raised by students of PMC regarding their understanding of the area, their identity as 'composers',... Read More about Learning to Create and Creating to Learn: The Importance of Popular Music Composition in Popular Music Education.

Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education and Industry (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2017, June). Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education and Industry. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Educators Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado

This presentation explores concepts of 'leisure' and 'musical activity' by way of contextualizing the ways in which young people engage with music making as leisure. As such musical activities are often self-directed, self-funded and fuelled princi... Read More about Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education and Industry.

Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stillie, B., & Moir, Z. (2017, February). Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access. Paper presented at Music Research Seminar Series

The presence of popular music has, in recent decades, ‘grown in schools, colleges and universities’. While the authors are encouraged by the increase in popular music in formal music education, our roles as HE popular music educators, coupled with o... Read More about Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access..

Haphazard Pathways to Higher Popular Music Education in the UK (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2017, February). Haphazard Pathways to Higher Popular Music Education in the UK. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier University Teaching Fellows Conference, Edinburgh

No abstract available.

Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2017, February). Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier University Innovations in Teaching and Supporting Learning Teaching Fellows Conference, Edinburgh Napier University

The presence of popular music has, in recent decades, ‘grown in schools, colleges and universities’. While the authors are encouraged by the increase in popular music in formal music education, our roles as HE popular music educators, coupled with o... Read More about Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access..

Jamming in the 3rd Room. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., Ferguson, P., & Smith, G. D. (2016, December). Jamming in the 3rd Room. Paper presented at Art of Record Production, Aalborg, Denmark

No abstract available.

Popular Music Pedagogy: Assessment, Evaluation, and Context (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & McLaughlin, S. (2014, March). Popular Music Pedagogy: Assessment, Evaluation, and Context. Paper presented at International Festival for Artistic Innovation

No abstract available.

Analysing, Evaluating, and Assessing Musical Improvisation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., MacDonald, R., Moran, N., & Edwards, M. (2013, July). Analysing, Evaluating, and Assessing Musical Improvisation. Presented at International Conference on Analysing Popular Music

No abstract available.

Guided Experience: Cochlear Implants and Music (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2013, February). Guided Experience: Cochlear Implants and Music. Presented at Guided Experience Workshop

No abstract available.

Composing Music For Cochlear Implant Users: Evaluations (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., Osborne, N., & Overy, K. (2010, July). Composing Music For Cochlear Implant Users: Evaluations. Paper presented at 11th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies

No abstract available.

Cochlear Implants and Music Listening Experiences (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Overy, K. (2010, June). Cochlear Implants and Music Listening Experiences. Paper presented at 11th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies

No abstract available.

Cochlear Implants and Improved Music Perception (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2009, September). Cochlear Implants and Improved Music Perception. Presented at Cochlear Implants and Music Special Interest Group

No abstract available.