Dr Remy Martin

Remy is Senior Lecturer in Music and sits on the London College of Music executive committee as Academic Quality Lead. He is an active interdisciplinary researcher and is currently presenting and publishing on creativity, musical consciousness and aesthetics. His work combines the analytical, theoretical and empirical (notably the use of phenomenological interviews with musicians and listeners). Remy is co-author of a third edition of the internationally renowned Rock: The Primary Text: Developing a Musicology of Rock (Routledge) with Allan F. Moore. In his PhD thesis –supervised by Professor Allan F Moore (University of Surrey) and Dr Nanette Nielsen (University of Oslo) – he examined ‘authenticating’ popular music listening experiences drawing from musicology, phenomenology, social theory, ethics and embodied cognitive science.

Previously, Remy led the teaching of popular music analysis and practice at Leeds Conservatoire, where he received the 2018 ‘Most Inspiring Teaching’ award, and at the University of Surrey. In 2021 he moved to Norway to undertake a research fellowship at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion (University of Oslo), a Norwegian research council centre of excellence. There he also taught and supervised at MA and PhD level. Remy has given workshops and masterclasses internationally as well as invited talks on higher education music pedagogy. He has served as external expert advisor on several programme validations and as External Examiner and External Award Examiner. Before turning to musicological study, Remy specialised in guitar performance and has gigged as a rock, pop, folk and country guitarist.