Dr Eugene Seow

Have you ever been so obsessed with something that you threw everything else aside to achieve a goal? That has been me with academia. Indeed, the past few months have been very scholarly. For those who have followed my social media as a friend, colleague, competitor, silent observer, or whatever category you fall into, you probably know. I have published extensively, travelled for conferences, presented at others, attended many more online, and somehow found myself speaking across music,...

As my first academic year at LASALLE comes to a close, I find myself reaching a small but meaningful milestone: five peer-reviewed journal articles published! While I am grateful for the number, what matters more is that these articles have begun to make visible a research direction that has been taking shape across teaching, supervision, performance, and writing. The topics differ, but the underlying concern persists: how musicians learn, judge, communicate, and make sense of practice in...

Recently, I had the opportunity to present at the fifth conference of the International Network for Artistic Research in Jazz (INARJ), held at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel under the theme “Places and Spaces”. It was a fitting setting for the paper I brought there: “Pocket as Embodied Space: Reflections from the Bandstand.” The conference framed artistic research in jazz as a serious and expanding site of inquiry, explicitly naming embodiment as one of its core strands. The...