Dr Eugene Seow

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...

This year’s Chinese New Year was meant to be a short reset. I took a few days in Phnom Penh with my wife to step away from marking, proposals, and the quiet strategising that comes with building a life in higher education. It was supposed to be a pause, a sightseeing holiday. Instead, it became perspective. We visited Tuol Sleng (S21), the former school turned prison under the Khmer Rouge. The rooms are preserved as they were found: metal bed frames, shackles, faint blood splatters on the...