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Luis Velasco-Pufleau

Luis Velasco-Pufleau
Music, Sound and Conflict, author and editor-in-chief
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-1330-974X
Email: luis.velasco-pufleau@faculty.unibe.ch

I am an affiliate professor at the University of Montreal and a research affiliate at the University of Bern. As a musicologist with interdisciplinary interests, my research focuses on the relationship between music, ethics and politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I am also interested in exploring sonic agencies and the political dimension of aural memories and wartime sonic environments. As a composer and musician, I am active in the experimental post-rock collective Mad Song and explore innovative forms of writing at the crossroads of artistic creation and research in the humanities and social sciences. After completing my PhD in musicology at Sorbonne University in 2011, I have been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Bern and McGill University, and have conducted postdoctoral research at the EHESS (Paris) and University of Salzburg. Additionally, I have taught in the music departments at McGill University, Bordeaux Montaigne University and University of Salzburg, and have been visiting scholar at Ircam (Paris), the University of Oxford and University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw). I also serve as an elected member of the Swiss Young Academy and an editorial board member of the open-access journal Transposition.

Research fields and interests:
– Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
– Music and politics in democracy and authoritarian regimes
– Sound, music and memory
– Philosophy of music and sound
– Qualitative methods in music research
– Sound archives

Editorial activities:
– Editorial board member of the open-access journal Transposition
– Editor of the open access academic blog Music, Sound and Conflict

CV and full list of publications:
https://cv.hal.science/luis-velasco-pufleau

Artistic activities:
– Member of the post-rock and experimental music collective Mad Song