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N.B. Almost everything on this list is available from me as a free PDF. Please contact me if you would like to read anything.

Journal Articles and Editions

Sergeant, M. & J. Saunders (2022) What do composers do all day? MusikTexte. 173 (May 2022): 15-24

Sergeant, M. (2021) Performing Installations: An Interview with Kathy Hinde. Sound Stage Screen. 01(2). Online edition: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/sss/article/download/16639/14687?inline=1#_four

Sergeant, M; Elferen, I; Wilson, S (eds.) Music and Materialisms (Plural). Contemporary Music Review. 35(9): 317-637. [Co-guest editor]

Sergeant, M; Elferen, I; and Wilson, S. (2020) Introduction: Music and Materialisms (Plural). Contempoary Music Review 35(9): 517-525.

Book Chapters

Sergeant, M (in progress) Time: Materiality: Music [working title]. In Music and Time: Conceptions and Practices. Edited by Michelle Philips & Matthew Sergeant. London, Boydell & Brewer. [Contract tendered]

Sergeant, M (2020) Agential Instruments: Re-thinking the materiality of musical instruments in my recent compositional practice. In Sound Art and Music: Philosophy, Composition, Performance. Edited by John Dack, Tansy Pinks, and Adam Stanović. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. [ISBN: 978-1-5275-5781-9]

Edited Collections

Sergeant, M and Michelle Philips (eds). Music and Time: Conceptions and Practices. London, Boydell & Brewer (2022).

Conference Papers

Segeant, M (2020) ‘Data or Digging? On the digital mediation of vinyl records’. 12th International Symposium on Music and Society, Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (10–12 December 2020).

Sergeant, M (2019) Music and Time: Psychology, Philosophy, Practice [Themed Session]. Royal Musicological Association Annual Conference, Royal Northern College of Music / Univeristy of Manchester, UK (11-13 September 2019).

Sergeant, M (2018) ‘Doing, Knowing, Meeting: Three perspectives on making’ (Sonic Making Study Group Session, invited participant) Royal Musicological Association Annual Conference, Bristol University, UK (13-15 September 2017)

Sergeant, M (2018) ‘Manifesto as Process’ [Process in and as Music Session, invited respondant]. Royal Musicological Association Annual Conference, Bristol University, UK (13-15 September 2018)

Sergeant, M (2018) ‘Towards a Notion of Scoring’ (Music and Materialism Session, Convener) Royal Musicological Association Annual Conference, Bristol University, UK (13-15 September 2018)

Sergeant, M (2018) ‘Non-Human Affordance: Towards an emerging aesthetic force in performative contemporary music’ Material Cultures of Music Notation: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Utrecht University, the Netherlands (20-22 April 2018)

Sergeant, M (2017) ‘Three Questions: A Short Position Statement on Compositional Making,’ Royal Musicological Association Annual Conference University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, (7-9 September 2017)

Sergeant, M (2017) Sound Substance(s): Practice-based understandings of Compositional Making’ (Session Convener), Royal Musicological Association Annual Conference University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, (7-9 September 2017)

Sergeant, M (2017) ‘Queered Orientation(s): Re-imagining the taxonomy and interrelation of musical materials in The Velvet Rage (2017)’ Seventh International Symposium on Music and the Sonic Arts: Practices and Theories. Karlsruhe. Germany ( 6 – 9 Jul 2017)

Sergeant, M (2016) ‘Composing Intra-actions: Instrument(s) as Baradian apparatus’. Seventh International Symposium on Music and the Sonic Arts: Practices and Theories. Karlsruhe. Germany (30 June – 3 Jul 2016)

Sergeant, M (2015) ‘Composed Hybridity: A lichenological perspective on my recent compositional praxis’. Ninth International Conference on Music Since 1900. Glasgow, UK (16.09.15).

Sergeant, M (2013) ‘Invoking the interface of the fantastic: Todorov, music and composition.’  Fourth Annual Symposium on Music/Sonic Art: Practices and Theories. Karlsruhe, Germany (24-26 May 2013)

Sergeant,  M.  (2013) "Introducing ‘Re-coupling’:  The  Compositional  Appropriation of  Instrumental  Physicality to  disrupt Pattern-based Musical  Materials" Athens: ATINER'S Conference Paper Series, No:

ART2013-0451. (Pulished online. URL: http://www.atiner.gr/papers/ART2013-0451.pdf)

Lloyd,  E. and  Sergeant,  M.  (2013) "The  Instrument  as a Roughened  Canvas:  Embracing Timbral Indeterminacy  in Composition  and Performance" Athens: ATINER'S Conference Paper Series, No:  ART2013-0450. (Published online. URL: http://www.atiner.gr/papers/ART2013-0450.pdf)