I work in and around music, performance studies, and cultural theory.

My published work includes an academic monograph, New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity (Routledge, 2021), an edited collection, Music—Psychoanalysis—Musicology (Routledge, 2018), and a co-edited special issue of Contemporary Music Review on ‘Musical Materialisms’ (2020). I have written book chapters about twentieth-century- and twenty-first-century music and sound art, and articles in journals such as the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music and Letters, and Twentieth-Century Music. I am currently working on research two projects: the first on systems in music and dance composition; the second on contemporary musical modernism.

As a lecturer, I enjoy working with student artists, performers and practitioners at two conservatoires, London Contemporary Dance School and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I am a doctoral supervisor and welcome messages from those considering doctoral study.

My academic practice is enthused by collaboration and formative conversations, and I regularly organise conferences, conference streams, panels, and other events. I am the Events Coordinator for the Music and Philosophy Study Group of the Royal Musical Association. As a founding member and Trustee of the charity London Critical, with others I have coordinated the annual London Conference in Critical Thought since its inaugural event in 2012.

As a composer for media, I write music for documentary film and collaborative artistic projects.

Please feel free to get in touch, at s.wilson [at] gsmd.ac.uk