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I am a Lecturer in Music Education at the Royal College of Music and Trinity-Laban Conservatoire in London and was Head of Higher Education and Research at Sage Gateshead from 2010-19.
My research focuses on music making and civic imagination / social ecology, group singing, music health and wellbeing, musician edcuation and Community Music,
I have pioneered the use of Sensemaker ‘distributed ethnography’ as a method for research into cultural phenomena.
My philosophy suggests that:
music is about the performance of ‘relationships’ as much as it is the performance of ‘works’, and that the implicit tensions within these contrasting perspectives can be resolved through a foregrounding of their ‘paramusical’ benefits and effects.
Music making is also about the ‘performance’ of ethical (post-)Humanist values - love, reciprocity and democratic equality - which are the foundations of a more equitable and sustainable society, making it a potent form of ‘civic imagination’
“A brilliant lecture by a superb academic and practitioner! ”
On this website, you can find:
Current Research
Current projects, new ideas, projects in development, including Fellowship of Hill and Wind and Sunshine, Making Sense of Group Singing, and SINGS-VR...
Publications
Journal articles, book chapters, reports and other publications I've authored or co-authored...
Presentations
A series of Prezis to accompany lectures, speeches and presentations.
“Camlin’s ethical foundation draws compelling parallels with the work of Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who saw community not as a contract of mutual interest but as a covenant of shared responsibility. Sacks (2007) writes, “Covenant is about identity and responsibility, about loyalty and belonging. It binds people together in moral community” (p. 115). Musicing, as Camlin describes it, is precisely such a covenantal practice: one in which individuals become responsible for and to one another through shared sound, attention, and vulnerability. In resisting commodification, competition, and individualism, Camlin offers a vision of music as what Sacks might call a “moral ecology”—a space where people practice being human together. His “terrapolitan” ideal, in which local musical acts model global responsibility, shares Sacks’ belief that “the future depends on how we learn to share a world that is not ours alone” (Sacks, 2010, p. 143).”
(Prof. Amira Ehrlich, Levinsky College, Tel Aviv)
Here’s a Padlet summary of my published outputs - I’m still updating it, but it will eventually have hyperlinks to everything///
“Your talk, while brief, gave me one of those lightbulb moments of clarity and purpose in my path. Aha - this is the reason I’m compelled to write and play music! Finally it all made sense. You explained in 10 minutes the actual missing link between music and a better future than I’ve been searching for, seemingly my whole life. That’s the sign of a bloody great teacher isn’t it.”
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