This research seminar will introduce the work of the Prisons of Note project, exploring how music is used – and is useful – in prisons.

Through sharing examples of music and sounds created and recorded in prisons, by and with incarcerated people, the event will reflect on some of the many forms of sounding and listening that shape the experience of imprisonment.

The event will feature a roundtable conversation between musician/artist Belizio, and criminologist Thomas Ugelvik, hosted by the Prisons of Note team, Áine Mangaoang and Lucy Cathcart Frödén.

Refreshments will be served, and there will be plenty of time for questions and conversation. We hope to build some bridges between musicology, sound studies and criminology; between research, creative practice and community development; and between inside and outside prison. All welcome, no registration required.