
Dr Matthew Lovett
- Head of the Bath School of Music and Performing Arts, Associate Professor in Music Innovation
- Email: m.lovett@bathspa.ac.uk
- School: Bath School of Music and Performing Arts
- Website:
Personal statement
I'm the Head of the Bath School of Music and Performing Arts and Associate Professor in Music Innovation, where I lead a team of academics who operate at the forefront of their disciplines, across teaching and research practices.
BSMPA is a forward-thinking School, and our focus is on creating learning environments where students feel valued and able to develop skills, knowledge and experience that will equip them for successful, fulfilling and sustainable careers in the global creative sector.
As a creative musician and researcher, I’m interested in exploring the evolving nature of music and sound practices. I'm a BAFTA award winner, and my work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. My academic writing has been published in books and academic journals, with a wide focus on music in relation to streaming platform economics, blockchain technologies and continental philosophy.
My book, Ecologies of Creative Music Practice: Mattering Music, examines musical creativity and commerce in the context of artificial intelligence, financial technologies and intellectual property rights, set against a background of philosophical theory, including new materialism, speculative realism and deep ecology.
Academic qualifications
- PhD, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
- MMus Creative Music Technology, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- BA English Literature, Cardiff University
- PGCE, Cardiff University
Supervision
I supervise PhD candidates who are interested in:
- music economies
- emergent music rights and governance structures
- music and sound aesthetics
- composition
- performance
- improvisation
- ecomusicology
Research and academic outputs
Books
Ecologies of creative music practice: mattering music
Book
Lovett, M (2023) Ecologies of creative music practice: mattering music. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781032127033
Book chapters or sections
The streaming curve: streaming, the S curve and super-abundance
Book chapters or section
Lovett, M (2024) 'The streaming curve: streaming, the S curve and super-abundance.' In: Gullö, J-O, Hepworth-Sawyer, R, Paterson, J, Toulson, R and Marrington, M, eds. Innovation in music: adjusting perspectives. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 11-25. ISBN 9781032500249
Artificial creativity and tools for understanding: music, creative labour and AI
Book chapters or section
Lovett, M (2024) 'Artificial creativity and tools for understanding: music, creative labour and AI.' In: Gullö, J-O, Hepworth-Sawyer, R, Paterson, J, Toulson, R and Marrington, M, eds. Innovation in music: technology and creativity. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 267-277. ISBN 9780367633363
Towards a quantum theory of musical creativity
Book chapters or section
Lovett, M (2021) 'Towards a quantum theory of musical creativity.' In: Hepworth-Sawyer, R, Paterson, J and Toulson, R, eds. Innovation in music: future opportunities. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 389-402. ISBN 9780367363352
Disruptive blockworks: blockchains and networks / acceleration and collision
Book chapters or section
Lovett, M (2019) 'Disruptive blockworks: blockchains and networks / acceleration and collision.' In: Ragnedda, M and Destefanis, G, eds. Blockchain and web 3.0: social, economic, and technological challenges. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 130-143. ISBN 9780367726928
Disruption as contingency: music, blockchain, wtf?
Book chapters or section
Lovett, M (2019) 'Disruption as contingency: music, blockchain, wtf?' In: Hepworth-Sawyer, R, Hodgson, J, Paterson, J and Toulson, R, eds. Innovation in music: performance, production, technology, and business. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 467-480. ISBN 9781138498198
Articles
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION: The everyday is every day
Article
Lovett, M, Land, T and Reeder, P (2025) 'EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION: The everyday is every day.' International Journal of Creative Media Research, 11. ISSN 2631-6773
Measuring is making: the radical indeterminacy of music
Article
Lovett, M (2023) 'Measuring is making: the radical indeterminacy of music.' Leonardo, 56 (2). pp. 194-198. ISSN 0024-094X
A fork in the road: perspectives on sustainability and decentralised governance in digital institutions
Article
Lovett, M and Thomas, L (2021) 'A fork in the road: perspectives on sustainability and decentralised governance in digital institutions.' First Monday, 26 (11). ISSN 1396-0466
Directions in music: stakeholder perspectives on blockchain innovations in music streaming
Article
Lovett, M (2020) 'Directions in music: stakeholder perspectives on blockchain innovations in music streaming.' Frontiers in Blockchain, 3. e506721. ISSN 2624-7852
Exhibitions
Moor / plastic
Exhibition
Lovett, M (2017) Moor / plastic. In: Mike Perry: Land / Sea (Tir / Môr), Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK, 7 April - 17 June 2017.
Company of trees
Exhibition
Sear, H and Lovett, M Company of trees. In: … the rest is smoke (part of the 56th Venice Biennale), Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, Venice, Italy, 9 May - 22 November 2015.
Performances
Twelve drummers drumming
Performance
Lovett, M (2016) Twelve drummers drumming. In: Islet album launch, Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK, 10 December 2016.
Other items
The sonic episteme: acoustic resonance, neoliberalism and biopolitics [book review]
Other item
Lovett, M (2021) The sonic episteme: acoustic resonance, neoliberalism and biopolitics [book review]. Popular Music, 40 (1). pp. 165-167. ISSN 0261-1430