Christopher Haworth

Dr. Christopher Haworth is an Associate Professor in Music at the University of Birmingham's Department of Music, specializing in 20th/21st-century musical studies. He holds a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast, an Mmus from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA from Chelsea College of Art, London. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he teaches courses such as Experimental Music and Sound Art, Electronic Music Studies, and Advanced Studies in Electroacoustic Music.

His research focuses on electronic music, sound art, digital musicology, and the sociocultural impact of music technology. He explores intersections of cybernetics, British popular music, and internet-mediated musics. Recent projects include an AHRC-funded study on music and the internet, a Horizon 2020 project on experimental music archiving, and an ERC-funded initiative on music and artificial intelligence.

Key publications include work on Iannis Xenakis’s computer music, early network music, and the cultural implications of digitalization. He co-edited The Digital Sociology of Music (forthcoming) and received the 2018 Westrup Prize for outstanding scholarship. He currently supervises PhD students researching post-1945 music history, electroacoustic composition, and digital musicology.