From 7 to 11 July 2025, CreaTeME participated in the 23rd International Conference of IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music), held at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris and organised by IASPM–branche francophone d’Europe. With more than 450 participants from across the globe, the conference offered an extensive programme of nine parallel sessions, keynote lectures, paper presentations, workshops, and panels, alongside lots of opportunities for networking.
CreaTeME was strongly represented
Ragnhild Brøvig delivered the opening keynote, Sampling’s AH, AHA, and HAHA: Perspectives on aesthetic, political, and humorous aspects of sampling, and contributed to paper presentations including Recording, Resampling, & Repurposing: The Case of Portishead and the Bristol Sound (with Paul Harkins and Nick Prior).
Brøvig is the leader of CreaTeME’s work package 4 (WP4: Artistic Entrepreneurship) and a professor of Popular Music Studies at the Department of Popular Music, University of Oslo, and part-time Professor at the University of Agder. Her research combines popular music analysis with cultural studies, focusing on music production, musical experience, and society.
Ingvild Koksvik presented the paper Towards a Practice-Based Popular Musicology for Record Production, exploring how perspectives from popular musicology and practice can be integrated in artistic research on record production. She also joined as a panelist in the workshop Just Doing It: The Particular Challenges of Practice Research in Popular Music, led by Simon Zagorski-Thomas, sharing experiences and discussing approaches to conducting and disseminating practice research.
Koksvik, formerly a part of CreaTeME’s work package 3 (WP3: New Ways of Making and Performing Music) is a singer and songwriter currently working at the University of Agder at the Department of Popular Music as a PhD Fellow. Her doctoral project deals with how notions of space influence aesthetic, performative, and compositional aspects of popular music record production.
The conference showcased the breadth and vitality of current research in popular music studies, with CreaTeME’s contributions adding valuable perspectives on popular music, record production, and practice-based methodologies.
Photo credits: Private // Ingvild Koksvik & Ragnhild Brøvig