Jeff Warren

Assistant Professor of Music, Artistic Director of The Verge Art Series

  • Biography
  • Education
  • Expertise
  • Scholarship
  • Publications
  • Affiliations

Phone: 604-888-7511 ext 3573

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Website: http://www.jeffrwarren.com http://www.vergearts.com

Department: FPSPA; Music; Fine Arts; The Verge Arts Series

Spoken Languages: English

Building Location: Music Practice Facility

Biography

Jeff Warren teaches in the Music and Fine Arts departments at Trinity Western University. His main teaching and research interests include 20th century art, jazz and popular music, improvisation, meaning in music, postmodern aesthetics, ethics, Levinas, Gadamer, and psychology. He has published and presented his scholarship internationally.

Jeff also serves as the Artistic Director of the Verge Arts Series at TWU, an interdisciplinary series that presents new art and scholarship. As a performer, Jeff has played both electric and double bass professionally on stage and in the studio in groups including the West Coast Symphony, the jazz trio Fulcrum, the nuevo flamenco trio De La Terra, and many rock/pop studio sessions. Jeff is currently working on a PhD in music and philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London under the supervision of Nicholas Cook and Andrew Bowie.

Education

PhD Music (Royal Holloway, University of London) - in progress

MA Religion, Culture and Ethics (Trinity Western University)

BA Music (Trinity Western University)

Areas of Expertise

Twentieth century art; jazz and popular music; improvisation; meaning in music; postmodern aesthetics; ethics; continental philosophy; sound installation; soundscape design; double and electric bass

Scholarship Interests & Involvements

  • Art-Religion and Ethical Responsibility. Paper presented at the North American Levinas Society conference, Seattle University, September 2008.
  • Repetition, Music, Ethics. Paper presented at the European Network for Musicological Research's Postgraduate Colloquium, University of Pavia-Cremona, Italy, June 2008.
  • Five Models of Musical Meaning and Ethics. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for Aesthetics conference, University of British Columbia, June 2008.
  • Listening in Improvisation. Paper presented at The Musician as Listener seminar, Orpheus Instituut, Ghent, Belgium, May 2008, and at Northwest chapter meeting of the American Musicological Society, University of British Columbia, April 2008.
  • Can the Arts Change the World? An Exploration of Arts and Social Action. Paper presented at the Langley Arts Talks series, Kwantlen University College, March 2008.
  • Musical Improvisation and Social Action. Paper presented at Arts and Social Action Symposium, Langley, BC, May 2007.
  • Is the Mystery of Music the Mystery of the Other? Levinas, Improvisation, and the Power of Music. Paper presented at the Psychology for the Other seminar, Seattle, WA. October 2006.

Publications

  • Ethics and Experiencing the Other: Trauma, Memory, and Responsibility. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vol 1, no. 3, 2006.
  • Teaching Creativity: Towards an Interpersonal Approach to Teaching the Arts. Publication in conference proceedings for the 4th International Conference on Imagination and Education, Vancouver, BC, July 2006.
  • Towards an Ethical Hermeneutics. European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling & Health, Routledge: March-June 2005; 7(1-2): 17-28.

Memberships & Affiliations

  • Member of jazz trio "Fulcrum"
  • American Federation of Musicians, Vancouver Chapter
  • International Association for Aesthetics
  • Canadian Society for Aesthetics
  • North American Levinas Society

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