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     Dr Kenneth Smith is a senior lecturer in Music at the University of Liverpool. He completed his doctoral training in Durham (2009) with a thesis the harmony of Alexander Skryabin and was formerly an undergraduate at King’s College, London. His first book, Skryabin, Philosophy and the Music of Desire was published in 2013 and he has published articles in leading academic journals since 2011. His current book project is provisionally called Desire in Fin de Siecle Tonality: A Psychodynamic Theory of Chromatic Harmony and extends Riemannian theory into the early 20th Century repertoire. He is a trustee of the Society for Music Analysis and is a member of the editorial board of Music Analysis, and was guest editor in their recent special issue on Popular Music.

     Contact : kmsmith@liverpool.ac.uk

     Séance - Lewin's Legacy: Spaces and Transformations 3.I.4 : Skryabin’s Late Acceleration through Hexatonic and Octatonic Space

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