Music and Ethical Responsibility

Jeff R. Warren is Tutor of Music and Humanities at Quest University Canada. He has a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. Before moving to Quest in 2013, he spent nine years at Trinity Western University, where he retains the title of Adjunct Professor of Music and Interdisciplinary Arts. His research areas include music and ethics, improvisation, soundscape, and phenomenology. He is also a jazz bassist and sound artist, and was commissioned to create a sound sculpture for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. His research project 'The Ethics of Timbre: Phenomenology, Spectralism, and two Lévinas's', is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. More can be found on his website at www.jeffrwarren.com.