Dr CD Jeffery

Qualifications

• DMus (University of Cape Town, 2017)
• MMus (Stellenbosch University, 2005)
• BA Mus (University of Port Elizabeth, 1999)

Currently teaching

• Popular Music
• Western Classical Harmony
• Music Technology
• Instrumentation and Orchestration

Fields of academic interests

Research interests

• Music technology
• Film music studies
• Popular music
• Music analysis

Field of Specialisation

• Music composition
• Music technology
• Film music
• Music analysis

Journal articles

• Jeffery, C. (Forthcoming). Myth-building through diegetic African music in early South African sound films. In Barham, J. (ed.) Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era.
• Jeffery, C. Racial Representation and Rhetoric in the Music of Come Back, Africa. Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. Under review.
• Jeffery, C. 2014. Juilliard concert blog: Response 2. In NewMusicSA 13: 6-7.
• Jeffery, C. 2008. A semiotic investigation into dialectical opposition in Schoenberg’s Third String Quartet, first movement. South     African Music Studies 28: 135-153.

Paper presentations

• 2020. Something from nothing: music with no instruments and a cellphone. Virtual National Arts Festival. https://nationalartsfestival.co.za/show/something-from-nothing-music-with-no-instruments-and-a-cellphone/?fbclid=IwAR0qtM6BnLVbA9-sxvMEleHK1NnKxU7lsJMLFE86U6EqyWtHzKx0fvSm2bc.
• 2018. Widening the inequality gap with blended learning in OdeL. Pretoria, South Africa: NADEOSA/DEASA Open Learning Conference.
• 2017. Writing new music for South Africa’s oldest feature film: reimagining identity through film music in De Voortrekkers (1916). Pretoria, South Africa: University of South Africa Research and Innovation Month.
• 2016. Rescoring a classic South African silent film in the 21st century: the identity politics of musical style. Pretoria, South Africa: Unisa School of Arts Triennial Conference.
• 2016. Urban African music as expression of racial and cultural identity in South African film, 1949-1962. Los Angeles, USA: Long Beach Indie Film, Media and Music Conference.
• 2016. Rural African music as expression of racial and cultural identity in South African film, 1936-1967. Bloemfontein, South Africa: South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) Conference.
• 2012. Circular symmetry: symmetrical twelve-note modes of alternating intervals, and what to do when you meet one. Pretoria, South Africa: North-South-South Conference.
• 2012. Circular symmetry: symmetrical twelve-note modes of alternating intervals, and their place in musical practice. Pretoria, South Africa: South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) Conference.
• 2010. A semiotic investigation into dialectical opposition in Schoenberg’s Third String Quartet, first movement. Port Elizabeth, South Africa: South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) Conference.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

• Visiting Fellow: International Staff Exchange Fellowship Program, Shanghai Open University, Shanghai, China, 2019
• Visiting Lecturer: North-South-South Higher Education Programme, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2015
• Chair, NewMusicSA, 2013-2015
• Honorary life member, NewMusicSA

Projects

Other

Performances and Composition Activities

• 2020 Lockdown! Recording a song using household objects and a cellphone. https://youtu.be/NLYo1IG_tyU.
• 2019 Holograms for String Quartet (2014-2015), performed by the Odeion String Quartet at the Dr Miriam Makeba Concert Hall, University of South Africa, Pretoria. https://youtu.be/HRCFEjeBRC8.
• 2018 De Voortrekkers orchestral film score (2016), Selected for South African submission to ISCM World New Music Days Festival.
• 2017 De Voortrekkers orchestral film score (2016), Sound and video installation at NewMusicSA New Music Indaba, Pretoria.
• 2015 Movement for Viola and Piano (2010), performed by Waldo Alexander and Jill Richards at NewMusicSA New Music Indaba, Bloemfontein. https://youtu.be/9fzCRt4nNus.
• 2014 String Quartet (2014), performed by the Paz Quartet at Circa Gallery in Johannesburg.
• 2014 String Quartet (2014), performed by the Paz Quartet at Nazareth House Chapel, Pretoria.
• 2014 String Quartet (2014), Selected for South African submission to ISCM World New Music Days Festival.
• 2013 The Outer Edges for Orchestra (2011), Selected for South African submission to ISCM World New Music Days Festival.
• 2012 The Outer Edges for Orchestra (2011), Reading by the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra, Durban.

Website(s)

https://chrisjeffery.co.za