Hidden Histories
Liverpool Sound City and IMP researcher Paul Gallagher delivered a 14-week 'Hidden Music Histories' course in early 2023, exploring Liverpool's musical heritage through tours, expert talks, and recorded sessions, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The Stage and the Ring
The Stage and the Ring is an interrogation into the relationships between music and boxing in London.
Digitally Mapping a Music Sector
IPM Researchers Dr Mathew Flynn and Dr Richard Anderson have since the 2020 pandemic conducted research on the impact of COVID-19 induced measures on the Liverpool City Region’s musicians and businesses.
Magical Music Trails
The ‘Magical Music Trails’ initiative asks you to follow one of the specially developed musical walking trails and take photos of what you see along the way.
Where Light Falls: Songs about Joni Mitchell
A collaborative project between IPM researcher and lyricist Mike Jones, Argentinean-born guitarist Alejandro Sancho, and singer Rosie Brown, resulting in a biographical body of songs exploring Mitchell’s artistic journey, personal struggles, romantic sacrifices, life as a painter, and tensions with fame, culminating in a series of live performances.
Collecting and Curating Popular Music Histories
An eighteen-month project exploring practical and theoretical issues involved with preserving and representing popular music in a museum.
Popular Musicscapes
A two-year project examining popular music and urban landscape in order to address topical debates concerning culture, creativity and urban regeneration.
Music, Repertoire and Value
A three-month project exploring the Manchester Hallé Archives, a significant and comprehensive but under-utilised collection of documents relating to the Hallé’s history and operation.
Music, Photographs and Stories from the Archive
Music, Photographs and Stories from the Archives was an experimental, four-month project based on collaboration between the Institute of Popular Music (IPM), the Open Eye Gallery (OEG), a Liverpool-based photography gallery, and Liverpooljazz, an organisation working to raise the profile of jazz performance in Liverpool.
Twilight City
Twilight City involved a series of four high profile audiovisual performances paying tribute to Liverpool's potentially overlooked spaces, including industrial and business buildings, the city centre and the suburb.
Pop, Passion and Politics
This project explored the relationship between music and politics using IPM Collections materials and culminated in a 34-panel exhibition at the Lodge of the Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool.
Electric Blanket
Electric Blanket was an interactive digital audiovisual project exploring the memories of sheltered housing residents aged 55 to 80.