{"id":3326,"date":"2025-09-21T10:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/?page_id=3326"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:14:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugill_head.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3362\" style=\"width:150px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugill_head.png 280w, https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugill_head-268x300.png 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome! I\u2019m Andrew Hugill \u2013 composer, musicologist, writer and researcher. My work explores music, listening, hearing difference, neurodiversity and creative practice. This blog is a place for exploring those themes, alongside occasional notes on composition, scholarship and life after academia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My full portfolio is on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/\">andrewhugill.com<\/a>. I also write about autism on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autisticprofessor.uk\">autisticprofessor.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latest Posts<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/17\/undertone-iii-by-simon-atkinson\/\">Undertone III by Simon Atkinson<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Yesterday I visited the De Montfort University Leicester Gallery to experience&nbsp;Undertone III,&nbsp;a vibrotactile work by Simon Atkinson. The piece comprises a single vibrating floor, roughly 1.2 metres square and made of wood, upon which you are invited to stand, sit, or lie in order to feel the vibrations. There is nothing to hear &#8211; this\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/17\/undertone-iii-by-simon-atkinson\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Undertone III by Simon Atkinson<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/01\/hearing-the-cafe\/\">Hearing the Caf\u00e9<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The next time you walk into a caf\u00e9, pause for a moment and listen.&nbsp;What do you hear?&nbsp; Perhaps it\u2019s a closing door, or hissing steam, or clinking cups, or scraping chairs, or animated conversations, or music playing.&nbsp; For many people this is just normal background noise. The soundscape tells us we are in a lively\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/01\/hearing-the-cafe\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Hearing the Caf\u00e9<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/03\/on-finding-a-new-way-to-compose\/\">On Finding a New Way to Compose<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">I\u2019ve been reflecting on the way in which I am composing today. It is quietly radical and rather different from my past practice. That was driven by traditional requirements to produce something that had value, expressed in audience terms by appreciation, in commercial terms by transactions, in critical terms by evaluation, and in academic terms\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/03\/on-finding-a-new-way-to-compose\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: On Finding a New Way to Compose<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/16\/two-kinds-of-attention\/\">Two kinds of attention<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Since retiring, I have had more time to reflect on the way attention works. By and large these days, I am able to choose the objects of my attention. When I worked as an academic, my attention was shaped by tasks, in the form of emails to answer, documents to write, training to undertake, meetings\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/16\/two-kinds-of-attention\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Two kinds of attention<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/16\/on-being-asked-why-uspud\/\">On being asked: why Uspud?<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Yesterday I gave a paper at the conference\u00a0Music and the Arts in France \u2013 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences\u00a0at the University of Leeds. My paper was on Erik Satie\u2019s\u00a0Uspud,\u00a0and was basically a shortened version of\u00a0the article\u00a0I published in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. It went down well, and it was a particular pleasure to\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/16\/on-being-asked-why-uspud\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: On being asked: why Uspud?<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! I\u2019m Andrew Hugill \u2013 composer, musicologist, writer and researcher. My work explores music, listening, hearing difference, neurodiversity and creative practice. This blog is a place for exploring those themes, alongside occasional notes on composition, scholarship and life after academia. My full portfolio is on&nbsp;andrewhugill.com. I also write about autism on&nbsp;autisticprofessor.uk. 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