Teaching Staff

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Dr. François Mouillot

Assistant Professor
DLB726
3411 6674
fmouillot at hkbu.edu.hk

Introduction
Research Projects
Publications

Dr. Mouillot holds a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University. He is a cultural and media theorist whose research interests include cultural scenes, cultural infrastructures, popular and experimental music, do-it-yourself and improvisation studies, health humanities, digitization/AI in artistic practices, and identity construction in industrialized minority contexts (with extensive ethnographic experience in Hong Kong S.A.R., the province of Québec in Canada, and the Basque region). He is currently leading the Hong Kong Live Music Study, the first survey of the cultural and social value of the live music sector and of its infrastructures (venues, concert organizations and promotional agencies) across all music genres in Hong Kong.

He has co-edited the book Fractured Scenes Underground Music-Making in Hong Kong and East Asia (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), and he has articles in Popular Communication, Perfect Beat, Organised Sound, Perfect Beat, Cinéma & Cie., and Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études Critiques en Improvisation, among others.

2023-2025 Principal Investigator, “Untold Hong Kong Stories: Multimedia Narratives from the Margins “, Initiation Grant for Faculty Niche Research Areas (competitive grant), Hong Kong Baptist University (HKD 739,800).
2021-2023 Principal Investigator, “Understanding the Hong Kong Live Music Sector: The Value of Live Music Infrastructures” General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grants Council (HKD 265,996)
2021-2023 Co-Investigator, “Networking Creative Tools for Remote Artistic Collaboration” Initiation Grant for Faculty Niche Research Areas (competitive grant), Hong Kong Baptist University (HKD 1,025,000)
2020-2022 Co-Principal Investigator, “Collaborative Artistic Production with Generative Adversarial Networks” Interdisciplinary Research Clusters Matching Scheme Grant (competitive grant), Hong Kong Baptist University (HKD 999,364)
2019-2020 Principal Investigator, “The Politics of Urban Noise in Hong Kong: Street Music and the Public Sounds of the City”, Faculty Research Grant (HKD 100,000)

Selected Publications

Edited Books/Special Issues:

(2021). Fractured Scenes – Underground Music-Making in Hong Kong and East Asia. Co-edited with Damien Charrieras. Palgrave MacMillan.

(2020). “Avant-garde and Popular Forms Between Music and Visual Media – Transhistorical and Intermedial Investigations”. Co-edited with Simone Dotto and Maria Teresa Soldani. Cinéma & Cie – International Film Studies Journal, vol. xix no. 33.

Selected Journal Articles:

(2022) “The social and cultural dimension of ‘platforming’ live music: the case of the Hong Kong independent music scene during the Covid-19 pandemic”. Popular Communication, DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2021.2006663

(2021) “Hearing the Inaudible: The Hong Kong Experimental Music Scene in the Covid-19 Pandemic”. Perfect Beat, 21(2), 123–134. https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.19421

(2020) “Avant into Pop, Pop into Avant. Interplays between Music and Visual Media”. Co-authored with Simone Dotto and Maria Teresa Soldani. Cinéma & Cie – International Film Studies Journal, vol. xix no. 33, pp. 7-19.

(2015) Getting Out of the Black Box: Analogizing the Use of Computers in Electronic Music and Sound Art”. Co-authored with Damien Charrieras. Organised Sound, vol. 20 no. 2, pp. 191-199.

(2009) “Resisting Poems: Expressions of Dissent and Hegemony in Modern Basque Bertzolaritza”, Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation, vol. 5 no. 1, pp. 1-12.

Selected Book Chapters:

(Forthcoming). “Musique actuelle: Creating the Jazz Scene in Quebec”. In Bruce Johnson, Adam Havas & David Horn (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies, Routledge.

(2021). “Industrial Isolation and Cultural Self-Exile: the Formation of an Independent Music Scene in Montreal”. In Christina Ballico (ed.), Geographically Isolated and Peripheral Music Scenes, Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 133-156.

(2016) “Banding Encounters: Embodied Practices in Improvisation”. Co-authored with T. Hahn, L. Campbell, L Vogt, S. Rose, G. Blake, C. Lee, S. Tucker, J. Milovic, and P. Williams . In Gillian Siddall and Ellen Waterman (eds.), Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity, Duke University Press, pp. 147-167.