Between 2015-21, I was Principal Investigator for an ERC Starting Grant entitled 'Sound and Materialism in the 19th Century.' This examined how a scientific-materialist conception of sound was formed alongside a dominant culture of romantic idealism. Four postdoctoral research fellows joined the project, whose numerous publications are open access. 

Alongside this, work on a hitherto unheard Italian opera by Franz Liszt, Sardanapalo, was supported by a Philip Leverhulme Prize (mentioned on the AMS' blog). This resulted in the first critical edition and a performing edition of Liszt's music, whose world premiere took place in 2018, with subsequent performances in Italy, Germany, America, Austria and most recently Hungary. Upon release, the first recording was the #1 best-selling classical album in the UK.

My research interests are reflected in the three volumes I edited for Cambridge University Press, on Opera and the Scientific Imagination (2019), Music in Digital Culture (2019), and most recently Wagner in Context (2024). Media work includes Prom special features on BBC Radio 3, and discussion of Wagner and Plato, beauty and morality for A History of Ideas on BBC Radio 4, while other publications include editions and translations, such as Carl Stumpf's The Origins of Music, journal editing, as well as research and review articles.  See further details here.