Professor Isabella van Elferen

Article

Van Elferen, Isabella (2020) Ludomusicology and the new drastic. Journal of Sound and Music in Games, 1(1), pp. 103-112. ISSN (online) 2578-3432

van Elferen, Isabella (2018) Dark timbre : the aesthetics of tone colour in Goth music. Popular Music, 37(1), pp. 22-39. ISSN (print) 0261-1430

Van Elferen, Isabella (2017) Agency, aporia, approaches : how does musicology solve a problem like timbre? Contemporary Music Review, 36(6), pp. 483-487. ISSN (print) 0749-4467

Van Elferen, Isabella (2017) Drastic allure : timbre between the sublime and the grain. Contemporary Music Review, 36(6), pp. 614-632. ISSN (print) 0749-4467

Van Elferen, Isabella (2016) Sonic Horror. Horror Studies, 7(2), pp. 165-172. ISSN (print) 2040-3275

Van Elferen, Isabella (2016) Sonic monstrosity. Horror Studies, 7(2), pp. 307-318. ISSN (print) 2040-3275

van Elferen, Isabella and Raeymaekers, Sven (2015) Silent dark : the orders of silence. Journal for Cultural Research, 19(3), pp. 262-273. ISSN (print) 1479-7585

van Elferen, Isabella (2013) Fantastische musik: monumentale soundtracks, magische instrumente, musikalische liminalität [Fantasy music: epic soundtracks, magical instruments, musical metaphysics]. Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung [Journal of Research in the Fantastic], 6, pp. 1-24. ISSN (print) 2192-0885

van Elferen, Isabella (2013) Fantasy music: epic soundtracks, magical instruments, musical metaphysics. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 24(2), pp. 4-24. ISSN (print) 0897-0521

van Elferen, Isabella (2012) The Gothic Bach. Understanding Bach, 7, pp. 9-20. ISSN (online) 1750-3078

van Elferen, Isabella (2011) ¡Un forastero! Issues of virtuality and diegesis in videogame music. Music and The Moving Image, 4(2), pp. 30-39. ISSN (print) 2167-8464

van Elferen, Isabella (2011) East German Goth and the spectres of Marx. Popular Music, 30(1), pp. 89-103. ISSN (print) 0261-1430

de Vries, Imar and Van Elferen, Isabella (2010) The musical 'Madeleine': communication, performance and identity in musical ringtones. Popular Music and Society, 33(1), pp. 61-74. ISSN (print) 0300-7766

van Elferen, Isabella (2010) Book review of: 'Limits of horror: technology, bodies, gothic' by Fred Botting. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 21(1), pp. 132-135. ISSN (print) 0897-0521

van Elferen, Isabella (2010) Music of other spheres: diagonal time and metaphysics in 'Lost'. Science Fiction Film and Television, 3(2), pp. 253-270. ISSN (print) 1754-3770

van Elferen, Isabella (2009) Dances with spectres: theorising the cybergothic. Gothic Studies, 11(1), pp. 99-112. ISSN (print) 1362-7937

van Elferen, Isabella (2009) The hungry soul: communion mystics and physiology in J. S. Bach's 'St. Matthew Passion'. Bach: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, 40(1), pp. 35-57. ISSN (print) 0005-3600

van Elferen, Isabella (2007) ‘Ihr Augen weint!’: intersubjective tears in the sentimental concert hall. Understanding Bach, 2, pp. 77-94. ISSN (online) 1750-3078

Book

Van Elferen, Isabella (2020) Timbre: paradox, materialism, vibrational aesthetics. New York, U.S. : Bloomsbury Academic. 248p. ISBN 9781501365812

van Elferen, Isabella and Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew (2016) Goth music : from sound to subculture. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 162p. (Routledge Studies in Popular Music) ISBN 9780415720045

Van Elferen, Isabella (2012) Gothic music: the sounds of the uncanny. Cardiff, U.K. : University of Wales Press. 229p. (Gothic Literary Studies) ISBN 9780708325124

van Elferen, Isabella (2008) Mystical love in the German baroque: theology, poetry, music. Washington, U.S. : Scarecrow Press. 384p. (Contextual Bach Studies, 2) ISBN 9780810861367

van Elferen, Isabella, ed. (2007) Nostalgia or perversion? Gothic rewriting from the eighteenth century until the present day. Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 266p. ISBN 9781847182470

Book Section

Van Elferen, Isabella (2021) Rethinking affect. In: Varwig, Bettina, (ed.) Rethinking Bach. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press. pp. 141-166. ISBN 9780190943899

van Elferen, Isabella (2021) Timbrality : the vibrant aesthetics of color. In: Dolan, Emily I. and Rehding, Alexander, (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Timbre. Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press. pp. 69-91. (Oxford Handbooks) ISBN 9780190637224

Van Elferen, Isabella (2019) Gothic and contemporary music : dark sound, dark mood, dark aesthetics. In: Punter, David, (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts. Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh University Press. pp. 229-242. ISBN 9781474432351

van Elferen, Isabella (2017) Goth music and subculture. In: Partridge, Christopher and Moberg, Marcus, (eds.) Bloomsbury handbook of religion and popular music. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. pp. 316-326. ISBN 9781474237338

van Elferen, Isabella (2017) Virtual worlds from recording to video games. In: Cook, Nicholas , Trippett, David and Ingalls, Monique M., (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. pp. 209-226. ISBN 9781316676639

van Elferen, Isabella (2016) Analyzing game musical immersion : the ALI model. In: Kamp, Michiel , Summers, Tim and Sweeney, Mark, (eds.) Ludomusicology: approaches to video game music. Sheffield, U.K. : Equinox. pp. 32-52. (Genre, Music and Sound) ISBN 9781781791974

van Elferen, Isabella (2016) Hyper-cacophony : Lovecraft, speculative realism, and sonic materialism. In: Sederholm, Carl H. and Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew, (eds.) The age of Lovecraft. Univ Of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816699254

van Elferen, Isabella (2015) Sonic descents : musical dark play in survival and psychological horror. In: Mortensen, Torill Elvira , Linderoth, Jonas and Brown, Ashley ML, (eds.) The dark side of game play : controversial issues in playful environments. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 226-241. (Routledge Advances in Game Studies, (4)) ISBN 9781138827288

Blake, Charlie and van Elferen, Isabella (2015) Sonic media and spectral loops. In: Edwards, Justin D., (ed.) Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 60-70. (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature) ISBN 9781138797192

van Elferen, Isabella (2014) Morrissey's gothic Ireland. In: Fitzgerald, Mark and O'Flynn, John, (eds.) Music and identity in Ireland and beyond. Farnham, U.K. : Ashgate. pp. 165-177. ISBN 9781472409669

Van Elferen, Isabella (2014) Sonic gothic. In: Byron, Glennis and Townshend, Dale, (eds.) The gothic world. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 429-440. ISBN 9780415637442

van Elferen, Isabella (2014) Techno-Gothics of the early-twenty-first century. In: Hogle, Jerrold E., (ed.) The Cambridge companion to the modern Gothic. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press. pp. 138-156. (Cambridge companions to literature) ISBN 9781107023567

van Elferen, Isabella (2014) Un/mogliche welten. Wolken, quanten und weird [Im/possible worlds: cloud, quantum and weird]. In: Klenke, Pascale , Muth, Laura , Seibel, Klaudia and Simonis, Annette, (eds.) Writing worlds: welten- und raummodelle der fantastik. Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter. pp. 51-68. (Beiträge zur Literaturtheorie und Wissenspoetik, (1)) ISBN 9783825363796

van Elferen, Isabella (2013) Globalgoth? Unlocatedness in the musical home. In: Byron, Glennis, (ed.) Globalgoth. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 91-104. (International Gothic) ISBN 9780719087950

van Elferen, Isabella (2013) 'Lost' in music: Heidegger, the glissando and otherness. In: Donnelly, K. J. and Hayward, Philip, (eds.) Music in science fiction: tuned to the future. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 179-196. ISBN 9780415641074

van Elferen, Isabella (2013) Nick Cave and Gothic: ghost stories, fucked organs, spectral liturgy. In: Baker, John, (ed.) The art of Nick Cave: new critical essays. Bristol, U.K. : Intellect. pp. 175-188. ISBN 9781841506272

van Elferen, Isabella (2013) Sonic monstrosity. In: Christensen, Jørgen Riber and Christiansen, Steen Ledet, (eds.) Monstrologi: frygtens manifestationer. Aalborg, Denmark : Aalborg Universitetsforlag. pp. 127-146. (Interdisciplinære kulturstudier, (4)) ISBN 9788771120363

van Elferen, Isabella (2012) Dream timbre: notes on Lynchian sound design. In: Wierzbecki, James, (ed.) Music, sound and filmmakers: sonic style in cinema. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 175-188. (Routledge music and screen media series) ISBN 9780415898935

van Elferen, Isabella (2012) Spectral liturgy: transgression, ritual and music in Gothic. In: Edwards, Justin D. and Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik, (eds.) The gothic in contemporary literature and popular culture: pop goth. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 135-147. (Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature, (8)) ISBN 9780415806763

van Elferen, Isabella (2011) Music that sucks and bloody liturgy: Catholicism in vampire movies. In: Hanson, Regina, (ed.) Roman Catholicism in fantastic film: essays on belief, spectacle, ritual and imagery. Jefferson, U.S. : McFarland. pp. 97-113. ISBN 9780786464746

van Elferen, Isabella (2010) Haunted by a melody: ghosts, transgression, and music in 'Twin Peaks'. In: Blanco, Maria del Pilar and Peeren, Esther, (eds.) Popular ghosts: the haunted spaces of everyday culture. New York, U.S. : Continuum. pp. 282-295. ISBN 9781441163691

van Elferen, Isabella (2010) Recht bitter und doch susse: Lutherse theologie en mystieki leifde in de Matthaus-Passion. In: Dirksen, Pieter, (ed.) De geheimen van de Matthäus-Passion: ambacht en mystiek van een meesterwerk. Amsterdam, Netherlands : Balans. pp. 81-91. ISBN 9789050188999

van Elferen, Isabella (2009) 'And machine created music': cybergothic music and the phantom voices of the technological uncanny. In: van den Boomen, Marianne , Lammes, Sybille , Lehmann, Ann-Sophie , Raessens, Joost and Schäfer, Mirko Tobias, (eds.) Digital media: tracing new media in everyday life and technology. Amsterdam, Netherlands : Amsterdam University Press. pp. 121-132. (MediaMatters) ISBN 9789089640680

van Elferen, Isabella (2007) Introduction: nostalgia and perversion in Gothic rewriting. In: van Elferen, Isabella, (ed.) Nostalgia or perversion? Gothic rewriting from the eighteenth century until the present day. Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 1-11. ISBN 9781847182470

van Elferen, Isabella (2005) 'Let tears of blood run down your cheeks' : floods of blood, tears and love in German Baroque devotional literature and music. In: Gadebusch Bondio, Mariacarla, (ed.) Blood in history and blood histories. Florence, Italy : Sismel. pp. 193-214. (Micrologus Library, (13)) ISBN 8884501628

van Elferen, Isabella (2004) 'Sie creutzigen alle Sinne des Leibes!' : Multimediality, consolatio tragoediae and Lutheran pedagogy in the German baroque passion meditation. In: Hoogvliet, Margriet, (ed.) Multi-media compositions from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. Leuven, Belgium : Peeters. pp. 121-144. (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, (9)) ISBN 9789042915329

Conference or Workshop Item

Van Elferen, Isabella (2017) Goth music, lifestyle and festivals. In: "Gothic to Goth"; 21 - 22 Oct 2017, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2017) The paradoxes of timbre : musical epistemology between idealism and materialism. In: MPSG 2017 : 6th Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group; 13-14 Jul 2017, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2017) Dark sound : being and timbre in Gothic. In: IGA Mexico 2017 : Gothic Traditions and Departures : 13th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association; 18-21 Jul 2017, Cholula, Mexico. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2015) The lure of timbre: paradoxical realism between the sublime and the grain. In: Musical Modernity, the Beautiful and the Sublime; 30 - 31 Oct 2015, Aberdeen, U.K.. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2015) Liminality, Moebius time, and music in David Lynch's Twin Peaks. In: Vom Suchen, Verstehen und Teilen... Wissen in der Fantastik; 24 - 27 Sep 2015, Tubingen, Germany. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2015) The timbre out of space. In: Thirty-Sixth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts : The Scientific Imagination; 18-22 Mar 2015, Orlando, U.S.. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2014) Music, absinth, lace: goth club culture. In: Gothic Study Day; 06 Dec 2014, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Blake, Charlie and van Elferen, Isabella (2014) The return of the Uberthing: sonic spectrality, affective engineering & temporal paradox. In: London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) 2014; 27-28 Jun 2014, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2014) Goth timbre: different spaces in music. In: PopLife: the value of popular music in the twenty first century; 06 - 07 Jun 2014, Northampton, U.K.. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2014) Alien music. In: Science Museum Lates; 30 Apr 2014, London U.K.. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2014) Ludomusicology and the new drastic. In: Creativity, Circulation and Copyright: Sonic and Visual Media in the Digital Age; 28-29 Mar 2014, Cambridge, U.K.. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2014) Hyper-cacophony: Lovecraft, speculative realism, and unheard materialism. In: 35th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA); 19-23 Mar 2014, Orlando, U.S.. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2013) Musical dark descents: sonic immersion in psychological horror games. In: Colloquia Lent Term 2013; Jan - Mar 2013, Cambridge, U.K.. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2012) Gothic music: sounds of the uncanny. In: Rethinking Contemporary Gothic: Postgraudate Study Day 2012; 18 May 2012, Lancaster, U.K.. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2012) The ALI model: towards a theory of game musical immersion. In: Ludomusicology: Game Music Research Approaches and Aesthetics; 16 Apr 2012, Oxford, U.K.. (Unpublished)

van Elferen, Isabella (2012) Bloody liturgy: Dracula and music. In: Bram Stoker Centenary Conference; 12-14 Apr 2012, Hull / Whitby, U.K.. (Unpublished)