Marshall Heiser

Marshall Heiser Ph.D. is an Australian arts scholar specialising in popular-music creative practice and record production. Since the early 1990s he has been active in the Brisbane and Melbourne indie music scenes as a performer, songwriter and record label operator, receiving kudos from Rolling Stone Magazine (Aust.) and JJJ’s Richard Kingsmill.

Marshall has taught music production at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University and in the private HE sector. His scholarly publications are widely cited, and he has presented papers both nationally and internationally regarding such diverse topics as: music and sound in cinema; the interrelatedness of humour, play and creativity theory; self-directed learning; and the phenomenology of record production. His most recent research project – aimed at empowering young DIY music producers, as well as informing scholars – has culminated in his new book 'Popular Music, Power and Play', a work that reconciles contemporary sociocultural understandings of creative practice with the inner experience of practitioners.