Jonathan Packham
Jonathan Packham is a composer and researcher with interests in a variety of contemporary experimental music and sonic arts. He completed a DPhil in Music at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford in 2021, supported by an AHRC DTP studentship.
Jonathan has published writing on experimental music and sonic art, both in peer-reviewed academic journals Leonardo, TEMPO, and the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, and in an essay collection titled Crafting a Sonic Urbanism: the Political Voice II convened by Theatrum Mundi.
Some of his recent compositions include ghost, premiered in January 2025, a tetralogy of club-adjacent releases under his electronic alias SALINGER via EXPO, pavilion lovesong number 1, commissioned by SONCITIES, and SLOWLY SHRINKING WORLDS, commissioned by trombonist Sebastiaan Kemner. In 2020 he won the EMPRES Award for Experimental Electronic Music for his collaborative composition FISSION, co-written with producer Xactus. Since late 2016 he has been experimenting with live-generated video scores in virtual environments using VR headset technologies, as exemplified in 2019’s SECRET ANIMALS.
Jonathan is Departmental Lecturer in Music at the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. From 2023–25 he was Postdoctoral Research Assistant on Cyborg Soloists.
