Music Research
In June 2005, Morgan completed an undergraduate degree in Ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, graduating with a first in performance on sāraṅgī, the quintessential bowed stringed lute of the North Indian classical music tradition. Subsequently, he was awarded full postgraduate funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to undertake a Master’s programme in sāraṅgī performance; and he graduated from SOAS with distinction as a Master of Music in December 2008. Morgan completed work on his PhD thesis at SOAS in September 2016, and received a Doctorate in Musicology in May 2017. Morgan's doctoral research concerned the musical knowledge of the Langā and Māngaṇiyār musicians of Western Rajasthan.
Whilst pursuing his ongoing career as a professional studio recording and live musician, Morgan's music research work activities have involved many diverse tasks. These include transcription and audio/visual analysis; sound engineering; project evaluation; database management; website CMS management; academic proofreading; map design; preparing recordings for the British Library Sound Archive; and the capturing, editing and output of audio/visual data collected for a selection of AHRC, Heritage Lottery and Arts Council funded projects. In addition to working as a freelance music research consultant, Morgan was a member of staff in the Open University Music Department from October 2009 to September 2010; and he was then a member of staff in the Music Department at Durham University from September 2010 until October 2011. Morgan is currently a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, where he has been teaching in the Department of Music since 2015. He is the General Administrator of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE), project evaluator for the Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust (NMPAT), and a consultant specialist for Cambridge Assessment International.
During the course of his extensive music research work experience, Morgan has become conversant with many software editing programmes, including Avid Media Pro, Final Cut Pro, Microsoft Office, Adobe CS, Wavelab, Sibelius, Audioscore & Photoscore Ultimate, Sonic Visualizer, Wave Editor, iAnalyse, Audacity, Transcribe!, Tony, Second Copy, DVDIt, ProCoder, Logic Studio and ProToolsHD. He is comfortable working in both Mac and PC formats, and has received professional training and practical experience in the operation of broadcast-grade digital video cameras and state-of-the-art A/V studio hardware. Morgan also studied Mandarin Chinese for one year at SOAS, and learnt basic Hindi and Marwari during the course of his 2013-2014 fieldwork in Rajasthan.