William Fourie

William Fourie is a senior lecturer in Rhodes University’s Department of Music and Musicology, where he is also the coordinator of postgraduate studies. He holds a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London and a Master's Degree in Musicology from Merton College, University of Oxford. His work straddles disciplines such as musicology, decolonial theory, science and technology studies, critical theory, and hermeneutics. While much of his earlier research focused on reading issues of modernity through music, he is now more concerned with the mediality of technology and specifically how this is understood in the context of machine learning. He has published articles in Twentieth Century Music, Perspectives of New Music, Tempo, SAMUS, Muziki and a number of other journals. William is the Vice-Chairperson of the South African Society for Research in Music and the chair of their scientific committee.