Alex South is a part-time Lecturer at the RCS, where his teaching has included the design and delivery of the 'Other Species Counterpoint' module for 3rd year BMus students. As Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh), Alex's research is focused on ethical questions arising from the human use of the sounds of other animals. His interdisciplinary PhD, Cetacean Citations, combined practice-led research from the perspectives of ecomusicology and zoömusicology with bioacoustical studies on humpback whale song. Alex’s compositions inspired by whale song have been performed across the UK and internationally, and featured in recent CBC documentary ‘The Musical Animal’. He also teaches on undergraduate music courses at the University of St Andrews.

Animal Communication, Animal Culture, Animal Ethics, Bioacoustics, Ecomusicology, Zoömusicology