All Outputs (82)

The Metalization of a Dream : for open instrumentation and electronics (2019)
Other

The Metalization of a Dream is an open form sound-work responding to the dada and surrealist-inspired collages of Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005). A pioneer of pop art, Paolozzi’s practice drew inspiration from artists that utilise similar collage and c... Read More about The Metalization of a Dream : for open instrumentation and electronics.

"Friends Of Dorothy": Queerness In and Beyond the MGM Film (2018)
Book Chapter

Behind Hartker's Antiphoner: neglected fragments of the earliest Sankt Gallen tonary (2018)
Journal Article

Prior to the famous Hartker Antiphoner (Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 390/391), copied in Sankt Gallen c. 1000, there survives no complete, fully-notated witness to the Romano-Frankish chant repertory for the Office. Scholars have long known a... Read More about Behind Hartker's Antiphoner: neglected fragments of the earliest Sankt Gallen tonary.

Musical cosmopolitanism in late-colonial Hanoi (2018)
Journal Article

This article investigates how radio was used to amplify the reach of vernacular forms of musical cosmopolitanism in late-colonial Hanoi. Between 1948 and the early 1950s, the musicians of Việt Nhạc – the first all-Vietnamese ensemble to appear regula... Read More about Musical cosmopolitanism in late-colonial Hanoi.

Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde (2018)
Book

Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth... Read More about Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde.

A landscape of design: Interaction, interpretation and the development of experimental expressive interfaces (2018)
Conference Proceeding

© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. This short paper presents the initial research insights of an ongoing research project that focuses upon understanding the role of landscape, its use as a resource for designing in... Read More about A landscape of design: Interaction, interpretation and the development of experimental expressive interfaces.

Sounding out the space: a composer’s perspective on Spatial Music (2018)
Presentation / Conference

Pierre Boulez cites space as being the fifth dimension of music (1963). However Alvin Lucier observes that although considerable effort is put into the conception, generation and notation of music relatively little thought is given to the actual prop... Read More about Sounding out the space: a composer’s perspective on Spatial Music.

No Man is an Island (2018)
Other

A five-minute setting of John Donne's Mediation XVII written for solo voice and electronics. Premiered by SoundKarD at nonclassical, London. 12/04/2018.

Cut, Strike, Throw, Grip. (2018)
Other

This work draw inspiration from the ancient Highland Bagpipe and Clarsach music known as Pibroch or Ceol Mor. Comprised of a theme and variations Pibroch utilises ornamentation as a means to mark and decorate each variation. Moreover as an oral tradi... Read More about Cut, Strike, Throw, Grip..

Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam (2018)
Book

© Oxford University Press 2018. Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, many of the one million Hmong in Vietnam have strategicall... Read More about Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam.

Baroque à la Hitchcock: the music of Dangerous Liaisons (1988) (2018)
Book Chapter

George Fenton’s resourceful use of both pastiche and genuine baroque and classical music in the scoring of period-set feature films is nowhere more impressive than in Dangerous Liaisons (1988). Strongly influenced by the films of Alfred Hitchcock, di... Read More about Baroque à la Hitchcock: the music of Dangerous Liaisons (1988).

Approaches to notation in music for piano and live electronics: the performer’s perspective (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines elements of notation in music for piano and live electronics. The author introduces examples from the repertoire and discusses different notational approaches. These are grouped into three main categories. 1 Graphic notations a... Read More about Approaches to notation in music for piano and live electronics: the performer’s perspective.

Negotiating space: a composer’s perspective on Spatial Music (2017)
Presentation / Conference

Over the past 10 years spatial music has been an emergent trope within my practice that has exponentially grown from an initial interest in spectator immersion to engender a broad range of applications ranging from underpinning musical structure thro... Read More about Negotiating space: a composer’s perspective on Spatial Music.

Liszt and the symphonic poem (2017)
Book

Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group of orchestral pieces intended to depict a variety of subjects drawn from literature, visual art and dr... Read More about Liszt and the symphonic poem.

Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984 (2017)
Book

Toy pianos, poor tools: virtuosity and imagination in a limited context (2017)
Journal Article

The toy piano is fast becoming a concert instrument in its own right, with its own (growing) body of repertoire that has moved well beyond John Cage’s 1948 classic Suite for Toy Piano. There are dedicated musicians specialising in toy piano performan... Read More about Toy pianos, poor tools: virtuosity and imagination in a limited context.

From satirical piece to commercial product: the mid-Victorian opera burlesque and its bourgeois audience (2017)
Journal Article

Current studies of burlesque position it as a subversive genre that questioned cultural and social hierarchies and spoke to diverse audiences. Central to this interpretation are burlesque’s juxtapositions of high and low culture, particularly popular... Read More about From satirical piece to commercial product: the mid-Victorian opera burlesque and its bourgeois audience.

The Cries of Columbia Road (2017)
Other

The Cries of London is an ongoing series of electroacoustic compositions and sound works that draw upon the urban anthropophonic soundscape of London. Taking inspiration from the seventeenth-century works of the same title by Thomas Weelkes, and Orla... Read More about The Cries of Columbia Road.

Wild Strawberries from Reichenau: Ruminations on Authority and Difference in Eleventh-Century “Gregorian” Chant (2017)
Journal Article

One of the paradoxes of Gregorian chant is the way in which written sources become ever more plentiful across the Middle Ages while commentaries on its cultural and intellectual status take the opposite direction, becoming rare after the ninth centur... Read More about Wild Strawberries from Reichenau: Ruminations on Authority and Difference in Eleventh-Century “Gregorian” Chant.

Cantor or canonicus? In Search of Musicians and Liturgists in Eleventh-Century Constance (2017)
Book Chapter