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Digital Musicianship: Evaluation of the Digital Score Research from the North American Tour 2023 (2024)
Book Chapter
Moroz, S., & Vear, C. (2024). Digital Musicianship: Evaluation of the Digital Score Research from the North American Tour 2023. In K. A., P. R., M. I. C., P. J. B., G. S., O. M., …S. A (Eds.), GAPS2 - Global Arts and Psychology Seminar "Creativity in music and the arts": 14-16 September 2023 York, Graz, La Plata, & Melbourne: BOOK OF ABSTRACTS. University of Graz. https://doi.org/10.25364/554.2024.1

At the start of 2023, DigiScore visited the US and North America to evaluate higher education music students’ wants and needs from digital musicianship education through engagement with digital scores. This work is part of the DigiScore research proj... Read More about Digital Musicianship: Evaluation of the Digital Score Research from the North American Tour 2023.

Diving Deep with Nautilus: An Analysis of Musicking with a Digital Score (2024)
Journal Article
Vear, C., & Moroz, S. (2024). Diving Deep with Nautilus: An Analysis of Musicking with a Digital Score. Journal of Creative Music Systems, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.5920/jcms.1261

In this article, we discuss the analytical findings from a qualitative investigation of musicking (Small, 1998) with a digital score. The main focus of this article is our methodology and the outline of our methods. The composition at the centre of t... Read More about Diving Deep with Nautilus: An Analysis of Musicking with a Digital Score.

Jess+: AI and Robotics with Inclusive Music-Making (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Vear, C., Hazzard, A., Moroz, S., & Benerradi, J. (in press). Jess+: AI and Robotics with Inclusive Music-Making. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642548

This paper discusses the findings from a cross-sector research project investigating how a digital score created using AI and robotics might stimulate new creative opportunities and relationships within the practices of an inclusive music ensemble. T... Read More about Jess+: AI and Robotics with Inclusive Music-Making.

Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Vear, C., Poltronieri, F., Didonato, B., Zhang, Y., Benerradi, J., Hutchinson, S., …Malekmohamadi, H. (in press). Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making.

In this paper, we present our findings of the design, development and deployment of a proof-of-concept dataset that captures some of the physiological, musicological, and psychological aspects of embodied musicking. After outlining the conceptual ele... Read More about Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making.

The Medieval Chants for Ste Foy Considered through the Prism of Their Nocturnal Performance (2023)
Journal Article
Parkes, H. (2023). The Medieval Chants for Ste Foy Considered through the Prism of Their Nocturnal Performance. Arts, 12(5), Article 188. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12050188

The medieval cult of Ste Foy inspired several sets of liturgical chants, or historiae, including at least two that were probably made for use at Conques in the early eleventh century. Whilst it is widely understood that historia chants belonged withi... Read More about The Medieval Chants for Ste Foy Considered through the Prism of Their Nocturnal Performance.

Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Vear, C., Benford, S., Avila, J. M., & Moroz, S. (2023). Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity.

In this paper, we present a framework for understanding human-AI musicking. This framework prompts a series of questions for reflecting on various aspects of the creative interrelationships between musicians and AI and thus can be used as a tool for... Read More about Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity.

Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Vear, C., Webb, H., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., …Marshall, J. (2023). Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS. In TAS ‘23: Proceedings of The First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 11-12 July 2023 Edinburgh, UK. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3599709

Conventional wisdom has it that trustworthy autonomous systems (AS) should be explainable, dependable, controllable and safe tools for humans to use. Reflecting on a portfolio of artistic applications of TAS leads us adopt an alternative stance and t... Read More about Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS.

Towards a Definition of the “Romano-German Pontifical” and Back (2023)
Book Chapter
Parkes, H. (2023). Towards a Definition of the “Romano-German Pontifical” and Back. In H. Buchinger, & A. Irving (Eds.), On the Typology of Liturgical Books from the Western Middle Ages / Zur Typologie liturgischer Bücher des westlichen Mittelalters (275-301). Münster: ‎ Aschendorff Verlag

NAUTILUS: A CASE STUDY IN HOW A DIGITAL SCORE CAN TRANSFORM CREATIVITY (2023)
Journal Article
Vear, C., Rees, C., & Stephenson, A. (2023). NAUTILUS: A CASE STUDY IN HOW A DIGITAL SCORE CAN TRANSFORM CREATIVITY. Tempo, 77(303), 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298222000791

This article discusses Nautilus (2022), a composition for solo bass flute created using machine-learning techniques and a Unity game engine. We consider the approaches we adopted and how they enhanced creativity and musicianship for those involved. W... Read More about NAUTILUS: A CASE STUDY IN HOW A DIGITAL SCORE CAN TRANSFORM CREATIVITY.

Embodied AI and Musicking Robotics (2022)
Book Chapter
Vear, C. (2022). Embodied AI and Musicking Robotics. In C. Vear, & F. Poltronieri (Eds.), The Language of Creative AI: Practices, Aesthetics and Structures (113-135). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10960-7_7

This chapter discusses a hypothesis for embodied AI and its development with music robots. It proposes a solution to the challenge: if we want AI/robots to join us inside the creative acts of music, then how do we design and develop systems that prio... Read More about Embodied AI and Musicking Robotics.

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
VEAR, C., & Poltronieri, F. (2022). Introduction. In C. Vear, & . F. Poltronieri (Eds.), The Language of Creative AI: Practices, Aesthetics and Structures (xvii-xix). Cambridge: Springer

Simply put creative AI is the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in creative activities. This definition encompasses a broad range of pursuits, approaches, and perspectives, but for us the overall goal seems to be to enhance human creativity... Read More about Introduction.

An Gàrradh (2022)
Other
Macleod, D. (2022). An Gàrradh. [Electronic composition]. Uist

An electroacoustic geo-locative soundwalk mapped to Linaclate on the island of Benbecula, Scotland. Commissioned by Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre North Uist, with funds from Event Scotland.

Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera (2022)
Journal Article
Greenhalgh, C., Hazzard, A., Benford, S., Cliffe, L., & Kelly, E. (2022). Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 29(6), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531007

Losing Her Voice is a new opera which highlights the challenges of subtly interweaving digital technologies into established cultural forms. Audience members were encouraged to use their own mobile phones to interact with on-stage projections before,... Read More about Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera.

Gold.Berg.Werk (2021)
Other
Pestova, X. (2021). Gold.Berg.Werk. Dublin

Ergodos is proud to release "Gold.Berg.Werk", a radical re-interpretation of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations by Austrian composer Karlheinz Essl, performed by pianist Xenia Pestova Bennett, with live electronic diffusion by Ed Bennett. The Goldberg V... Read More about Gold.Berg.Werk.

Carareretetatakakekerers (2021)
Other
Macleod, D. (2021). Carareretetatakakekerers. [Audio]

80-minute score and sound design for Normal Condition's contemporary dance work 'Carareretetatakakekerers', choreographed by Nicola Conibere. Premiere - 4 October 2021, Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, London. Supported using public funding from... Read More about Carareretetatakakekerers.

The Cries of London: On costers, pedlars, hawkers, fishwives, tinkers and barrow boys (2020)
Book Chapter
Macleod, D. (2020). The Cries of London: On costers, pedlars, hawkers, fishwives, tinkers and barrow boys. In The political voice (28-37). London: Theatrum Mundi

The history of London’s markets is a noisy one, where the ambient buzz of the crowd is overlaid with the musical Cries of the people who work there. In this chapter, Duncan MacLeod reflects on the sociological and sonic history of those cries, and dr... Read More about The Cries of London: On costers, pedlars, hawkers, fishwives, tinkers and barrow boys.