Projects
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Performance, subjectivity, and experimentation
A research partnership between the University of York and the Orpheus Institute, Ghent.
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Off grid: the magic of microtones
Bringing together research into the use of microtones from compositional, performance and analytical perspectives.
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Moving audiences
Providing the finest quality sound to an audience is a challenge. Particularly if the audience doesn't stay in one place.
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Music, analysis and culture
Exploring the ways in which composers create music that speaks of our contemporary world.
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Modularity, immediacy and exchange in laptop improvisation
Developing a new command-style live coding environment to address the challenges of laptop improvisation.
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On and off the page
Reconstructing text, declamation and music at the turn of the 20th century.
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Riddle songs
Developing new composition and performance through integrated theoretical and practice research into early medieval musical evidence.
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Con-ri-sonanza
A new CD of chamber music by Thomas Simaku performed by internationally renowned musicians.
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Between Air, Clay and Woods of Certain Flutes
Explore an island forest, find the flutes that grow there, and experience the unique audio from the project.
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These bones, this flesh, this skin
An interactive collaboration of music, dance and cinematography.
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Expressive nonverbal communication in ensemble performance
Exploring how musicians communicate during a performance.
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Representing rehearsals
Exploring how interactive video technology could support rehearsal practices.
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Music composition as interdisciplinary practice
A network of practitioners and practitioner-researchers to explore music composition as an interdisciplinary practice.
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From Score to Sound
Engaging the public in 20th and 21st-century British music.
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