Multi-Gigabit European Research Network & Associated Services (eMusic) Oct 24, 2013 - Aug 8, 2015
This proposal details activities that will ensure the continued enhancement and ongoing operation of the leading-edge G?ANT network, supporting a range of network and added-value services, targeted at users across the G?ANT service area.
In the area... Read More about Multi-Gigabit European Research Network & Associated Services (eMusic).

ENSEMBLE Performing Together Apart: Enhancing Immersive Multi-Location Co-Performance in Real Time Jan 1, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018
The feeling of being immersed within a live performance by an ensemble of world class musicians can be a deeply engaging and highly valued cultural experience for audiences as well as for the performers themselves. Operas, orchestral performances and... Read More about ENSEMBLE Performing Together Apart: Enhancing Immersive Multi-Location Co-Performance in Real Time.

Uncovering the Secrets of the Fairlight: The Device that Revolutionised Pop in the 1980s Jun 1, 2019 - May 31, 2020
This event is a rare opportunity to find out more about a musical instrument that was worth ?100,000 in the 1980s when it was used in the making of records by Afrika Bambaataa, Kate Bush, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Researcher Paul Harkins, curato... Read More about Uncovering the Secrets of the Fairlight: The Device that Revolutionised Pop in the 1980s.

Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Research Project Oct 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2022
This research project explores the interdependencies between stakeholders within the Scottish jazz and blues scenes through the gathering and processing of data from musicians, promoters, audiences and public funders towards an understanding of a com... Read More about Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Research Project.

New directions in digital jazz studies: music information retrieval and AI support for jazz scholarship in digital archives Feb 14, 2021 - Aug 13, 2023
The key research questions that motivate this project may be framed this way: How can we increase the value of jazz archives by applying technology and developing methods for digital musicology and humanities more generally that enable better discove... Read More about New directions in digital jazz studies: music information retrieval and AI support for jazz scholarship in digital archives.

Mountain Biking Data Sonification Sep 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2023
We are embarking on a collaborative project between Music, the Sports, Exercise, and Health Science Research Group, and the Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland (MTBCOS) in a project encouraging people to be active and creative, with targeted benefits t... Read More about Mountain Biking Data Sonification.

Improvisation Technologies and Creative Machines: The Performer-Instrument Relational Milieu Jun 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2023
This practice-led, artistic research study traces theoretical and practical understandings that explore the technicity and performance-practice of musical improvisation and builds upon the lead’s prior research on the fields of free improvisation, co... Read More about Improvisation Technologies and Creative Machines: The Performer-Instrument Relational Milieu.

The Sound Beneath Our Feet Jun 1, 2022 - Dec 31, 2022
This project will develop an immersive audio installation in which to experience sonified seismic data from volcanic activity. The environment will foster new ways of experiencing data from both scientific and artistic points of views, cutting across... Read More about The Sound Beneath Our Feet.

Sounding the chapel: performances of a new site-specific composition for Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut Nov 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2023
Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most significant buildings of the 20th century. Invited to present my work in the space, a privilege granted few, this research will see the... Read More about Sounding the chapel: performances of a new site-specific composition for Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut.