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Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2019, December). Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at This Woman's Work: A Kate Bush Symposium, Edinburgh College of Art

I’m a big fan of Kate Bush’s music but my priority in this paper is not to praise her many achievements. Instead, I want to look at how she was using music technologies in the 1980s and, more specifically, her relationship with the Fairlight Computer... Read More about Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI.

Networked Improvisation: Playing for Peace (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Moir, Z., & Ferguson, P. Networked Improvisation: Playing for Peace. [Real-Time Networked Improvised Performance]. Performed at New York. 10 November 2019 - 10 November 2019

This was a multi-site (Edinburgh, New York, California, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany) networked real-time improvised performance in response to music that was being broadcast from the Edinburgh Napier Armistice Concert.

Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Ferguson, P. (2019, November). Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace. Paper presented at NowNet Arts, New York

This presentation will comprise three related sections, outlining recent and imminent projects. We will begin by discussing work that the authors have recently undertaken in which communication technologies and commercially available audio software w... Read More about Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace.

Eudaimonia And Social Good Through Technologically Mediated, Collaborative Music-Making (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Smith, G. D. (2019, November). Eudaimonia And Social Good Through Technologically Mediated, Collaborative Music-Making. Paper presented at NowNet Arts, New York

Humans often tend towards working in groups of various kinds. Following childhood and the family unit we seek those groups in mutual interest groups and activities. One of the fundamental ways that people make profound meaning is through creating mus... Read More about Eudaimonia And Social Good Through Technologically Mediated, Collaborative Music-Making.

Haftor Medbøe Scandinavian Group: live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013 (2019)
Digital Artefact
Medboe, H. (2019). Haftor Medbøe Scandinavian Group: live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013. [Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album]

Musicians:

Haftor Medbøe: Guitar
Gunnar Halle: Trumpet
Espen Eriksen: Piano
Eva Malling: Bass
Benita Haastrup: Drums
Konrad Wiszniewski: Tenor sax on "New Happy"

Recorded live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
Captured, mixed and mastere... Read More about Haftor Medbøe Scandinavian Group: live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013.

Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world (2019)
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2019). Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world. In T. Howell (Ed.), The Nature of Nordic Music (123-138). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315462851

Jazz has been a global music since its inception. In conflating Scandinavian jazz with the production of the ‘Nordic tone’, several accounts of European jazz present the music as a refreshing alternative to a corrupt and stagnant American tradition,... Read More about Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world.

Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies (2019)
Book
Harkins, P. (2019). Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351209960

Digital Sampling is the first book about the design and use of sampling technologies that have shaped the sounds of popular music since the 1980s.

Written in two parts, Digital Sampling begins with an exploration of the Fairlight CMI and how artis... Read More about Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies.

The Absent Presence of Progressive Rock in the British Music Press, 1968-1974 (2019)
Journal Article
Anderton, C., & Atton, C. (2020). The Absent Presence of Progressive Rock in the British Music Press, 1968-1974. Rock Music Studies, 7(1), 8-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/19401159.2019.1651521

The upsurge of academic interest in the genre known as progressive rock has taken much for granted. In particular, little account has been taken of how discourses surrounding progressive rock were deployed in popular culture in the past, especially... Read More about The Absent Presence of Progressive Rock in the British Music Press, 1968-1974.

Will of the People (2019)
Digital Artefact
Medboe, H. (2019). Will of the People

Will Of The People features four furious live improvisations by Haftor Medbøe (guitar and effects), Pete Furniss (clarinet and electronics) and Tom Bancroft (drums and percussion). The set was recorded live at the Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh in May... Read More about Will of the People.

Building on Intent – a Framework for Developing Vocal Musicianship (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stefanie, R. (2019, June). Building on Intent – a Framework for Developing Vocal Musicianship. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education Annual Conference, New York, USA

Voice can be an awkward instrument to teach. The research of pioneers such as MeriBeth Bunch, Ingo Titze, and Jo Estill has provided us with illuminating scientific insight in to the mechanics of vocal production. The science helps us understand what... Read More about Building on Intent – a Framework for Developing Vocal Musicianship.

Music From the Mundane (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2019, June). Music From the Mundane. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education Annual Conference 2019, New York University

Responding, Reframing, and Revising – Utilising Improvisation Principles in Critique and Problem Solving (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stefanie, R. (2019, June). Responding, Reframing, and Revising – Utilising Improvisation Principles in Critique and Problem Solving. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education Annual Conference, New York, USA

In comedic and dramatic performance improvisation is underpinned by the principle “yes… and”. The goal of an improviser is to accept and respond to an idea then adapt and develop a scene. To make the narrative work and performers look good an improvi... Read More about Responding, Reframing, and Revising – Utilising Improvisation Principles in Critique and Problem Solving.

Student Perceptions of Learning Drum Kit Technologies (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stillie, B. (2019, June). Student Perceptions of Learning Drum Kit Technologies. Paper presented at The Association of Popular Music Education World Conference, New York, US

Drum kit technologies such as sample pads, triggers and percussion controllers are now a common addition to the acoustic drum kit setups used by many drummers. However, traditional drum kit pedagogy, which is firmly rooted in developing confidence in... Read More about Student Perceptions of Learning Drum Kit Technologies.

Developing an HE Aligned Music Curriculum (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2019, June). Developing an HE Aligned Music Curriculum. Presented at Association for Popular Music Education Annual Conference 2019, New York University

Abstract not available.

International Online Collaborative Music Making (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., Stillie, B., & Krikun, A. (2019, June). International Online Collaborative Music Making. Paper presented at Association for Popular Music Education Annual Conference 2019, New York University

Abstract not available.

Challenging authenticity: fakes and forgeries in rock music (2019)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2019). Challenging authenticity: fakes and forgeries in rock music. Popular Music, 38(2), 204-218. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143019000084

Authenticity is a key concept in the evaluation of rock music by critics and fans. The production of fakes challenges the means by which listeners evaluate the authentic, by questioning central notions of integrity and sincerity. This paper examine... Read More about Challenging authenticity: fakes and forgeries in rock music.