Projects (14)

A Giant on the Bridge Apr 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2025
‘A Giant on the Bridge’: live narrative gig, writing, rehearsals and performance.
Creative practice-led research project.

Homework: Music Collaboration in Domestic Spaces Sep 2, 2024 - Oct 31, 2025
MUSCIDS is an interdisciplinary research project that investigates collaborative music making in the digital age. Our aim is to better understand changing ecologies of music production in the domestic and digital spaces of musicians in four European... Read More about Homework: Music Collaboration in Domestic Spaces.

The Hip-Hop Studies Listener Dec 1, 2023 - Feb 28, 2025
A collection – a published compendium of writings in song format.

Taking Rap Academics (Hook, 2022) (https://www.solareye.co.uk/rapacademics) as a starting point, this project involves creating a collection of songs from artist/ scholar/ activist... Read More about The Hip-Hop Studies Listener.

Mountain Biking and Music from Data Jul 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2024
1. We will, by working with a range of people with varying experience, explore how an interdisciplinary approach to sports and the arts can encourage engagement in both areas. We will look at ways in which
we can encourage integrated engagement in a... Read More about Mountain Biking and Music from Data.

Audio Mostly 2023 Nov 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2023
This project's aim is to host the Audio Mostly conference 2023 here at Edinburgh Napier University (https://audiomostly.com/).

Conference Theme:
Embodied Sound in the Virtual

Conference Abstract:
Sound design can play a crucial role in suppo... Read More about Audio Mostly 2023.

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.

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.

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.

Music and Communication for Mothers and Young Children in Prison Dec 6, 2021 - Dec 6, 2022
The objectives of the research workshops for the project, ‘Music and Communication for Mothers and Young Children in Prison’ are threefold;

1) to investigate current music practice in prisons between mothers and their young children that is not a... Read More about Music and Communication for Mothers and Young Children in Prison.

Dynamic Range: Immersive Screenwriting for Sound Feb 1, 2022 - Nov 30, 2022
This is a successful bid for a Small Research Grant with Creative Informatics at Edinburgh Napier and Edinburgh University. The proposal is to explore the dramatic potential of Augmented Reality and Dolby Atmos sound in the context of high end TV dr... Read More about Dynamic Range: Immersive Screenwriting for Sound.

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.

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.

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.

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.