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When Is A Drummer Not A Drummer? Developing Coordination , Musicianship And Creativity Through Electronic Drum Performance (2019)
Book Chapter
Stillie, B. (2019). When Is A Drummer Not A Drummer? Developing Coordination , Musicianship And Creativity Through Electronic Drum Performance. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. Dylan Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education Perspectives and Practices (189-201). Bloomsbury Publishing

Many drummers now embrace technology to enhance and extend their setup, and what they can offer their band. Thus, it is important that drum kit education addresses this phenomenon and explores how to use these technologies creatively. However, tradit... Read More about When Is A Drummer Not A Drummer? Developing Coordination , Musicianship And Creativity Through Electronic Drum Performance.

Live Improvisation Over Network (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Moir, Z., & Ferguson, P. Live Improvisation Over Network. 2 April 2019 - 4 April 2019. (Unpublished)

No abstract available.

Can Music be Digitised? Samplers, Democratisation, and 'the Digital Age' (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2018, December). Can Music be Digitised? Samplers, Democratisation, and 'the Digital Age'. Paper presented at Music, Digitalisation, and Democracy

Rather than an abrupt or revolutionary shift from analogue to digital, I will argue in this paper that the use of digital technologies such as samplers have been part of a more gradual process of socio-musical change. As well as examining the argumen... Read More about Can Music be Digitised? Samplers, Democratisation, and 'the Digital Age'.

The Dancing-Master's Toolkit: a Summary of the Pochette of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and its Role in Society (2017)
Journal Article
Durkin, R. (2017). The Dancing-Master's Toolkit: a Summary of the Pochette of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and its Role in Society. The Galpin Society journal, LXX, 65-79

The pochette or kit of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries survives in surprisingly large numbers in both specialist and general collections, and displays a variety of forms and designs, ranging from the plain and simple, to the rather exotic an... Read More about The Dancing-Master's Toolkit: a Summary of the Pochette of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and its Role in Society.

Blake Schwarzenbach and the anxieties of American punk rock: 1991–present (2016)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2016). Blake Schwarzenbach and the anxieties of American punk rock: 1991–present. Punk and Post Punk, 5(3), 295-310. https://doi.org/10.1386/punk.5.3.295_1

This article argues that Blake Schwarzenbach was a pivotal figure in the evolution of American punk from the early 1990s. Schwarzenbach’s journey as a punk figure has exemplified some of the interconnected ‘anxieties’ of this period relating to punk... Read More about Blake Schwarzenbach and the anxieties of American punk rock: 1991–present.

Distant Voices (2016)
Other
Dempster, K. (2016). Distant Voices. [Musical Score]. Edinburgh, UK

Distant Voices - A unique multi-disciplinary performance, in which live musicians in Edinburgh connect, via video-link technology, with dancers on stage in Liverpool and Florida. This telematic creative research project explored the efficacy of VisiM... Read More about Distant Voices.

for three (2015)
Other
Hails, J. (2015). for three. [Musical score]. Print manuscript in possession of composer

Musical work (duration 41') for three unspecified melodic sustaining instruments. Work employs specific tuning related to just intervals.

for Mies (2015)
Other
Burton, K. (2015). for Mies. Chicago, USA

A work for solo cello commissioned by Access Contemporary Music and the Chicago Architecture Foundation. The composition explores the relationship between music and the architecture of German modernist, Mies van der Rohe.

The premiere performance... Read More about for Mies.

What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (2014, April). What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences?. Paper presented at Studying Music: An International Conference in Honour of Simon Frith, University of Edinburgh

The sociology of popular music has tended to eschew conventional musicological approaches and instead to locate the listening experience as one rooted in social uses and pleasures. Where musicological analysis is employed, it tends to reinforce the... Read More about What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences?.

The Hold (2014)
Other
Dempster, K. (2014). The Hold. [Musical Score]. Edinburgh, UK

The Hold – a site-specific, promenade performance, staged at the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, the result of a collaboration between Lung Ha’s Theatre Company and National Museums Scotland. The play is by Anglo-Canadian wri... Read More about The Hold.

Cultures of Listening: The popular aesthetics of 'difficult music'. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (2013, October). Cultures of Listening: The popular aesthetics of 'difficult music'

Difficulty and complexity are values most often associated with a modernist avant-garde of ‘serious’ music. Their presence in popular music tends to attract the opprobrium of critics who seek to maintain a purity for popular music founded on values... Read More about Cultures of Listening: The popular aesthetics of 'difficult music'..

Da capo: A musical technique to evoke narrative recall (2013)
Journal Article
Pilcher, N., Cortazzi, M., & Jin, L. (2014). Da capo: A musical technique to evoke narrative recall. Psychology of Music, 42(4), 483-502. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735613480257

This article proposes the use of recorded music chosen by researchers to elicit participant accounts of life experiences, a technique we name ‘da capo recall.’ Fifteen mainland Chinese students who had studied in the UK were played seven contrasting... Read More about Da capo: A musical technique to evoke narrative recall.

Groovin’ High and Low: exploring the jazz vernacular. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Medbøe, H. (2013, April). Groovin’ High and Low: exploring the jazz vernacular. Paper presented at Rhythm Changes 2013

Debate over origin and authenticity aside, the musical language of jazz is today spoken and understood amongst a diversity of communities the world over. Standard repertoire, evolved formal structures, and aesthetic tenets provide a lingua franca sup... Read More about Groovin’ High and Low: exploring the jazz vernacular..

Sketching concatenative synthesis: audiovisual Isomorphism in reduced modes. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tsiros, A., LePlâtre, G., & Smyth, M. (2012). Sketching concatenative synthesis: audiovisual Isomorphism in reduced modes. In 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (409-507)

This paper presents a prototype allowing the control of a
concatenative synthesis algorithm using a 2D sketching
interface. The design of the system is underpinned by a
preliminary discussion in which isomorphisms between
auditory and visual phen... Read More about Sketching concatenative synthesis: audiovisual Isomorphism in reduced modes..

Contextual incongruity and musical congruity: the aesthetics and humour of mash-ups (2012)
Journal Article
Brøvig-Hanssen, R., & Harkins, P. (2012). Contextual incongruity and musical congruity: the aesthetics and humour of mash-ups. Popular Music, 31, 87-104. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114301100047X

The academic literature on mash-ups has been dominated by discussions about issues relating to
their illegal nature and infringement of copyright. We aim to appraise this musical style with a
socio-musicological approach to focus on its aesthetics.... Read More about Contextual incongruity and musical congruity: the aesthetics and humour of mash-ups.

Nordic Tone: Redrawing borders of culture and boundaries of style. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Medbøe, H. (2012, July). Nordic Tone: Redrawing borders of culture and boundaries of style. Paper presented at International Musicological Society

Historians and educators have traditionally presented the century long evolution of jazz in a linear, canonical fashion. Applications of this model are often limited to the music’s domestic evolution, paying scant heed to activities outside the USA.... Read More about Nordic Tone: Redrawing borders of culture and boundaries of style..

Poetry and symmetry as organizing forces in music (2012)
Thesis
Eccles, J. Poetry and symmetry as organizing forces in music. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5676

Aspects of poetry and symmetry are taken to represent the tension within the compositional process between spontaneous impulses and intuitive insights on the one hand, and more consciously imposed structure and organization on the other. These forces... Read More about Poetry and symmetry as organizing forces in music.