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Performing with Drum Kit Technologies (Advanced) (2020)
Book Chapter
Stillie, B. (2020). Performing with Drum Kit Technologies (Advanced). In A. P. bell (Ed.), The Music Technology Cookbook. Oxford University Press

This chapter describes an approach that introduces students to the features and musical affordances of drum kit technologies. Students learn how to use percussion controllers and electronic drum triggers, in conjunction with music software they have... Read More about Performing with Drum Kit Technologies (Advanced).

City Narratives in Music: Creating musical works that reflect urban realities relating to Valletta (2019)
Thesis
Vella Gregory, A. City Narratives in Music: Creating musical works that reflect urban realities relating to Valletta. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2090688

This dissertation presents a series of musical works built on city narratives, following a four-year-long research process into the city of Valletta, capital city of Malta. It looks at the city’s many narratives, including personal, communal, and his... Read More about City Narratives in Music: Creating musical works that reflect urban realities relating to Valletta.

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.

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.

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.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices (2019)
Book
Moir, Z., Powell, B., & Dylan Smith, G. (Eds.). (2019). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices. Bloomsbury Publishing

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education draws together the most current thinking on the subject of popular music education from practical, empirical, ethnographic, sociological and philosophical perspectives. Through a series of unique cha... Read More about The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices.

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.

How do I get the grades creativity and conflicts of motivation risk and reward. (2019)
Book Chapter
Stefanie, R. (2019). How do I get the grades creativity and conflicts of motivation risk and reward. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. D. Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices (395-413). Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter discusses the thought processes behind learning, teaching, and assessment (LTA) of creativity as a set of skills and processes. I utilize the work I have done in designing and delivering a module (course) that specifically tackles creati... Read More about How do I get the grades creativity and conflicts of motivation risk and reward..

Live Improvisation Over Network (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Moir, Z., & Ferguson, P. Live Improvisation Over Network. Performed at Network Performing Arts Production Workshop. 2 April 2019 - 4 April 2019

No abstract available.

Live Improvised Performance Over Networks. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Ferguson, P. (2019, April). Live Improvised Performance Over Networks. Presented at Network Performing Arts Production Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic

No abstract available.

Real Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundaries (2019)
Book Chapter
Moir, Z., Ferguson, P., & Smith, G. D. (2019). Real Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundaries. In Producing Music. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212241

Inhabitants of the 21st century live and work in a world in which many aspects of daily interactions with other humans are no longer hampered by physical distance. Indeed, scholars and practitioners in fields such as music and communications are find... Read More about Real Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundaries.

Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2019 (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Brechin, S., & Currie, J. Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2019. Performed at Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh. 31 December 2018 - 31 December 2018

Experience the best of Scotland at the Ceilidh under the Castle. Whirl or jig, fling or be flung under Edinburgh Castle. Join hands with old friends and new to dance in the New Year with a full ceilidh band and plenty of local food and drink to keep... Read More about Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2019.

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, Abo Akademi University, Turku

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'.

Rip It Up: A blueprint for collaborative partnership (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stillie, B. (2018, October). Rip It Up: A blueprint for collaborative partnership. Paper presented at School of Arts and Creative Industries 20x20, Edinburgh Napier University

Rip It Up: The story of Scottish Pop Music is a feature exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. This presentation charts the involvement of students from the School of Creative Industries in developing the "fan stories" film, marketing plans,... Read More about Rip It Up: A blueprint for collaborative partnership.

Developing a Notation Standard for Hybrid Drum Kit and Percussion Controllers (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stillie, B. (2018, October). Developing a Notation Standard for Hybrid Drum Kit and Percussion Controllers. Poster presented at School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Conference, Edinburgh Napier University

Since the late 1970s drummers have had the option to integrate drum kit technologies into their performance setup. Although we have had these technologies for over 40 years, there still remains no standard way of notating performances for either hybr... Read More about Developing a Notation Standard for Hybrid Drum Kit and Percussion Controllers.

Following the Distributors: Syco Systems and the Selling of Musical Instruments. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2018, September). Following the Distributors: Syco Systems and the Selling of Musical Instruments. Paper presented at Art of Record Production (ARP)/International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) UK & Ireland Branch Conference, University of Huddersfield, UK

Since the 1980s and 1990s, scholars in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and, more specifically, those adopting the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approach have been investigating ‘the user-technology nexus’. This continued a shift in th... Read More about Following the Distributors: Syco Systems and the Selling of Musical Instruments..

Edinburgh Festival Fringe - The Sandy Brechin Band (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Brechin, S., & Currie, J. Edinburgh Festival Fringe - The Sandy Brechin Band. Performed at Merchants Hall, Edinburgh. 4 August 2018 - 4 August 2018

The wild man of Scottish accordion is back with his tip-top tunes, frighteningly fast fingering and hilarious hi-jinks and humour, accompanied by his groovin' five-piece band. It's folk music, Jim, but not as we know it! Sandy is one of Scotland's be... Read More about Edinburgh Festival Fringe - The Sandy Brechin Band.