Research
Centre for Musical Research
The Centre for Musical Research, led by Dr James Saunders, brings together the work of our staff and postgraduate students to create a supportive environment for the development of research within the Department. It organises a series of research fora and performance events, drawing on work undertaken by its participants, and external practitioners. It co-ordinates research activity within the Department, from individual work to large scale projects. In the recent Research Assessment Exercise, 80% of the work submitted in Music was recognised internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour, with 10% judged as being world-leading.
For more information about individual staff and PhD student research specialisms, please follow the links below.
Staff
Joe Bennett [songwriting]
Professor Roger Heaton [performance; performance practice; contemporary music]
Dr Joseph Hyde [composition; digital arts; multimedia performance; installations]
Dr Andy Keep [composition; electronic music; improvisation; feedback]
Dr. John Lely [composition; experimental music]
Jan Meinema [interactive audio environments; perception and cognition of sound; sonic spaces and philosophy]
Davey Ray Moore [semiotics; songwriting]
Dr. James Saunders [composition; experimental music; notation; modularity]
Dr. Matthew Spring [early music; the lute; music in Bath]
Andy West [pedagogy of songwriting]
Dr. Charles Wiffen [transcription, arrangement and appropriation; performance; music of the early twentieth century; film music]
PhD Students
Stephen Callear: The exploration of techniques for the perceptual interconnection of aural and visual elements within non-linear multimedia composition
Peter Green: A quantum-organic-cosmological composition model as expressed by the assimilation of particular musical data streams
Owen Lloyd: Towards a model for an installed composition, focussing on the narrative relationships at play in interactive sonification.
Stan Wijnans: The Moving Body as a Realtime Spatial Sound Generating System, Defining the Data Interpreting Methodology (DIM)
Next related events:
Music Research Forum
Thu 11th Mar 2010, 4:30pm
Spartacus @ Moles
Sun 14th Mar 2010, 8:00pm
Year 3 Commercial Music business projects...