The international standing of research in Music at Huddersfield has been recognised by the 2008 RAE. 95% of the submission was recognised as of international standing with 20% classified as ‘world leading’. Once again, Huddersfield came out on top as the best department in a new university for Music research. This result reflects both the excellent quality and originality of research produced by staff and researchers at Huddersfield and the vibrant research culture of the department.
In 2008-09 Dr Mathew Adkins, Dr Aaron Cassidy, Prof Michael Clarke, Dr Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Dr Rupert Till and Dr Philip Thomas were successful in securing funding from the British Academy, AHRC and EPSRC to further their practice-led research.
Other substantial funding has also been received from a variety of arts bodies in the form of commissions and grants to staff for their compositional and research activities, including:
Dr Aaron Cassidy (2010 Donaueschinger Musiktage; ELISION Ensemble).
Dr Bryn Harrison (2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival; London Sinfonietta)
Prof Liza Lim (2010 Donaueschinger Musiktage; 2010 Bavarian Radio Orchestra; 2010 International Trumpet Guild; 2011 Holland Festival)
Dr Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (Canada Council for the Arts, GRM, Miso Music, Musique et Recherche)
Recent (2008-09) and forthcoming publications
Further information about individual staff research outputs can also be found listed in the University of Huddersfield repository
Books
Thomas, Philip and Chase, Steven. Eds. (2009) Changing the System: the music of Christian Wolff (Ashgate Publications, forthcoming) including: For Pianist: the solo piano music of Christian Wolf and Playing the Game?: five reflections on performing Christian Wolff’s music.
Till, Rupert (2010) Pop Cults: Religion and Popular Music, Continuum, (forthcoming, April 2010).
Book Chapters
Cassidy, Aaron (2008) Determinate Action/Indeterminate Sound Tablature and Chance in Several Recent Works. In: Facets of the Second Modernity. New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century, 6 . Wolke Verlag, Hofheim, pp. 17-32. ISBN 978-3-936000-17-7
Cox, Geoffrey and Marley, Keith (2008) Looking and listening. In: CineMusic? Constructing the Film Score. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, pp. 51-68. ISBN 9781847185938
Harrison, Bryn (2009) Interview, In: Saunders, James, ed. The Ashgate Companion to Experimental Music, Surrey, Ashgate, pp.282-292.
Lim, Liza (2008) Liza Lim. In: Ford, Andrew. Talking to Kinky and Karlheinz. ABC Books, Sydney, Australia. ISBN 9780733320088
Thomas, Philip (2009) A Prescription for Action in J. Saunders (ed.) The Ashgate Companion to Experimental Music, Aldershot. pp.77-98.
Till, Rupert (2009) Possession Trance Ritual in Electronic Dance Music Culture: A Popular Ritual Technology for Reenchantment, Addressing the Crisis of the Homeless Self, and Reinserting the Individual into the Community. In: Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 169-188. ISBN 978-0-7546-6527-4
Till, Rupert (2009) Songs of The Stones: An Archaeoacoustic Methodology for the Study of Stonehenge In: Colour and the Sounds of Stonehenge, ed. Stephen Banfield, University of Bristol Press, Bristol, (forthcoming 2009).
Till, Rupert (2008) Popular Music as Religion: from trance dancing to worshipping popular music icons In: Faith is. Searching for Faith and Religion/Es Glaubt. Suchen nach Glauben und Religion, eds. Niederberger, Lukas and Müller, Lars, Springer, Switzerland.
Journal Articles
Adkins, Mathew (2009) The application of memetic analysis to electroacoustic music. Sonic Ideas, 1 (2). (In Press)
Adkins, Mathew (2008) Towards ‘a beautiful land’: Compositional strategies and influences in Five Panels (no.5). Sonic Ideas, 1 (1). pp. 12-19. (In Press)
Adkins, Mathew (2008) Towards ‘a beautiful land’: Compositional strategies and influences in Five Panels (no.1). In: 2nd SpACE-Net Spatial Audio Workshop, 23 January 2008, Music Research Centre, University of York.
Clarke, J.M. and Manning, Peter (2008) The influence of technology on the composition of Stockhausen’s Octophonie, with particular reference to the issues of spatialisation in a three-dimensional listening environment. Organised Sound, 13 (3). pp. 177-187. ISSN 13557718
Clarke, J.M. and Manning, Peter (2008) Editorial. Organised Sound, 13 (3). pp. 165-166. ISSN 13557718
Cox, Geoffrey and Marley, Keith (2008) Looking and listening. In: Sounding Out 4, pp. 4-6 September 2008, University of Sunderland.
Cox, Geoffrey and Marley, Keith (2008) Cider Makers: an exploration of the relationship between sound and image within documentary filmmaking. In: Negotiating the Mediascape: Theory and Practice Interchange in Contemporary Media, 2 May 2008, Canterbury Christ Church University.
Lim, Liza (2009), Staging an Aesthetics of Presence. In: SEARCH Journal, Issue 6, Fall 2009.
Till, Rupert (2010), Songs of the Stones: an investigation into the musical history and culture of Stonehenge, In:International Association for the Study of Popular Music Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1, (forthcoming 2010).
Wilson-Bokowiec, J. & Bokowiec. M (2009) Sense and Sensation: the act of mediation and its effects, In: Intermedialities: history and theory of the arts, literature and techniques, Number 12 (Fall), CRI, Universite du Montreal, Canada.
Conference Proceedings
Adkins, Mathew (2008) Towards a beautiful land: the influence of Mark Rothko on five panels no.5. In: Proceedings of the 2008 International Computer Music Conference. ICMA and SARC., Belfast, pp. 368-371. ISBN 0-9713192-6-X
Adkins, Mathew (2008) The application of memetic analysis to electroacoustic music. In: 5th Conference ‘EMS08’, 3-7 June 2008, University of the Sorbonne, Paris.
Bayley, Amanda and Clarke, J.M. (2008) Interactive strategies for analysing musical structure. In: Fourth Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, 2-6 July 2008, Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre and McLaughlin, Scott (2009) Thinking Inside the Box: A New Integrated Approach to Mixed Music Composition and Performance. In: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2009), Montréal, Canada, August 16-21, 2009. International Computer Music Association, pp. 379-386.
Hewitt, S. and Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre (2008) Sound Communication: A Standard Syntax for Inter-Application, Inter-Device And Inter-Player Communication Over OSC. In: International Computer Music Conference ‘08, 24-29 August 2008, Belfast.
Scores
Cassidy, Aaron (2009) Being itself a catastrophe, the diagram must not create a catastrophe (or, Third Study for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion). Augenmusik.
Cassidy, Aaron (2008) Second Study for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion. Augenmusik.
Cassidy, Aaron (2008) What then renders these forces visible is a strange smile (or, First Study for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion). Augenmusik.
Harrison, Bryn (2009) Surface Forms (repeating), 10’, BMIC London.
Harrison, Bryn (2008) Repetitions in Extended Time, 43’, BMIC London.
Harrison, Bryn (2008) to be (an ever opening flower), 3’, BMIC London.
Harrison, Bryn (2008) Five Miniatures in Three Parts, 5’, BMIC
Harrison, Bryn (2008) an oblique, 3’, BMIC [Written for the NMC Songbook CD]
Harrison, Bryn (2008) Gently Rising, 4’, BMIC London.
Lim, Liza (2010) Ehwaz (journeying), 15′, Ricordi Munich, in press.
Lim, Liza (2010) Pearl, Ochre, Hair String, 18′, Ricordi Munich, Sy. 4041.
Lim, Liza (2009) Invisibility, 13′, Ricordi Munich, Sy. 4042.
Lim, Liza (2009) The Four Seasons (after Cy Twombly). 30′, Ricordi London, RICL120.
Lim, Liza (2008) The Navigator. Opera, 90’, Ricordi London, RICL082.
Lim, Liza (2008) Sonorous Body. 12’, Ricordi London, RIC112.
Lim, Liza (2008) Well of Dreams. 5’, Ricordi London, RICL111.
Lim, Liza (2008) Ochred string. 12′, Ricordi London, RICL110.
Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre (2009) Quelques courtes contemplations: I. craquer une allumette dans le noir, puis regarder la flamme danser, 5’, self-published.
Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre (2009) Un clou, son marteau, et le béton, 20’, self-published.
Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre (2008) De passage, 11’, Punctum Publishing.
Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre (2008) Billows in a Ladle, 1’30”. self-published.
Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre (2008) Le tombeau des fondeurs, 16’, self-published.
CDs
Adkins, Monty (2009) Five Panels, Signature (Radio France)
Adkins, Monty (2008) [60] project, Empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0898
Harrison, Bryn (2008) an oblique, Lore Lixemberg (voice) and Jonathan Powell (piano), NMC Songbook
Lim, Liza (2009) Ochred String, on Music Viva Festival 2008, Neos 10926
Lim, Liza (2008) Weaver-of-fictions on Weaver of Fictions, Genevieve Lacey, recorder, ABC-Classics 4766439
Till, Rupert (2008) IPod and Nanotechnology composition for short film, Produced and Directed by Jeff Baggott and Richard Jones, in The ESPRC Nanotechnology Image Library, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, available at http://www.nanofolio.org/images/gallery05/video2.php,
Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre (2009) la rage, Empreintes DIGITALes, IMED0999
Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre, Constanzo, R (2009), Drum And Bass And The Horse You Rode In On,
Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre (2008) Heiko ou l’apparition du héros. Yolk Records, J2036.
Video
History channel TV documentary
Till, Rupert (2009), Stonehenge, Mystery Quest (series), The History Channel, Dir. Haewon Yom, History Channel 1 hour documentary on Rupert Till’s research into the acoustics of Stonehenge, (USA, autumn 2009).
Lim, Liza interviewed in Sehnsucht Berlin (The City Named Desire) (2009), a film about artists of the DAAD Residency programme in Berlin, DVD Dir. Peter Zach, ISBN:978-3-89848-967-6. http://www.absolutmedien.de/main.php?view=film&id=1348
Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre (2009) Le Cauchemar De L’horloger. [Video]
International Conference presentations
2009 New York City Electroacoustic Festival (Monty Adkins)
2009 ICMC Montreal (presentations by Monty Adkins, Michael Clarke, Mark Bokowiec, Julie Wilson-Bokowiec, Scott McLaughlin, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay)
2009 Ostrava New Music Days (Philip Thomas)
2009 MeCCSA Conference, National Media Museum (Geoffrey Cox)
2009 Study of Popular Music International Conference, Liverpool (Rupert Till)
2009 The Musical Body, London (Rupert Till)
2009 Lieux de Musique IV Paris (Liza Lim)
2008 Getty Research Institute LA (Philip Thomas)
2008 EMS ’08 Paris (Monty Adkins)
2008 Women in Music Conference London (Mary Bellamy)
2008 Fourth Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology Greece (Michael Clarke)
2008 ICMC Belfast (Monty Adkins, Michael Clarke, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay)
2008 NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) Genova, Italy (Mark Bokowiec, Julie Wilson-Bokowiec)
Composer Portrait Concerts and Major Festival performances
Monty Adkins (2008 Bourges International Festival, 2008 HCMF, International Electroacoustic Biennial Sao Paulo, IEMF St Cecilia Rome, IFEPA Serbia, Le Bruit et la Neige France, 2009 Jauna Muzika Vilnius, 2009 Tsonami Festival Buenos Aires)
Mary Bellamy (2010 ‘Out Hear’ Kings Place London)
Aaron Cassidy (ELISION Ensemble Australia, Brisbane and Melbourne July 2008, 2010 Donaueschinger Musiktage, 2010 ‘Out Hear’ Kings Place London)
Bryn Harrison (2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 2010 ‘Out Hear’ Kings Place London)
Liza Lim (2008 Maerzmusik Berlin, 2008 Brisbane Festival, 2008 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, 2009 Musica Nova Helsinki, 2009 Festival d’Automne à Paris, 2009 Hybrid-Arts Festival Berlin, 2009 Chekhov International Theatre Festival Moscow, 2010 Musica Viva Munich, 2010 Donaueschinger Musiktage, 2010 West Australian Symphony Orchestra season).
Philip Thomas (2008, 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 2008 ISCM Vilnius)
Invited research lectures
Dr Monty Adkins (Universities of York, Leeds, Newcastle, De Montford, SARC Belfast, City University New York, Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music, Institute of Sonology The Hague, KMH Stockholm)
Dr Mary Bellamy (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester)
Dr Aaron Cassidy (University of Sussex, University of Queensland)
Prof. Michael Clarke (details to come)
Dr Geoffrey Cox (Liverpool Hope University)
Dr Bryn Harrison (Goldsmiths University of London)
Prof. Liza Lim (Institute for Musical Research London, Royal College of Music, New York University (Steinhardt; Arts & Music; China House Research Centre), Manhattan School of Music, ‘Hybrid Arts’ Festival Berlin, RMIT-Spatial Information Architecture Lab Melbourne, National University of Singapore, Fondation Royaumont, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt)
Dr Philip Thomas (CalArts, Getty Research Institute LA, Dartmouth College USA)
Dr Rupert Till (University of St Andrews, Keele University, National Railway Museum York, Council for British Archaeology, Bristol University)
Dr Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (University of Leeds, CEGEP de St-Laurent, Montréal, Centre for Computer Music, Queen-Mary University London, London College of Communication)
Prof. Barrie Webb (University of Melbourne, Yonsei University Seoul)
Further information about performances and research activity can be found in News