The Centre for Musical Research, brings together the work of our staff and postgraduate students to create a supportive environment for the development of research within the Department of Music. It organises a series of research fora and performance events, drawing on work undertaken by its members, and visiting researchers and 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.
The Centre for Musical Research is based at the Newton Park campus, as well as Corsham Court, BSU’s Centre for Research and Postgraduate Study.
For more information about individual staff and PhD student research specialisms, please follow the links below.
Staff
Nick Atkinson [composition]
Joe Bennett [songwriting]
Jim Dickinson [songwriting]
Professor Roger Heaton [performance; performance practice; contemporary music]
Professor Joseph Hyde [composition; digital arts; multimedia performance; installations]
Dr Andy Keep [composition; electronic music; improvisation; feedback]
Jan Meinema [interactive audio environments; perception and cognition of sound; sonic spaces and philosophy]
Davey Ray Moore [semiotics; songwriting]
Richard J. Parfitt [songwriting]
Professor James Saunders (Head of CMR) [composition; experimental music; notation; modularity]
Dr. Matthew Spring [early music; the lute; music in Bath]
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.
Ralf Dorrell: Beyond Chord Symbols: an exploration of alternative ways of integrating the improvising soloist into notated big band jazz compositions.
Owen Lloyd: Telling stories with an installed composition: exploring the tension between ʻtruthʼ and subjective expression through compositional methodologies.
Oogoo Maia: Compositional and performative approaches to indeterminate scores in experimental music theatre and multimedia events.
Amy Mallett: Models of compositional approach for contemporary musical theatre: A practice-led study of the constraints faced by the composer-collaborator and how these shape the musical product.
Jon Pigott: Electro-Mechanical Sound Design and Composition.
Alexis Porfiriadis: Towards a collective/participatory approach to composition and performance: applications of collective improvisation and verbal/graphic notation in composition for music ensembles.
