Browsing by Subject "composition"
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Antarctica
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The Cape Jeremy Affair
(Musical Score)The Cape Jeremy Affair is an experimental music theatre composition for 2 musicians and 2 laptop computers. It is created from a text: a 1969 sledge report from the British Antarctic Survey that described an arduous, and ... -
Compose Your Words
(Book)This is an introductory short eBook offering people the experience to discover the potential of making music with words and other vocal sounds. It was commissioned by the US publisher, Intelligent Arts and is distributed ... -
Composing with Sounds: Designing an Object-Oriented DAW for the Teaching of Sound-Based Composition
(Conference)This paper presents and discusses the ComposeWith Sounds (CwS) Digital AudioWorkstation (DAW) and its approach to sequencing musical materials. The system is designed to facilitate the composition within the realm of ... -
Exploring compositional relationships between acousmatic music and electronica
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This research explores the compositional relationships between acousmatic music and electronica in order to offer a way of unifying the two musical forms. The original contribution to knowledge comes from the creation of ... -
False Start
(Musical Score)http://composersedition.com/composers/craigvear/ce-cv1fs1 The title of this piece is borrowed from a Jasper Johns painting from 1959. Johns' works have been a point of inspiration for many decades, due to his abstraction ... -
'Fragile' Soundtrack
(Musical Score)Motionhouse launched its newly commissioned large-scale outdoor show Fragile in Glasgow on 25 & 26 July to be seen again on 29 & 30 August in Canterbury ay bOing! Festival. This family-friendly outdoor show is a dramatic ... -
Imaginary Workscapes: Creative Practice and Research through Electroacoustic Composition
(Book chapter)Compositional activity in electroacoustic music is central to the research culture of that field. Electroacoustic tools for sound manipulation and transformation allow the creation of sound materials that present new ... -
Interactive Digital Technologies and the User Experience of Time and Place
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This research examines the relationship between the development of a portfolio of interactive digital techniques and compositions, and its impact on user experiences of time and place. It is designed to answer two research ... -
Interpreting Electroacoustic Audio-visual Music
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)The basis of this research project stems from reflections upon the process of composition for electroacoustic audio-visual music. These are fixed media works in which sound and image materials are accessed, generated, ... -
Making Photographs: Planning, Developing and Creating Original Photography
(Book)Highlighting the distinction between making, rather than taking photographs, Making Photographs introduces a structured way of developing creative solutions to the work you want to make, fusing personal ideas with knowledge, ... -
On a Balcony
(Musical Score)This composition is inspired by my personal experience of sitting on a balcony in Antarctica, overlooking the frozen George VI sound which lies in-between Alexander Island and Palmer Land. This was an extraordinary place, ... -
Pianolith
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Quadlibet
(Musical Score)Composition for 4, 8 or 12 performers for voice + live electronics (prose score) -
Rare-earth substituted HfO2 thin films grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition.
(Article)Thin films of HfGdOx and HfDyOx were deposited by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) utilizing guanidinate precursors for Hf, Gd and Dy. The close match in the thermal properties of the precursors enabled the ... -
Summerhouses
(Musical Score)The collection of compositions in 'Summerhouses' explores the microsound worlds within found sound. These compositions were created during my fellowship with the Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences at the University ... -
Three Last Letters
(Musical Score)Three Last Letters is a music composition that imagines the last moments in the minds of Scott, Wilson and Bowers before they die in a tent, alone on an Antarctic Ice Shelf in 1912. It was created using facts and suppositions ... -
The Unchanging Sea
(Musical Score)The inspiration for this composition comes from two sources, D.W. Griffiths' film 'The Unchanging Sea' (1910), and it's inspiration, Charles Kingsley's poem, 'The Three Fishers', used here as libretto. The central theme ...