Leicester Media School
Recent Submissions
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To The Red Sky
(Recording, musical)Sir Thomas Armstrong, a former principal of the Royal Academy of Music and a veteran of the First World War, once stated that there is a falsity about the reporting of all battle scenes. In the face of the most shatteringly ... -
Listening Back and Shaping Form
(Conference)This paper discusses the use of recorded audio testimonies as agents of meaning through electroacoustic music. The paper departs from the notion that sound recording is a significant act in itself, and that a recorded voice ... -
The Metaphysics of Mass Art Vol. I and II
(Book)This double volume forms a detailed analysis of what the author has termed cultural ontology. In volume one interpretations of Mexico are examined, from the 16 century to contemporary culture. This includes exploration of ... -
Saints
(Book chapter)Economics is the nexus and engine that runs society, affecting societal well-being, raising standards of living when economies prosper or lowering citizens through class structures when economies perform poorly. This edition ... -
The Media and the Normalisation of Right-Wing Violence in the Age of Brexit and Trump
(Book chapter)This chapter examines the media and the normalisation of far-right violence following President Trump's rise to power, along with the UK's vote to leave the European Union in 2016. Right-wing movements allied to modernity ... -
Once He Was a Gunner
(Recording, musical)Notes accompanying the premier broadcast (Radio New Zealand Concert, 3 October 2020): Once He Was a Gunner is an electroacoustic documentary work based on the Second World War memories of the composer’s father, Alex ... -
Marathi Cinema Meets Italian Neorealism - Beyond A Love Affair
(Article)This article observes how New Marathi cinema meets the language of Italian Neorealism and uses film festivals as forms of archival research methods. -
The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster
(Book)Co-edited book of essays on Steven Spielberg's film Jaws (1975). -
Translating Performance: desire, intention and interpretation in photographic documents
(Book chapter)Since the 1990s, weight has been given to the reception of the photographic document and the phenomenological experience of observing such an artefact.1 Debates about documenting performance have focused on the document’s ... -
Drag publique: the spectacle of queerness, queer placelessness and the emaciated spectator
(Book chapter)Muñoz (1999: 25) recognizes that there is power in demonstrating the spectacle of queerness in that its performance makes the performer a ‘disidentificatory non-citizen’, and this can transform works and situations, with ... -
Repetition, Recitation and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo: Miss Vanjie and the Culture-Producing Power of Performative Speech in RuPaul's Drag Race
(Book chapter)Can I get an amen? Not today, Satan. Because I have had it— officially! Having been seen on screen for over a decade, RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) has amassed an encyclopedia of catchphrases that have become adapted and ... -
Performing Audiences: Composition Strategies for Network Music using Mobile Phones
(Conference)With the development of web audio standards, it has quickly become technically easy to develop and deploy software for inviting audiences to participate in musical performances using their mobile phones. Thus, a new ... -
Men Cry too - Masculinity and the feminization of lovers’ rock
(Book chapter)This chapter explores lovers’ rock and the ambiguities that exist around the gendered and sexual politics of the genre. It considers how lovers’ rock has become 'feminized' as ‘female’ reggae music. While black female ... -
Hildegard Westerkamp's 'Beneath the Forest Floor' (1992)
(Book chapter)An analytical discussion of Hildegard Westerkamp's 'Beneath the Forest Floor' using three 'voices': the analyst, the composer and other specialists. -
Producing Diversity in BBC Radio
(Article)The voices of minority ethnic staff working in radio are very rarely heard. In fact, the UK radio industry has been singled out, by the government approved regulatory body, as continuing to fail to reflect the diversity ... -
The BBC Asian Network, the search for younger digital listeners in Ethnic Media in the Digital Age
(Book chapter)In response to the increase of Asian radio in the U.K., the BBC’s only minority specific service The BBC Asian Network, a digital radio station, embraced a stronger social media policy to attract new audiences. The service ... -
Human-Centred and Creative AI in Performative Robots
(Working Paper)This chapter discusses two performative robot projects that share a core ethos about the nature of human- centred and creative AI: Embodied Robots for Music (2018 – present) by Craig Vear and Amigóide (2010 – present) by ... -
Seven Pleasures of Pris (2019) Improvising Ai robot duo with Multi-Layered Perceptron Neural Nets
(Working Paper)Seven Pleasures of Pris (2019) was an album project created by two performing robots embedded with a substrate AI architecture fed by the embodied music dataset discussed in Vear 2018. The two robots were programmed to ... -
False Start (2020/ 2015) - Digital score for amplified ensemble (2-5 players) and networked laptops
(Software)for amplified ensemble (2-5 players) and networked laptops 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 ... -
Designing and Building a 1st stage dataset for embodied music-making (musicking).
(Working Paper)The aim of this research project was to design and develop a dataset that captured embodied music-making (hereafter musicking (Small 1989)) for use in human-computer interaction between AI and human musicians. The proposed ...
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