Leicester Media School
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Terms of Endearment: The challenges of descriptive language in electroacoustic music
(Conference)Terms to identify tools, objects and structures are common to all human endeavour. They help us to connect ideas and to articulate purpose and meaning. Many explanatory terms, labels and forms of jargon have flourished for ... -
Editorial: Bringing New Music to New Audiences
(Article)This is the editorial for a themed issue of 'Organised Sound' focusing on: a) the conference from which the articles were taken, b) the Interfaces (Creative Europe) project within which the conference took place, and c) ... -
Star Products, Star Capital, Fan Markets: Examining 1940s British Film Stardom Through Fan Club Publications
(Article)This paper is part on an ongoing project that examines the development of British film stars and their fan club culture during the mid to late 1940s, through studio-sanctioned but fan or star-produced magazines for the ... -
The permanency of film festivals: Archiving the changing India
(Article)Time and space are two dimensions that define a film festival in relation to duration, and cultural, social, urban and political relations to the event. While the notion of space is well documented by the literature on ... -
Hollywood-on-Thames: The British productions of Warner Bros. – First National, 1931-1945
(Article)A few years after Warner Bros pioneered sound cinema, the company established a production base at Teddington in England to enable it, in the face of protectionist legislation, to maintain distribution in its most lucrative ... -
Absence and Presence: Top of the Pops and the demand for music videos in the 1960s
(Article)Whilst there is a surprising critical consensus underpinning the myth that British music video began in the mid-1970s with Queen’s video for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, few scholars have pursued Mundy’s (1999) lead in locating ... -
From rituals to magic: Interactive art and HCI of the past, present, and future
(Article)The connection between art and technology is much tighter than is commonly recognized. The emergence of aesthetic computing in the early 2000s has brought renewed focus on this relationship. In this article, we articulate ... -
Diversity, Inclusion, and Doctoral Study: challenges facing minority PhD students in the United Kingdom
(Article)The purpose of this article is to provide a platform to converse on barriers and challenges faced by three marginalised groups – women, black minority ethnic (BME) groups, and students living with a disability – throughout ... -
Gravities, trajectories and Postcards: the heard space in intermedial performance.
(Book chapter)As this is a short essay, I will get straight to the point. In doing so I expose that fact that I am audile , and believe that sound is a significant part of the audio-visual contract of live performance. Actually, I would ... -
Creative AI and Embodied Robots in Music – A Hybrid of Practice and Meaning
(Conference)The aim of this paper is to is to discuss and demonstrate my current practice-based research into creative Ai and embodied robotics in music. But, as is often the case, when writing this paper I became more aware that I ... -
Orbits
(Other)Orbits form the basis of the physical movement of objects throughout the universe, from stars and planets to electrons in an atom. Different forces are at work to create these orbits at different scales, but at all levels ... -
Punishment, legitimacy and taste: The role and limits of mainstream and social media in constructing attitudes towards community sanctions.
(Article)Although criminologists have studied public attitudes to community sanctions, and there has also been some attention to media representations of them, there has been no serious examination of the relationships between media ... -
Sociology of the media: towards an ideal journalistic practice
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Media and peace in the Middle East. The Role of Journalism in Israel-Palestine
(Book)In exploring the dynamics and narratives of peace in journalism, this book explains the media's impact on the transformation of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. It discusses the perspectives of peace activists ... -
Assemblance(s)
(Recording, musical)CD of acousmatic tape music compositions, 2010-2018. https://electrocd.com/en/album/5846/James_Andean/Assemblance 1) Déchirure (2013), 7:32 2) Hyvät matkustajat (2012, 14), 9:03 3) Valdrada (2018), 15:26 4) Psygeío ... -
Film Festivals as Cosmopolitan Assemblages: A Case Study in Diasporic Cocreation
(Book chapter)This chapter aims at discussing film festivals within the wider discourse of cosmopolitan studies and the growing proliferation and visibility of independent Indian films at film festivals in major cities in the UK, such ... -
Screening the World: Global Development of the Multiplex Cinema
(Book)This book charts the development of the multiplex cinema as the pre-eminent form of film exhibition across the world. Going from its origins in the USA in the 1960s to its expansion overseas from the mid-1980s across Europe, ... -
‘A Swirl of Red, White and Blue Flags and Chesty Swimmers with Their Chins Up’: Esther Williams, Americanness, the Aquacade and Sex
(Book chapter)Aquacades and swimming spectaculars enjoyed huge popularity and financial success in America during the first half of the twentieth century. They capitalised upon a cultural preoccupation with physical fitness and youthfulness ... -
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 ... -
Re-composing Sounds ... and Other Things
(Article)In this article, based on four decades of experience of using samples in diverse ways in experimental, particularly electroacoustic compositions, the author investigates the world of what he calls ‘sample-based sound-based ...
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