Past Projects

Recent funded projects include:

       
EASAIER (Enabling Access to Sound Archives through Integration, Enrichment and Retrieval) (2006-2008)
  
The interdisciplinary EASAIER project followed on from HOTBED's lead and was about improving access to digital sound archives. Our own team (Celia Duffy, Dr Joe Harrop and Stevie Barrett) worked alongside scientific colleagues to determine user needs and evaluate digital tools. Led by audio and computing scientists at Queen Mary, University of London, partners were Royal Conservatoire of Scotaland (then RSAMD), Dublin Institute of Technology and companies from Austria, France, Hungary and Israel. More info from Celia Duffy.
     

Investigating Musical Performance (IMP): Comparative Studies in Advanced Musical Learning (2006 - 2008)

    
The Investigating Musical Performance (IMP): Comparative Studies in Advanced Musical Learning research project was a two-year comparative study of advanced musical performance. It was devised to investigate how classical, popular, jazz and Scottish traditional musicians deepen and develop their learning about performance in undergraduate, postgraduate and wider music community contexts. The project was conceived as a multi-site, multi-methods research project that draws equally on the strengths and expertise of the four higher education partners (the Institute of Education, University of London; University of York; Leeds College of Music; and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow).           
   

AHRC Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts in the School of Drama

  
Iain Heggie completed the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's second Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts in 2008. Iain’s research was entitled  The Dilemmas and Creative Opportunities of Adaptation.  

Donna Rutherford’s research as our first Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts investigated the tensions existing between 'self' and 'presence' in autobiographical performance art work. She was based in the School of Drama, and was part of an innovative partnership with the Glasgow School of Art and the New Territories Festival.
     

AHRC Small Grant

  
Royal Conservatoire Principal, John Wallace's AHRC grant enabled him to employ a researcher to work on aspects of his history of the trumpet: From Jericho to Jazz. This history is due for publication soon by Yale University Press.
 

HOTBED (2001-2004)

   
Funded under the JISC’s Teaching and Learning scheme, the HOTBED project formally came to an end in February 2004. Over its 3 year duration, HOTBED (standing for Handing on the Tradition By Electronic Dissemination) built a networked collection of music resources and tools to manipulate them and investigated how best to exploit these to enhance learning and teaching for Scottish traditional musicians in the Royal Conservatoire’s BA Scottish Music course.