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Flavia Domingues D'Avila
Syncretism is a term that designates a type of fusion, or amalgamation, which might happen naturally or might be strategically employed. Examples of this kind of cultural fusion in theatre have existed for a long time, usually seen in adaptations of canonical texts. Moving beyond the models found in theatre scholarship and practice, the main objective of my research is to explore ways to work with syncretism in a devised theatre context. My thesis will include a portfolio containing samples of the work done in a theatre laboratory setting, during which a group of performers worked with cultural texts in devising material.
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Jan Foote
Entrainment is a process by which independent rhythmical processes interact with each other. The process of this interaction often results in these systems synchronising. My research focuses on the effect of pulse and the phenomenon of entrainment in musical composition. More specifically, on how entrainment can be used as a compositional tool and to what extent pulse has an affect on the outcome.
As a composer, I am practically researching this question. I am experimenting extensively with polytemporality, repetition and degrees of stasis in music. My current compositional concerns are based upon pulse hierarchy and microtonal beating patterns in non-teleological ambient music.
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Lucy Hollingworth
A Modern Woman Composer – an Autoethnography
My PhD is an autoethnography in which original compositions and a dissertation will work as a seamless whole in which I describe my experiences as a woman composer in the form of stories, and I also write stories about other women composers from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show that what happened to each of us has not only been individual struggle to achieve success, but that we have shared a common difficulty in developing our careers as a result of the values of the society we live in.
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Katrin Klose
My research focuses on the exploration of the voice in the context of Contemporary Opera. Presently, the composition of vocal parts and their relation to the orchestra poses a real challenge. Linked to this issue is the question of how to deal with language.
In my first short opera Nachtsonne, I explored diverse vocal techniques ranging from “traditional” singing in various tonal or atonal contexts to the use of the human voice in modes like speaking, screaming, shouting or whispering. In the frame of my artistic research, I will extend these techniques as well as find an individual approach to “singing” in stage works.
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Lisa Robertson
My research comprises a portfolio of original compositions exploring the areas of interest which influence my musical language. These interests include using Scottish folk music and natural sounds, such as birdsong, as sources of inspiration and finding features within these sources which can act as binding, restricting parameters for my pieces. In these pieces, I aim to reflect the importance of a strong sense of connection between nature and human folk culture. I am also particularly interested in creating structures involving the deterioration of musical material which represent the deterioration caused by environmental issues.
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James Slimings
James Slimings is a 3rd year PhD candidate, studying ensemble singing in trained vocalists. He is using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis as well as acoustic data to investigate the phenomenon of ‘Choral Blend’ in trained Conservatoire singers, with a particular focus on the perceived differences between ‘solo’ and ‘choral’ techniques. He has presented this research at the Choir in Focus conference (Lund University, Sweden), and the Music, Education, and Technology Conference (London). He is also the PhD student representative, and has spoken about his research and the doctoral experience for the Scottish Funding Council, Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, SPARQS, and the Association of European Conservatoires.
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Alexander South
I am in the first year of my interdisciplinary doctoral studies into humpback whale song, with joint supervision from composer Dr Emily Doolittle (RCS) and biologist Dr Luke Rendell (University of St Andrews).
My work draws on my past training and professional experience as both musician and scientist. I am particularly interested in understanding whale song as a cultural phenomenon, and in bringing a performer’s musical understanding to this form of animal communication.
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Allison Stringer
Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, a Scottish Romantic composer imbued his compositions with a Scottish narrative that is unique to his musical identity. Specifically, Mackenzie wrote 12 Scottish compositions that blend his traditional music heritage with his cosmopolitan education. My research explores Mackenzie’s definition of Scottish narrative and idiom, how this definition is contextualized amongst his contemporaries and subsequently the effect it has on future generations of composers with similar musical ideologies. The personal interest in this research stems from the investigation of historical performance practice in regards to cultural perspective on both performance and research, a concept which, for myself, is as inherently intertwined as knotwork.
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Aby Watson
Aby Watson’s practice-based PhD project, Choreographing Clumsy: Dyspraxia and Choreographic Practice, is an autoethnographic study that draws upon her personal experience and creative practice as a dyspraxic dance artist and situates it within a critical discourse. Through the generation of a new body of performance work and a short thesis, Aby’s research seeks to utilise a dyspraxic perspective within the field of choreography rather than adapt, or change, its nature to assimilate and conform to normative standards. This study questions: How can a dyspraxic choreographer utilise their positionality, external to the choreographic cannon, to create radical, affirmative and original dance?
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