Creative Practice

Composition and performance (and related areas of practice such as improvisation, technologically-mediated music and live electronics) are key areas in the research output of our staff.

As performers, we research and perform music from all over the world, from early classical music to contemporary popular music, folk and traditional music and jazz and other kinds of music.

As composers, we engage with experimental trends in Europe and the Americas, and other contemporary music practises from around the world. These approaches are also characterised by our shared interest in:

• technologically-mediated creation and performance
• improvisation and sound art
• European classical and contemporary traditions
• English and Scottish folk musics
• Latin American contemporary and folk music traditions