We have a collection of research projects undertaken by our staff and postgraduate students.
The aim of the series is to make available church music from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries in a form both scholarly and practical.
CoHERE addresses an intensifying EU Crisis through a study of relations between identities and representations and performances of history.
Following the Flight of the Monarchs is an interdisciplinary project bringing together artists and scientists, connecting with ecosystems and communities along the migration routes of monarch butterflies as they travel the 3,000-mile journey between Mexico and Canada each year. The project, led by
Digitizing, restoring, reconstructing and analysing Tudor polyphonic music manuscripts.
This project reflects changes in attitudes related to sexuality, illness, and loss, as well as the relations between medical discourse and cultural myths.
This project considers how questions about consciousness might be illuminative for music studies.
How do we talk about Timbre? We are conducting research that seeks to understand if there is a basic, simple, introductory terminology we can use and encourage educators to use to help start the journey of defining timbre in the same way we have descriptors of pitch and rhythm.
The therapeutic and healing use of the creative arts has a long history and recent studies have explored the benefits of older groups of people engaging in creative arts, reporting improved physical health and social interaction.
This two-year project, which was supported by the CETL for Music and Inclusivity, tracked the progress of a variety of student ensembles in different genres (folk ensembles, pop bands, string and wind quartets and quintets) and at different stages of their degree programmes.
This project led to an edited collection of essays published by Ashgate in 2010, entitled "Sounds of the Slayer: Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
CyberZink is a research project led by Dr Jamie Savan (now Birmingham Conservatoire, Newcastle University to 2015), exploring the potential of CAD modelling and 3D printing for organological research.
Practically, the project produces and documents site-specific performances, which in turn will create material for fixed-media audiovisual artworks for exhibition and concert performance.
Music and Machines is a series of research events run by Bennett Hogg (ICMuS) and Sally Jane Norman (Sussex University, formerly director of Newcastle University Culture Lab).
This project involves lead researchers Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson in the compilation of an edited volume comprising 12 historiographically and historically grounded essays, an introduction by the editors.
As Principal Investigator of Understanding Scotland Musically, Dr Simon McKerrell aims to develop new understandings of how contemporary traditional music is used in the construction of Scottish identity both in performance and through the media.
In conjunction with ICMuS Sounds, and with support from the CETL in Music and Inclusivity, we recorded ten pieces from the Eton Choirbook (GB-WRec 178) in 2009.
This project was carried out over the period 2005–2009 by Felicity Laurence and Dawn Weatherston (ICMuS), and sought to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a music undergraduate.
This project led to a volume of edited chapters, published by Ashgate, addressing the relationship between masculinity and art music or musical practice.
Funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, this project carried out a systematic study on the history of the recording industry in twentieth-century Portugal, and its impact on the production and dissemination of music, and on the music product itself.
The idea for The Resistant Violin came while talking to Daniel Schorno at STEIM, Amsterdam. He mentioned how cellist Frances-Marie Uitti had difficulties playing with heavy motion sensors on her bow.
Ritual, Remembrance & Recorded Sound
Older Women Challenging Stereotypes and Celebrating Life was a community-facing project which was a response to decades of research which document the myriad ways in which women are under-represented in all areas of popular media.
