22 search results for “composition” in the Public website
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Composed Performers: The music-making body from a compositional perspective
Composer Paul Craenen (1972) is actually a pianist, but as part of his PhD ceremony, he performed a composition on PVC pipes. Craenen studies the position and role of the body in music. ‘I am interested in what precedes the resulting sound’.
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‘Ūd Taqsīm as a Model of Pre-Composition
In this research project Nizar Rohana analyzes and reflects on taqsīm recordings by two leading figures of ‘ūd playing who were pillars of modern Arabic music, namely the Egyptians Muḥammad al-Qaṣabjī (1898-1964) and Riyāḍ al-Sunbāṭī (1906-1981).
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Giuliano Bracci
Faculty of Humanities
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Scheduled protocol programming
With the advent of multicore processors and data centers, computer hardware has become increasingly parallel, allowing one to run multiple pieces of software at the same time on different machines. Coordination of these pieces is best expressed in a coordination language as an explicit interaction protocol…
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Carlo Diaz
Faculty of Humanities
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Ned McGowan
Faculty of Humanities
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Artistic Practices of Historical Sound
Memory, Imagination, and Mimetics in Contemporary Composition and Historical Performance
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The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music
From The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music:
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Thinking through the guitar: the sound-cell-texture chain
The present study aims to establish and develop guidelines for effective use of the classical guitar’s scoring potential.
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The cognitive continuum of electronic music
How do we experience electronic music? How does electronic music operate on perceptual, cognitive and affective levels? What are the common concepts activated in the listener’s mind when listening to electronic music? Why and how are these concepts activated?
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(De)Composing Immersion
This dissertation explores various perspectives on the term immersion, and its relation with, and transformation through, a composer’s practice.
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Between air and electricity : microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments
This thesis investigated how microphones and loudspeakers could become musical instruments.
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Siamak Anvaritutunchi
Faculty of Humanities
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Materialization of fixed media music- Towards performance/interpretation of fixed media electroacoustic music
What are the critical elements in sonic materialization of fixed media electroacoustic music and how can these parameters be classified? How would interpretation be defined in performing fixed media music? What are the creative and new ways of presenting fixed media music by incorporating all the presentation…
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Book: Music of Possibility
Music of Possibility is a personal account of what, for composer Richard Barrett, are the most consequential areas of twentieth- and twenty first-century musical innovation, and how, together with a web of technologies, cultures and politics, they have informed his creative practice.
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Tactile Paths: on and through notation for improvisers
Tactile Paths is an artistic research project that aims to expand and articulate the feedback between notation and improvisation in experimental music.
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Yannis Kyriakides awarded first prize in International Rostrum for Composers
Yannis Kyriakides, PhD student at Academy of Creative and Performing Arts , has received the prestigious International Rostrum for Composers award, in the category over 30 years, for his cello, video and electronics piece: Words and Song Without Words.
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Composer and ACPA researcher Yannis Kyriakides awarded first prize in the International Rostrum for Composers
Former student of Leiden University professor Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, Cyprus-born ACPA researcher Yannis Kyriakides, currently developing his PhD dissertation under the supervision of Professor Frans de Ruiter and docARTES PhD supervisor/ORCiM research fellow Dr. Bob…
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Electrochemical and surface studies of the effect of naphthalene-based additives on tin electrodeposition
Tin electrodeposition applications have rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.
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Mutable Audible – An Operative Ontology of the Sound Image
In his dissertation Gabriel Paiuk explores the variable ways in which what is heard is formed. To address this, he postulates a novel concept of sound image in a post-anthropocentric context in which both mind and material artefacts are instances across which the image occurs, rather than hosts on which…
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docARTES
docARTES is a doctoral programme for performers and composers. It offers a unique environment for critical reflection on musical practice.
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The pathways of music improvisers
Improvisers in experimental music do not record their music in a conventional score, but in ever-changing 'tactile pathways'. This is the proposition put forward by researcher Christopher Williams. PhD defence 13 December.