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Transmission Loss and Found: The Sampler as Compositional Tool

Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2008, November)
Transmission Loss and Found: The Sampler as Compositional Tool. Paper presented at Art of Record Production (ARP), University of Massachusetts
Item subsequently published as journal article - see item http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5031

Running Practical Workshops for Adult and Paediatric Cochlear Implant Users

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2008, November)
Running Practical Workshops for Adult and Paediatric Cochlear Implant Users. Presented at NHS Special Interest Group - Invited Guest Lecture (Keynote
No abstract available.

Haftor Medbøe Group - New:Happy

Digital Artefact
Medbøe, H. (2008)
Haftor Medbøe Group - New:Happy. [Compact Disc]. Edinburgh, UK
An album of eight original compositions featuring Konrad Wiszniewski (tenor saxophone), Chris Greive (trombone), Signy Jacobsdottir (percussion) and Eva Malling (bass). Recor...

Music and Rhyme for Children and Teenagers with Cochlear Implants

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & Plant, G. (2008, March)
Music and Rhyme for Children and Teenagers with Cochlear Implants. Paper presented at Assessment, Paediatric Habilitation, and Adult Rehabilitation
No abstract available.

Todd Edwards & the microsample: speed & spirituality in UK Garage.

Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2007, October)
Todd Edwards & the microsample: speed & spirituality in UK Garage. Paper presented at Mediation, Movement and Microrhythm in Groove-Based Music Workshop, University of Oslo, Norway
My paper will examine the role of New Jersey producer Todd Edwards within the development of UK Garage by focussing on his use of microsamples which Simon Reynolds describes a...

In Perpetuity

Digital Artefact
Medbøe, H. (2006)
In Perpetuity. [Compact Disc]. Edinburgh, UK
An album of seven original compositions featuring Sue McKenzie (soprano saxophone), Chris Greive (trombone), Signy Jacobsen (percussion) and the strings of The Edinburgh Quart...
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The Hip-Hop Studies Listener

2023 - 2024
A collection – a published compendium of writings in song format. Taking Rap Academics (Hook, 2022) (https://www.solareye.co.uk/rapacademics) as a starting point, this project involves creating a co...
Funder: University of Bristol | Value: £3,000

Sounding the chapel: performances of a new site-specific composition for Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut

2022 - 2023
Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most significant buildings of the 20th century. Invited to present my work in the space, a ...
Funder: Marchus Trust | Value: £2,960

Mountain Biking and Music from Data

2022 - 2024
1. We will, by working with a range of people with varying experience, explore how an interdisciplinary approach to sports and the arts can encourage engagement in both areas. We will look at ways in ...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £4,936

The Sound Beneath Our Feet

2022 - 2022
This project will develop an immersive audio installation in which to experience sonified seismic data from volcanic activity. The environment will foster new ways of experiencing data from both scien...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £4,915

Improvisation Technologies and Creative Machines: The Performer-Instrument Relational Milieu

2022 - 2023
This practice-led, artistic research study traces theoretical and practical understandings that explore the technicity and performance-practice of musical improvisation and builds upon the lead’s prio...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £5,000

Dynamic Range: Immersive Screenwriting for Sound

2022 - 2022
This is a successful bid for a Small Research Grant with Creative Informatics at Edinburgh Napier and Edinburgh University. The proposal is to explore the dramatic potential of Augmented Reality and D...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £5,000

Mountain Biking Data Sonification

2021 - 2023
We are embarking on a collaborative project between Music, the Sports, Exercise, and Health Science Research Group, and the Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland (MTBCOS) in a project encouraging people to...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £971

New directions in digital jazz studies: music information retrieval and AI support for jazz scholarship in digital archives

2021 - 2023
The key research questions that motivate this project may be framed this way: How can we increase the value of jazz archives by applying technology and developing methods for digital musicology and hu...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £30,017

Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Research Project

2019 - 2022
This research project explores the interdependencies between stakeholders within the Scottish jazz and blues scenes through the gathering and processing of data from musicians, promoters, audiences an...
Funder: Edinburgh International Jazz & Blues Festival | Value: £29,000

Uncovering the Secrets of the Fairlight: The Device that Revolutionised Pop in the 1980s

2019 - 2020
This event is a rare opportunity to find out more about a musical instrument that was worth £100,000 in the 1980s when it was used in the making of records by Afrika Bambaataa, Kate Bush, and Frankie ...
Funder: University of London | Value: £799
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Music team and technology helps bring twins virtually together for the BBC World Service 'Digital Planet' programme

5 September 2019
Edinburgh Napier and the Royal College of Music has helped bring musicians virtually together as part of a special 18th birthday edition of the BBC World Service’s Digital Planet programme. Led in E...

Dr Zack Moir Elected to the Board of Directors of the Prestigious Association for Popular Music Education

26 June 2019
Dr Zack Moir from Music has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association for Popular Music Education, which is an international organisation with a mission to promote and advance...

University Academic Publishes New Edited Volume on Popular Music Education

3 April 2019
Dr Zack Moir, lecturer in music, has just published his new edited volume ’The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices’, which features chapters from three other mem...

University Academics and Students Engage in Live Improvisation Over Networks at Prestigious International Conference

2 April 2019
Can a network performance be defined, planned and executed in 90 minutes? Teams of attendees and remote performers at the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop in Prague were tasked with creatin...

Music students take on trans-atlantic music composition project with students in New Jersey

28 January 2019
Zack Moir and Bryden Stillie from music have, in collaboration with Andy Krikun from Bergen Community College in New Jersey, USA, launched an international songwriting/composition project. Each of the...

Festival Promoters Symposium - Continental Drift Conference: Festivals Edition

13 July 2018
A symposium event organised Edinburgh Napier University in association with the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival. 14 JULY, 2018, 12:00 – 16:00 AT TEVIOT ROW, EDINBURGH Continental Drift presents an a...

Brutal or Beautiful: Edinburgh Napier team encourages different view of modernist buildings

6 July 2018
A team from Edinburgh Napier is encouraging members of the public to view brutalist architecture in a different light – through the use of music and design.

Edinburgh Napier academic uses personal experience of living with diabetes to inspire composition

3 July 2018
An Edinburgh Napier academic is using his personal experience of living with diabetes to fuel his passion for making music. Dr Zack Moir, lecturer in popular music at the University, was diagnosed wit...

Exhibition - 40th Anniversary of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival

1 July 2018
An exhibition of photography, print and ephemera relating to forty years of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival curated by Dr Haftor Medbøe, Associate Professor of Music at Edinburgh Napier University and...

Music and Design Staff Showcase their Work at the Architecture Fringe

11 June 2018
The SituLab Research Group (Dr Katrina Burton, Dr Samantha Vettese, Dr Kathy Vones) and invited musician, Joanna Stark presented their ongoing project into how the public respond to modern architectur...