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Sleepwalkers, Beware: Towards a Post-Structuralist Critique of Popular Music in Higher Education

Book Chapter
Moir, Z., & Hails, J. (2019)
Sleepwalkers, Beware: Towards a Post-Structuralist Critique of Popular Music in Higher Education. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. Dylan Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and PracticesLondon and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing
No abstract available.

enlightenment

Other
Hails, J. (2016)
enlightenment. London, UK
Musical work for solo or duo microtonal trumpet(s) and fixed media.

Nine for ones in nine: a schizophrenic cyborg love story.

Presentation / Conference
Hails, J. (2016, April)
Nine for ones in nine: a schizophrenic cyborg love story. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier Staff Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
By appropriating the images of the schizophrenic and the cyborg from Deleuze and Guattari, and from Donna Haraway respectively, this paper seeks to discuss the relationship be...

for one

Other
Hails, J. (2016)
for one. Print manuscript in the possession of the composer
Musical work (duration 19') for oneunspecified melodic sustaining instrument. Work employs specific tuning related to just intervals.

for three

Other
Hails, J. (2015)
for three. Print manuscript in possession of composer
Musical work (duration 41') for three unspecified melodic sustaining instruments. Work employs specific tuning related to just intervals.

Performing the Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes: creating and exploring a third sphere through improvised communal action.

Conference Proceeding
Hails, J. (2014)
Performing the Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes: creating and exploring a third sphere through improvised communal action
In June 2014, a disparate group of trained and untrained performers gathered together at the Chisenhale Dance Space to perform items from the Scratch Orchestra’s 1969 Nature S...

enlightenment

Other
Hails, J. (2014)
enlightenment
Work for solo harp with optional fixed media. Written for harpist Milana Zaric to play and dedicated to the memory of the poet Simon Howard. First performance on 24th March 20...

Sh

Other
Hails, J. (2014)
Sh. Edinburgh, Scotland
Sh is a work for solo guitar that lasts around three minutes.

Pied Beauty.

Other
Hails, J. (2014)
Pied Beauty. Edinburgh, Scotland
Composition for soprano and two scordatura violas (alternatively, for soprano and stereo fixed media playback)

EMG

Other
Hails, J. (2012)
EMG. Edinburgh, Scotland
Work for solo piano requested and first performed by Nicholas Ashton. This work samples vertical chord structures from an earlier piece for piano (EVEN MORE GEESE), which itse...

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Flamenco music: its origins and influences towards a developing canon of classical guitar repertoire

2023 - date
Brandon Walker | Director of Studies: Mr. Ken Dempster | Second Supervisor: Dr John Hails

Mindful Musicking

2023 - date
Neil Mackenzie | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Dr John Hails

Exploring the Musical Cultures of Melanesia through Musical Composition: Ethnomusicology and (Ethno)Organology as Creative Stimuli/Method

2023 - date
Dallas Patterson | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr John Hails

Mathematics, Composition and Analysis

2023 - date
Director of Studies: Dr Dimitris Papageorgiou | Second Supervisor: Dr Katrina Burton

e(co): a study of shared creative activity in environment

2021 - date
Harry Docherty | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Dr Dimitris Papageorgiou

Composition and identity

2020 - date
David Paton | Director of Studies: Dr John Hails | Second Supervisor: Dr Dave Hook

Musical reading of free-verse poetry: The compositional approach in Songs after Love

2019 - 2022
Ioannis Koufoudakis | Director of Studies: Dr Katrina Burton | Second Supervisor: Dr John Hails

Motivations, impressions and consequences: a qualitative analysis of musicians experience of developing online profiles

2019 - date
Lewis Durrand | Director of Studies: Renée Stefanie | Second Supervisor: Dr Rory MacLean

Hybridisation as an experiential phenomenon: A practice-based approach towards conceptualising musical hybridisation

2018 - 2021
James Hind | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr Zack Moir

Dialogical music systems: The importance of agency in creative processes

2018 - date
Gordon O'Neill | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Dr John Hails

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