Leicester Media School
Recent Submissions
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The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster
(Book)Co-edited book of essays on Steven Spielberg's film Jaws (1975). -
Translating Performance: desire, intention and interpretation in photographic documents
(Book chapter)Since the 1990s, weight has been given to the reception of the photographic document and the phenomenological experience of observing such an artefact.1 Debates about documenting performance have focused on the document’s ... -
Drag publique: the spectacle of queerness, queer placelessness and the emaciated spectator
(Book chapter)Muñoz (1999: 25) recognizes that there is power in demonstrating the spectacle of queerness in that its performance makes the performer a ‘disidentificatory non-citizen’, and this can transform works and situations, with ... -
Repetition, Recitation and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo: Miss Vanjie and the Culture-Producing Power of Performative Speech in RuPaul's Drag Race
(Book chapter)Can I get an amen? Not today, Satan. Because I have had it— officially! Having been seen on screen for over a decade, RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) has amassed an encyclopedia of catchphrases that have become adapted and ... -
Performing Audiences: Composition Strategies for Network Music using Mobile Phones
(Conference)With the development of web audio standards, it has quickly become technically easy to develop and deploy software for inviting audiences to participate in musical performances using their mobile phones. Thus, a new ... -
Men Cry too - Masculinity and the feminization of lovers’ rock
(Book chapter)This chapter explores lovers’ rock and the ambiguities that exist around the gendered and sexual politics of the genre. It considers how lovers’ rock has become 'feminized' as ‘female’ reggae music. While black female ... -
Hildegard Westerkamp's 'Beneath the Forest Floor' (1992)
(Book chapter)An analytical discussion of Hildegard Westerkamp's 'Beneath the Forest Floor' using three 'voices': the analyst, the composer and other specialists. -
Producing Diversity in BBC Radio
(Article)The voices of minority ethnic staff working in radio are very rarely heard. In fact, the UK radio industry has been singled out, by the government approved regulatory body, as continuing to fail to reflect the diversity ... -
The BBC Asian Network, the search for younger digital listeners in Ethnic Media in the Digital Age
(Book chapter)In response to the increase of Asian radio in the U.K., the BBC’s only minority specific service The BBC Asian Network, a digital radio station, embraced a stronger social media policy to attract new audiences. The service ... -
Human-Centred and Creative AI in Performative Robots
(Working Paper)This chapter discusses two performative robot projects that share a core ethos about the nature of human- centred and creative AI: Embodied Robots for Music (2018 – present) by Craig Vear and Amigóide (2010 – present) by ... -
Seven Pleasures of Pris (2019) Improvising Ai robot duo with Multi-Layered Perceptron Neural Nets
(Working Paper)Seven Pleasures of Pris (2019) was an album project created by two performing robots embedded with a substrate AI architecture fed by the embodied music dataset discussed in Vear 2018. The two robots were programmed to ... -
False Start (2020/ 2015) - Digital score for amplified ensemble (2-5 players) and networked laptops
(Software)for amplified ensemble (2-5 players) and networked laptops The title of this piece is borrowed from a Jasper Johns painting from 1959. Johns’ works have been a point of inspiration for many decades, due to his abstraction ... -
Designing and Building a 1st stage dataset for embodied music-making (musicking).
(Working Paper)The aim of this research project was to design and develop a dataset that captured embodied music-making (hereafter musicking (Small 1989)) for use in human-computer interaction between AI and human musicians. The proposed ... -
Farewell Sun (2020/ 2015) - Cantata for female voice, electric guitar and laptop
(Software)Digital Score: Cantata for female voice, electric guitar and laptop This composition explores the imaginary sound world evoked by a quote for Jules Verne’s book Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea(s) (1869): “Adieu, ... -
Postcards (2017) Creative AI mixed-media compositional system for live performance with a human musician
(Working Paper)The aim of this research project was to develop a Creative AI compositional system for live performance with a human musician. The resulting composition Postcards centred around a central computer system controlling and ... -
On A Balcony (2020/ 2015) - Digital Score for two instruments
(Software)Digital Score for two instruments This composition is inspired by my personal experience of sitting on a balcony in Antarctica, overlooking the frozen George VI sound which lies in-between Alexander Island and Palmer ... -
On Junitaki Falls. Trio for solo instrument and two AI performers
(Working Paper)On Junitaki Falls is a digital score characterized by the use of intelligent computational systems. There are several different approaches to the implementation of computational intelligence within the digital score with ... -
The Cape Jeremy Affair (2020/2010) a play for musicians (for 2 instruments (contrasting) and 2 laptops) - Software
(Software)Digital Score: a play for musicians (for 2 instruments (contrasting) and 2 laptops) The Cape Jeremy Affair is an experimental music theatre composition for 2 musicians and 2 laptop computers. It is created from a text: ... -
The Unchanging Sea (2020/ 2010-15) - software
(Software)The inspiration for this composition comes from two sources, D.W. Griffiths’ film ‘The Unchanging Sea’ (1910), and it’s inspiration, Charles Kingsley’s poem, ‘The Three Fishers’, used here as libretto. The central theme ... -
Three Last Letters (2020/2012): A play for musicians: 3 voices, 3 instruments, 3 laptops and diffused soundscape
(Software)Three Last Letters is a music composition that imagines the last moments in the minds of Scott, Wilson and Bowers before they die in a tent, alone on an Antarctic Ice Shelf in 1912. It was created using facts and suppositions ...
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