Projects
Our collaborative approach to research ensures that we are heavily involved in a number of research projects involving intra- and interdisciplinary networks of researchers both within the UK and internationally.
Read about some of the main projects in which our researchers are participating.
Community Resilience through Folk Pageantry
A practice-as-research project to investigate how local Manchester communities are responding to climate action policies.
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False Relations: Music and the Rhetoric of Dissonance in Early Modern Europe
A multi-disciplinary project investigating what false relations meant to performers, listeners, readers and composers in the early modern era.
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Towards a Micro-Theory of Romantic Form in Viennese Music, 1815–28
An international collaboration between the Universities of Manchester and Toronto to begin building a theory of sonata form for Viennese chamber music in the early nineteenth century.
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Musical Lives
A collaborative project with community radio station Crescent Radio to investigate music and memory within South Asian communities of Greater Manchester.
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SoundRunner
An interdisciplinary collaboration bringing electroacoustic music composition together with sport and exercise science
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Keep•It•Human
A social venture exploring ways in which videogaming can be interlinked with philanthropy.
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Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community – Translingual Music
Investigating the interlingual in contemporary opera as part of a multidisciplinary modern languages research programme.
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EASTN-DC
An exciting cultural showcase examining new trends at the intersections of art, science and technology.
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Virtuoso
A collaborative project to teach high-level musical performance using bio-feedback and virtual reality.
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Game Audio
A collection of sonic-centric projects focused on the construction of novel grammar for dynamic media in sound, music and in composition using 3D-audio and spatial thinking.
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Locative Audio
Customising and associating sonic ideas to a specific geolocation.
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Sonic Maps
A Locative Audio (GPS AudioTour) platform and complete solution for sound geolocation.
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A History of Voices: Singing in Britain from 1690 to the Present
Exploring vocal techniques, performance practice, pedagogical methods and critical responses to singing from the 1690s to the present.
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Reconstructing the Viennese String Quartet
Constructing an alternative history of the Viennese string quartet between 1818 and 1830.
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