Music from the Artistic-Scientific Community at NOVARS (PhD, Masters, Staff) 2007-11


Manuella Blackburn	Oliver Carman	Irma Catalina	Kaho Cheung	Lee Fraser	Andrew Garbett	Alexis Guneratne
England, UK	England, UK	Cuenca, Spain	Hong kong	England, UK	England, UK	England, UK

Applications of Spectromorphology vocabulary	The Acousmatic and Sound Diffusion	Sound Theatre and the Acousmatic image	Rapid Transit Systems (world wide)	Acousmatic	Interactive Instrumental, Fixed and aural scores	The performing- listening situation (instr./ mixed/ acousmatic)


Haruka Hirayama	Joshua Kopecek	Gavin Osborn	Mauricio Pauly	Brona Martin	Mark Pilkington	Constantin Popp
Tokyo, Japan	England, UK	England, UK	Costa Rica	Ireland	England, UK	Berlin

Interactive Music	Composition and the Notated Sound	Live Improvisation, Cultural Borrowings	Algorythmic and Heuristic compositional decisions	The Acousmatic	Mapping Strategies and the Audiovisual contract	The acousmatic image and Space-form


Donal Sarsfield	Sam Salem	Tom Scott	Diana Salazar	Nina Whiteman	Rodrigo Constanzo	Michael Lau
Ireland	Derby, UK	England, UK	Glasgow, Scotland	London, UK	USA/Madrid	Hong Kong

The Acousmatic	Composition and introspective landscapes	Acousmatic and Audiovisual works	Space-form, a compositional focus	Composition and Voice	EA performance, improvisation, and composition	Fixed Media


Nacho Pecino	James Percival	Richard Scott	Nick Casswell	Panos Amelides	Chris Swithinbank	Heather Bamforth
Malaga, Spain	UK	UK, Berlin	England, UK	Athens, Greece	UK-Netherlands	England, UK

Sonic Navigation in virtual environments	Delia Derbyshire (musicologically)	Aural Scores and Music Improvisation	Instrumental and Fixed Media	Fixed Media	Instrumental and Mixed Media	Fixed Media & Cello-Laptop Improv.


George Dennis	Patrick Sanan	Thom Harrison	Andy Davison	David Berezan	Ricardo Climent	Kevin Malone
London, UK	California, USA	England, UK	STAFF - UK	STAFF - Canada	STAFF - Valencia/Berlin	Staff- Buffalo, New York

Fixed Media and Theatre	Artificial Intelligence algorythms for audiovisual interactiviy	Fixed Media and Recording Engineering	Music Technician, Network and livestreaming ProTools certificate	Space-form, acousmatic and sound diffusion	Cross-disciplinary, game-engine and audio metadata	Film Music and Postmodernism


Danny Saul	Craig Burgess	Tommy Rushton	David Butler	Rupert Cox
Manchester, UK	Manchester, UK	Manchester, UK	UK

EA Composition	EA Composition	EA composition, Physical Models	Associate Researcher Sound and Visual Anthropology	Associate Researcher Sound and Visual Anthropology

Our community: Postgraduate Students at the NOVARS Research Centre are one of the most proactive and self-organised communities of Researchers in the UK. Our community and research environments attracts the interest of composers working with new media and surround systems, sound and visual artists with a focus on interactivity or soundmapping, software desginers, game-engine oriented composers and performers with a taste for technology and sound experimentation.

Postgraduate succesfully co-run compositional and performing Research tools such as Kairos Improvisation Ensemble, Bling This Story, FM- licensed radio show at Fusefm Radio and actively contribute to the organisation and difussion of the Mantis Festival which happens twice a year. They actively present concerts and papers all around the world and as a group they look beyond the silos of their research areas and commitments for the benefit of the artistic comunity.

While studying, PhD students also acquire teaching experience in areas of composition, acoustics and technology at the BMus degree in Music at Univerity of Manchester, one of the most prestigious in the country. Subjects include Sonic Invention, Sound Design, Live interactive Music, Acousmatic composition and aesthetics, acoustics for musicians or composition portfolio supervision.

Alongside the Electroacoustic comunity and in close collaboration with it, Music at the School of Arts Histories and Cultures embodies a large comunity of Instrumental only composers, Musicologists and World Music researchers.

RAE Results 2008 (an indicator of our research ranking nationally and internationally)
In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the Music department was judged to be among the top 1% of all departments in all subjects nationwide. Visit the links below to see how you can thrive in the country's strongest music department which places an equal emphasis on composition, musicology and performance all in one £8.6 million complex of facilities.

For further information about Postgraduate Studies in the Music website, click here

For a database of MANTIS Festivals undertaken by our PG community, click here

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