Dr Tom Parkinson, Dr Nina Whiteman, and PhD candidate Thomas Baynes all presented at this year's Music and/as Process conference, as part of a bespoke Royal Musical Association study group.
University of Glasgow
The theme for this iteration of the annual conference was Environment, Space & Place, inviting contributions in the form of papers, performances, compositions at this University of Glasgow event.
Dr Tom Parkinson spoke on Noise Reduction in West Yorkshire, proposing community-led creative responses for a localised environmental issue.
Thomas Baynes presented an installation titled SOLAR, exploring the ways that scientific and positional data from the objects in our solar system can be represented and interpreted as sound and music.
Dr Nina Whiteman gave a lecture recital with Dr Adam Swayne (RNCM), performing 'Earthed', which is a memorial to tree composed for piano and multimedia, and using materials from the fallen tree, including soil from its root ball.
What is Music and/as Process study group?
The RMA Study Group Music and/as Process aims to bring together academics, researchers, practitioners and students in the UK and further afield working on issues related to and arising from definitions of process in music. Although the term ‘process’ can be understood quite broadly, the Study Group particularly aims to address music in which processes are audible, perceptible, or otherwise concurrent with the music during its realization and / or performance.
