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Delve into over twenty years of PhD research carried out at SARC

Delve into over twenty years of PhD research carried out at SARC. Our PhD alumni represent an international network working across the most diverse aspects of sound in music in academia, industry and freelance artists. 

Below is an overview of some of the theses researched at SARC

2024  
Isaac Gibson Individualised listening experiences to improve the mental health, well-being, and quality-of-life for service users within a palliative care context: a feasibility study
Damian Mills Accessible virtual reality musical instruments: facilitating inclusion and accessibility in design
Georgios Varoutsos Sounding Covid-19: understanding the pandemic through sonic experiences
   
2023  
Barry Cullen DIY electronic musical instruments - editions, versions, and physical remixing
Richard Davis Performing the extended voice: the role of the body, movement, technology, improvisation and collaboration.
Alex Lucas Exploring and cultivating connections within ecosystems of inclusive musicking: Moving towards sustained access to music
Christopher McCann Portfolio of original compositions: the organised improvisation: approaches to instrumental, electronic and multimedia composition
Thomas McConville Release: a portfolio of original compositions
Michael McKnight Designing space and place in auditory virtual environments
Adam Pultz Melbye A continually receding horizon: making, performing, and improvising with semi-autonomous double bass feedback instruments
Michael Whitten Social distinction and reflexivity in creative labour: composers and the demands of composition
Peter Wilson The songwriter's version: translation as creative response
   
2022  
Elen Flügge Listening practices for urban sound space in Belfast
Liam McCartan Composing in and out of the (Post-)Club: Resynthesis of club music and the personal past
   
2021  
Ciara Conway Acquiescence and resistance in the comic operas of John O’Keeffe for the London stage  
Jill Rose Jacobs The high barre: An investigation of barre for the performing arts in higher education
Barry O'Halpin
A Portfolio of original compositions (Barry O'Halpin)
Amy Rooney
Directive, interactive and collaborative compositional methodologies and the consolidation of musical style: PhD portfolio of compositions and written commentary
Judith Wiemers
“Das ist die Broadway Melodie”: American cultural motifs in German music film 1929 – 1945
   
2020  
Alan Barclay
Workflow as a mediatory agency in a compositional language: Portfolio of Compositions with Commentary
Hadi Bastani
Recent Experimental Electronic Music Practices in Iran: An ethnographic and sound-based investigation
Anselm McDonnell
A Portfolio of Original Compositions (Anselm McDonnell)
   
2019  
Paula Guzzanti The experience of affect in collaborative performance-making: an analysis of a dance improviser's practice
Ben Holmes Guitar Effects-Pedal Emulation and Identification
Hyeon Min Kim "ALTERNATIVE” STORYTELLING : spoken voice and narrative in sound-based works
   
2018  
Pablo Sanz Environmental Composition Approaches. A Portfolio of Works
Juan Manuel Loaiza Restrepo
Humaning Through Music: An Effective Approach to the Continuity of Mind and Life with Implications for Musicking
Aonghus McEvoy
Sound, Body, Space & Place, Listening in Belfast City
   
2017  
Stefanos Kalonaris
Music Games on Networks – Model-based approaches for free improvisers
Matilde Meireles Extended phonography: expanding field recording through a multi-sensorial practice
Robin Renwick Topologies for Network Music
Bryan Whitelaw Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B Minor: Context, Analysis and Hermeneutics
   
2016  
Diogo Alvim Music Through Architecture - Contributions to an Expanded Practice in Composition
Robert D Bentall Genre Hybridisation in Electroacoustic Composition
John D'Arcy
Portfolio of Compositions
Declan Keeney
The Issue of Emotion in Stories of Conflict: Documentary Filmmaking in a Post Conflict Northern Ireland
Andrew Cavan Fyans
Spectator Understanding of Performative Interaction: The influence of mental models and communities of practice on the perception and judgement of skill and error in electronic music performance ecologies
Miguel Cerdeira Marreiros Negrão Parameter Field Spatialization: The development of a technique and software library for immersive spatial audio
Eduardo Patricio Spatial referentiality and openness: A portfolio of environmental sound compositions
Niall Rea
Queer Identity in Performance in Northern Ireland
Tullis Rennie Composition and Identity: A portfolio of context-based sound works following interdisciplinary ethnographic methods 
Emily Diane Robertson
‘Tones out of nowhere’: Situating the Design and Development of Graphic Notation for Network Performance
Koichi Samuels Enabling Creativity: a study of inclusive music technology and practices at The Drake Music Project NorthernIreland
Nathan David Surgenor
A Portfolio of Original Compositions
   
2015  
Isobel Anderson
My words trace a path: Encounters with place through voice, performance and field recording
Michael Dzjaparidze A Portfolio of Original Compositions using a Physically Inspired Sound Synthesis Approach
Fionnuala Fagan-Thiébot The Sound of Memory: An artistic exploration of personal and cultural narratives in post-conflict communities
Peter Stitt Ambisonics and Higher-Order Ambisonics for Off-Centre Listeners: Evaluation of Perceived and Predicted Image Direction
Eduard Zatriqi Portfolio of compositions
Lawrence Zazzo "Not local beauties": Handel's bilingual oratorio performances,1732-1744
   
2014  
Patricia Alessandrini Composition as interpretation through performative electronics
Robert Casey Embodied Music: A Portfolio of Original Composition
Niall Fredrick Coghlan Physiological Correlates of Emotion as Interaction Channels with Artistic Applications: Artwork and Experiments
Gerard Gormley Microsound: A Portfolio of Original Compositions
Mark Rossi Abstracted Materials: A Composition Portfolio
Lilian Lima Simones The roles of gesture in piano teaching and learning 
Justin Yang
The Performance Ecosystem: A Model for Music Composition Through Real-Time, Interactive Performance Systems
   
2013  
Rui Chaves Performing sound in place: field recording, walking and mobile transmission
Felipe Hickmann Territories of Secrecy: Presence and Play in Networked Music Performance
Javier Jaimovich Emotion Recognition from Physiological Indicators for Musical Applications
Adnan Marquez-Borbon Working Through: Characterising and Evaluating Skill with Digital with Digital Musical Interactions
Masahiro Niitsuma
Towards automated discovery of knowledge from Bach’s original manuscripts
Sarah Orr
Numerical Simulation of Coupled String Vibrations with Application to Physics-Based Sound Synthesis
Nicholas Ward  Effortful Interaction: A new paradigm for the design of digital musical instruments
   
2012  
Dionysios Athinaios
A Portfolio of Original Compositions
Sarah Jane Bass
Towards a classification of diffusion gestures: a comparison of stereo sound diffusion performances
Andrés Cabrera
Control of Source Width in Multichannel Reproduction Through Sinusoidal Modelling
Fernando Augusto Marinho de Franca Gualda Dantes
Subtleties of Inflection and Musical Noesis: Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Aural Assessment of Music Performance
Liam Gorry
Handel and his accompanied recitatives
Christopher Haworth
Vertical Listening: Musical Subjectivity and the Suspended Present
Donal T O’Brien
Motivational and De-motivational Factors Influencing Seniors’ Engagement with Mobile Brain-Training Software
Robin Michael Price
Metadata and Interactivity in Sonic Art
Giovanni de Sanctis In-System Parametric Calibration for Two-Microphone Wave Separation in Acoustic Waveguides
Andrea Santini
The Spatial Performance Practice of Luigi Nono
   
2011  
Andrew Dolphin A portfolio of original compositions
Grant Davidson Ford
A Portfolio of Compositions
Matt Green In and Out of Context: Field Recording, Sound Installation and the Mobile Sound Walk
Eoin Mullan Physical Modelling Sound Synthesis by Digital Waveguide Extraction with Application to Computer Games and Virtual Environments
Imogene Newland The Piano and The Female Body: the Erotic, the Seductive and the Transgressive
Damian Ryan
A Portfolio of Original Compositions
   
2010  
Peter Bennett The representation and control of time in tangible user interfaces (designing musical instruments for the manipulation of temporal media)
Vasileios Chatziioannou Forward and inverse modelling of single-reed woodwind instruments with application to digital sound synthesis
Brian Cullen A Portfolio of Audiovisual Compositions for the ‘new media everyday’
Florian Hollerweger The Revolution is Hear! Sound Art, the Everyday and Aural Awareness
Miguel Ortiz Towards an Idiomatic Compositional Language for Biosignal Interfaces
Matthew Rodger Musicians' Body Movements in Musical Skill Acquisition
   
2009  
Alain Renaud The Network as a Performance Space: Strategies and Applications
Philip Noel George Strain The Design and Evaluation of an Assistive Multimodal Interface
Henry Vega A portfolio of original compositions
   
2008  
Tom Davis The Ear of the Beholder: Ecology, Embodiment and Complexity in Sound Installation
Konrad Kowalczyk  Boundary and medium modelling using compact finite difference schemes in simulations of room acoustics for audio and architectural design applications
Ravi Kuber Developing an assistive haptic framework for improving non-visual access to the web
Chui Chui Tan An adaptive architecture to support web graphics exploration for visually impaired people
   
2007  
David Fee Dereverberation of acoustic signals via adaptive filtering
Jason Geistweidt A portfolio of original compositions
Martin Kuster Inverse Methods in Room Acoustics with Under-Determined Data and Applications to Virtual Acoustics
   
2006  
Mevlut Evren Tekin Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems in Polyphonic Score Following
   
2005  
Rachel Hosltead Portfolio of original compositions

 

 

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