Ensemble

Traditional jazz refers specifically to iterations of New Orleans style jazz since its beginnings in the early 20th century. It has been labelled "Dixieland," "Classic Jazz," "New Orleans jazz," "Trad," or "Our Kind of Music (OKOM)" among other names. As a scholar-performer, I l…

This Master’s Thesis in Music Composition comes in two parts. The first part is a thesis discussing the analysis of Iannis Xenakis’s Pithoprakta. The thesis includes three chapters. The first chapter provides background information about Xenakis and Pithoprakta. The second chapt…

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been comprehensively researched, both from a computer scientific perspective and with regard to their use for predictive modelling in a wide variety of applications including hydrology and the environment. Yet their adoption for live, real-…

“Would you have me bow my head before mighty prices, forgetting all the joy of my heart?” Not long after Li Bai (Chinese: 李白, pinyin: Lǐbái, 701–762) left the imperial court, he wrote so at the end of one of his masterpiece, A Visit to the Sky-mother Mountain in a Dream. As he a…

We have investigated machine learning approaches for various tasks in handwritten document analysis such as writer identification and text recognition. Most of the techniques explored by the community thus far fall into the category of supervised learning approaches. Here a larg…

My thesis has at its heart an interrogation into the practice I have co-created with Tangled Feet, a physical ensemble who use processes of improvisation and devising, and who make work which includes apertures for audience influence, often outside of traditional theatre spaces.…