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Complex musical behaviours via time-variant audio feedback networks and distributed adaptation: a study of autopoietic infrastructures for real-time performance systems
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020)The research project presented here is a study of the application of complex adaptive systems (CASes) for live music performance and composition by fully autonomous or semi-autonomous machines. The fundamental artistic ... -
Yamanaka and Company: transforming the East Asian art market
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)Yamanaka and Company is one of the most prolific art dealers in the history of Asian art market studies. However, research surrounding the operations of his company remain limited. Contemporary publications have begun ... -
'I am someone, I am not invisible': Exploring choirs and community singing groups for people who have experienced homelessness
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)There has been a significant growth in the number of new choirs and community singing opportunities in the last fifteen years (Reagon et al., 2016), to support different social groups and specific health populations. ... -
Orient Occident | Musica Musicalia: Tales of the One and the One Thousand Nights
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)Musica Musicalia is a journey in studying the various potential uses of music in human society through different ages. This series represents a solitary reflection of a philosopher, during one thousand and one nights of ... -
Expressive musical process: exploring contemporary jazz musicians' views on the use of expressivity in compositional practice
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)Although there is a wide range of literature exploring expressivity in contemporary jazz music, I have found little to address the way that jazz musicians apply their expressivity in acts of composition. Moreover, I have ... -
Pop cinema: aesthetic conversations between art and the moving-image
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)This dissertation seeks to recover a seemingly lost story in the history of experimental cinema: its relationship to Pop Art. Although both Pop Art and non-narrative filmmaking have received significant scholarly ... -
Mass customisation for zero energy housing: the potential of Japanese manufacturing practices in the context of sustainable housebuilding in the United Kingdom
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)This research focuses on describing the relationship that mass customisation has with sustainable housing, particularly with the consumption and production of zero energy houses. It explains how Japanese housebuilders ... -
Concept of collapsibility/new interior design approach: a design framework for understanding and designing change and impermanence
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)In this thesis, I argue that in a world characterised by change, contemporary interior designers lack competent guidance on how to interpret and design notions of impermanence, and how to experiment through practice with ... -
Beyond genius: the reception, reputation and afterlife of Robert Adam
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)Robert Adam is today remembered as one of the greatest British architects working in the eighteenth century—the moniker ‘genius’ has become a permanent fixture. My doctoral thesis challenges the idea of ‘genius’ as applied ... -
I don’t know where paradise is: queer paths through museums and libraries
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)This dissertation charts the research and creation of a body of artistic work that dialogues with the domestic spaces, private libraries, and kinship bonds of a group of looselyconnected gay cultural and intellectual figures ... -
Chinese walking urbanism: notions, life stages and vending - walking space in smaller Chinese cities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)While 54.5% of the world’s population lives in cities, urban sprawl has led to typically less walkable car-dominated urban environments. A decrease in physical activity – especially walking – is resulting in more than 5 ... -
Manuscript illumination in Ottonian and early Salian St Gall: iconography, liturgy and devotion
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)This study explores the production of illuminated manuscripts in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Abbey of St Gall, Switzerland, in the period c. 975-1075. Although this monastic institution witnessed a celebrated era ... -
Portfolio of electro-instrumental composition incorporating multilayered processes for automated live electronics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)The music presented here expresses a deeply interconnected relationship between acoustic instrumental sound and computer-produced electro-acoustic material. Throughout this process of research, I was determined to investigate ... -
Sound infrastructures of the German Democratic Republic: renewing sound technology during state socialism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-27)This thesis analyses the German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) efforts to create and maintain modern sound technology infrastructures to deliver culture to its citizens. Analyses of GDR heavy and hi-tech industries and the ... -
'Going-on': silence and lateness in the work of John Hejduk and Samuel Beckett
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-22)By means of critical comparison, this thesis develops new understandings of two distinguished late modernists – the architect and educator John Hejduk and the author Samuel Beckett. Hejduk once describing his praxis as ... -
Sir William Bruce’s Hopetoun House: the architectural, economic and social analysis of a post-Restoration Scottish country seat
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-14)This dissertation examines the patronage, design, and construction of Sir William Bruce’s Hopetoun House (circa 1698-1721). It was built as the country seat of the Hope family, who became the Earls of Hopetoun in 1703. ... -
Developing music improvisation workshops for preschool children through Action Research
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-22)Improvisation in music is an important skill, which is increasingly valued, and an essential part of curricula at all educational levels. However, understandings of improvisation are conflicting and contradictory approaches ... -
From the art institution to instituent praxis: configurations of power in the contemporary European art world
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-16)The thesis is the outcome of research that considers ontological and political conceptualisations of the notion of institution in relation to practices and discourses in the contemporary European art world and the power ... -
Crafting the 21st century UK artisan-silversmith: exploring the elements of a silversmith development framework
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-26)This thesis makes a contribution to our understanding of how artisan-silversmiths in the United Kingdom develop and become commercially and personally successful by asking the question: Which elements of artisan-silversmiths’ ... -
Facilitating musical learning in Scottish Primary Schools: an interview-based study of generalist primary teachers’, primary music specialists’ and community music practitioners’ views and experiences
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-27)Confidence in teaching music has been a long-standing issue for Scottish generalist primary teachers, and, amidst cuts to specialist teachers and instrumental music in Scottish schools, generalist teachers are increasingly ...
