Music Research at the OU
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News Reception of performance in Indian music funding success Dr Laura Leante has been awarded an AHRC Early Career Grant of over £168,000 for a two year project that will start in October 2009. The project, Reception of performance in North Indian classical music, will involve studying various ways in which performance is experienced by those who participate in it (including both musicians and listeners). The study of performance will not be limited to the artists and the music they make, but will be extended to elements which have often been considered as part of performance 'context' rather than performance per se - with particular emphasis on audience response and interpersonal dynamics. This study will involve comparing music made in two distinct North Indian regions, and this will allow Dr Leante to determine how the reception of music performance relates to cultural background and context.
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Research Fellow Dr Simone Tarsitani has joined the OU for 12 months as a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Research Fellow. Dr Tarsitani received his PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' for a study of zikri ritual in Harar (Ethiopia), and has spent the last two years as a postdoctoral researcher in Japan. While at the OU he will continue his work in this area in collaboration with members of the Experience and Meaning in Music Performance project team. Martin Clayton's monograph Time in Indian Music, first published by Oxford University Press in 2000, has now been reissued in paperback (dated August 2008). Audio examples are now available online at Oxford Music Online. Further details. Royal Society Newton International Fellowship David Sharp has recently secured funding from the Royal Society for a Newton International Fellowship. The two year fellowship will be taken up by Dr Adrien Mamou-Manu (currently based at the Musee de la Musique in Paris ) at the end of March 2009. He will be using acoustical measurement systems developed at the Open University, together with psychoacoustical testing, to investigate the consistency of musical wind instrument manufacture. Both Richard Smith Musical Instruments Ltd and T.W.Howarth of London Ltd will be participating in the project by loaning instruments for testing and by providing their expertise. UK Musical Acoustics Network Meeting, 7 January 2009 The Open University will be hosting a one-day meeting of the UK Musical Acoustics Network on Wednesday 7th January. The meeting will take place in the Old Lecture Theatre and will comprise presentations giving an overview of the current state of musical acoustics research in the UK . It will also include discussion sessions addressing current problems/issues in musical acoustics research. "What is Black British Jazz?" research funding success Jason Toynbee and colleagues have been awarded a large research grant as part of the AHRC's 'Beyond Text' scheme. The award of £476,000 will support the project "What is Black British Jazz?". The project was devised by Dr Toynbee in collaboration with colleagues from the Departments of Sociology (Dr Mark Banks) and Music (Drs Catherine Parsonage and Byron Dueck, with research student Mark Doffman), and incorporates collaborations with the Centre for Black Music Research in Chicago, the British Library Sound Archive and Dune Records. OU Music Research featured on iTunes U A short film on research into entrainment featuring Martin Clayton is amongst the first batch of research items featured by the OU as part of its offering on iTunes U. To see the film, open iTunes and search for "Open University Entrainment".
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