Performing the Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes: creating and exploring a third sphere through improvised communal action.
Conference Proceeding
Hails, J. (2014)
Performing the Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes: creating and exploring a third sphere through improvised communal action
In June 2014, a disparate group of trained and untrained performers gathered together at the Chisenhale Dance Space to perform items from the Scratch Orchestra’s 1969 Nature S...
Sleepwalkers, Beware: Towards a Post-Structuralist Critique of Popular Music in Higher Education
Book Chapter
Moir, Z., & Hails, J. (2019)
Sleepwalkers, Beware: Towards a Post-Structuralist Critique of Popular Music in Higher Education. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. Dylan Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and PracticesLondon and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing
No abstract available.
De contemplationis digitis.
Other
Hails, J. (2003)
De contemplationis digitis. Cheltenham, UK
In this piece, my research aim was to develop the contrary relationship of the flute (blown, sustained sound) to piano (struck, decaying sound) in the context of a playful for...
Failed Time, Successful Time, Shadowtime: An Interview with Brian Ferneyhough.
Book Chapter
Fitch, L., & Hails, J. (2010)
Failed Time, Successful Time, Shadowtime: An Interview with Brian Ferneyhough. In M. Paddison, & D. DELIÈGE (Eds.), Contemporary Music: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives (319-330). Ashgate Publishing
Cantus 1.
Other
Hails, J. (2002)
Cantus 1. London, UK
The objective in writing Cantus 1 was to produce a very controlled piece of violin writing using a limited number of pitches, while the piano plays a very passive role, quietl...
Der Heimat zu.
Other
Hails, J. (2001)
Der Heimat zu. Cheltenham, UK
This piano piece is written using a floating, non-functional tonal language that recalls the other composers featured in the programme, while remaining recognisably modern. It...
Nine for ones in nine: a schizophrenic cyborg love story.
Presentation / Conference
Hails, J. (2016, April)
Nine for ones in nine: a schizophrenic cyborg love story. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier Staff Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
By appropriating the images of the schizophrenic and the cyborg from Deleuze and Guattari, and from Donna Haraway respectively, this paper seeks to discuss the relationship be...
Pied Beauty.
Other
Hails, J. (2014)
Pied Beauty. Edinburgh, Scotland
Composition for soprano and two scordatura violas (alternatively, for soprano and stereo fixed media playback)
DUO1
Other
Hails, J. (2011)
DUO1. Edinburgh, Scotland
DUO1 is a work for two bass clarinets.
It was requested and first performed by Sarah Watts and Heather Roche.
This work forms part of a series of works exploring different way...
BE GOOD.
Other
Hails, J. (2007)
BE GOOD. Edinburgh, Scotland
Work for solo horn, dedicated to Elliott Carter on the occasion of his 100th birthday. First performed by Fergus Kerr on 28th September 2008.