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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.
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Musical reading of free-verse poetry: The compositional approach in Songs after Love

2019 - 2022
Ioannis Koufoudakis | Director of Studies: Dr Katrina Burton | Second Supervisor: Dr John Hails

e(co): a study of shared creative activity in environment

2021 - date
Harry Docherty | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Dr Dimitris Papageorgiou

Motivations, impressions and consequences: a qualitative analysis of musicians experience of developing online profiles

2019 - date
Lewis Durrand | Director of Studies: Renée Stefanie | Second Supervisor: Dr Rory MacLean

Hybridisation as an experiential phenomenon: A practice-based approach towards conceptualising musical hybridisation

2018 - 2021
James Hind | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr Zack Moir

“Voice, and verse”: Exploring the salience of text in the communication of newly composed music

2013 - 2020
Stuart Mitchell | Director of Studies: Mr. Ken Dempster | Second Supervisor: Dr John Hails

Composition and identity

2020 - date
David Paton | Director of Studies: Dr John Hails | Second Supervisor: Dr Dave Hook

Mindful Musicking

2023 - date
Neil Mackenzie | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Dr John Hails

Participative textures in World of Warcraft: social capital, affect and community in Massively Multiplayer Online Games

2016 - date
Angeliki Glynou | Director of Studies: Dr Kirstie Jamieson | Second Supervisor: Dr Tom Flint

An autoethnography of Scottish hip-hop: social commentary, outsiderdom, locality and authenticity

2016 - 2018
Dr Dave Hook | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe

Dialogical music systems: The importance of agency in creative processes

2018 - date
Gordon O'Neill | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Dr John Hails

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