Music and Sound Research
School of Creative Technologies
The School of Creative Technologies’ Music and Sound group aims to promote, develop and conduct new research in Music & Sound falling broadly within [but not exclusive to] the following areas:
1. Granular and other Microsonic synthesis and control systems.
3. Interface design for Audio, Multi-touch technologies and TUIs
4. Audio generation for visual technologies and vice versa
5. Distortion techniques in Creative Audio
6. Audio Physical Models: particularly waveguide, modal and banded waveguide
models and their application in Music, Games, Multimedia and VR.
7. Computer Aided Composition and Analysis: particularly mapping techniques, stochastic and evolutionary methods, generative grammars and metalevel representations.
9. Spatial Audio
Musicological and Cultural Studies
1.Popular Music and Authenticity
2. Use of Technologies in Jazz. Performance Paradigms. New Jazz
These areas are reflected in the teaching both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels within our programmes at the University of Portsmouth. The existing BSc (Hons) Music & Sound Technology and MSc Creative & Computational Sound courses develop and support many of the above areas. Other courses and schools within the University touch on and are related to these subject areas.
We enthusiastically seek students, faculty, researchers and composers as potential collaborators.
Student Research Opportunities
The scope of research in sound and music within the School has breadth and depth; many students have conducted research in topics such as Music Technology and accessibility, psychomusicology, music education, communication and evocation in film music, synthesis and computer aided composition.
Postgraduate degrees offered at the University of Portsmouth are based around an individual research project. Students receive regular individual supervision on their research project with one or more members of staff as appropriate.
MSc Creative & Computational Sound
MPhil/PhD