Voices, Bodies, Practices/ Player Piano
- Submitting institution
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University of York
: A - A - Music
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - A - Music
- Output identifier
- 67118432
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Leuven University Press; https://orpheusinstituut.be/en/voices-bodies-practices-media-repository; vimeo.
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This output comprises a substantial contribution to a book plus linked practice research; it is multi-layered, extended in scale and scope, and demonstrates sustained research effort. The book is co-authored overall, but Laws sole-authored nearly 50,000 words – the book’s Introduction, Conclusion, and her own extended chapter – and co-edited the remainder. The practice research comprised: i) developing a 75-minute intermedial performance piece, with scenography by Laws, compositions and other theatrical actions collaboratively devised, and Laws the main performer throughout; ii) the development of separate film versions of three individual components of the performance piece, in collaboration with a film-maker.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This output combines creative and critical research. The author produced performances and recordings as part of the research process, sole-authored the book’s Introduction, the Conclusion, and her own chapter, and co-edited other chapters. The book and linked artistic repository form one substantial output of a research cluster, ‘Performance, Subjectivity, and Experimentation’: a partnership between the University of York and the Orpheus Institute, Ghent, with the author as PI.
Each extended chapter in _Voices, Bodies, Practices_ focuses on one of four cluster subprojects. These developed in parallel, with common underpinning questions and extensive sharing of work-in-progress. All included practice research with artistic outputs. All contributors commented on the main chapters, with the author co-ordinating; hence the overall joint authorship.
The author’s chapter examines agency and embodied subjectivity in musical performance, focusing on her development of a 75-minute performance piece, ‘Player Piano’. Performances took place 2016-19 (UK, Belgium, Sweden), with 2020 performances postponed. ‘Player Piano’ includes four new compositions that can be performed separately, and the author also collaboratively developed film versions. An open access media repository, linked from the book, includes: a video trailer for ‘Player Piano’; video excerpts of live performance; film versions of two individual compositions (also on vimeo); audio recording of one composition (also on soundcloud). These are also submitted via USB stick, alongside a later film version of one piece: _Ten Bellows_ (published on vimeo, 2020).
One of the author’s other REF outputs, _Performance, Subjectivity, and Experimentation_, is also linked to the cluster research but developed from an open call. Her PSE contribution focuses on one ‘Player Piano’ composition (Lockwood’s _Ceci n’est pas un piano_). There is, therefore, a small overlap with _VBP_. However, the critical focus is entirely different and the author’s contribution to _VBP_ is nearly 50,000 words plus substantial artistic outputs.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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