• Applications of system dynamics modelling to computer music 

  Whalley, Ian (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

  Based on a composer's psycho-acoustic imagination or response to music, system dynamics modelling and simulation tools can be used as a scoring device to map the structural dynamic shape of interest of computer music ...

  

• Beyond pitch/duration scoring: Towards a system dynamics model of electroacoustic music 

  Whalley, Ian (Vetana Systems, 1999)

  Based on a hierarchy of discrete pitches and metrically sub-divisible duration, Western tonal art music is usually modelled through printed music scores. Scoring acoustic musical events beyond this paradigm has resulted ...

  

• HIEMPA: Hybrid Instruments from Electroacoustic Manipulation and Models of Pütorino and Aquascape 

  Whalley, Ian (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

  The HIEMPA project combined a team of people with technical, artistic, environmental and cultural expertise towards an artistic outcome aiming to extend the New Zealand sonic art tradition. The work involved collecting ...

  

• PIWeCS: enhancing human/machine agency in an interactive composition system 

  Whalley, Ian (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

  This paper focuses on the infrastructure and aesthetic approach used in PIWeCS: a Public Space Interactive Web-based Composition System. The concern was to increase the sense of dialogue between human and machine agency ...

  

• Review: Audio anecdotes: tools, tips and techniques for digital audio 

  Whalley, Ian (2009)

  Audio Anecdotes is the first in a series of three books covering creating, recording, processing, and analyzing sound and music, also touching on the opportunities presented by digital media and computing. This first book ...

  

• The application of ICT in the music classroom: Factors that influence technology integration in New Zealand secondary schools. 

  O’Connell, Amanda (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  This thesis investigates how New Zealand secondary school music teachers used ICT in their music programmes between 2008 and 2012. It started from the assumption that the adoption of technology in secondary music classrooms ...

  

• The High Art of Trip Hop: Extending the Bristol Sound by Incorporating Compositional Approaches from Classical Music 

  Wragg, Jeffrey Stephen (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  ‘The High Art of Trip Hop’ defines the Bristol sound and extends it through new composition techniques. The two-part thesis combines musicological and practice-led research. Part one analyses the Bristol sound, a style ...

  

• Preparing for Operatic Roles by Combining Elements of Stanislavsky’s System with Alfreds’ Actioning 

  Dams, June (The University of Waikato, 2017)

  This thesis examines the process of preparing for operatic roles by combining elements of Constantin Stanislavsky’s ‘system’ with Mike Alfreds’ Actioning. The research is presented as a report of a practice-led experiment, ...

  

• A Kind of Magic: Identifying and Analysing Queen's Idiolect, 1973-1980 

  Braae, Nicholas (University of Waikato, 2016)

  ‘A Kind of Magic’ is a musicological study of the British band Queen’s output between 1973 and 1980. The research analyses 90 songs across eight studio albums, and covers the era during which Queen emerged as one of the ...

  

• Tito Waiata-Tito Pūoro: extending the Kīngitanga music tradition. 

  Rollo, Te Manaaroha Pirihira (University of Waikato, 2014)

  Since 1858, music has always been an integral part of the Kīngitanga movement in New Zealand. As this music tradition evolves with the introduction of new musical idioms, genres and digital technology, so too do the practices ...

  

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