The following is a listing of presentations by individual CHARM researchers that relate to CHARM's field of study; click here to access CHARM research publications information.

 

Eric Clarke

  • 'Empirical methods in humanities (and specifically music) research', Carleton College, MN (8 April 2008)
  • ‘Empirical, critical, dialectical’. SEMPRE/IMR 'Empirical musicology' conference, London (2-3 April 2008) [keynote]
  • 'Empirical methods in humanities research', University of Stavanger (15 November 2007)
  • ‘Investigating performance with empirical methods’, Malmø University of the Arts, Sweden (24 April 2007)
  • ‘Creativity and interpretation in contemporary piano performance’, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki (30 April 2006)
  • ‘Empirical musicology’, Finnish Musicological Society annual meeting, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (17-18 March 2005) [keynote]
  • ‘Interpretation and creativity in performance’, University of Hull (9 November 2004)
  • ‘Measuring expression in performance’, 'Le travail de l'interprétation' conference, IRCAM, Paris (18-20 October 2004)
  • ‘Making meaning in performance’, 'Music: interpretation, performance and perception' conference, Sigtuna, Sweden (17-19 September 2004)

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Nicholas Cook

  • 'Psychology, performance, history: the evidence of recordings', Annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, Graz (9-12 October 2008) [keynote]; '"Ah sweet mystery of rhythmic life!" Re-reading between the lines', Conference in Honour of Edward T. Cone, Princeton University (5-7 December 2008); 'Music and cognition: on the contribution of John Sloboda' symposium, IRCAM, Paris (23 January 2009)
  • 'Hearing Schenker through d'Albert: Schubert's Impromptu Op. 90 No. 3', 'Performing Romantic music: theory and practice' conference, Durham (10-13 July 2008)
  • 'Bridging the unbridgeable? Empirical musicology and interdisciplinary performance studies', SEMPRE 'Empirical musicology' conference, London (2-3 April 2008) [keynote]; Trinity College, Dublin (20 October 2009)
  • 'Objective expression: analysing phrase arching in recordings of Chopin's mazurkas', King's College London (16 January 2008); IRCAM/École des hautes études, Paris (14 February 2008); RNCM (2 May 2008); Goldsmiths College, University of London (19 January 2009); Trinity College Dublin (21 October 2009)
  • 'Towards a musicology of performance: Chopin's mazurkas on record', Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Musicological Societies, Brisbane (22-25 November 2007) [keynote]
  • 'Semiosis in performance and performance studies', Congress of the International Musicological Society, University of Zürich (10-15 July 2007)
  • 'The Mazurkas project: creating a toolkit for performance analysis', 'Reactions to the record: perspectives on historic performance conference', Stanford University (19-21 April 2007)
  • 'Thinking about music as performance', Royal Holloway, University of London (26 March 2007) [inaugural lecture]; Princeton University (25 April 2007); PERFORMA conference, University of Aveiro (10-12 May 2007) [keynote]
  • 'Creating a musicological toolkit: CHARM and the Mazurkas project', Digital Music Research Network workshop, Queen Mary, University of London (20 December 2006)
  • 'Mazurkas project update', Music Department colloquium, Royal Holloway, University of London (6 December 2006); City University, London (22 February 2007) [with Sapp]
  • 'Performance analysis and Chopin's mazurkas', 'Chopin in Paris: the 1830s' conference, Warsaw, Poland (30 November – 2 December 2006); University of Surrey (6 March 2007)
  • 'What is the mazurka effect', Royal Academy of Music, London (23 February 2007)
  • 'Changing the musical object: approaches to performance analysis', Music Cognition Group, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (12 October 2006) [with Sapp]
  • 'Changing the musical object: approaches to performance analysis', University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil (2 September 2006); Escola Superior de Musica de Lisboa, Portugal (27-8 October 2006); ANPPOM, 16th Brazilian Congress on Music Research, Brasilia (28 August–1 September 2006) [keynote]
  • 'Changing the musical object: the study of music as performance', Gothenburg Musicology Conference, Sweden (16-18 August 2006)
  • 'Music, performance, meaning', Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield (4 May 2006)
  • 'Thinking about music as performance', Rayson Huang Lecture, Hong Kong University (31 March 2006); Hanyang University, Seoul (12 April 2006)
  • 'Changing the object: towards a musicology of performance', Cardiff University (7 February 2006); University of Cambridge (1 March 2006); Royal Academy of Music, London (10 March 2006)
  • ‘A CHARM Sampler’, SAUL Seminar, British Library, London (6 December 2005)
  • 'Towards the compleat musicologist', Sixth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR, London (11-15 September 2005)
  • 'Towards a musicology of performance', Music Research Students conference, University of Oslo (1-2 September 2005)
  • 'Multimedia, performance, performativity', CS/EP Intermedia Festival, University of California, San Diego (2-5 June 2005)
  • 'Changing the musical object: approaches to performance analysis', 'Music’s Intellectual History: Founders, Followers, and Fads' conference (RILM), New York (16-19 March 2005)
  • 'Introducing the mazurkas project', 'Le travail de l’interprétation' conference, IRCAM, Paris (18-20 October 2004); Royal Holloway, University of London (2 February 2005)
  • 'Thinking performatively about musical performance: why so difficult?', 'Performativity: a paradigm for the studies of art and culture' conference, The Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, Literature and the Arts, Denmark (30 November–3 December 2004)
  • 'Prompting performance: text, script, and analysis in Bryn Harrison's être-temps', AMS/SMT Annual Meeting Seattle (11-14 November 2004)
  • 'Introducing the mazurkas project', King’s College London (24 November 2004)
  • 'Demise of the work ethic: analysing the improvisations of Jimi Hendrix', Symposium of the International Musicological Society, Melbourne (11-16 July 2004)
  • 'In real time: music as performance', Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium (29 April 2004)

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Andrew Hallifax

  • 'The engineer as stylist', CHARM Symposium 6, Egham (11-13 September 2008)

 

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

  • 'Elena Gerhardt’s Schubert recordings and the analysis of performance style', King's College London, 4 March 2009
  • 'How do we make sense of music?', Royal College of Physicians, 23 February 2009
  • Contribution to round table, ‘Careers in musicology of performance’, RMA Music Research Students' Conference, 10 January 2009
  • 'Studying Performance Style', Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 3 November 2008
  • 'CHARM', Association of British Orchestras conference, King's College London, 11 November 2008
  • Contribution to round table on musicology and performance, Oxford Graduate Exchange Conference, 21 June 2008
  • 'What can musicology do for orchestras?', Association of British Orchestras/LCACE, Somerset House, London, 20 June 2008
  • ‘CHARM’, British and Irish Sound Archives conference, Aberystwyth, 23 May 2008
  • 'Reading music at university', Royal Academy of Music, 26 April 2008
  • 'CHARM', International Association of Music Librarians-UK annual conference, University of Kent, 13 April 2008
  • 'Evolutionary processes in changing performance style', 'Music and evolutionary thought' conference, Durham University (22-23 June 2007)
  • 'Performance style: evolutionary perspectives', Music and Brain Group, UCL (19 June 2007)
  • 'Expressive gesture and performance style', Birmingham Conservatoire (8 May 2007)
  • 'Schubert's young nun: a tale of two singers', CHARM Symposium 4, Egham (12-14 April 2007)
  • 'Listening and responding to the evidence of early 20th century performance', 'Listening: interdisciplinary perspectives' conference, King’s College, Cambridge (24-25 November 2006)
  • ‘Early recorded violin playing: evidence for what?’, 'Aspekte der Streicherpraxis in der Romantik' conference, Hochschule der Künste, Bern, Switzerland (18-19 November 2006)
  • 'Portamento and musical meaning', Institute of Advanced Musical Studies colloquium, King’s College London (27 September 2006)
  • 'Sound analysis and performance analysis', Digital Signal Processing and Multimedia Group, Queen Mary, University of London (11 January 2006)
  • 'Musicology and performance', 'Music’s intellectual history: founders, followers and fads' conference (RILM), New York (16-19 March 2005)
  • ‘Vocal communication in speech and music’, Society of Music Analysis Study Day, University of Manchester (5 February 2005)
  • 'Expressive gesture in Schubert singing on record', 'music: interpretation, performance and perception conference', Sigtuna, Sweden (16-19 September 2004)

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Nick Morgan

  • 'The National Gramophonic Society (1924-31): the world's first niche record label', London University Music Diploma Society (26 October 2007)
  • '"To persecute people with beauty": subverting the music market in the 1920s', CHARM/RMA Conference, Egham (13-15 September 2007)
  • 'That d**ned elusive gramophile: who was buying chamber music in the 1920s?', Music Department Graduate Study Day, University of Sheffield (18 May 2007)
  • 'Name the Composer: The N.G.S. and the first "modern" record catalogue', CHARM Symposium 6, Egham (11 September 2008)

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David Patmore

  • 'The British record industry, 1925-29', CHARM Symposium 6, Egham (11 September 2008)
  • 'Albert Coates and other "lost" conductors of the 1920s', SAUL seminar, British Library, London (6 November 2007);University of Sheffield (26 November 2007)
  • 'Sir Henry Wood: the recordings', Royal Academy of Music, London (28 September 2007)
  • 'The business of musical culture: the British record industry and its international influence, 1925-32', Association of Business Historian's Annual Conference, Wolverhampton (29-30 June 2007); revised paper presented at CHARM/RMA Conference, Egham (13-15 September 2007)
  • 'Sir Henry Wood: life, recording career and influence', BBC and British Library conference on the Promenade Concerts, British Library, London (23 April 2007)
  • 'Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Georg Solti and Sir Simon Rattle and the recording industry', Royal Academy of Music, London (23 February 2007)
  • 'Sir John Barbirolli: the recorded legacy', Royal Academy of Music, London (29 September 2006)
  • 'Sir John Barbirolli: the New York recordings', Royal Academy of Music, London (26 June 2006)
  • 'CHARM: a progress report; and an examination of commercial factors dominant in the British recording industry, 1925-32', Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) conference, Seattle (18 May 2006)
  • 'Inside the record industry' (the Barbirolli Lectures), Royal Academy of Music, London (26 May 2006)
  • 'Otto Klemperer: the recordings', Royal Academy of Music, London (15 March 2006)
  • ‘Commercial and cultural considerations in the British recording industry, 1925-32’, contribution to 'A CHARM sampler', Saul Seminar, British Library, London (6 December 2005)
  • 'John Culshaw and the recording as a work of art', 'The Art of Record Production' conference /CHARM Symposium 2, London (18 September 2005)

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John Rink

  • '"Ah sweet mystery of rhythmic life!" Re-reading between the lines', Conference in Honour of Edward T. Cone, Princeton University (6 December 2008); Middlesex University (11 February 2009)
  • 'Sounding out Chopin', Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Rostock, Germany (24 October 2008)
  • 'Variants and variance in Chopin', Lecture-Recital, Humboldt Universität, Berlin (23 October 2008)
  • 'Plus ça change: analyzing performances of Chopin's Mazurka Op. 24 No. 2', 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC10), Sapporo, Japan (27 August 2008) [with Spiro and Gold]
  • 'Chopin in flux', 'Performing Romantic music: theory and practice' conference, University of Durham (11 July 2008) [keynote]
  • 'Chopin en ligne: vers une "édition dynamique"', 'Genèses musicales: méthodes et enjeux' conference, Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM), Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris (23 May 2008)
  • 'Translating Chopin', Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, Ireland (30 April 2008)
  • 'Chopin: from score to sound', National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland (29 April 2008)
  • 'L'interprétation (musicale?) de l'interprétation musicale: les "Performance Studies" comme discipline', IRCAM/École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (27 March 2008)
  • 'Behind the music' (seminars/masterclasses), Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London (5 March 2008, 30 October 2008, 19 January 2009, 26 March 2009)
  • 'Sounding out Chopin' (lecture-recital), Royal Holloway, University of London (28 February 2008); University of Birmingham (4 March 2008)
  • 'In search of motive: identification of repeated patterns in performance and their structural context', International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICOMCS), Sydney (7 December 2007) [with Spiro and Gold]
  • 'Performance motives: analysis and comparison of performance timing repetitions using pattern matching and formal concept analysis', International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS), Porto (22 November 2007) [with Spiro and Gold]
  • 'Chopin: from score to sound', Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff (29 October 2007)
  • 'Playing with words and sounds: thought and action in musical performance' (seminar/workshop), Guildhall School of Music and Drama (18 May 2007)
  • 'Sounding out Chopin: new sources and resources', Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI), Dublin (11-12 May 2007) [keynote]
  • 'Definire/Ridefinire: I "motivi" dell'esecuzione', Gruppo Analisi e Teorio Musicale (GATM) conference, Rimini, Italy (8-10 March 2007) [keynote]
  • 'Playing with words and sounds: thought and action in musical performance', Centre for Creative Performance, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London (6 February and 18 May 2007)
  • 'Chopin in performance: perspectives on notation and sound' (seminar series), University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil (November – December 2006) [Visiting Professor]
  • 'Translating Chopin', Polen 2006 Festival, Trondheim, Norway (20 October 2006)
  • 'Chopin poète', 'Chopin tel qu'en lui-même' festival, Rencontres Internationales Chopin, La Châtre, France (25 July 2006)
  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (August 2005) [Visiting Professor]
  • 'Analyzing motive in performance', Second International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Science of Music (APSCOM2), Seoul (4-6 August 2005) [keynote]
  • 'Time and again: musical narrative in performance', Second International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Science of Music (APSCOM2), Seoul (5 August 2005); University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (15 August 2005)
  • 'Chopin tel qu’en lui-même' festival, Rencontres Internationales Chopin, La Châtre, France (18-21 July 2006)
  • '"Work in progress": L'oeuvre infini(e) de Chopin' and 'Respiration et geste chez Chopin', Colloque Interpréter Chopin, Cité de la Musique, Paris (25-26 May 2005)
  • 'Chopin and the technique of performance', 'Chopin in performance: history, theory, practice' conference, Warsaw (4 December 2004)
  • 'Chopin – virtuosity and the dance', Royal Academy of Music, London (11 November 2004)
  • 'L'analyse musicale et / ou / pour / de l'interprétation', 'Le travail de l’interprétation' conference, IRCAM, Paris (18-20 October 2004)
  • 'Chopin's Study in proportion (or, How to salvage a masterpiece)', Symposium of the International Musicological Society, Melbourne (12-17 July 2004); University of Hull (1 March 2005)

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Craig Sapp

  • 'Hybrid numeric/rank similarity metrics for musical performance analysis', ISMIR 2008, Drexel University, Philadelphia (14-18 September 2008)
  • ‘Key-profile comparisons in key-finding by correlation’, 10th International Conference on Music Perception (ICMPC10), Sapporo, Japan (25-29 August 2008)
  • 'Comparing performances of Chopin mazurkas', Sound Media Representation Laboratory, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan (20 August 2008); NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan (18 August 2008)
  • 'Performance authenticity: a case study of the Concert Artist label', ARSC Conference, Stanford (26-29 March, 2008)
  • 'Measuring similarity in performances of Chopin mazurkas', CCRMA Colloquium, Stanford University (31 October 2007)
  • 'Computational performance analysis', Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium (27 September 2007)
  • 'Comparative analysis of multiple musical performances', ISMIR conference, Vienna (23-27 September 2007)
  • 'Similarity measurements in Chopin mazurka performances', C4DM seminar, Queen Mary, University of London (11 July 2007)
  • 'Beat-level comparative performance analysis', CHARM Symposium 4: Methods for analysing recordings, Egham (12-14 April 2007)
  • 'Mazurkas project update', Music Department colloquium, Royal Holloway, University of London (6 December 2006); City University, London (22 February 2007) [with Cook]
  • 'CHARM update', Science and Music seminar, University of Cambridge (28 November 2006)
  • 'Changing the musical object: approaches to performance analysis', Music Cognition Group, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (12 October 2006) [with Cook]
  • 'CHARM: style, performance and meaning in Chopin's mazurkas', Musical Acoustics Network Conference with Groupe Specialise Acoustique Musicale (France) in association with Royal College of Music and London Metropolitan University (20-21 September 2006)

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Neta Spiro

  • 'Plus ça change: analyzing performances of Chopin's Mazurka Op. 24 No. 2', 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC10), Sapporo, Japan (27 August 2008) [with Gold and Rink]
  • 'Understanding musical performance: using self-organising maps to characterise performance timing', King's College London (31 March 2008) [with Gold]
  • 'In search of motive: identification of repeated patterns in performance and their structural context', International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICOMCS), Sydney (7 December 2007) [with Gold and Rink]
  • 'Performance motives: analysis and comparison of performance timing repetitions using pattern matching and formal concept analysis', International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS), Porto (22 November 2007) [with Gold and Rink]

 

Renee Timmers

  • 'Fred Lerdahl's "On Tonal Motion and Force"', 'Mind and Music' roundtable, Columbia University, New York (4 March 2006)
  • 'Performance expression', Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Radboud University, Nijmegen (22 March 2005)
  • 'De rol van dynamiek, het aantrekkelijke van luid, en mogelijke alternatieven' [The role of dynamics, the attraction of loud sounds, and possible alternatives], Dag van het gehoor [Day on hearing], Conservatorium of Amsterdam (10 February 2006)
  • Analysis of performances from audio files', Digital Signal Processing and Multimedia Group, Queen Mary, University of London (11 January 2006)
  • Contribution to 'A CHARM sampler', Saul Seminar, British Library, London (6 December 2005)
  • 'Emotional ornamentation in performances of a Handel sonata', University of Sheffield (28 February 2005)
  • 'The Schubert project', King’s College London (24 November 2004)

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