All Outputs (24)

Harnessing Virtualization to Transpose Place-Based Music (2025)
Journal Article
Barnard, M., Martin, A., & Slater, M. (2025). Harnessing Virtualization to Transpose Place-Based Music. Computer Music Journal, 48(1), 30-50. https://doi.org/10.1162/comj_a_00710

The original aim behind the project Nightports at Hull Minster was to create a 30-minute musical composition intended for live performance across a loudspeaker orchestra in situ. As the project evolved, new dissemination opportunities emerged, leadin... Read More about Harnessing Virtualization to Transpose Place-Based Music.

Nightports at Hull Minster: Transporting a Site-Specific Musical Work Across Physical and Virtual Spaces (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barnard, M., Martin, A., & Slater, M. (2024, July). Nightports at Hull Minster: Transporting a Site-Specific Musical Work Across Physical and Virtual Spaces. Presented at ICMC2024. Sound In Motion, Seoul

‘Nightports at Hull Minster’ is a musical project that harnesses spatialisation techniques to present music composed of the sounds of Hull Minster, UK, in both the location itself and alternative performance spaces, whilst still expressing the spatia... Read More about Nightports at Hull Minster: Transporting a Site-Specific Musical Work Across Physical and Virtual Spaces.

Between Two Tides: A Practice Research Performance on the South Holderness Coast (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Billing, C. (2024). Between Two Tides: A Practice Research Performance on the South Holderness Coast. [Live Performance]. 9 May 2024 - 10 May 2024

The performance 'Between Two Tides', staged by researchers from the University of Hull in May 2024, considered the intertwined histories of humans and nature along the South Holderness coast, a region grappling with the impacts of climate change. Thi... Read More about Between Two Tides: A Practice Research Performance on the South Holderness Coast.

Nightports at Hull Minster: Physical, Hybrid and Virtualized Live Loudspeaker Array Spatialization of Electronic Music Performance (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barnard, M., Martin, A., & Slater, M. (2023, September). Nightports at Hull Minster: Physical, Hybrid and Virtualized Live Loudspeaker Array Spatialization of Electronic Music Performance. Presented at 2023 Immersive and 3D Audio: from Architecture to Automotive (I3DA 2023), Bologna, Italy

'Nightports at Hull Minster' is a musical project that harnesses spatialization techniques to present music composed of the sounds of Hull Minster, UK, in both the location itself and alternative performance spaces, whilst still expressing the spatia... Read More about Nightports at Hull Minster: Physical, Hybrid and Virtualized Live Loudspeaker Array Spatialization of Electronic Music Performance.

Adapting live loudspeaker array spatialisation methods for a site-specific live electronic music performance in physical, virtual and hybrid contexts (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barnard, M., Slater, M., & Martin, A. (2023, August). Adapting live loudspeaker array spatialisation methods for a site-specific live electronic music performance in physical, virtual and hybrid contexts. Presented at International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio 2023, Huddersfield

Nightports at Hull Minster is a musical project that harnesses spatialisation techniques to present music composed of the sounds of Hull Minster, UK, in both the location itself and alternative performance spaces, whilst still expressing the spatiali... Read More about Adapting live loudspeaker array spatialisation methods for a site-specific live electronic music performance in physical, virtual and hybrid contexts.

Nightports at Hull Minster [Musical Work] (2023)
Digital Artefact
(2023). Nightports at Hull Minster [Musical Work]. [audio recording]

Following rare access to the bell tower at Hull Minster in September 2021, this immersive electronic work is made entirely of recordings of the bells that have rung out over the city of Hull for centuries, and of the clock mechanism that has marked t... Read More about Nightports at Hull Minster [Musical Work].

Nightports at Hull Minster on BBC Radio 3 (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
(2023). Nightports at Hull Minster on BBC Radio 3. 9 January 2023

'Nightports at Hull Minster' is a practice-research project that explores site-specific composition, production, performance and real-time audio spatialisation. Underpinning this research is the creation of a new 30-minute original musical work for l... Read More about Nightports at Hull Minster on BBC Radio 3.

Nightports at Hull Minster [video] (2022)
Digital Artefact
(2022). Nightports at Hull Minster [video]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pBToHDIZUQ]

Following rare access to the bell tower at Hull Minster in September 2021, this immersive electronic work is made entirely of recordings of the bells that have rung out over the city of Hull for centuries and of the clock mechanism that has marked th... Read More about Nightports at Hull Minster [video].

Performing in the Studio (2022)
Book Chapter
Slater, M. (2022). Performing in the Studio. In G. McPherson (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance, Vol.1 (510-527). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190056285.013.31

While studio recordings can resemble live performances and draw upon similar reserves of knowledge and skill, the processes and experiences of performing in the studio are notably different from being on stage in front of an audience. This chapter si... Read More about Performing in the Studio.

Transmission strategies and blossoming participants in my composed music (2020)
Thesis
Catherin, B. Transmission strategies and blossoming participants in my composed music. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223492

This commentary accompanies a portfolio of six compositions written between 2017 and 2019 with different co-makers. It discusses the core question explored in this portfolio: how the idiosyncrasies of the participants (makers, performers, audience m... Read More about Transmission strategies and blossoming participants in my composed music.

Distance (2020)
Digital Artefact
Slater, M., Martin, A., & Hallett, M. (2020). Distance. [https://nightports.bandcamp.com/album/distance]

'Distance' was made after the Nightports w/ Betamax album was already complete – we went back through the original recordings to check for parts we’d missed, stones left unturned and sounds we’d previously left alone. These tracks contain a new array... Read More about Distance.

Nightports w/ Betamax (2020)
Digital Artefact
Slater, M., Martin, A., & Hallett, M. (2020). Nightports w/ Betamax. [MP3; CD; Vinyl]

Nightports is based on a simple but unbreakable rule of restriction: only sounds produced by the featured musician can be used. Nothing else. These sounds can be transformed, distorted, translated, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered a... Read More about Nightports w/ Betamax.

Making music in the real world : a professional practice portfolio and reflective commentary (2019)
Thesis
McCallum, S. Making music in the real world : a professional practice portfolio and reflective commentary. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222595

This practice-as-research aims to explore the roles and working practice of a contemporary music practitioner. There are two elements included in the research: a musical portfolio and a written commentary. The creation of the musical portfolio is the... Read More about Making music in the real world : a professional practice portfolio and reflective commentary.

Constraint and creative decision making in the composition of concert works, film and video-game soundtracks (2019)
Thesis
Marshall, G. A. Constraint and creative decision making in the composition of concert works, film and video-game soundtracks. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222714

This PhD research investigates the types, implications and origins of constraint within the contexts of various music composition projects. It then presents the practical value of this deeper understanding as a contemporary music composer.

To expl... Read More about Constraint and creative decision making in the composition of concert works, film and video-game soundtracks.

Nightports, 'Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne' (2018)
Digital Artefact
Slater, M., Martin, A., & Bourne, M. (2018). Nightports, 'Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne'. [https://nightports.bandcamp.com/album/nightports-w-matthew-bourne]

A 45-minute album exploring the concept of restriction in collaboration with pianist Matthew Bourne.

Liner notes (introduction):
Nightports is based on a simple but unbreakable rule of restriction: only sounds produced by the featured musician ca... Read More about Nightports, 'Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne'.

Functions of genre in metal and hardcore music (2017)
Thesis
Kennedy, L. F. Functions of genre in metal and hardcore music. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220820

This thesis addresses various functions of genre in metal/hardcore music as a lens through which to study popular music in the twenty-first century. The thesis proposes that issues of genre are fundamental to understandings of popular music for all p... Read More about Functions of genre in metal and hardcore music.

Processes of learning in the project studio (2016)
Book Chapter
Slater, M. (2016). Processes of learning in the project studio. In A. King, & E. Himonides (Eds.), Music, Technology, and Education : Critical Perspectives (9-26). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596945

The emergence of the project studio is a story of increasing access to ever more powerful technologies that allow music to be produced in increasingly diverse circumstances. In 1973 Melody Maker responded, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, to an emerging tre... Read More about Processes of learning in the project studio.

Locating project studios and studio projects (2016)
Journal Article
Slater, M. (2016). Locating project studios and studio projects. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 141(1), 167-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2016.1151241

Via a longitudinal case study of a studio project (Middlewood Sessions, 2004–12), this research explores processes of music-making in the increasingly prevalent context of the project studio to give an insight into contemporary music-making practices... Read More about Locating project studios and studio projects.

Nightports, 'Depart' (2015)
Digital Artefact
Slater, M., & Martin, A. (2015). Nightports, 'Depart'. [https://nightports.bandcamp.com/album/depart]

A 60-minute studio album exploring the underlying concept of restriction in original musical creativity.

Liner notes (introduction):

Arrive. Move. Shift. Change. Depart. All sounds come from Emily. No other sound sources are permitted. Only sou... Read More about Nightports, 'Depart'.

Nests, arcs and cycles in the lifespan of a studio project (2014)
Journal Article
Slater, M. (2015). Nests, arcs and cycles in the lifespan of a studio project. Popular music, 34(1), 67-93. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143014000683

Middlewood Sessions produced a kind of popular music that infuses the timbral aesthetics of jazz and orchestral music with the driving rhythms of dance music. This studio project, lasting for almost eight years, provided a rich resource for gaining i... Read More about Nests, arcs and cycles in the lifespan of a studio project.