Outputs (42)

Multi-Voice Commentary for Sample-Based Music: An Inclusive Approach (2025)
Journal Article
Blackburn, M. (2025). Multi-Voice Commentary for Sample-Based Music: An Inclusive Approach. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 150(2), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1017/rma.2025.10034

Discussions of sample-based music are traditionally single-authored, despite the frequency of multi-genre content found within this repertoire. This article builds a case for a new approach for future analyses, justified by highlighting repertoire th... Read More about Multi-Voice Commentary for Sample-Based Music: An Inclusive Approach.

Commercial electronic musical instrument sample packs (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blackburn, M. (2024, September). Commercial electronic musical instrument sample packs. Paper presented at Commercial Electronic Musical Instruments in 21st Century Music, University of West London

Sample packs have a role in increasing the accessibility to the sounds of hardware synths and other physical electronic musical instruments.

This practice of curating libraries of sounds for global ends users within music production industries af... Read More about Commercial electronic musical instrument sample packs.

Home Truths (2024)
Other
Blackburn, M. (2024). Home Truths. [Digital, fixed media and CD]. Premiere performance: IX Festival de Música Electroacústica UC: Tercera jornada, Auditorio — Centro de Extensión Campus Oriente — Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago (Chile)

Programme note: Interruptions dominate this composition, acting as pauses, abrupt stops, moments cut short and held breaths. These moments represent the many interruptions experienced in my daily life, in work, activities and composing. Interruptions... Read More about Home Truths.

Responding to misrepresentation: Sample pack creation, branding and distribution (2024)
Journal Article
Blackburn, M. (2024). Responding to misrepresentation: Sample pack creation, branding and distribution. Sound Studies, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2023.2301214

This article documents the creation and distribution of a new sample pack, Instruments INDIA, as an intervention against systemic orientalist practices observable within the marketing, branding and production of non-Western instrument sample packs. T... Read More about Responding to misrepresentation: Sample pack creation, branding and distribution.

Opera samples in electroacoustic music: A portal for music discovery (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blackburn, M., & Baird, K. (2023, November). Opera samples in electroacoustic music: A portal for music discovery. Paper presented at Electronic Music Studies Network, (EMS), De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

"If we use the strength of diversity among researchers we can only improve the quality and impact of our research": Issues of equality, diversity, inclusion, and transparency in the process of applying for research funding (2023)
Report
Bell, A., Biglino, G., Blackburn, M., Brown, J., Bruce, R., Buckley Woods, H., Burnett, C., Clift, K., Couzin, N., Derrick, G. E., Duncan, L. J., Eyland, S., Gooberman-Hill, R., Harris, S., Jones, A. F., Jones, P., Kitou, E., Knipe, D., Maia Schlüssel, M., Meadows, A., …Verghese, V. (2023). "If we use the strength of diversity among researchers we can only improve the quality and impact of our research": Issues of equality, diversity, inclusion, and transparency in the process of applying for research funding. Elizabeth Blackwell Institute, University of Bristol, the Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund, MoreBrains Cooperative

This paper sets out the recommendations that have emerged from a six-month-long exploration and discussion of the processes that take place before research is submitted for funding: the 'pre-award' environment. Our work concentrated on how this envir... Read More about "If we use the strength of diversity among researchers we can only improve the quality and impact of our research": Issues of equality, diversity, inclusion, and transparency in the process of applying for research funding.

The representation of diversity in sample packs (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Blackburn, M. (2023, May). The representation of diversity in sample packs. Presented at NoiseFloor 2023

Cupboard Love (2023)
Other
Blackburn, M. (2023). Cupboard Love. [digital, fixed media composition]. Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts – K101 Shokeikan Hall, Kyoto (Japan)

This work explores the memories found in cupboards, drawers and cabinets. Scraps of paper, photographs and mementos come to life through sonic snapshots of earlier times. Opening and closing cupboards offers an inviting gesture to enter new sonic wor... Read More about Cupboard Love.

Representing Diversity Guidance Document (2023)
Digital Artefact
Blackburn, M. (2023). Representing Diversity Guidance Document. [pdf document]

Guidance document for sample pack producers and sample pack distributors when branding and promoting music and audio products from global majority musicians and instruments.

Sample packs are the building blocks for creative communities in music p... Read More about Representing Diversity Guidance Document.

Farewell Fairlight (2022)
Other
Blackburn, M. (2022). Farewell Fairlight. [digital, fixed media and CD]. Premiere performance, L’expérimentale, Paris, France

This composition exclusively makes use of sounds sourced from the Fairlight CMI. These sounds include the factory pre-recorded samples which came loaded on 8-inch floppy diskettes on the Fairlight CMI series II from its manufacturer in 1982.

Othe... Read More about Farewell Fairlight.