All Outputs (34)

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
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., …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

Finding the Female Users: A Feminist Historiography of the Fairlight CMI (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Blackburn, M., Harkins, P., & Paul, H. (2022, June). Finding the Female Users: A Feminist Historiography of the Fairlight CMI. Presented at Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM), University of Huddersfield, UK

The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Fellowship Pilot AHRC Funding Scheme Report 2020 - 2022 (2022)
Report
Blackburn, M., Coutinho, K. S. M., & Suviste, H. (2022). The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Fellowship Pilot AHRC Funding Scheme Report 2020 - 2022. AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council)

This report provides an assessment and commentary on the AHRC’s 2020—22 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Fellowship (EDIEF) pilot observing the successes, challenges, and benefits of its existence during its first iteration. The report ai... Read More about The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Fellowship Pilot AHRC Funding Scheme Report 2020 - 2022.

In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 3 (2021)
Book Chapter
Blackburn, M. (2021). In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 3. In The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 (228-234). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108556491.019

In her practitioner contribution, Manuella Blackburn presents an an exploration of how motherhood, and a new interest in domestic sound sources, inspired by prolonged time spent in the home during pregnancy and the early days of motherhood, changed h... Read More about In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 3.

Fragmenting the archive for creativity: developing digital sample packs of Indian musical instrument sounds (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Blackburn, M., Nayak, A., Suviste, H., & Batchelor, J. (2021, March). Fragmenting the archive for creativity: developing digital sample packs of Indian musical instrument sounds. Presented at Digital Archive and Canon workshop, 2nd Maximillian-Bickhoff Colloquium

Need we say more: Contemporary Responses to the Fairlight CMI (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Blackburn, M., Harkins, P., Puricelli, R., & Lacedelli, S. (2020, December). Need we say more: Contemporary Responses to the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, National Science & Media Museum, Bradford/Online

Often described as the first digital sampler, the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument (CMI) was primarily a digital synthesizer and computer workstation. Launched in 1979, it was one of the technologies that were used to re-shape the practices of m... Read More about Need we say more: Contemporary Responses to the Fairlight CMI.

Negotiating diversity and prejudice: a case study in successful cross-cultural collaboration (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Blackburn, M., & Nayak, A. (2020, January). Negotiating diversity and prejudice: a case study in successful cross-cultural collaboration. Paper presented at Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Music Higher Education Conference, City University

The Terminology of Borrowing (2019)
Journal Article
Blackburn, M. (2019). The Terminology of Borrowing. Organised Sound, 24(2), 139 -156. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355771819000189

This article specifically addresses electroacoustic music compositions that borrow from existing musical and sound resources. Investigating works that borrow and thrive upon existing sound sources presents an array of issues regarding terminology, au... Read More about The Terminology of Borrowing.

Editorial: Borrowing, quotation, sampling and plundering (2019)
Journal Article
Blackburn, M. (2019). Editorial: Borrowing, quotation, sampling and plundering. Organised Sound, 24(2), 115 -120. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355771819000153

Editorial.

Old Music for New Sounds, Quoting and recycling music of the past (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Blackburn, M. (2018, June). Old Music for New Sounds, Quoting and recycling music of the past. Paper presented at Electronic Music Society Network Conference, Florence, Italy

Presque Mon Son (2017)
Other
Blackburn, M., & Ferrari, L. (2017). Presque Mon Son. [Composition on album]

Petites étincelles (2017)
Digital Artefact
Blackburn, M. Petites étincelles. [Digital Music Album]

Album

Responding to migration: sound art practices promoting social transformation (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Blackburn, M. (2017, October). Responding to migration: sound art practices promoting social transformation. Paper presented at World on the Move conference, University of Manchester, UK

Other people’s sounds (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Blackburn, M. (2017, September). Other people’s sounds

Female composers and the sonic home: interactions with domestic sound (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Blackburn, M., & Martin, B. (2017, September). Female composers and the sonic home: interactions with domestic sound

Analysing the identifiable: cultural borrowing in Diana Salazar’sLa voz del fuelle (2016)
Book Chapter
Blackburn, M. (2016). Analysing the identifiable: cultural borrowing in Diana Salazar’sLa voz del fuelle. In Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis (288-309). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316339633.015

Instruments INDIA: A sound archive for educational and compositional use (2014)
Journal Article
Blackburn, M. (2014). Instruments INDIA: A sound archive for educational and compositional use. Organised Sound, 19(2), 146-153. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355771814000089

This article documents the evolution of the ‘Instruments INDIA’ project, which led to the creation of an online sound archive of Indian musical instruments. Recording work with approximately 27 musicians provided material for this interactive resourc... Read More about Instruments INDIA: A sound archive for educational and compositional use.