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Multi-voice commentary for sample-based music: an inclusive approach (2024)
Journal Article
Blackburn, M. (in press). Multi-voice commentary for sample-based music: an inclusive approach. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 150(2), 47

Discussions of sample-based music as found within academic literature traditionally operate as single authored documents, despite the frequency of multi-genre content found within this repertoire, enabled so via sampling. This article builds a case f... 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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

Microplastics (2021)
Other
Blackburn, M. (2021). Microplastics. [digital fixed media and CD]. BEAST FEaST 2021: Concert 5, Birmingham University

Microplastics is an acousmatic work derived solely from plastic sound sources. These sounds are predominately from waste accumulated from household use (empty milk containers, bottles, straws, lids, cling film, and wrappers).

Further sources were... Read More about Microplastics.

Need we say more: Contemporary Responses to the Fairlight CMI (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.