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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.

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.

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 (2014)
Journal Article
Blackburn, M. (2014). Editorial. Organised Sound, 19(2), 107-109. https://doi.org/10.1017/s135577181400003x

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.

The Visual Sound-Shapes of Spectromorphology: an illustrative guide to composition (2011)
Journal Article
Blackburn, M. (2011). The Visual Sound-Shapes of Spectromorphology: an illustrative guide to composition. Organised Sound, 16(1), 5-13. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355771810000385

Since its conception, Denis Smalley's spectromorphology has equipped listeners and practitioners of electroacoustic music with appropriate and relevant vocabulary to describe the sound-shapes, sensations and evocations associated with experiences of... Read More about The Visual Sound-Shapes of Spectromorphology: an illustrative guide to composition.

Electroacoustic Music Incorporating Latin American Influences: A consideration of implications, reception and borrowing (2010)
Journal Article
Blackburn, M. (2010). Electroacoustic Music Incorporating Latin American Influences: A consideration of implications, reception and borrowing. eContact! - The electronic journal of electroacoustics, 12(4),

This paper aims to address the issue of incorporating Latin American influences into electroacoustic music. A questionnaire (Appendix 1) devised to identify sources of influence and methods of incorporation was responded to by a selection of electroa... Read More about Electroacoustic Music Incorporating Latin American Influences: A consideration of implications, reception and borrowing.