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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.

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

Illustration and the compositional process: an update on pedagogical and creative uses (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Blackburn, M. (2013, January). Illustration and the compositional process: an update on pedagogical and creative uses. Paper presented at From Tape to Typedef: Compositional Methods in Electroacoustic Music, From Tape to Typedef: Compositional Methods in Electroacoustic Music Conference Programme University of Sheffield

Improvisation, Dynamic Form and the Acousmatic Music Composer: Perspectives on Triple Retort (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Blackburn, M. (2012, December). Improvisation, Dynamic Form and the Acousmatic Music Composer: Perspectives on Triple Retort. Paper presented at INTER/actions Symposium, 2012, University of Bangor, Wales

This paper introduces the semi-improvised mixed work
Triple Retort
(2011) for flute, cello, mezzo-soprano and three laptops, and presents the concept of constructing dynamic form as a means of enabling and encouraging variation with each performa... Read More about Improvisation, Dynamic Form and the Acousmatic Music Composer: Perspectives on Triple Retort.