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Supplementary Research Materials

A selection of materials supplementing my formally published research.

Audiovisual Analysis of Autarkeia Aggregatum

Music Haptics

Investigations around the potential to link force-feedback interfaces to tension and other musical qualities.

The OptiNelder Video Filter

Items pertaining to the video filter I created and used in the Estuaries Series and other works. A detailed explanation of the filter is published in Battey, B. (2020) "Technique and Audiovisual Counterpoint in the Estuaries Series". In Andrew Knight-Hill, Ed., Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices. London: Routledge.


Research Students and Examining

Current PhD Students

  • Robert Chafer (1st supervisor)
    [Midlands Four Cities Doctoral Training Programme award recipient]
    Creative Frameworks for Future Practice: Cross-Synthesis of Mixed-Reality and Audiovisual Composition

  • Eddie Clijsen (2nd supervisor)
    [Midlands Four Cities Doctoral Training Programme award recipient]
    Practical Explorations of Formalised Approaches to Microtonal Composition

  • Ross Davidson (1st supervisor)
    [Midlands Four Cities Doctoral Training Programme award recipient]
    Applying an Electroacoustic Approach to the Soundtrack of Narrative Film

Completed PhD Students

PhD External Examiner

  • Anastasios Asonitis – 2024, University of Manchester
    Portfolio of Original Compositions
    ["Optimisation algorithmic processes as a source of narrative for audiovisual composition"]

  • Emmanouil Kanellos – 2024, Bath Spa University
    Immersive Visual Music: How Contemporary Visual Music Practices have Evolved and how Immersive Technologies can be Employed to Compose Visual Music Works

  • Bryan Dunphy – 2021, Goldsmiths, University of London
    Mapping Unrealities: The Development of an Audiovisual Practice

  • Jonathan Hughes – 2015, University of York
    Sonic Explorations in Divergent Landscapes

  • Louise Harris – 2010, University of Sheffield
    Portfolio of Audio-visual Compositions

  • Michaela Reiser – 2010, London Metropolitan University
    Listening to the Mind at Play: Sonified Biofeedback as Generative Art Practice and Theory

  • Andy Keep – 2007, Bath Spa University
    Responsive Performance Strategies with Electronic Feedback: Shaping Intrinsic Behaviours

PhD Internal Examiner

  • Stewart Worthy – 2024, De Montfort University
    Beyond the Veil: Revealing the Hidden Qualities of Objects and Spaces through Electroacoustic Audiovisual Experiences

  • Jerry Fishenden – 2013, De Montfort University
    Interactive Digital Technologies and the User Experience of Time and Place

Completed Masters by Research Students

  • Samuel Thomas – 2021 (1st supervisor)
    Investigating Untutored Perception in Visual Music

  • Rob Chafer – 2021 (2nd supervisor)
    Time–Event–Space: A Creative Exploration of Techniques in Multichannel Audio-visual Composition

  • Calum Vaughan – 2020 (1st supervisor)
    Semi Real-time Use of Markov Chains in Algorithmic Electronic Dance Music Performance

  • David Gurney – 2016 (1st supervisor)
    Considerations and Practice of Creating and Implementing Effective Game Sound Design


  • Annelie Nederberg – 2012 (2nd supervisor)
    Notions of Corporeality in Electroacoustic Music

Masters by Research Internal Examiner

  • Mihai Traista – 2021, De Montfort University
    Robotic Sculpture in Transmedia Composition using Sound and Movement