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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]
    Foundations, Potentials, and Practice of Mixed Reality Spatial Audio (MRSA) Electroacoustic Composition

  • Eddie Clijsen (2nd supervisor)
    [Midlands Four Cities Doctoral Training Programme award recipient]
    Redividing the Octave for Expanded Tonal Spaces: Practical Explorations of Formalised Approaches to Microtonal Composition

  • Joanna Cogle (2nd supervisor)
    Musique Concrète Composition Techniques and Timbre in Horror Film Scoring [PhD by Professional Practice]

  • Samvaran Rai (2nd supervisor)
    [Midlands Four Cities Doctoral Training Programme award recipient]
    Ambiguity in the Disembodied: A Designer's Approach to Sound Dramaturgy in Electroacoustic Music

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
    Sculpting 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

Curating

Since 2009, The Visible Bits, Audible Bytes series of screenings at Phoenix Cinema and Gallery has brought an international selection of extraordinary audiovisual art to Leicester audiences. More details available here.