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.
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
Ross Davidson – 2026 (1st supervisor) The Integrated Soundtrack in Practice: an Electroacoustic Sensibility to Composition Incorporated into Narrative Film Sound Design
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.