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RESEARCH

Publications

• Book Chapter – Distorting Jazz Guitar: Distortion as Effect, Creative Tool and Extension of the Instrument
  In Perspectives on Music Production: Distortion in Production (Ed. A. Moore & G. Bromham). Routledge / Taylor and Francis

• Book Chapter – Extended Range Instruments and New Organological Norms of the Guitar
  In 21st Century Guitar (Ed. J. McGrath & R. Perks). Bloomsbury

• Book Chapter – De-Gendering Jazz Guitar: Reimagining the Past – Realigning the Future
  In The Routledge Companion of Jazz and Gender (Ed. M. Herzig, M. Kahr and J. Reddan). Routledge

Conference Papers

• Degendering Jazz Guitar
  13th International Jazz Research Conference: Jazz Re:Search in 21st-Century Academia and Beyond
  University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, 18–21 November 2021

• Outlier Taxonomy Detection Methodology for Jazz Vocabulary
  21st Century Guitar Conference, University of Lisbon (Online), April 2021

• Lost Vocabulary Recovered: Applications for Practice and Pedagogy
  International Network for Artistic Research in Jazz Conference (Collaborative paper with Dr Rich Perks), January 2021

• Distorting Jazz Guitar: Distortion as Effect, Creative Tool and Extension of the Instrument
  IASPM LCM / University of West London Online Conference, 2020

• Binding Free Jazz: Preserving Meaning and Zeitgeist of the Free Jazz Movement in Film
  Documenting Jazz Conference, Birmingham City University, 2020

• Jazz in the Retrotopian Age: Idealisation, Identity and Dogma
  Artistic Jazz Research Symposium, Graz University, Austria, 2019

• Strategy Based Improvisation in Jazz Guitar – Post Vocabulary Approaches to Improvisation Analysis, Practice, and Pedagogy
  Hong Kong International Guitar Symposium / International Guitar Research Centre Conference, 2019

• Navigating Jazz Improvisation – A New Model for Cognitive Strategy
  2017

• Harmonic Orienteers – John Coltrane, Michael Brecker and the Development of Harmonic Superimposition
  University of Surrey, 2016

• Filling in the F Holes – A Topography of the Contemporary Jazz Guitar Scape
  International Guitar Research Centre Conference, 2016

• Strategy in Jazz Improvisation: Modelling Generative Mechanisms in Contemporary Jazz Practice
  University of Surrey, 2015

• Harmonic Orienteer – Michael Brecker’s use of Harmonic Superimposition
  London Pop Music Symposium – Goldsmiths / University of Westminster, 2014

• Implicitly Explicit – Applications of Improvisational Strategy for Music Pedagogy and Analysis
  ICMP Research Conference, 2014

• Emulating Terror: Musical Interaction, Cohesion & Narrative Mirroring in David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch
  Jazz and Cinema Conference, 2013

• Teaching Jazz Improvisation in the 21st Century: Strategy and Cognition
  APME – Popular Music Education Conference, Edinburgh University

• Django’s Dogma: A Case Study of Retronostalgia in the Gypsy Jazz Community
  IASPM ‘Repeat’ Conference, Antwerp, October 2021

• Gender and Representation in Higher Education Music
  Creative Industries Futures Symposium, June 2023

• AI, Ethics, and Higher Education
  Creative Industries Futures Symposium, July 2024

• AI, ACM, and Good Practice in Creative Industries Teaching
  IHE Forum on AI, March 2024

In Progress Research

• Django Meets Zappa (2022) – PaR project

• Implicitly Explicit: A Theoretical Modelling of the Cognitive Strategies and Processes in Jazz Improvisation Practice
  University of Huddersfield Improvisation Conference (postponed due to crisis)

• The 21st Century Jazz Guitar Scape: Topographies of Vocabulary, Technology, Community and Meaning
  Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research Network – University of Tasmania (June 2021 – postponed due to crisis)

• Enhanced Pedagogy for Jazz Improvisation Vocabulary Acquisition: An Experimental Study (2021)

• Monograph – Kurt Rosenwinkle and the Crystallization of the Contemporary New York Jazz Guitar Scene
  Oxford University Studies in Jazz Monograph Series (ongoing)

• Monograph – Emily Remler’s Road to Wes and Beyond
  Oxford University Studies in Jazz Monograph Series (ongoing)

• The 21st Century Guitar: Part 2 (Ed. Perks & McGrath)
  New Fretboard Routes: Innovative Techniques and Approaches for Novel Intervallic and Melodic Content (ongoing)

• Campus 2.0: Space, Industry, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (ongoing)

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