Richard Hoadley's research activity

Compositions and Performances

(2012) Player Piano
A part of Improvised Synchronies
An original dance and music performance investigating the boundaries between synchronisation and simultaneity
Performance involving acoustic and electronic sound with choreographer Jane Turner and composer-performers Tom Hall, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Richard Hoadley, 13 May 2012, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

(2012) Fluxus
Automatic music for piano and computer.
Composed by Richard Hoadley, performed by Richard Hoadley, 17 January, Cambridge, UK as a part of Future Fluxus

(2011-12) Calder's Violin
Automatic music for violin and computer
17 April 2012, City University, London, 2012 SuperCollider Symposium
22 October 2011, Cambridge Festival of Ideas

(2012) Conway Hall Metapiano
Sculptural algorithmic installation, April 13-14, Conway Hall, London

(2009-present) Devices and Units
Hardware and software interfaces for music performance, in development

(2011) Triggered
Sculptural custom hardware and software interfaces and automatic composition for performers and dancers
With Tom Hall, Jane Turner, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, June 13 2011, Kings Place, London

(2011) One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Messages
Crowdsourced composition and performance controlled by mobile devices

(2010-11) Touching Sound
Composition and Music Therapy project in preparation

(2010-11) Metapiano
Demonstrated in Triggered 2011 (see above), ICMC and ISEA 2011 (see below)

(2010) Cage Musicircus
Contribution using Wired, Gagglina and Gaggle to the performance in collaboration with Tom Hall et al., Kettles Yard, Cambridge, 10 November 2010

(2010) Triggered
Sculptural custom hardware and software interfaces and automatic composition for performers and dancers.
With Tom Hall, Jane Turner, Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Performance for CoDE New Materialism Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, Monday 21 June 2010
Performance for Correspondence, a weekend of Creative Practice, London Metropolitan University, Saturday 26 June 2010

(2010) One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Haiku
Automatic performance/composition with custom hardware and software
Part of Frame-breaking including original work in collaboration
with Katharine Norman, Sam Hayden, Katy Price, Tom Hall, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, 9 May 2010

(2010) MIST (Museums, Interfaces, Spaces, Technologies)
Invited performance using custom built hardware and software, AHRC Workshop, 22-23 March 2010

(2009) Gaggle: Hardware and Software Interface and Composition
Hardware, software, composition and performance commissioned by
British Computer Society HCI conference 2009, Cambridge, September
In collaboration with Tom Hall, Cheryl Francis-Hoad and Jane Turner and dancers

(2009) One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Haiku
Automatic performance/composition with custom software
Event in collaboration with Katharine Norman and Katy Price
Kettles Yard, Cambridge, May 2009

(2008) Many Worlds
Semi-automatic music (SuperCollider)
A component part of Silent Histories: soundscapes and compositions on the themes of stillness, technology and place
Music and performances by Kerstin Bueschges, Kevin Flanagan, Richard Hoadley and Paul Rhys, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, May 2008

(2007) Telephony
MaxMSP and Telephones, concert version approx. 9:29
Commissioned for Kettle's Yard New Music, Kettle's Yard 2007

(2006) Histrionica
A melodrama for 'cello and gamelan instruments; 6:26
First performed at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge in March 2006 by Anton Lukoszevieze and members of the Cambridge Gamelan Society

(2004) Hello
semi-automatic live performance music for computer, 6:22
Commissioned for Kettle's Yard New Music, February 2004

(2002) Ambience
semi-automatic live performance music for computers and synthesisers (pSY)
Commissioned for Cambridge New Music Group Inaugural Concert, April 2002

(1999) The Copenhagen Interpretation
automatic live performance music for computers and synthesisers (pSY), 16:30
Commissioned for Cambridge Digital Arts Festival, June 1999

(1998) The Continual Snowfall of Petrochemicals
automatic live performance music for computers and synthesisers (pSY)
Commissioned for Cambridge Digital Arts Festival, June 1998

(1994) Four Archetypes
for large orchestra, 16:00
Commissioned by the Cambridge-Heidelberg-Montpelier Orchestra with funds provided by Eastern Arts, 1994

(1992) Three Pieces for Two Pianos
for two pianos, 36:00
Commissioned by Philip Mead and Steve Guttman, pianos, 1992

(1989, rev. 1991) Shilbottle Cobbles
for wind orchestra, 17:00, recording
Commissioned by the Charterhouse Wind Orchestra

(1989, rev. 1990) In Principio
for choir and organ or choir and brass quintet, 12:30
Commissioned by the Charterhouse Choir

(1988) Concertino
for violin, clarinet, 'cello, piano, 12:00
Written for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

(1988) Only Connect
for orchestra, 17:00
Written for the Durham University Orchestra, performed on Radio Three 'Music in our Time' by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Zeigler

(1987) String Sextet (Still Life)
Written for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 16:10
Refereed journal articles / chapters in books

(2011) The Metapiano: composing and improvising with sculpture
Proceedings of ISEA, Istanbul, 2011

(2011) Sculpture as Music Interface
Proceedings of ICMC, Huddersfield, 2011

(2011) A principled approach to developing new languages for live coding
Samuel Aaron, Alan F. Blackwell, Richard Hoadley and Tim Regan,
Proceedings of NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression), Oslo, 2011

(2010) Form and Function: Examples of Music Interface Design
Proceedings of the HCI2010 Conference, Dundee 2010

(2010) Implementation and Development of Sculptural Interfaces for Digital Performance
of Music through Embodied Expression

Proceedings of the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Conference, London 2010
(IBSN: 978-1-906124-65-6)

(2010) Implementation and Development of Interfaces for Music Performance through
Analysis of Improvised Dance Movements

Proceedings of the 128th Audio Engineering Society Convention, London, 2010
(ISBN: 978-0-937803-74-5)

(2002) Music and Technocracy
in Diversity or Anarchy?: Papers from the 31st Annual Manchester Broadcasting Symposium (Current Debates in Broadcasting)
University of Luton Press, December 2002
(ISBN: 978-1-860205-91-0)
Conference/seminar papers and presentations

(2012) Notating Algorithms
Symposium for Performance of Electronic and Experimental Music (SPEEC) University of Oxford, January 6-7

(2011)
Real-time generation of music notation using algorithms and physical movement
DMRN+6: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2011
Queen Mary University of London, Tuesday 20 December

(2011) Analysis of Algorithmic Music Generated through Physical Embodiment
Seventh International Conference on Music Since 1900/International Conference of the Society for Music Analysis
University of Lancaster, July

(2011) Music, Movement and Magic
Audio Engineering Society, Cambridge, 31 March, Anglia Ruskin

(2010) Intimate Physical Control of Musically Expressive Algorithms
with Satinder Gill, DMRN+5: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2010
Queen Mary, University of London, Tuesday 21 Dec 2010

(2010) Music Technology Now: Instruments and Algorithms
with Tom Hall, Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Cambridge, October 24

(2010) Implementation and Development of Interfaces for Music Performance through Analysis of Improvised Dance Movements
SuperCollider Symposium, Berlin, September 23-26

(2010) Towards Embodied Control of Algorithmic Music
with Tom Hall, Music and Numbers Conference, Department of Music
Canterbury Christ Church University, 14 - 15 May
(Abstract published in ISBN 978-1-899253-76-0)

(2010) Gaggle and Digital Performance Laboratory
Presentation for Microsoft Research Cambridge, Computer Mediated Living Group, 11th January

(2009) The Development of Music Interfaces Through Improvised Dance Movement
Paper presented at Collaborative Processes in Music Making: Pedagogy and Practice,
University of Surrey, 11 November

(2008) Performing Computer Music: a Time and Motion Study
Invited paper presented at Time in Media Arts: A Symposium on Film, Video, Sound and Movement,
Anglia Ruskin University, 28 November

(2007) Judge Proulx's Ruling
Invited paper presented at The Sight of Sound: Inter-media
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, 30 November
Workshops

(2011) Touching sound: an interactive workshop concerning human computer interaction in health and music
This research seeks to describe, implement and analyse work that investigates unique methods of articulating and implementing expressive gesture through physical interaction with objects.
Led by Richard Hoadley and Satinder Gill.
Anglia Ruskin University, 21st June.

(2011) Performance Innovations Workshop
Exploring sensor technologies in developing new composition, resulting in a performance sharing.
Led by Jane Turner with composers/music technologists Richard Hoadley and Tom Hall
London Metropolitan University, 9th June.

(2010) MIST (Museums, Interfaces, Spaces, Techologies)
Invited performance using custom built hardware and software, AHRC Workshop, 22nd-23rd March.

(2009) Gaggle: Hardware and Software Interface and Composition
Hardware, software, composition and performance commissioned by British HCI (Human Computer Interface) conference 2009, Cambridge, /, September
In collaboration with Tom Hall, Cheryl Francis-Hoad and Jane Turner and dancers.

(2009) De Montfort University's Performance Technology Group
Joint performance/workshops, May.

(2009) Pradsa Workshop on Novel Technologies and Social Action
Consultant, February.

(2008) Performance Interface Workshop
with Andrew Sparling (clarinet), 22nd February.

(2006) Collaborative Performance Technology Workshop
Workshop Leader, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities,
Cambridge University, December 20-21st.
Consultancy

(2011 and 2012) Programme committee member of IADIS International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Rome, 24-26 July 2011

(2011) Programme committee member of International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Istanbul, September 2011

(2010) Programme committee member of Human Computer Interaction Conference 2010, Dundee, UK, September


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