Perspectives on Artistic Research in Music

This book demonstrates how experimentation generates new and creative music. It considers whether musical practice can provide worthwhile research outputs and how artistic research in music can assume a legitimate place in the academy. It goes on to demonstrate how exploration and experimentation function as legitimate artistic research in music.

Robert Burke is associate professor of jazz and popular music at Monash University. Andrys Onsman is learning and academic advisor at the University of Melbourne.

Introduction Section I - Theorizing Practice Based Artistic Research 1. Robert Burke and Andrys Onsman - Discordant Methodologies: Prioritising Performance in Artistic Research in Music 2. Deniz Peters - Six Propositions on Artistic Research 3. Stephen Emmerson - Is my Performance Research? 4. Robert Vincs - .that is the question: the nature and scope of the research question within practice-led artistic research 5. Michael Hooper - The Art of Scholarship Section II - Locating Artistic Research in Universities 6. Linda Barwick and Joseph Toltz - Quantifying the ineffable? The University of Sydney's 2014 guidelines for non-traditional research outputs 7. Jenny Wilson - Equal, inferior or different? Research equivalence and university attitudes to artistic research 8. Glen Hodges - Keep Your Eye on the Prize Section III - Artistic Research in Music Practice 9. Zubin Kanga - 'Building an instrument' in the collaborative composition and performance of works for piano and live electronics 10.