Contact details
- Name:
- Dr Paul Archbold
- Position/Fellowship type:
- School of Advanced Study Research Fellow (Music & Language)
- Fellowship term:
- 01-Oct-2016
- Institute:
- Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies
- Home institution:
- IMLR
- Location:
- Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU
- Email address:
- Paul.Archbold@sas.ac.uk
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Culture, Digital resources, Literatures in a modern language, Modernism, Music
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music.
Research interests: Contemporary music, especially modernism after 1950; music documentaries; live electronics and computer music; spectralism and microtonality; new techniques for instruments and voice; language in contemporary opera.
Research documentaries on the music of Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachemann, Jonathan Harvey, Wolfgang Rihm, with the Arditti Quartet
itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/arditti-quartet/id441504831
Research documentaries on oboe multiphonics, with Christopher Redgate
itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/christopher-redgate-at-school/id485276208
- Project summary relevant to Fellowship:
Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community
Translingual Strand: Translingual Music
Opera is at the melting point between poetry, music and drama. Since its birth in the early seventeenth century, opera has reflected on the essentials of poetry and examined communication across languages. It has exploited the marriage with music to delineate place and character, suspend time, and probe topics of importance to the individual and to society as a whole.
Dr Paul Archbold is leading the music subproject which will investigate the intralingual in contemporary opera, looking at new works employing multiple languages, ancient languages, indigenous languages and invented languages. The subproject will feature new operas by Prof. Julian Philips (GSMD) and Prof. Philip Grange (Manchester), and events in collaboration with the Royal Opera House.crosslanguagedynamics.blogs.sas.ac.uk/research-projects/strand-4/
- Publication Details
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Related publications/articles:
Date Details 28-Mar-2019 Two pieces for oboe and piano Music composition: oboe and piano First performance Christopher Redgate and Philip Thomas, University of Huddersfield concert series, 28 March 2019
01-Dec-2018 In nomine Music Composition: solo piano
19-Mar-2017 Be not afeard Music composition:
treble voices (SS) and piano
Commissioned by New London Children's Choir
01-Feb-2016 Duologue Music composition:
bassoon and piano
27-Nov-2015 Zechstein Music composition:
solo oboe (for the Redgate/Howarth oboe)
commissioned by Christopher Redgate
01-Apr-2015 Moto perpetuo Music composition:
solo piano
25-Jan-2012 Nine Memos Music composition:
string quartet
Commissioned by the Arditti Quartet
01-Sep-2010 Flower Fairy Songs Music composition:
soprano and piano
21-Nov-2009 Fluxions Music composition:
solo oboe + ensemble
(flute, clarinet in Bb, electronics (2 * 88-note keyboards + computer + Max/MSP), violin, viola, cello)
Commissioned by Christopher Redgate and Ensemble Exposé
02-Mar-2007 Penumbra Music composition:
cello and live electronics (88-note keyboard + computer + Max/MSP)
08-Dec-2006 Melted Moments Music composition:
ensemble (clarinet in Bb, piano, violin, viola, cello)
01-Jan-2006 Visions of Blake Music composition:
tape
17-Nov-2005 Songswarm Music composition:
ensemble (oboe d'amore, clarinet in A, koto, sho, viola)
Commissioned by Okeanos
15-Mar-2005 Coronae Music composition:
solo piano
commissioned by Clive Williamson
- Research Projects & Supervisions
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Research projects:
Details Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community