Michael Clarke — University of Huddersfield Research Portal

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Biography

Professor Michael Clarke is Dean of the Graduate School. He read Music at Durham University where he remained for his PhD. He also holds a teaching qualification (MTC) from the Institute of Education, London University. He has worked at Huddersfield since 1987 and prior to taking up his current role had been Director of Research for the School of Music, Humanities and Media since 2006.

Michael’s research includes composition, software development for music and music analysis. Both his compositions and software have won national and international prizes, including winning European Academic Software Awards on a record three occasions. He has recently been Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project ‘Technology and Creativity in Electroacoustic Music’ (TaCEM) working together with Prof Peter Manning (Durham) and Dr Frédéric Dufeu (Huddersfield). This project (2012-5) builds on Michael’s earlier innovative work using software to develop an interactive aural approach to music analysis. In 2011 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.

Michael was an assessor on Panel 35 in REF 2014 having previously been a specialist advisor for the 2008 RAE. He is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and a Strategic Reviewer for the AHRC. He has also acted as a reviewer for the EPSRC and for funding councils in Austria, Finland and Germany.

Research Expertise and Interests

Composition, including computer music (especially live interactive works)
Interactive Aural approaches to the analysis of music
Development of software for music and music pedagogy (especially using Max/MSP)
Development of algorithms for sound synthesis and processing

Keywords

Musical Analysis
Music
Music History
Music Education
Music Composition
Contemporary Music
Computer Music
Music theory
Audio Signal Processing
Electronic Music
Music Technology
Sound Synthesis

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Projects 2012 2022

1 Finished
1 Active

The impact of technology on the creative processes of composing electroacoustic music

Clarke, J.

1/08/12 → 1/03/15

Project: Research › Research Council

FluCoMa: Fluid Corpus Manipulations

Tremblay, P., Green, O., Roma, G., Harker, A., Clarke, J. & Dufeu, F.

1/09/17 → 31/08/22

Project: Research › EU Government

Research Output 1993 2017

6 Article
5 Conference contribution
3 Chapter
1 Editorial

Interactive Tools for the Study of Electroacoustic Music Composition Methods: Resources for teaching and learning from the TaCEM software

Clarke, M., Dufeu, F. & Manning, P., May 2017, Innovative Tools and Methods for Teaching Music and Signal Processing. Pottier, L. (ed.). Paris: Presses des Mines, p. 27-35 9 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2 Citations

Creative Interaction

Clarke, M., Pearson, L-A. & McNichol, A., 29 Dec 2016, The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education. King, A., Himonides, E. & Ruthmann, S. A. (eds.). Taylor and Francis, p. 367-376 10 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter