Michael Clarke

Personal profile

Biography

Professor Michael Clarke is Director of the IRiMaS project (Interactive Research in Music as Sound - https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/irimas/) funded by a €2.5m European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (2017-22). Previously he was Dean of the School of Music, Humanities and Media at Huddersfield and before that Dean of the University’s Graduate School.

Michael read Music at Durham University where he remained for his PhD. He also holds a teaching qualification (MTC) from the Institute of Education, University College London. He has worked at Huddersfield since 1987, and his previous roles at Huddersfield include Director of the Electroacoustic Studios, founding Director of CeReNeM and Director of Research for the School of Music, Humanities and Media

Michael’s research includes composition and the development of innovative software for music composition, pedagogy and analysis. Both his compositions and software have won national and international prizes, including winning European Academic Software Awards on a record three occasions. He was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project ‘Technology and Creativity in Electroacoustic Music’ (TaCEM - https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/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 (https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/iaa/). In 2011, he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.

Michael was an assessor on Panel 35 in REF 2014 having been a specialist advisor for the 2008 RAE. He has been 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, France 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

Research Expertise and Interests

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

1 Finished
1 Active

FluCoMa: Fluid Corpus Manipulations

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

1/09/17 → 31/08/22

Project: Research

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

Clarke, M.

1/08/12 → 1/03/15

Project: Research

Research Output

32 Citations
3 h-Index
7 Conference contribution
7 Article
3 Chapter
1 Editorial

The IRiMaS Software: Integrating interactive listening and play into musicological research

Dufeu, F., Takahashi, K., Roebel, A. & Clarke, M., 16 Mar 2019, (Accepted/In press) International Computer Music Conference 2019. International Computer Music Association, 6 p. (International Computer Music Conference Proceedings ).

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

Des outils interactifs pour l’étude des méthodes de composition des musiques électroacoustiques: les logiciels TaCEM comme ressources pédagogiques

Translated title of the contribution: Interactive tools for the study of composition methods for electroacoustic music: TaCEM software as teaching resourcesClarke, M., Dufeu, F. & Manning, P., 1 Jul 2018, In : Revue Francophone d'Informatique & Musique. 6

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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

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

2 Citations (Scopus)