Working across commercial and experimental settings, they write concert pieces for chamber groups and orchestras; music for video games; operas and theatrical works; music for new media contexts; and create installation-based work. In music technology, our staff are involved in digital composition; audio mixing and processing; motion capture; interactive music systems; and AI and machine learning-based tools for music production.

Links between composition and performance are particularly strong: in addition to working with student performers in performance projects featuring new works, BOBÌåÓýµÇ¼ÍøÖ·_Å·±¦ÌåÓý¹ÙÍøƽ̨-APP|ÏÂÔØ staff and postgraduates play key roles in new music groups such as Workers Union Ensemble and Plus Minus Ensemble .

Some recent highlights include:

• Drew Crawford¡¯s recent commercial commissions include the launches of the BMW 5 Series in Singapore (2017) and the Porsche Experience Centre in Shanghai (2018). He also produced Brazilian guitarist Luis Reys¡¯ fusion album The Enjoyner (2019) and composed the acid-funk theme music for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation¡¯s Learn A Word series (2020). His explorations of spatialised music continue as his large ensemble work Waves of¡­ (2019) is repurposed for virtual reality platforms in collaboration with colleagues at the Winchester School of Art.
• Brona Martin is currently working with Tom Irvine on an Alan Turing Institute supported research project, "Jazz as Social Machine" , which explores the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and Jazz improvisation. In 2020, Brona explored 3D Virtual Platforms during a 3-month residency at ?cole Sup¨¦rieure d¡¯Art, Aix-en-Provence in France, developing a virtual interactive soundscape environment. With funding from Arts Council England, she is currently working on a commission for a new electroacoustic piece exploring the sounds of Swedish folk instrument the Nyckelharpa.
• In 2019 Benjamin Oliver¡¯s solo theorbo work Extending from the inside (2014) was played around the world by Elizabeth Kenny and featured on her Linn release Ars Longa: old and new music for theorbo . Upcoming projects include a new large-scale theatre piece for Ensemble Paramirabo, Pythagoras¡¯ Toolkit , for puppeteers and ensemble developed in collaboration with theatre director Rachel Warr.
• Richard Polfreman¡¯s recent projects include Capturing the Contemporary Conductor (2017-19) involving high-quality audio visual recording and motion capture of conducting for an open dataset, and Moving Music (2020) an interactive conducting exhibit providing a citizen approach where participants learn more about conducting movements while contributing their motion data for computational analysis.
• Matthew Shlomowitz's Gl¨¹cklich,?Gl¨¹cklich, Freude, Freude for keyboards and orchestra was premiered at the 2019 Donaueschingen Musiktage, and Graveyard Slot (with guest appearance )?by Ensemble Nikel at the 2019 Bludenzer tage zeitgem??er. In 2018, asamisimasa?released a CD of his work on the?All That Dust?label.