Electronic Music Studios Research

The Electronic Music Studios hosts and develops a vibrant range of research activities.

The Electronic Music Studios hosts and develops a vibrant range of research activities.

The Studios forge links with other Goldsmiths departments and externally with a range of organisations, such as Sound and Music, the UK & Ireland Soundscape Community (UKISC), Laban Contemporary Dance, and the School of Advances Studies (SOAS), University of London.  We facilitate the work of students involved in MPhil & PhD Music studies, with research strengths including live electronics and acoustic ecology.

The Unit for Sound Practice Research (SPR) is a research group that integrates and advances the innovative activities of EMS composers and researchers. It functions as a nexus for a diverse range of creative and theoretical research linked by a common commitment to rigorous, thoughtful and convincing practice. This is enabled by expertise at the forefront of music computing and audio technologies, field studies and reflection on pressing social, cultural, commercial and environmental issues; and inspired by investigation into and archiving of historical precedents. See link.

Daphne Oram

Daphne died in 2003 and her life’s work passed into the care of Hugh Davies who knew Daphne and her work better than anyone in the UK. Following Hugh’s death in January 2005, Sonic Arts Network was asked by Daphne’s family to become custodians of her collected papers, recordings and other items. Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios collabroatee with SAN to bring this collection into the academic community where it can be properly studied and developed.

More about the Daphne Oram Collection.