Event overview
The RMA Study Group Music and/as Process is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals as part of their eleventh annual conference.
For this conference we return to our core purpose and invite submissions which explore this. As such, there is no overriding theme; delegates are invited to present either practice research (i.e. a performance, performance paper, listening session, screening, etc), a paper, or a workshop (see details below). Our main interest is for researchers to meet, share work and findings, and to engage in discussion and debate.
Delegates will attend one or the other of these two days which will share the same theme and explore the same ideas.
Music and/as Process study group takes its impulse from Steve Reich’s 1968 essay ‘Music as a Gradual Process.’ We explore issues related to and arising from processes in music which determine sound-to-sound detail and overarching form simultaneously. In particular, music that performs process. Music in which processes are audible, perceptible, or otherwise concurrent with the music during its performance.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
Composition
Improvisation
Performance practice
Musicology of process
Any further musical activity in which process plays a main part
The study group also has a key interest in practice-led research and seeks to present such work on an equal footing as traditional papers at each event.
The conference takes place on Friday November 7th at Goldsmiths, University of London and Saturday November 8th at Edinburgh Napier University.
This conference will be followed by a performance at 6pm by Noisy Women - this concert is free and open to all, not just delegates.
This event is free but spaces are limited - please book your place via Ticket Tailor
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Nov 2025 | 10:00am - 6:00pm |
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