Music and/as Process Conference 2025: Edinburgh

The provisional schedule for Saturday 8th November is as follows:

St Vincent's Chapel, Edinburgh (EH3 6SW)

09:30-10:00 Doors open, registration

10:00-10:10 Welcome // John Hails, Emma Lloyd (Music and/as Process committee)

10:10-10:55 Workshop // Ruth Jacobs // Listening as a Musical Process: A Deep Listening Workshop

11:00-12:00 Performance // Deux Mèches

Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus (EH10 5DT)

13:00-14:00 Lecture-recital // Marco Sollazzo // Memory as Process (Recital Room)

14:30-16:00 Papers: Manlu Du, Jules Rawlinson,Coralie Usmani (Recital Room)

16:30-17:30 Panel // 21 Theses on the Tenementals (Lecture Room)

18:00-19:30 Papers: John Hails/Emma Lloyd, Jack Irving, Berk Yagli

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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.