Professor Michael Ellison
BM(N.England Cons.), MA(Tufts), PhD(UCSB)
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Current positions
Professor of Composition
Department of Music
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Research interests
Contemporary acoustic orchestral, chamber and vocal music. Working collaboratively with live advanced ensembles. Turkish makam, Anatolian folk music, tuning, integrating Turkish (and sometimes other Asian) instruments and voices in creating new 'transcultural' music. Interdisciplinary creative projects with dance, video performance, theater, literature (see especially The Sea-Crossed Fisherman [Deniz Küstü], 2016)
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8023 AHRC AH/V004131/1 - Prof M Ellison
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of MusicDates
01/05/2020 to 30/03/2022
Integrating Turkish: Beyond East and West: Developing and Documenting an Evolving Transcultural Musical Practice
Principal Investigator
Description
Deniz Küstü (The Sea-Crossed Fisherman), Opera #1 involving integration of Turkish and Western Instruments and Voices, June 11, 2016, IstanbulManaging organisational unit
Department of MusicDates
01/09/2015 to 31/07/2022
Thesis supervisions
Aspects of Traditional Japanese Aesthetics and their Influence in Contemporary Compositional Practice
Supervisors
Creative Interventions
Supervisors
Cross-Cultural Composition
Supervisors
Portfolio of compositions with an accompanying written commentary
Supervisors
Toward decolonial landscape analysis: addressing paradigmatic issues in music composition
Supervisors
Malay sound arts:
Supervisors
Timbre-based composition
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
17/06/2023Binbogalar Efsanesi - Legend of a Thousand Bulls
Bin Boğalar Efsanesi
Performance Philosophy and Spirituality: The Way of Tasavvuf
Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy