The Augmented Harpsichord (2024)

Research Residency at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

In 2024, I was appointed to a research residency at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Working across the historically-informed performance, composition, and electronic music departments, my research project explores the creative possibilities afforded by technologically ‘augmenting’ a virginal. Using spectral audio-processing techniques, sensors, webcam, a transducer speaker, and other technologies, the sound and performance practice of the virginal will be transformed. The residency will culminate in a public performance of a new work for ‘augmented virginal’ in December 2024.