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Southampton Digital Humanities 2021-2022 Annual Report

James Baker (Director of Digital Humanities) Our 2021-2022 Annual Report is now out. As I say in my introductory remarks, I couldn’t be prouder of all that we’ve achieved in such a short space of time. We’ve created the processes needed to be and to run Southampton Digital Humanities. We’ve opened the Digital Humanities Hub, and integrated UKRI-funded investments in … The post Southampton Digital Humanities 2021-2022 Annual Report appeared first on Digital Humanities. Continue reading →

Small Scales and Large Impacts: an interactive story

In this post, Samuel Pegg – a finalist English student and one of our interns at Southampton Digital Humanities – describes the rationale behind “Small Scales and Large Impacts”, an interative story created during his internship. Small Scales and Large Impacts (known as Small Scales from this point on) is an interactive storytelling experience – published at https://biglittleinteractive.itch. Continue reading →

Greening the Digital Humanities

Greening the Digital Humanities, a community workshop exploring the environmental impacts and sustainability of Digital Humanities research, was held on November the 10th 2021. It was jointly organised by the University of Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society, Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Southampton Digital Humanities, and Alan Turing Institute Data Science and Humanities Special Interest Group. Continue reading →

Southampton DH is back!

I mean, it never went away. There has been loads of great work going on since 2015. But this Autumn a new phase of Southampton Digital Humanities has launched: James Baker has arrived as Director of Digital Humanities, we’ve opened our new Digital Humanities Hub, and we’ve filled in with kit (thanks AHRC!). And we’ll soon have a new website. So watch this space. And then that space (because we’ll be archiving this space). Continue reading →

Schubert, Singing and Sexuality

David and the masterclass students with Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside Music’s Dr David Bretherton was the mastermind behind last week’s Schubert concert and masterclass – participants heard fabulous music, explored issues around composers’ sexuality, and watched our students learn from international artists: During LGBT History Month 2019, the Department of Music and Turner Sims Concert Hall held two Schubert events connected to my Arts and Humanities Research... Continue reading →

Composing, Line upon Line

Postgrad composer Olly Sellwood travelled to Texas last month to workshop his new piece for percussion: This January I took a long ride over to Austin, Texas to take part in Line Upon Line’s winter composer festival and course. Line Upon Line (a percussion trio made up of Matt Teodori, Adam Bedell and Cullen Faulk) has been performing together since 2009 premiering, performing and recording works by composers from Aaron Cassidy to Jessie Marino. Continue reading →

When Harry Met . . . Part 4 – Drew Crawford

The last in Harry Matthews’s series of composer interviews in the runup to SHIFTS – now time for us all to perform in and listen to the concert tomorrow! Harry Matthews (HM): As a composer you have such a diverse and creative output. For you, is there a separation between the creative process of composing a film score and composing Waves Of… (the piece featured at the upcoming SHIFTS concert)? Drew Crawford (DC): The short answer to that is, no. Continue reading →

When Harry Met (Some More) Composers – Part 2, Ben Oliver

Music’s own Ben Oliver tells about his compositions and other pieces on Sunday’s SHIFTS concert, and what it’s like for students and staff to play new music together: Harry Matthews: Let’s start by talking about the upcoming concert Shifts. What gave you the idea to curate a concert that focuses on aspects of minimalism? BO: We do performance projects quite regularly at Southampton where we bring in people to perform alongside our students. Continue reading →

When Harry Met (Some) Composers: Part 1 – Brona Martin

Ahead of our big SHIFTS performance next week PhD composer Harry Matthews is interviewing 4 of the 5 composers involved in SHIFTS on 27th January at Turner Sims (Steve Reich isn’t reachable on Skype this week!). In this first interview Harry caught up with electroacoustic composer and Southampton Teaching Fellow Dr Brona Martin to talk about her recent work Sowing Seeds (2018), which will be featured in the concert. Continue reading →