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Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK) @rncmresearch.bsky.social

Taking a lead in interdisciplinary and reflexive research between the creative arts and the sciences.

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Our Spring Term has just begun and we're kicking off 2026 with some exciting news!

The RNCM has been authorised by the Office for Students (OfS) to grant Research awards, giving us Full Degree Awarding Powers up to and including Level 8.

Read the full announcement:
🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/rncm-se...
On the left is a picture of the RNCM building in the snow and under a clear blue sky. On the right is text announcement reading: Full Research Degree Awarding Powers: The RNCM has been authorised by the Office for Students to grant Research awards, with Full Degree Awarding Powers up to and including Level 8. Read more: rncm.ac.uk/news On the left is a picture of Professor Wiebke Thormählen, RNCM's Director of Research. On the right is Wiebke's comments following the announcement of this exciting news: "RNCM's vibrant research culture is central to the institution's ethos and learning environment. The authorisation of Full Degree Awarding Powers is a key piece in upholding and continually enhancing the music industry training that we provide for students across all levels of study".
January 6, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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Huge congratulations to our colleagues at the RNCM Library for winning #THEAwards (aka 'the Oscars of higher education') Outstanding Library Team 2025! 🎉🍾🌟

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November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Huge congratulations to Buff who has done it again - this time with his Tearjerker album, nominated for a 2026 Grammy! Fingers crossed! @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmprism.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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On Mon 24 Nov at King's College London, Prof Emily Howard (Director PRiSM & Head of Artistic Research) will join speakers from mathematical, engineering, performance & composition backgrounds to explore how creativity connects music & maths in new & inspiring ways:

🎟️ marc.kcl.ac.uk/2025/11/seei...
rncmprism.bsky.social RNCM PRiSM @rncmprism.bsky.social · Nov 11
Seeing the Unseeable | Public discussion w/Rachel Bearon, Emily Howard, Elaine Chew, Marcus du Sautoy & Lauren Redhead

📆 Mon 24 Nov 2025
🕖 7-8:30pm
📍Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre KCL
🔗 marc.kcl.ac.uk/2025/11/seei...

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Event poster with a collage of panelists' headshots in the background (Prof Marcus du Sautoy - top left, Prof Emily Howard - top right, Dr Lauren Redhead - bottom left, Elaine Chew - bottom right). On the foreground is event title and subtitle - Seeing the Unseeable: Exploring the creative process in music and maths.
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Seeing the Unseeable | Public discussion w/Rachel Bearon, Emily Howard, Elaine Chew, Marcus du Sautoy & Lauren Redhead

📆 Mon 24 Nov 2025
🕖 7-8:30pm
📍Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre KCL
🔗 marc.kcl.ac.uk/2025/11/seei...

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Event poster with a collage of panelists' headshots in the background (Prof Marcus du Sautoy - top left, Prof Emily Howard - top right, Dr Lauren Redhead - bottom left, Elaine Chew - bottom right). On the foreground is event title and subtitle - Seeing the Unseeable: Exploring the creative process in music and maths.
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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📣 Fully-funded PhD studentships at the RNCM #AHRCCraftingCareDFC

📆 Expressions of Interest due 1 December 2025 ⏱️

Details:
🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/rncm-an...
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Echoing @michelle-phillips.bsky.social - wonderful talk from Prof Ian Cross & Dr David Duncan (Uni of Cambridge) at the RNCM Research Forum yesterday, sharing important findings on the interplay of music notation & sightreading accuracy as part of their ongoing Score Design for Music Reading project
michelle-phillips.bsky.social Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · Oct 22
What a wonderful talk this was - utterly stimulating, & so relevant & important to everything we do at @rncmlive.bsky.social. And a brill evening in great company, thanks Ian and David (you were with us in spirit, Katya!). Fab to round off with whiskey with Ian & Jason @canadianjason.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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At 4.15pm today, Professor Ian Cross, Dr David Duncan, and Katya Ness will share their Leverhulme-funded Score Design for Music Reading project with us at the RNCM (@rncmlive.bsky.social) in our Research Forum. You can join us for this too – details in the link below.
www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...
RNCM Research Forum: Professor Ian Cross, Dr David Duncan and Katya Ness - Royal Northern College of Music
The RNCM is a leading international conservatoire and live music venue in the heart of Manchester
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October 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Hello! @rncmresearch.bsky.social might be new to Bluesky, but we've been researching #music in the heart of Manchester @oxrdmcr.bsky.social for over fifty years. We look forward to being part of the Bluesky community. You can find out more about us here: www.rncm.ac.uk/research/
Research - Royal Northern College of Music
A unique environment for music research, the RNCM offers Postgraduate Research Degrees and a diverse range of research events.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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🔊 “Statistical Alchemy”. Artist Vicky Clarke (@sonamb.bsky.social) takes us inside AI, sonic materiality and Manchester’s spectral aura.

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Statistical Alchemy: Vicky Clarke’s Journey into AI and Sonic Materiality
Artist Vicky Clarke explores AI, sound and Manchester’s industrial heritage in Latent Spaces, her immersive new installation.
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September 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Check out the @ox.ac.uk news piece to find out more about our world premiere of Dangerous Matter @rncmlive.bsky.social last week!
🔗https://www.immunology.ox.ac.uk/news/world-premiere-of-dangerous-matter-opera-inspired-by-vaccine-science-and-history-as-part-of-thanks-for-the-memories-project
July 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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The opera is the result of a 3 year collaboration between Zakiya Leeming at @rncmprism.bsky.social and Prof. Paul Klenerman @ox.ac.uk supported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social - with a huge range of support and participation from scientists and musicians across Oxford and @manchester.ac.uk 🥳
June 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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What a night! A HUGE congratulations to everyone involved in bringing Dangerous Matter to life @rncmlive.bsky.social last night - we're still buzzing from the brilliant performance!
June 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Today's the day! Here's a sneak peek of the world premiere of Dangerous Matter, showing tonight at the RNCM at 7pm - grab your ticket now! www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...
June 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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🎤 OPERA PREMIERE | 7pm, 24 June, RNCM Theatre ⏱️

Dangerous Matter - a powerful reflection on the role of memory in medicine & human progress, after Lady Mary Montagu Wortley.

Zakiya Leeming (composer / libretto)
@sredway.bsky.social (director / libretto)

🎟️ www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...
Poster showing "Dangerous Matter - A New Opera | World Premiere, 7pm 24 June | Royal Northern College of Music | Book: www.rncm.ac.uk" against an abstract background image depicting a network of viruses floating in the universe.
June 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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🎵Coming up tomorrow 🎼

"Sound Sculptures: A Concert Merging Installation and Live Performance" feat. music by Simon Knighton, Gemma Bass, Emmy Lambert, Sidney Patrick, and Gloria Xia.

📍 @anthonyburgess.bsky.social, M1 5BY, Manchester
⏱️ 8pm, 11 June 2025

🔗 www.ticketsource.co.uk/simonknighton
June 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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"I wanted to make a piece which said “I am really confused. ... I am trying to do what I can but not to prove something, simply because *doing* feels better/more useful to me than talking. I want to collect and connect. I’m terrified but I want a happy home and wow, isn’t the world beautiful.”
rncmprism.bsky.social RNCM PRiSM @rncmprism.bsky.social · May 29
📢 New PRiSM Blog | 'Climate Music'

Innovative pianist-composer Sarah Nicolls discusses how her musical activist works responding to climate change has connected deeply with her being an artist, a parent, and recently becoming a farmer in rural Gloucestershire 👇

🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...
Pianist-composer Sarah Nicolls making holes for tree planting in her local wood in Stroud.
May 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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📢 New PRiSM Blog | 'Climate Music'

Innovative pianist-composer Sarah Nicolls discusses how her musical activist works responding to climate change has connected deeply with her being an artist, a parent, and recently becoming a farmer in rural Gloucestershire 👇

🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...
Pianist-composer Sarah Nicolls making holes for tree planting in her local wood in Stroud.
May 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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PRiSM Summer 2025 News & Upcoming Events 👇

▶️ Sound Sculptures with Simon Knighton & the House of Bedlam | 11 June
▶️ Dangerous Matter: New Opera by ZakiyaLeeming | 24 June
▶️ 'A Possibility' at #MIF25 feat. new music by Emily Howard | 17-20 July

Details 🔗
www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...
RNCM PRiSM | Upcoming Events in Summer 2025 - Royal Northern College of Music
Upcoming events and performances in Summer 2025, featuring new works by PRiSM researchers.
www.rncm.ac.uk
May 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Awesome week at #AEConservatoires #EPARM2025 in Tallinn, sharing #ComingUpForAirInLocation - a new art-research initiative led by Kathryn Williams & myself on critical effects & impact of indoor air quality, and raising public awareness through music #IAQ #ArtisticResearch @rncmprism.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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👋 Hello BlueSky! 👋

Our February 2025 News is here 👇

▶️ RNCM appoints two Honorary Researchers in Association with PRiSM
▶️ 'The Anvil' nominated for 2025 BBC Music Magazine Awards | Public voting is open
▶️ PRiSM Researchers at EPARM | April 2025 | Tallinn, Estonia

🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...
RNCM PRiSM | February News 2025 - Royal Northern College of Music
Recent RNCM honorary appointments in association with PRiSM, award nominations, and upcoming international conference featuring PRiSM researchers.
www.rncm.ac.uk
February 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM