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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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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:

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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 1:40 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:
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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 · 25d
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.
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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

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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 👇

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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 🔗
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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.
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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

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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