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Sam Hayden and Mieko Kanno: An exploration of live musical performance in the digital age.

This is an example of a sustained research collaboration that shares new insights on the evolving nature of live musical performance in the digital age. Performing on electric violin, the researcher collaborated with Sam Hayden, composer, in giving world premiere performances and first recordings of his music for electric violin and live electronics. Together, they have also written about this research process and its insights. Kanno's particular role in the collaboration was to search for and produce input material appropriate for Hayden's compositional ideas and to develop a live performance practice in which the complex layers of processes could interact musically.

Hayden and Kanno’s partnership is represented here in a portfolio of three related outputs: a studio recording of Hayden’s Adaptations following its world premiere in June 2011; a commercial recording of Hayden’s earlier Schismatics; and an exploratory article in the Contemporary Music Review.

Kanno and Hayden’s live premiere of Schismatics was included in in RAE2008; the commercial release of a new studio recording is included within this portfolio because establishing a reference account of this key work was an important step in extending and deepening their ongoing research collaboration, leading to Adaptations and further experiments.