Dr Nuria Bonet
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Dr Nuria Bonet

Lecturer in Music

School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

Biography

Biography

Lecturer in Music

Qualifications


I joined the University of Plymouth in 2014 to embark on a PhD on sonification as a compositional tool. I began teaching Psychology of Music in 2018-19 and became Lecturer in Music in 2021. I now teach a range of modules on music history, composition, performance, recording and psychology.
I have supervised undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations as well as PhD theses on a range of topics relating to music history, composition and reception. I welcome PhD applications relating to practice-as-research and Catalan music in particular. I also encourage applications on local topics, such as music in Plymouth.

My research interests are practice-as-research and Catalan music. My PhD thesis focused on the use of sonification in music composition and I have explored the use of animals in music. I have researched and published on Catalan folk instruments from an organological perspective.

PhD Computer Music - University of Plymouth
MSc Acoustics and Music Technology - University of Edinburgh
MusM Electroacoustic Composition - University of Manchester
MusB (Hons) Music - University of Manchester

Professional membership

Associate Fellowship - Advance HE

Member - Independent Society of Musicians

Roles on external bodies

Council Member - Royal Musical Association

Newsletter Assistant Editor - American Musical Instrument Society

Teaching

Teaching

Teaching interests

Music History
Electroacoustic Music
Composition and Songwriting
Sonification
Psychology of Music
Psychoacoustics
Music Therapy
Music Theory
Performance
Research Skills

Research

Research

Research interests

Music and Science

Sonification
Electroacoustic Composition
Sound installations

Organology
Catalan Folk Instruments
Double Reeds
Catalan Referendum

Other research

pubsofgreenbank.co.uk

Creative practice & artistic projects

Radio Sunshine, All that is left (2021) - LP: https://kappkino.bandcamp.com/album/radio-sunshine-all-that-is-left

For all compositions and projects: nuriabo.net

Publications

Publications

Key publications

Key publications are highlighted

Journals

'Mechanised Shawms: The Case of the Chinese Suona', Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 75 (2022), pp. 145-56.

‘The Development of the Tenora’, Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 70 (2017), pp. 169-78.

‘Fort Greene (for two toy pianos)’, Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Vol. 21 (2017), pp. 66-71.

‘The Metal Tenora’, American Musical Instrument Society Newsletter (Fall 2016), pp. 13-17.

Articles
Bonet Filella N (2022) 'Mechanised Shawms: The Case of the Chinese Suona' Galpin Society Journal 75, Open access
Bonet N (2019) 'Musical Borrowing in Sonification' Organised Sound 24, (02) 184-194 , DOI Open access
Bonet N (2017) 'Fort Greene' Women and Music: a journal of gender and culture 21, (1) 66-71 , DOI Open access
Bonet N (2017) 'The Development of the Tenora' The Galpin Society Journal: for the study of musical instruments 70, 232-250 Author Site Open access
Chapters

'Creating and Evaluating Aesthetics in Sonification', in Filimowicz, M. (ed.), Doing Research in Sound Design (Focal Press), pp. 269-282.

Bonet Filella N (2021) 'Creating and Evaluating Aesthetics in Sonification' in Filimowicz M Doing Research in Sound Design Focal Press 269-269 Open access
Conference Papers

'Pub jukeboxes: Music, democracy and the hyperlocal', RMA Annual Conference, University of Newcastle; 14-16 September 2021.

'Musical Democracy in Chilean Prisons During Pinochet’s Dictatorship (1973-1990)', Music and Political Democratisation in Late Twentieth Century Study Day, University of Huddersfield; 5-6 November 2020.

'The 2017 Catalan Independence Referendum in Catalan Popular Music', RMA Annual Conference, Goldsmiths; 8-10 September 2020.

‘Humour as resistance: the songs and chants of the Catalan independence referendum’, RMA Annual Conference, University of Bristol; 13-15 September 2018.

‘Humour as resistance: the songs and chants of the Catalan independence referendum’, Mediating the Catalan Independence Movement, QMUL; 12-13 September 2018.

‘The Voice of the Sea’, BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference, University of Huddersfield, UK; 4-6 January 2018.

‘But does it sound nice? Evaluating the success of sonification as a compositional tool’, Digital Research in the Humanities Conference, University of Plymouth, UK; 10-13 September 2017.

‘But does it sound nice? Evaluating the success of sonification as a compositional tool’, RMA Annual Conference, University of Liverpool, UK: 7-9 September 2017.

‘Mechanised Shawms: Comparing the Tenora, Suona and Jangsaenap’,Conference on Musical Instruments (Galpin Society and AMIS joint conference), University of Edinburgh, UK: 1-4 June 2017. Awarded Frederick R. Selch Award for best student paper.

‘Echoing our Environment: Sonification in Electroacoustic Music as part of a Musical Tradition’, BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK: 5-7 January 2017.

‘Sonification of Dark Matter: Challenges and Opportunities’, 13th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Hamburg, Germany: 31 August – 3 September 2016.

‘The Scientist-Composer: Dark Matter Sonification as Music Composition’, Symposium on Music Composition on Interdisciplinary Practice, University of York, UK: 28-29 June 2016.

‘Sonification as a Compositional Tool: Blyth-Eastbourne-Wembury’, Conference on New Music Concepts, Treviso, Italy: 3-5 March 2016.

Bonet N, Kirke A & Miranda ER (2016) 'Sonification of Dark Matter: Challenges and Opportunities' Sound and Music Computing Conference Hamburg, Germany 8-/-0/20169-/-0/2016Open access
Bonet N, Miranda ER & Kirke A (2016) 'Blyth – Eastbourne – Wembury: Sonification as a compositional tool in electroacoustic music' 2nd International Conference on New Musical Concepts Treviso, Italy 3-/-0/20163-/-0/2016Open access
Compositions
'Topsail' Open access
Other Publications
Bonet N (2019) Data Sonification in Creative Practice.
Personal

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Links

nuriabo.net