Mr Ryan Thomas Green

Ryan is a final year PhD candidate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research at University of Plymouth. He is a modernist composer and orchestrator and has research interests in experimental music theatre and music psychology. Specifically, Ryan is interested in the ways in which music affects the brain and how music performance elicits emotional arousal in audiences.

Ryan is also a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Research Music: http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/

Qualifications

• PhD Music - University of Plymouth (Est. January 2024)
• MA Music & Sonic Media - University of Sussex - 2017
• BA (Hons) Music - Dartington College of Arts, Falmouth University - 2014

Professional membership

• Independent Society of Musicians (SMISM)
• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
• International Federation for Theatre Research
• Theatre and Performance Research Association 

Teaching interests

Ryan is currently an Associate Lecturer on the BA Music course:

• MUS509 - Independent Study for Musicians 

• MUZ607 Collaborative Project 

Previously as a Visiting Specialist: 

BA (Hons) Music

• MUS509 - Independent Study for Musicians 

BSc (Hons) Computer Music and Audio Technology

• CAMT601 - Negotiated Project Proposal 

And as Guest Lecturer: 

BA (Hons) Social Work

• SW402 - Wellbeing and Development 1 

Research interests

Music Theatre, Opera, Intermediality, Experimental Music, Immersive Theatre, Chamber Opera, Sound Art.

My PhD research is investigating, though social science experiments, how orchestration employed in music theatre creates certain aesthetics which link audiences to deep emotional reactions such as pain, discomfort, strong empathy, happiness, laughter, and guilt.

Other research

I am a member of the following University research groups: 

• Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research 
• Adventures in Posthumanism 
• Performance Experience Presence 
• Early Carer Researcher Network

And external research groups:

• Peter Maxwell Davies Research Network

Grants & contracts

• PGR Development Fund Award 

Creative practice & artistic projects

• Ten Devon Wee Pints Student Commission - 2022
• Top 200, European Recording Orchestra's 2023 Call for Scores Competition 

Reports & invited lectures

• GREEN, R.T. (2022) Let's Talk About Music Theatre: Etymology, Praxis and Practice. Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research, School of Society and Culture, University of Plymouth. Given: February 2022.
• GREEN, R.T. (2021) Elucidating Orchestration as an Aesthetic of Music Theatre. Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research, School of Humanities and Performing Arts, University of Plymouth [ONLINE]. Given: June 2021.

Conferences organised

• Arts, Humanities and Business Doctoral College Conference 2023 - (Chair)
  
• Arts, Humanities and Business Doctoral College Conference 2022 - (Chair)
• RMA/BFE Students' Conference, University of Plymouth, 2022 
• School of Society and Culture, PG Colloquium Series, 2022 - 2023

Other academic activities

• School of Society and Culture Postgraduate Research Representative
• Acting Faculty Postgraduate Research Representative (2021-2022), (Research and Innovation Committee).