Research Studies

All Research Studies related, with the predominant interest in Self-centric Research Studies. Presented here is the detail of David’s Doctor of Creative Practice journey: “Music & Sounds which resonate within…

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Doctoral Pilot Study – Part 24b

Research Study Abstract The aim of this Doctor of Creative Industries Research Project is to investigate both my DIY music and sound-making practice and my self as a practitioner during the process of creating and producing a cultural artefact (EP).  My research study is designed to be a multi-method qualitative study: a practice-based, arts practice…

Who I am……

(Page 2017a) Me, myself, I – the multi-facetted/multi-dimensional practitioner As described in my blog Research Practitioner Part 16 (Page 2017b), I am a multi-facetted/multi-dimensional practitioner – a practitioner across multiple practices of education & learning, research study commitments, creative practice, professional consulting practice and family responsibilities. I concluded that: “All of my practice informs my self; and my…

Doctoral Pilot Study – Part 17a

(Page 2014a) This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2014b) for the previous blog. Reflecting on 2014 …. My approach to practice was so different to that of my recently recruited peers. As part of the creative media studies stream, learners were now to be immersed in specific creative media lexis and theory, via tasks that…

Creative Practitioner – Part 246

Doctorate of Creative Industries Project 1 (Self Reflection 2016) This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2017a) for the previous blog. Observations of my developing perspective Based on my observations of practice over the course of this doctoral program, in pure quantitative terms: the number of elements of my Praxis has increased…

Doctoral Pilot Study – Part 15a

Doctorate of Creative Industries Project 1 (Research 2016) Precis Continuing on from my previous blogs in this series; as I am now into my third year of my post-graduate academic research study,  I felt motivated to revisit and develop my values, goals and beliefs for both my self and my music practice. It is now early- Year 3, with the…

Education & Learning – the first 10,000 hours….

The first 10,000 hours of practice is everything….. “10,000 hours. That is: 40 hours per week, for 48 weeks a year, for 5.2 years. A full-time employment workload excluding time where the aspiring practitioner is observing, or being talked through a task by a professional practitioner.  A full-time employment workload, excluding training periods where the aspiring practitioner is doing…

Doctoral Pilot Study – Part 13a

Doctorate of Creative Industries Project 1 (Research 2017) Precis Continuing on from my previous blogs in this series, I find my self now in a process of reflective practice. In much the same way as described in my education & learning practice session blog (see Layer 10: Reflective practice following the learning practice), I am away from the site…

Memory – Age 20 Part 2

(Kent 2012) This is another in-situated recollection of what I consider to have been a significant event in my life, when I was Age 20. Herein, after….. Herein, after …..(passage to the afterlife))©David L Page 2016 Verse 1: What I knew has vanished all around My world has turned inside out there is over here, and…

Doctoral Pilot Study – Part 11b

Doctorate of Creative Industries Project 1 (Research 2016) Precis Continuing on from my previous blogs in this series; as I am now at the end of my second year of my post-graduate academic research studies, I felt it is important to revisit and develop my Charter of Values and Beliefs v1 of goals, values and beliefs for both myself and my music…

Microphones Part 13 – Other

This blog is a continuation of a series. See here for the previous blog. (AE Project Studio 2015) Current stock My current studio and live microphone stocks a modest range of dynamic microphones, dynamic ribbons, condensers, tubes and contact microphones. The range of microphones include: Shure 57s, 58s, Beta52As & SM7Bs; Electro Voice RE20s; Sennheiser e935s, e945s, e906s &…