Prof Alan Williams' Outputs (119)

Healing Tales: Interview transcripts (2025)
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This is a series of 6 interviews, and notes from a further conversation, with 8 people working in Bolton Royal Hospital, about their experiences in the COVID-19 Pandemic. The interviews were recorded and transcribed by Alan Williams, and they went on... Read More about Healing Tales: Interview transcripts.

Healing Tales Collection - Content List (2025)
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Read this document first - it's a content list for the collection Healing Tales.

Collaborative Composition Using Participatory Design Methods (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This text is based on a presentation I made at the Social Impact of Music Making symposium, Copenhagen, November 2024. I have altered it to so that it cross references files and materials included in the Healing Tales Collection.

Healing Tales: Notes from Prototyping Session May 17th 2023 (2025)
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These notes were made following the prototyping session where 4 initial scored ideas were played by the project lead to the participants, and they were able to critique these ideas. This critique changed the content of the piece after this session.

Healing Tales script (2025)
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This is the script for Healing Tales, a Collaborative Composition used as part of the development of the Listening Composer method of participatory collaborative composition. Healing Tales is a piece for recorded actors' voices and instrumental octet... Read More about Healing Tales script.

The Listening Composer Revisited: Collaborative Composition using ParticipatoryDesign Methods (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A paper given at the November 2024 Social Impact of Music Making symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Realizations Decisions and Actions: Toward a Framework of Dramatic Structure for Film Composers (2024)
Thesis

The goal of my research is to develop a theoretical and practical framework for film composers that helps to determine the moments in a film that should be underlined or “marked” with music during the spotting process. Spotting means defining music e... Read More about Realizations Decisions and Actions: Toward a Framework of Dramatic Structure for Film Composers.

The Indian choir, ensemble and Vedic traditions (2024)
Thesis

In this commentary, I provide the details of four Indian choir projects: how I planned,
prepared the musical repertoire, compositions, technical plans, and marketing and how I
delivered the high-profile concerts. It was my aspiration to create an I... Read More about The Indian choir, ensemble and Vedic traditions.

The Role Of Harmony In The Construction Of A Machine Aesthetic In Electronic Dance Music (2024)
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This thesis represents the first extended study of harmonic practices and their significance in electronic dance music. Focusing on analysis of recordings from the 1970s–1990s, it identifies three distinctive harmonic practices which help to define w... Read More about The Role Of Harmony In The Construction Of A Machine Aesthetic In Electronic Dance Music.

The Euphonium: A Musical Journey (2024)
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This Doctor of Musical Arts research portfolio explores the euphonium soloist’s status within
a variety of aspects of the classical music profession. Specifically, the role of the euphonium
is investigated through practical application in distinct... Read More about The Euphonium: A Musical Journey.

Scoring the Unseen: Composition Film Music for Radio Drama (2023)
Book Chapter

This book chapter, part of the volume Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama, describes the process of writing an orchestral score for a BBC Radio drama (The Kraken Wakes, Savvy Productions/ BBC, 2015) designed to be performed live alongside the actors... Read More about Scoring the Unseen: Composition Film Music for Radio Drama.

Healing Tales - full score in pdf (2023)
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This is the full score to Healing Tales, a collaborative dance/ music theatre piece

Songs Translated from a Forgotten Language - 300 Commentary and link to performance (2023)
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Composition:

Williams, A (2023) Songs Translated from a Forgotten Language (15 min) A song cycle to words by Ian McMillan. Performed by Psappha, March 2021, Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester.

The piece formed part of Psappha’s Arts Council England-f... Read More about Songs Translated from a Forgotten Language - 300 Commentary and link to performance.

Songs Translated from a Forgotten Language (2023)
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Full score of the song cycle Songs Translated from a Forgotten language

The piece formed part of Psappha’s Arts Council England-funded Unheard Voices, in which four composers (Jay Capperauld, Nina Danon, Shruthi Rajasekar, and David Nunn) alongsid... Read More about Songs Translated from a Forgotten Language.

Healing Tales (300 word commentary and links to videos) (2023)
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Composition:

Williams, A (2023) Healing Tales. (50min) A collaborative dance/music theatre composition. Premiered New Adelphi Theatre, Latitude Ensemble, cond. Chris Clark, University of Salford, July 2023.

Link to videos: https://www.youtube.c... Read More about Healing Tales (300 word commentary and links to videos).

Movements of the Motionless (full score) (2023)
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This is the full score to Movements of the Motionless, described in a separate 300-word statement

The Shot, the Jelly and the Pot of Treacle: 300 word commentary (2023)
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An introduction to the process and context of the composition of this piece for two pianos. It should be read in conjunction with the score of the piece and the recording of the Vilnius premiere.

The Shot, the Jelly, and the Pot of Treacle (link to performance from 51:10) (2023)
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This is a link to the recording of a piece for 2 pianos, The Shot, the Jelly, and the Pot of Treacle.

The performance was given by the Re:Sono piano duo (Lauryna Sableviciute and Nicholas Ashton, pianos) at Organum, Vilnius, Lithuania on 5th April... Read More about The Shot, the Jelly, and the Pot of Treacle (link to performance from 51:10).

Concert Poster (2023)
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Poster advertising the concert at which Weöres Egyenletek was premiered.

Weöres Egyenletek: 300 Word statement and link to video (2023)
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This 300 statement gives detail of the process and context of this set of songs to texts by Hungarian poet Sándor Weöres. Links to video of performance can also be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06urYIFWY9w