Prof Alan Williams' Outputs (6)

Healing Tales Collection - Content List (2025)
Data

Read this document first - it's a content list for the collection Healing Tales.

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: 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.

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.

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.

Healing Tales script (2025)
Digital Artefact

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.