Item 2. Book Chapter - Auralising Action Space: channelling a sense of play in documentary sound design (2018)
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Walter Murch’s traditional sense of the the sound designer working within cinema was responsible for ensuring sonic consistency through every stage of the production process, in short ‘sound from start to finish’ (Wright, 2013, p. 139). The role exte... Read More about Item 2. Book Chapter - Auralising Action Space: channelling a sense of play in documentary sound design.

Item 4. Action Space (Wahl, 2016) link to Full Film (2018)
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Private link to Vimeo of Action Space (Wahl, 2016) full film:
https://vimeo.com/164877590

Password is: asfilm2016

Key Examples:

0 - 2min40s. Opening scene.
Use of sound design to enhance the tangible and sensory experience of being inside... Read More about Item 4. Action Space (Wahl, 2016) link to Full Film.

Item 5. Action Space - Impact (2018)
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List of awards, screenings, media coverage and recognition for the film Action Space.

Action Space film - Impact:

Featured In:

The Film Programme, Radio 4, broadcast 24/04/2016
The Wire magazine, January 2017 issue
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Item 6. Production Photos (taken 2015) from Action Space (2016) (2018)
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Production Photos from Action Space (2016). Copyright Huw Wahl 2016.

Item 3. Action Space - Research Timeline (2018)
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Timeline of overall Action Space research project

Me Emergency Exit is Blocked - aria from The Arsonists (2018)
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https://vimeo.com/288749494
a link to the vimeo video of an aria from the opera The Arsonists by Alan Williams and Ian McMillan

Plan for composition of music agreed with writer Val McDermid (2018)
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This is part of the preparatory method whereby the 'music drives the narrative'- this plan, pre-agreed with writer Val McDermid, formed the basis of both the music and the adaptation of the John Wyndham novel The Kraken Wakes.

FLUXUoS - The Library Happening 2 July 2018 (2018)
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In an experimental collaboration between the Clifford Whitworth Library and the University of Salford’s Comedy Course, a re-enactment of some of the comedic, performative artwork of the 1960’s neo-Dadaist group Fluxus, "happened" at 13.00 hours on th... Read More about FLUXUoS - The Library Happening 2 July 2018.

Collaborative Composition, Writing and Performing (2018)
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The text of a paper given at SIMPOM 2014, the society for postgraduate students in music of Brazil, as invited keynote speaker.

The Kraken Wakes: 300 word description (2018)
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a description of this collection as a single output

Score of Pillars of Wisdom (2018)
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This is the score for 'Pillars of Wisdom'. The metronome markings are all related to the reverberation time of the reading room of Manchester Central Library, so that its prominent slap-back echo can create an additional layer of material slotting in... Read More about Score of Pillars of Wisdom.

Pillars of Wisdom 300 word commentary (2018)
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introduction to the project

Blog about the Pillars of Wisdom project (2018)
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a blog describing the project by collaborator Prof Trevor Cox

The Kraken Wakes full score (2018)
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This is a pdf of the score to the music cues for the Radio Drama adaptation of The Kraken Wakes

The Arsonists chamber opera full orchestral score (2018)
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This is the full orchestral score for the Arsonists chamber opera

A Bridge Between Heaven and Earth (2018)
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The full score of the String Quartet

Audio extracts from audio drama (2018)
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This is a series of extracts from the Radio 4 drama adaptation by Val McDermid of John Wyndham's novel The Kraken Wakes, with music played by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra composed by Alan Edward Williams

Material and Symbolic Complexity in Music Composition (2018)
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Article describing the research inquiries in A Bridge Between Heaven and Earth - responding to Eric Clarke. Clarke's provocation, together with my response and one from Prof Dee Reynolds form the following:

Eric Clarke, with Alan E. Williams & Dee... Read More about Material and Symbolic Complexity in Music Composition.

300 word commentary on A Bridge Between Heaven and Earth (2018)
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This is an introduction to the string quartet 'A Bridge Between Heaven and Earth'

Community Science Showcase Film (2018)
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Video film made over weekend of 20/21 October 2018 at the Community Science Showcase for GameLab as part of the Manchester Science Festival 2018. Filmed at the University of Salford Library at MediaCityUK campus.