About
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Research
Research interests
- Distributed Creativity and Improvisation
- Digital aesthetics in acoustic performance
- Loops and repetition
- Groove based music
- Works which bring together elements from Jazz practice and contemporary experimental composition
Current research
I am currently in the process of completing my PhD submission entitled 'Loop Work & Accomplices: Two approaches to distributed creativity, groove, and digital signatures in musical works'.
This work presents two distinct sets of musical works and an accompanying commentary. Loop Work is a set of open score instrumental compositions grounded in the technique of looping. Accomplices is a series of electronic fixed-media compositions made through an iterative process with an improvising musician. Both projects are underpinned by an interest in repetition and groove, the notion and practice of digital signatures, and the objective to engage performer creativity and agency. The commentary presents a critical examination of each set of works and contextualises my work within experimental open-score and improvised practices, and New Music more broadly.
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Research interests
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Current research
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Research projects
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Publications
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Supervision
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Teaching
I have taught on undergraduate modules: Composition Fundamentals, Intro To Music Technology, Producer As Composer
I also teach guitar, bass and drums; lead workshops; and run ensembles
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External roles and responsibilities
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Biography
Jamie Howell is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and early career researcher based in the South of the UK. With a broad stylistic palette covering jazz, funk, rock, pop, and experimental music, his guitar playing has been heard at venues such as Turner Sims concert hall, Dean Street Pizza Express, Colour House Theatre and Hard Rock Cafe in London, and at festivals including Sziget in Budapest, Marlborough Jazz Festival and the NIKE run in Hyde Park. He studied guitar with Mike Walker and Adrian Ingram in Leeds, and later with Mike Outram in London.
As a composer, his portfolio includes rock songs, jazz tunes, and contemporary experimental pieces; his big band composition Sabajam received its premier performance at the Montreux jazz festival in Switzerland, and his contemporary percussion piece It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer was first performed in Texas, USA. His collaborative electro-acoustic piece Cómplices created with Ausiàs Garrigós Morant (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra), was released as part of the Riot Ensemble’s ‘Zeitgeist Commisions’ in 2020.
In 2018 Jamie was awarded the University of Southampton Presidential Scholarship to study for a PhD in composition under Matthew Shlomowitz and Ben Oliver, and he has presented academic papers at conferences in London, Southampton and Oslo, Norway. He has taught on the University of Southampton International Summer School as well as on undergraduate modules, and has run a jazz ensemble for the University of Reading.
He is also a music examiner for Trinity College London and teaches guitar.
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Prizes
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