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My portfolio consists of nine original compositions, along with six recordings and this commentary. All nine works are the result of my research undertaken over the past five years (2017–22) at the Department of Music, University of York, and they cover an array of instrumentations from solo to chamber, one pocket music theatre work and one orchestral piece. Four of the submitted works were composed upon commission.
My doctoral studies coincided with my decision to visit the idea of rites in contemporary music composition, with the focus on the structure of sound. Along this journey, there have been numerous influences, musical and otherwise, new and past, that have intensified my research and shaped the outcome.
I particularly examine how the notion of rites can be integrated and further developed in my music so as to present me with new creative avenues. In the works presented in this commentary, I thus introduce the concept of sound ritual as my compositional approach. This is integrated into my musical language based on four conceptual traits: origin, memory, perception, identity. In order to delineate the development of this approach, I explored the technical opportunities it offered me through five specific elements: form, harmonic / time organisation, pitch material, and reverberation.
This research culminates with Thrus for orchestra (2021), which is the last work of this portfolio, hence, I consider it my substantial work.

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Supervisors:	Simaku, Thomas
Keywords:	contemporary music; sound; soundandritual; soundritual; auralarchitecture; maqam; memory; memoryandoblivion; composition; sacredspaces; hypotheticalacousticspaces; origin; perception; reverberation;
Awarding institution:	University of York
Academic Units:	The University of York > School of Arts and Creative Technologies (York)
Academic unit:	Music
Identification Number/EthosID:	uk.bl.ethos.875065
Depositing User:	Andreas Tsiartas
Date Deposited:	17 Mar 2023 11:13
Last Modified:	21 Sep 2023 09:53
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:32480

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