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Portfolio of Original Electroacoustic Compositions - PhD Thesis Ryan Woods (22337734) Music composition and improvisation Musicology and ethnomusicology Music technology and recording Soundscape Composition Acoustic Ecology Collaborative Anthropology Electroacoustic Composition <p dir="ltr">This Portfolio of electroacoustic compositions comprises 6 works that combined soundscape composition practice with anthropological methodologies to create collaborative soundscape compositions. This work realises the need for a diversity of practitioners and mindsets in soundscape composition and turns to a lineage of ethnographic disciplines as a premise for methodological tools that might be used in practicing soundscape composition ethically with people. The soundscape compositions take the form of autoethnography, duoethnogarphy and collaborative ethnography.</p><p dir="ltr">The pieces are presented here chronologically in relation to the three projects they emerged from: Green spaces in South Manchester (<i>Reflections on A Secret Garden</i>, <i>The Warmth of Other Suns</i>, <i>If We Could Hear</i>), Child-Tree Relations in Moss Side (<i>A Grove of Children</i>), and Zimbabwe-Leicester Migrations (<i>Unganidza Mutundu</i>, <i>Tauya: we have arrived</i>). The accompanying commentary explains the overall ethos as well as the context, theory and analysis for each individual piece.</p> 2025-10-01T15:47:20Z Dataset Media 10.48420/30246382.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/media/Portfolio_of_Original_Electroacoustic_Compositions_-_PhD_Thesis/30246382 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0