Readdressing the Spectacle: Composing Connections Between Past Women and Living Women Composers Through Collage is a practice-based research project that explores how a contemporary composition practice can form connections with the lives and creative practices of historical women composers, with a particular interest in the C19th. Composers of current interest to the work are the following: Marie Jaëll (1846-1925), Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) and Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944). Engaging with music theatre, sound art and interdisciplinary practices, this page will be a place to share sketches, experiments and new compositions across the course of the project.
Chloe Knibbs
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Rebel: Stormy Petrel
A collaboration with librettist Teresa Howard exploring the life and work of Ethel Smyth.
Experiments using Jaëll’s
“Feuillet d’Album”
Electroacoustic manipulations of the below fragment, created during the composition of “Finding Jaëll”
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Finding Jaëll (05:34)
Electroacoustic work responding to Marie Jaëll, her work “Feuillet d’Album” and her experience of self doubt detailed in her correspondence with Edouard Schuré.
This PhD is based at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the University of Birmingham (supervisors: Professor Joe Cutler, Dr. Carrie Churnside, Dr. Annie Mahtani) with additional mentoring from Alwynne Pritchard. The research is supported by the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership.
