Mr James Wishart B.A. (Hons.), Oxon, M.Mus., Surrey

Composition for acoustic and electroacoustic forces. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary issues in relation to Composition. Music technology/study of electroacoustic music and its aesthetics. Multimedia and composition. Issues of arrangement, transcription and recomposition. Music in relation to other artforms. Words and music. Music and politics. Opera and music-theatre. Historical and Analytical topics in Classical Music. Performance studies. Performance aesthetics. Study of recorded musical performances. Musical notation issues - esp. new notational developments. History of American music, history of Australian music. Aesthetics of the avant-garde. The development of modernism. Modernism and postmodernism. Composition for 'early musical instruments'. Music and complexity theory (and related issues). Soundscape/archival and compositional uses of ambient environment.