Episode 1: The New Research Centre, Guitars and Improvisation

The podcast is presented by Stefanie Barschdorf and Simon Zagorski-Thomas. The Script Editor is Stefanie Barschdorf and the Technical Producer is Maciej Kierzkowski. The editors were Maciej Kierzkowski, Tommy Mitoraj, Gittit Perlmutter and Simon Zagorski-Thomas. It was mastered by Dan Pratt. Our guests on the first podcast are Jo Collinson Scott, a Reader at the University of the West of Scotland who also uses her artist name of Jo Mango, and Jamie Howell, who is just completing his creative practice PhD at the University of Southampton. Stefanie interviews Simon about the launch of the new research centre, this podcast and the Discord server. Jo has just been participating in our Creative Use of Guitar Tuning Research Challenge with nine other guitarists and talks about the process, the novel format and her Giant On The Bridge practice research project which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe and is about to go on tour. Jamie discusses the composition, improvisation and performance work he undertook for his PhD using techniques drawn from DJ culture and EDM. The website presents videos from the international Research Challenge, one about Jamie's practice research and by Simon explaining some of the details about the future plans for the research centre.