David May

About the project

• PhD student - Music
• Email: david.may16@bathspa.ac.uk
• Department: Bath School of Music and Performing Arts
• Website: www.david-may.co.uk
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Personal statement

David is a composer based in Bath, UK. His work explores the characteristics of people, their relationships with others, and community. His compositions use social interactions and are presented through everyday means such as postcards, greetings cards, and tabletop gaming.

Previous work has focused on experiential text scores, exploring our relationships with the locations around us. His piece Words, presented as a book, uses various forms and genres of literature to address portrayals of sex, sexuality and relationships within culture.

David is a PhD student at Bath Spa University. His research explores interpersonal relationships in the composition process, using the artist-sitter relationship found in visual art as a lens to further this understanding.

Academic qualifications

• BA (Hons) Music (University of Chichester, 2:1)
• MA Composition (Bath Spa University, Distinction)

Thesis title

I Only Paint What I See: the artist-sitter relationship as a model for music composition.

Research supervisors

Professor James Saunders and Dr Andrea Medjesi-Jones .

Research interests

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• Relationships in the Composition Process
• Collaborative Practice
• Artist-Sitter Relationships
• Open Scoring
• Scores as Everyday Objects

Research areas