Caitlin Rowley

About the project

• PhD student – Composition
• Department: Bath School of Music and Performing Arts
• Campus: Newton Park, Bath
• Website: caitlinrowley.com

Personal statement

Caitlin Rowley is a composer, artist and performer whose work has been performed, broadcast and exhibited internationally. She's a member of the acclaimed experimental music group Bastard Assignments.

A PhD student at Bath Spa University, her practice-based research questions the separation of public and private creative spaces through developing interdisciplinary compositions which use her composing activity in her studio and notebooks as compositional material.

Academic qualifications

• BMus (Hons) Music Composition, University of Sydney – 2:1
• GrDip Design, University of Technology Sydney – Distinction
• MFA Creative Practice (Music) in Music Composition – Distinction

Qualifications, skills and experience

• Editor of ‘Australia: Exploring the Musical Landscape’, Australian Music Centre/Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2005
• ‘Fortune Favours the Brave’ for flute and objects performed by Jenni Hogan live on BBC Radio 3 ‘Hear and Now’, September 2016
• Snape Maltings Open Space artist (with Bastard Assignments), 2017-19
• ‘Aides Memoire’ for narrator, tape and live photography performed by Bastard Assignments live on BBC Radio 3 ‘Hear and Now’, October 2017
• ‘Community of Objects’ performed by Bastard Assignments at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, November 2017
• ‘Quiet Songs’ commissioned by Aldeburgh Festival and premiered there by the composer, June 2019

Thesis title

"Studio/Stage: Questioning the division of ‘private’ and ‘public’ creative spaces through interdisciplinary compositional practice"

Research supervisors

• Professor James Saunders , Bath Spa University
• Dr Robert Luzar , Bath Spa University

Research interests

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• Private experience (composition practice, memory)
• Generative creative spaces (studio/notebooks)
• The score as object
• The everyday
• Fear as a creative tool
• Interdisciplinary composition/The New Discipline
• Erik Satie

Research areas