The Intercultural Communication through Practice research group considers how cultural heritage is shared across borders and transmitted through arts practice.

Individual and collective approaches to memory and identity determine how creative processes engage with place, space and time. Cultural and environmental factors are examined for the way they shape artistic and societal transformations.

Events and lectures

Visit the ICP Research Group blog for more information. 

Mbira Hut

Mbira Hut is a legacy of the late Chartwell Dutiro, which he set up to trace the intangible cultural heritage of the music transmitted for generations between the Shona people of Zimbabwe.

Mbira Hut

Interactive Research in Music as Sound: Transforming Digital Musicology

IRiMaS is a five-year project (2017-2022) funded by a €2.5m European Research Council Advanced Grant. It's aim is to harness the potential of modern technology to research interactive aural approaches to music analysis, and to musicology more broadly. It aims to devise software tools and case studies to demonstrate the potential of using technology to facilitate direct engagement with music and sound as part of musicological research.

Beyond East and West

Beyond East and West systematises practical processes essential for the creation of a new, East-West strand of contemporary music and opera.

Its tripartite approach of workshop-ethnography-theory combining with public events will offer a new model for transcultural praxis, while opening a door to the world for deeper understanding of Turkey’s exquisite musical traditions. 

Our members

PhD

Find out how to apply for a PhD with us through our research degrees page.

Staff
Research students
  • Rachel Beale
  • Matt Dicken
  • Chartwell Dutiro
  • Zé Aruanã Kouyaté
  • Maryann Tedstone
  • Damir Yakubov
Visiting research fellows
  • Cecilia Quaintrell
  • Hyelim Kim

Contact us

If you are interested in becoming a member of our group, or would like to do research with us, please contact Amanda Bayley.