DOI: 10.24378/exe.31100002
title: Co-becomings in Creative Music Workshop Practices: Audio and Video Files

description: This data comprises the video, audio and mixed media artefacts which are integral to the thesis: 'Co-becomings in Creative Music Workshop Practices' submitted by Ursula Crickmay to the University of Exeter as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education, September 2025.Audio 1, A sonic exploration: the researchers' music-making performances over the course of one week, sampled and mixed according to aleatoric processes as part of an autoethnographic research method.Audio 2, Gamelan rehearsal: short illustrative extract from autoethnographic field recording.Audio 3, Clap for the NHS: autoethnographic field recording from COVID lockdown.Audio 4, Co-becoming with voices: Musical transcription of data extract from a pre-school music project.Audio 5-7: Music/sound pieces co-created by the author with a neurodivergent music making group.Audio 8, Sense: Spoken data from participant with young onset dementia, mixed with samples of music improvised by the researcher using piano, exploring dementia and affect.Audio 9, Present moment unfolding: Field recording of musician on Zoom playing Astor Piazolla, 'Oblivion' during music workshop.Audio 10, Co-becoming in liminal spaces: Field recording of space prior to music improvisation beginning.Video 1, Lockdown at home, lockdown in the woods: Researcher's autoethnographic recordings of COVID lockdown.Video 2, Chop chop: Extract of Zoom video recording of young children making music during COVID lockdown.Video 3, Silence of Zoom: Visuals of young children dancing to music and musicians playing on Zoom; audio created by researcher using xylophones and sequencing processes.Video 4, Co-Becoming with a Piano: Creative artefact exploring music and materiality. Includes home video of piano being dismantled and burnt, extract from Brahms Intermezzo in Am, Op. 76, plus improvised sounds with partially dismantled piano played by the researcher.Videos 5-15: Extracts from video and audio recordings of group improvisations from music workshops on Zoom with young musicians with autism, also featuring professional musicians plus the researcher; various exploratory visuals utilising data extracts from the same workshops.Video 16, Dancing assemblage: Video extract from music workshop on Zoom with a group of people with young onset dementia and family members; shows a 'found dance performance' captured during one session.Video 17, Workshop as assemblage: Audio recording of improvisation by professional musicians (violin, viola, harp plus ocean drum) in workshop debrief session, utilising playing to reflect on use of the ocean drum during the workshop; visuals are slow-motion recording of an ocean drum played by the researcher.Video 18, This was the piece: Audio extract from music improvisation with a group including people with young onset dementia, family members and professional musicians, demonstrating growth of an improvisation from a single note; visual is a sketch created by a musician in a feedback workshop.Video 19, Affect is persistent proof: Video/audio collage including sonic extracts from music workshop including people with young onset dementia and professional musicians, inspired by reference to Vaughan Williams and affective responses to this. Visuals devised from drawn materials created by researcher.Figure 17, A Screen Play, PDF plus .wav files: Recreation of Sway document featuring text, images and sounds from a music making project with young children, early years staff, and music leaders on Zoom; explores theatrical character of workshops on Zoom, and the role of pitch.Figure 18, Tales of Enchantment, PDF and MP4 files: Recreation of Sway document featuring text, images and sounds from a music making project with young children, early years staff, and music leaders on Zoom; explores positive affective responses to music workshops.Figure 21, Material Encounters collage, PDF and MP3 files: Recreation of Sway document featuring text, sketches, and sounds from a music making project with young autistic people and professional musicians on Zoom; explores concept of material encounter in music workshops.Figure 25, Music workshop as assemblage, PDF, MP4 and .mov files: Recreation of Sway document featuring text, sketches, photos, and sounds from a music making project with people with young onset dementia, their family members and professional musicians and facilitators on Zoom; explores concept of assemblage in music workshops.Figure 27, Difference and diffraction, PDF and MP4 files: Recreation of Sway document featuring text, sketches, photos, and sounds from a music making project with people with young onset dementia, their family members, and professional musicians and facilitators on Zoom; explores concept of music workshop as diffraction.