Maria recently completed her doctoral researcher on the European Research Council project IRiMaS (Interactive Research in Music as Sound) with her thesis 'The Improvisers Cookbook: Mythologising the social in experimental improvisation''
IRiMaS was a five-year project (2017-2022) funded by a €2.5m European Research Council Advanced Grant. A project which aimed to harness the potential of C21st technology to research interactive aural approaches to music analysis, and to musicology more broadly. Building on earlier work, the project devised a generic software tools (TIAALS) to demonstrate the potential of working with software to facilitate direct engagement with music as sound as part of musicological research.
Donohue+: Developing performer-specific electronic improvisatory acompañamiento for instrumental improvisation
Sam Gillies and Maria Sappho Donohue
Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press
2021
Inventing the language of Mush
Video Article: Maria Sappho and Henry McPherson
Symposium with Huddersfield University and Osaka University
2020
Our Virtual Tribe: Sustaining and Enhancing Comunidad via Online Música Improvisation
Raymond MacDonald, Robert Burke, Tia De Nora, Maria Sappho Donohue, and Ross Birrell
Frontiers in Psychology
2021
Some Serious Play: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra telematic music
video article: Maria Sappho, Raymond MacDonald, Tia DeNora, Robert Burke and Ross Birrell
AJIRN conference
2020
Subverting by not subverting: free improvisation dreams in counter logic activisms
Maria Sappho Donohue
CERENEM journal
2020
What Mushroom? What Free Improvisation?
video article: Maria Sappho