Maria 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.
Maria is now a post-doctoral research fellow on the Digital Playgrounds for Music project which continues to share the software developments as part of the IRiMaS project and beyond for sharing interactive aural approaches to music analysis, education and artistic research practices.
Research Profile: https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/maria-sappho
Thesis: https://www.mariasappho.com/tic
