Ep 12 Becky White

In episode 12, which coincides with World Music Therapy Day, Luke
Annesley talks to Becky White. Becky teaches clinical
improvisation at the University of South Wales and works as an
associate lecturer in music therapy at the University of the West
of England. She is undertaking PhD research into learning
experiences through improvisation of music and music therapy
students. The study is arts based, employing
qualitative phenomenological interviews combined with
improvisations and transcribed with hand-drawn graphic scores.
She is a member of the inter-model and inter-disciplinary
improvisation research network Concurrent, based at the
University of Edinburgh.


During this interview Becky refers to a number of papers,
including her recent Concurrent study on Voices, which is here.
She also references the following:


Ferrara, L. (1984) Phenomenology as a Tool for Musical
Analysis. The Musical Quarterly, 70(3), pp. 355-373. 


Wilson, G.B., and MacDonald, R.A. (2016) Musical choices during
group free improvisation: A qualitative psychological
investigation. Psychology of Music, 44(5), pp. 1029 -
1043.