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Dr Franziska Schroeder





Dr Franziska Schroeder
Lecturer / RCUK Fellow

Email: f.schroeder@qub.ac.uk
Tel: +44 28 9097 1024
Office: Music Building

Address: School of Music and Sonic Arts, Music Building, Queen's University Belfast,
BT7 1NN

http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~fschroeder/

Key Teaching Roles:
Final year Performance / Recital students
Final Year (UG) and MA Performance



Achievements and Distinctions

Franziska Schroeder is a performer of saxophone and live-electronic music, a theorist and improviser. She is a founder of the digital media collective l a u t and has been awarded her PhD by the School of Arts, Culture and Environment at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Dr Schroeder has written for many international journals. She has guest-edited a double issue for the Contemporary Music Review Journal (Routledge) and is on the editorial board for the ARiADA (Advanced Research in Aesthetics in the Digital Arts) online journal, UK. She holds the 1998 University Medal (Tasmania/Australia), the 1996 Rotary Club Award for outstanding musician (Australia), and in 1995 was placed on the University's Dean’s Roll of Excellence (Australia).

In 2006 Dr Schroeder initiated the international symposia series entitled "TWO Thousand + ", which has become an annual forum for the exchange of artists and theorists on performances informed by new technologies.
www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~fschroeder/symposium/

Dr. Schroeder held an AHRC UK Fellowship at the School of Music and Sonic Arts, Queen's University Belfast from 2007-2009.
Since December 2009 she has held the post of Lecturer/RCUK Fellow.


Research Interests

New performance environments; performance studies; critical / cultural studies in music and sonic arts; improvisation


Selected Publications

  • Schroeder, F. (edited volume, 2009). Performing Technology: User Content and the New Digital Media. Cambridge Publishing Scholars. (Book available through the publisher)
  • Schroeder, F. (December, 2009). Network[ed] Listening: exploring possibilities of a haptic aurality. In: Performing Technology: User Content and the New Digital Media. Cambridge Publishing Scholars.
  • Schroeder, F. (December, 2009). The Body Skinned: Rethinking performative presence. Performance Research Journal “Transplantation” (Issue editors: Ric Allsopp & Phillip Warnell, Vol.14, No.4).
  • Schroeder, F. (2009) Dramaturgy as a Model for Geographically Displaced Collaborations: Views from Within and Views from Without. Contemporary Music Review, Volume 28 Issue 4.
  • Schroeder, F. and Rebelo, P. (August 2009). The Pontydian Performance: examining the performative layer. Accepted for Organised Sound, Vol. 14/2.
  • Schroeder, F. and Rebelo, P. (2009). Musicking the network: The body as disturbant. Accepted for the Dispersive Anatomies issue | Leonardo Electronic Almanac. (www.leoalmanac.org).
  • Schroeder, F. (May 2009). Re-situating Performance Within The Threshold: Performance Practice Understood Through Theories Of Embodiment. VDM Publishing House Ltd. ISBN 978-3-639-14667-7. Available through stores online.
  • Single CD (September 2008) on the creative source label with improvisors Pedro Rebelo (piano), Franziska Schroeder (Soprano Saxophone), Guilherme Rodrigues (Cello) and Ernesto Rodrigues (Viola). Creative Source Recordings CS134
  • Schroeder, F. (2008). Caressing the Skin: Mobile devices and bodily engagement. Shortened version. 4th Stimulus Respond Publication of SKIN. (www.stimulusrespond.com).
  • Schroeder, F. (2008). Caressing the Skin: Mobile devices and bodily engagement. Presented at the 5th International Mobile Music Workshop in Vienna (13-15th May 2008). Conference Proceedings. (T).(www.mobileworkshop.org)

A more extensive list of publications can be found here



Research Grants

  • AHRC: Collaborative Research Training Grant (2010 - 2012)
  • Arts Council of Northern Ireland Commission Grant (2009)
  • Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Queen’s University Belfast, Interdisciplinary Project Grant (2009)
  • AHRC: Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts (2007-2009)
  • Shaw Mc Fie Lang Scholarship, School of Arts Culture and Environment, University of Edinburgh (2003-2005)
  • AHRB: Small Grant in the Creative and Performing Arts (2002)
  • DAAD: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Germany): One year Music Performance/Research Grant (2002)
  • Northwestern University, School of Music Eckstein Grant and School of Music Stipend (2002, declined)
  • Multimedia work development and performance grant, Banco Comercial Portugues, Lisbon, Portugal (2001)
  • Arts Tasmania commission grant for new saxophone/piano work (1997)

 

Other Awards:

  • University of Tasmania, Australia: Honours Scholarship and University Medal (1998)
  • Rotary Club Award for outstanding musician (Australia, 1996)
  • University of Tasmania, Australia: Dean’s Roll of Excellence (1995)


Future Research

Networked Performance Environments