The PhD in Creative Music Practice is an opportunity for you to pursue practice-led research in the field of music at the highest level. This will involve research that combines textual and musical outputs. For example, composition, performance (either of original or pre-existing repertoire), installation, sound design, and interactive music software. The outputs take the form of a portfolio, performance or recording, as well as theoretical work and documentation of the processes by which the music was made (video, photographs, recordings, sketches, studies, web pages, etc). The musical outputs are explicitly linked to the textual material. This link may take various forms: musical material might exemplify, contextualise or expand an idea elaborated in the text, and vice versa. The programme requires candidates to critically evaluate and articulate the relationship of textual to extra-textual media in the formation of musical knowledge. Typical applicants to this programme include composer-theorists who wish to carry out research into and practice of particular compositional models; performers who wish to deepen their practice through musicological research; computer music composers who wish to develop documented hardware/software systems for their music; performers with a need to study the techniques and organology of period instruments; instrument builders/researchers seeking historical techniques found in evidence from the original instruments.