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Welcome to the Major Music Project Conference 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The one-day, student-led MMP conference is part of the learning & teaching activities of the fourth-year MUS10105 Major Music Project<\/a>\u00a0undergraduate module offered at Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries. The purpose of this student-led event is to act as an opportunity for our 4th<\/sup> year BA Music students to present their final year dissertations and practice-led research projects work-in-progress, and to share their research processes and findings with their peers and the extended academic community.<\/p>\r\n

The theme of the MMP Conference 2026 is \u2018What We Come to Care For\u2019<\/strong> and aims to highlight two important undercurrents: perspectives<\/strong> and love<\/strong>. Here, perspectives<\/em> are understood as situated viewpoints shaped by lived experience, and love<\/em> as the care, curiosity, and passion that can animate creative and scholarly practices. Presenters are invited to reflect on how their lived experience, musical background, biographical and cultural context, identity, and values inform the research projects and questions they pursue, and how these aspects shape their perspectives and the work they come to care for and feel drawn to explore with enthusiasm and passion.<\/p>\r\n

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Hilma Af Klint \u2013 The Swan, No. 12 (1915)<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This theme resonates with Tim Ingold\u2019s (2018) framing of research as \u201ca practice of correspondence\u201d: a sustained, attentive engagement with the people, ideas, and materials we work with. For Ingold, this helps foreground care<\/em> and curiosity<\/em> as part of the research process, with research<\/em> becoming a \u201clabor of love\u201d rather than a \u201ctechnical operation\u201d (ibid.). This perspective highlights how care and love often sit at the heart of meaningful creative and academic work, with love<\/strong> understood here not only as a feeling, but as a way of attending and responding to what we work with.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Ingold\u2019s emphasis on researching with care, curiosity, and attention invites us to ask how that love and curiosity are shaped over time, and how our viewpoints \u2014 formed within wider musical, academic, and personal contexts \u2014 inform this practice of correspondence. In other words, if research involves attentive correspondence, then what we notice in correspondence shapes our perspective, and our perspective, in turn, shapes what we notice, respond to, and attend to. Patricia Williamson (2021) helps us explore this idea when she suggests that perception and perspective continually influence one another:<\/p>\r\n

\u201cPerception and perspective, while separate, are entwined because they constantly influence each other in a circular way.\u00a0Perceptions, the way you sense the world and interpret it, impact on your perspective, your point of view of said world, which again influences your\u00a0perceptions.\u201d<\/em> (Williamson, 2021)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As perception moulds perspective, our ongoing, attentive engagement with musical materials and practices, research fields and questions, experiences and understandings, discourses and lived contexts shapes what we come to care for.<\/p>\r\n

The 2026 MMP one-day conference wishes to underline this relationship between love, care, perspective, and perception, and encourages presenters to reflect on the origins and development of their passions in the context of their research projects, and on what love might mean for them in relation to the questions and materials they come to care for<\/strong> as they move towards finalising their Major Music Projects.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Conference Date & Venue: Tuesday 17 March 2026 <\/strong>\u2014\u00a0Room G08<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u00b7 Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh Napier University.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Ingold, T. 2018. Anthropology Between Art and Science: An Essay on the Meaning of Research. FIELD, A Journal of socially engaged\u202fart criticism. Spring 2018 (11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Williamson, P. 2021. Academic Writing Skills, Chapter 30: Perception and Perspective \u2013 The Subjective Writer. Published by the University of Queensland.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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