Publications

Book Chapters
  • Gillies, Sam. 2020. “Screen Grammar for Mobile Frame Media: The audiovisual language of Cinematic Virtual Reality, case studies and analysis.” In Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices, edited by Andrew Knight-Hill, 206-218. London: Focal Press, Routledge.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
  • Gillies, Sam. “The Prisoner: The lost history of England’s first work of music concrète.” Organised Sound 27 (3). Cambridge University Press: In Print.
  • Gillies, Sam, & Donohue, Maria. 2021. “Donohue+: Developing performer-specific electronic improvisatory accompaniment for instrumental improvisation.” Organised Sound 26 (1). Cambridge University Press: 129-139.
  • Vickery, Lindsay, Terren, Michael, Gillies, Sam, & Myburgh, Josten. 2016. “Between the Real and the Imaginary: Ecostructural Approaches to Composing with Field Recordings and Acoustic Instruments.” In Proceedings of the 2016 Sonic Ecology: Australasian Computer Music Conference, edited by Lindsay Vickery, 81-89. Australia: The Australasian Computer Music Association.
  • Gillies, Sam, & McDonald, Skot. 2016. “NOIZEMASCHIN!! : A new model of live performance in Perth, Western Australia from 2011 to the present day.” In Sound Scripts: Proceedings of the 2015 Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference, edited by Cat Hope, Adam Trainer and Susan Studham, 53-62. NSW, Australia: Australian Music Centre, Ltd.
  • Gillies, Sam, & Vickery, Lindsay. 2012. “Reflections on the construction of meaning through immanent visual association.” In Sound Scripts: Proceedings of the 2011 Totally Huge New Musical Festival Conference, edited by Cat Hope and Kylie J. Stevenson, 71-77. NSW, Australia: Australian Music Centre, Ltd.
  • Gillies, Sam, & Hope, Cat. 2011. “Manifesting meaning from a performance of cruelty: Parallels in the Music Experimentalism of Antonin Artaud and Sub Ordnance.” In Sound Scripts : Proceedings of the 2009 Totally Huge New Music Festival, edited by Cat Hope, 31-36. NSW, Australia: Australian Music Centre, Ltd.
Reviews
  • Gillies, Sam. 2021. “[Review of] Wang Lu - Wang Lu, An Atlas of Time. Boston Modern Orchestra. Muncy, Lippel, Momenta Quartet, Cuckson. New Focus Recordings, fcr277.” Tempo 75(297). Cambridge University Press: 95-96.
Thesis
  • Gillies, Sam. 2020. "Composing with Frames and Spaces: Cinematic Virtual Reality as an Audiovisual Compositional Practice." PhD Thesis, University of Huddersfield.
Conference Presentations
  • Gillies, Sam. 2022. “The Prisoner (1954): A missing link in England's history of electronic music.” Presented at RMA Annual Conference, Durham, UK, 8-10 September, 2022.
  • Gillies, Sam. 2021. “Composing with Frames and Spaces: Cinematic Virtual Reality as an Audiovisual Compositional Practice.” Presented at BARN Virtual Colloquia, Leeds, UK, 18 February, 2021.
  • Gillies, Sam. 2020. Organiser of Capitalist Realism: 10 Years On. Hosted by University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 15-16 February, 2020.
  • Gillies, Sam. 2018 “Building Sound Relationships for 360˚ Video.” Presented at Sound/Image Colloquium, Greenwich University, London, United Kingdom, 11 November, 2018.
  • Gillies, Sam. 2015. “Emanations: Developing a noise-orientated system of interactive musical phrase matching.” Presented at Goldsmiths Music Research Seminar, London, United Kingdom, 23 May, 2015.
  • Gillies, Sam. 2014. “The Expressive Potential of Wave Terrain Synthesis as Explored in Snowden (Social Network).” Presented at IRCAM Forum, Paris, France, 20 November, 2014.
  • Gillies, Sam. 2012. “Exploring the potential of interactivity between music and moving images.” Presented at Australian Computer Music Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 14 August, 2012.
  • Gillies, Sam. 2011. “Reflections on the construction of meaning through immanent visual association.” Presented at Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference, Perth, Australia, 15-25 September, 2011.
  • Gillies, Sam. 2009. Manifesting meaning from a performance of cruelty: Parallels in the Music Experimentalism of Antonin Artaud and Sub Ordnance.” Presented at Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference, Perth, Australia, 30-31 October, 2009.