Spirituality and Electronic Music - Theory and Practice

This research project is a practice-based examination of the intersections between spirituality and electronic music, engaging R.A Emmons’s concept of “Spiritual Intelligence”. Discourses in electroacoustic music and spirituality are interrogated with the aim of expressing new connections between spirituality, music composition and technology. A methodology is developed to express the different relationships between electronic music creation and spirituality in three broad categories: traditional, musically holistic, and experimental. This methodology is tested on and applied to a range of extant and new electroacoustic compositions, in both an exegesis and portfolio of eight new creative works.