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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 began her fellowship at the School of Music and Sonic Arts in Queen's in April 2007.


Research Interests

Networked performance environments; performance and the role of the body; improvisation; critical theory.

Current Work

Studying Socio-Technical Environments through Multi-site Machinic Performance Dr. Schroeder investigates real-time machinic performance in virtual environments. Machnic performance is characterised by the ways in which performance can stretch across people and mechanisms, engaging different systems, rather than seeing technologies as adapted to humans or vice versa. Machinic performance, in Deleuze’s and Guattari’s sense, happens at multiple sites through multiple agents, both human and technological, and “to research a machinic performance implies to become part of it” (McKenzie, 2005). A multi-site networked music performance can range from performing a notated score with another musician in a remote location, improvising with other performers in different virtual spaces, playing with algorithms (the other performer could be a machine), to staging a performance in a virtual world (such as the online multi-player gaming environment Second Life - secondlife.com).

Selected Publications

• Schroeder, F. and Rebelo, P. (2008, forthcoming). MUSICKING THE NETWORK: THE BODY AS DISTURBANT. Paper on performing in the net. Dispersive Anatomies issue | Leonardo Electronic Almanac. www.leoalmanac.org
• FAINT (2007) Double CD (CS088) of Improvised and Electroacoustic Music with Pedro Rebelo (Piano and Instrumental Parasites) and Steven Davis (Drums). Released by creative source recordings: http://www.creativesourcesrec.com/
• Schroeder, Renaud, Rebelo, Gualdas (2007). Addressing the Network: Performative Strategies for Playing Apart. Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference pp. 133 – 140.
• Schroeder, F. (July 2006). PhD Thesis. Re-situating Performance Within The Ambiguous, The Liminal, And The Threshold: Performance Practice Understood Through Theories Of Embodiment. School of Arts Culture and Environment. The University of Edinburgh. Available: Edinburgh Research Archive; http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1949.
• Schroeder, F., Guest Editor. (2006), Contemporary Music Review, Volume 25:1/2: Bodily Instruments and Instrumental Bodies: critical views on the relation of body and instrument in technologically informed performance environments, Editorial, pp.1-6, Routledge.  Available here.

A more extensive list of publications can be found here



Research Grants

AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts (2006-2009)

2002 AHRB: Small Grant in the Creative and Performing Arts.

2002: DAAD: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Germany): One year Music Performance/Research Grant


Future Research

Networked Performance Environments