Scott McLaughlin, Writings (not exhaustive, mostly online articles)
- McLaughlin, Scott (2022), 'On Material Indeterminacy' in Contemporary Music Review
- Academic book article developed out of the Performing Indeterminacy conference in 2017. As such, most of this text was written in 2019, before the Garden of Forking Paths project.
- McLaughlin, Scott (2022), 'The Material Clarinet' in Rethinking the Musical Instrument, ed. by Mine Doğantan-Dack, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars)
- Academic book chapter outlining the new approach to clarinet writing of the Garden of Forking Paths project. Summarised here in a very positive review by Roger Heaton in Tempo (Jan 2023).
- McLaughlin, Scott (2022), 'The Impossibility of Material Foundations' in Sound Work: Composition as Critical Technical Practice, ed. by Jonathan Impett, (Ghent: Leuven University Press)
- Academic book chapter framing my compositional practice in relation to Philip Agre's concept of "critical technical practice". Discussion of bowed string pieces, and clarinet pieces from Garden of Forking Paths.
- McLaughlin, Scott (2022), Feedback and Materiality on the Spatial and Energetic Planes, ECHO.
- Academic article (artist statement) on my work to-date with feedback; mostly discussing feedback in relation to spatial movement.
- Iddon, Martin, McLaughlin, Scott (2022), Teaching Composition in a Flipped Classroom, Tempo.
- Academic article (artist statement) on composition teaching.
- McLaughlin, Scott, Zubin Kanga, & Mira Benjamin (2020), 'Composing Technique, Performing Technique', Journal of Artistic Research, 23.
- Academic article co-authored with Mira on Zubin discussing the 'dance of human and material agency' (Pickering) in my two recent works for them.
- McLaughlin, Scott (2017), '"No sounds but in things": Composing from Materiality', AIC Journal.
- Non-specialist article introducing my work on materiality and indeterminacy, and spectral listening.