Writings

Mostly academic writing.

• McLaughlin, Scott, & Marco Fusi (2026), 'Defamiliarisation of a string instrument through Lorentz force actuation', ECHO.

• McLaughlin, Scott, Mira Benjamin, & Zubin Kanga (2025), 'Entangled Technique: Material indeterminacy and embodied knowledge in experimental music performance', Performance Research.

• 26/04/2024 I was interviewed by Benjamin Tassie for his Future Classical show on Resonance FM. See here for the recording.

• Kanga, Z., M. Dyer, C. Rowley, J. Packham, M. Benjamin, R. Climent, A.M. Gioti, S. McLaughlin, et al. (2024), 'Technology and contemporary classical music: Methodologies in practice-based research', (National Centre for Research Methods)

  Report.

• Jackson, T., C. Knowles, S. McLaughlin, R. Kotarski, A. De Little, M. Warren, et al. (2023), 'Sustaining Practice Assets for Research, Knowledge, Learning and Engagement (SPARKLE): Final Report and Recommendations', (University of Leeds)

  Report.

• McLaughlin, Scott, Kapsali, Maria (2022), '[interview] on Moving(-)Listening with Sonic Feedback' in Americas: A Hemispheric Music Journal 31:1

  Interview between myself and Maria Kapsali in 2022 around our practice of feedback and movement.

• 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), 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 (2021), '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, Zubin Kanga, & Mira Benjamin (2021), '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.

• Burland, Karen, Edward Venn, & Scott McLaughlin (2020), 'Musicology and Its Others' in What is Good Academic Writing? Insights into Discipline-Specific Student Writing, ed. by Melinda Whong and Jeanne Godfrey, (London: Bloomsbury), 83–109

  Book chapter.

• McLaughlin, Scott (2020), 'Error as Music Composition: Human and Material Agencies' in Error, Ambiguity, Creativity: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, (Cham: Springer)

  Book chapter.

• 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.

• McLaughlin, Scott (2016), 'Composers and Chaos: A Survey of Applications of Chaos Theory in Musical Arts and Research' in Handbook of Applications of Chaos Theory, (Boca Raton: CRC Press), 893–912

  Book chapter.

• McLaughlin, Scott (2014), 'Intra-Agencies', CeReNeM Journal, 4, 76–88.

• McLaughlin, Scott (2012), 'If a tree falls in an empty forest…: Problematization of liveness in mixed-music performance', Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 5:1, 17–27.

• McLaughlin, Scott (2011), 'Dynamical Systems, Mimesis, and Analogy in Experimental Music', Chaotic Modeling and Simulation, 1, 127–137.

• McLaughlin, Scott, & Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (2010), 'SpectralConway: Cellular Automata off the Grid', Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2010, 68–71.

  Conference paper.

• McLaughlin, Scott (2009), 'Strange attractors: a commentary on applications of indeterminacy in my recent music', (University of Huddersfield)

  PhD commentary.

• Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre, & Scott McLaughlin (2009), 'Thinking inside the box: A new integrated approach to mixed music composition and performance', Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2009.

  Conference paper.