Jean-Philippe Calvin playing percussion, Royal Opera House, London

Research Interests
The Development of New Interfaces in Live Contemporary Music Performance, Improvisation and Technology ® ©


Book cover titled 'Distributed Creativity' with subtitle 'Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music,' edited by Eric F. Clarke and Mark Doffman, featuring a yellow and orange geometric pattern background.

PUBLICATIONS

DISTRIBUTED CREATIVITY (Book Chapter)
Oxford University Press New York: ISBN-13: 978019935591

Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music explores the different ways in which collaboration and improvisation enable and constrain creative processes. 

Chapter 9. by Jean-Philippe Calvin & Mark Doffman
Contemporary Music in Action: performer-composer collaboration within the conservatoire. This chapter looks at collaborative work between composers and performers in an educational setting. The study showed how students found this sort of collaborative work to be potentially career-enhancing and creatively fulfilling. The study also found however that composer–performer roles were demarcated strongly enough to constrain the degree of collaboration and learning to satisfy all the participants. The chapter concludes with questions about the degree to which such programmes challenge the assumptions and roles of performers and composers. How do conservatoires both prepare students for the world of work and provide models that might challenge that world?


Book cover titled "Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research" with subtitle "beyond impact," edited by Keri Facer and Kate Pahl, featuring illustrations of multiple hands joined together inside a hexagon and various icons representing different fields.

Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research (Book Chapter)
Edited by Keri Facer & Kate Pahl
Chapter Four: Socialising Heritage / Socialising Legacy - How should heritage decisions be made?

UK: Policy Press, University of Bristol (ISBN: 978-1447331629)
USA: The University of Chicago Press Books (ISBN: 9781447331629)

Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research addresses this key challenge head-on. With a particular focus on research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, contributors draw on nine contemporary case studies from fields as diverse as cultural anthropology and international development to explore the tensions that surround the evaluation and assessment of research both generally and in the context of more recent discussions of collaborative research.


Black and white photo of women working at industrial machinery in a factory, with large windows in the background. The image is part of a report cover titled 'RESEARCH & PUBLIC HISTORY, Second Annual Report 2015-2016'.

Science Museum
Research & Public History
Second Annual Report 2015-2016 with retrospect
Article: 'Museum of the New Age' film score

Music score cover page for Charles-Marie Widor's quintet for piano, two violins, viola, and cello, opus 68, with a study score of 1198.

Widor Quintet Op. 68
JP. Calvin, Charles-Marie Widor
Piano Quintett op.68
Study, Preface & Score overview for reconstruction (English/German)
Musikproduktion Hoeflich [2012]
Study score 1198

Cover page of a Turkish academic journal 'Yeni'  from March 2011. Featuring a chapter by Jean-Philippe Calvin on Iannis Xenakis and his compositional procedures.

Iannis Xenakis’ Compositional Procedures 
JP. Calvin, Xenakis – An ancient Greek of Our Time - Iannis Xenakis and his Compositional Procedures
Yeni Academic Journal, Feb 2011, pp. 262-278 [ISSN-1309-9981] (Turkish)


Jean-Philippe Calvin at Science Museum Blythe House, during sound collections sampling

Science Museum - Blythe House Instrument collection sampling: This project involving the sound recording and sampling of all acoustic measurement instruments in collaboration with Aleks Kolkowski. The sound samples will be available to the general public, composers and researchers through the Science Museum website.


CITED
JP. Calvin, John Cage, The Power of Silence, ed. G.Turner, Bloomsbury London, 2012, pp. 53-56, [ISBN 978-1-4411-8223-4]


DOCTORAL THESIS
Chapter on La Cantatrice Chauve
A.C. Cardoso Firmo, La Cantatrice chauve de Jean-Philippe Calvin et François Berreur, Du mot à la scène et du mot en scène – Dramaturgies de l’absurde en France et au Portugal, pp. 200-203 [Thèse de Doctorat, l'Université Paris 8, 2011]