Practice as Research in Music Online (PRIMO) project

This Institute of Musical Research (IMR) project was completed in 2010 and created an archive of musical performances, masterclasses, workshops, rehearsals, lecture-recitals and other sonic-based material that is either research-valid or of direct interest to researchers in the several areas of practice-based musical research. It includes examples of different types of musics, and interactive computer-supported performance in digital audio and video format, affording an open-access, online multimedia repository of downloadable material for the purposes of research, study and teaching. It offers performers, composers and other researchers whose findings are best expressed through real-time and sonic events a platform for the dissemination of their work, whilst scholars will find a range of practice-based outputs that have not heretofore been available to the research community. The site was designed for research, study and teaching. Users of PRIMO are likely to be those who have an interest in composition and performance as research processes; those who study the ergonomics, psychology, ritual play or ethnography of performance; and those interested in performance practice. The PRIMO website was decommissioned in August 2018 and all the content was migrated into SAS-Space. You can browse the PRIMO collection here, and a webarchive of the original site is attached to this item.