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==Academic career==
==Academic career==
Between 2000-2012, MacDonald worked in the Psychology Department at Glasgow Caledonian University where he led the Glasgow Caledonian Music Psychology Research Group.<ref name=":0" />  Since 2012 he has held the position of Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation at Edinburgh University and was Head of The School of Music between 2013 and 2016.<ref name=":2" />  He was editor of the journal Psychology of Music between 2006 and 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Max-Planck-Institut|title=IDEA Lecture with Raymond MacDonald: The Art of Becoming: what is improvisation and why is it important|url=https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/research/department-of-music/events/veranstaltungen-musik-detail/article/idea-lecture-with-raymond-macdonald.html|access-date=2021-03-26|website=www.aesthetics.mpg.de|language=en}}</ref>  He runs workshops and lectures internationally on issues relating to composition, improvisation, music education, health and wellbeing  and musical communication.<ref name=":0" />
Between 2000-2012, MacDonald worked in the Psychology Department at Glasgow Caledonian University where he led the Glasgow Caledonian Music Psychology Research Group.<ref name=":0" />  Since 2012 he has held the position of Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation at Edinburgh University and was Head of The School of Music between 2013 and 2016.<ref name=":2" />  He was editor of the journal Psychology of Music between 2006 and 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Max-Planck-Institut|title=IDEA Lecture with Raymond MacDonald: The Art of Becoming: what is improvisation and why is it important|url=https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/research/department-of-music/events/veranstaltungen-musik-detail/article/idea-lecture-with-raymond-macdonald.html|access-date=2021-03-26|website=www.aesthetics.mpg.de|language=en}}</ref>  He runs workshops and lectures internationally on issues relating to composition, improvisation, music education, health and wellbeing  and musical communication.<ref name=":0" />

==Publications==

=== Books ===

* MacDonald, R. and Wilson, G. (2020), The Art of Becoming: How Group Improvisation Works New York: Oxford University Press.<ref>{{Cite book|last=MacDonald|first=Raymond A. R.|url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190840914.001.0001/oso-9780190840914|title=The Art of Becoming: How Group Improvisation Works|last2=Wilson|first2=Graeme B.|date=2020-06-25|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-084091-4|edition=1|language=en|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190840914.001.0001}}</ref>

=== Edited books ===

* MacDonald R.A.R, Miell D & Hargreaves D.J.  EDS (2017), The Oxford Handbook of Musical Identities Oxford: Oxford University Press.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/975027391|title=Handbook of musical identities|date=2017|others=Raymond A. R. MacDonald, David J. Hargreaves, Dorothy Miell|isbn=978-0-19-175999-4|edition=First edition|location=Oxford, United Kingdom|oclc=975027391}}</ref>
* MacDonald R.A.R, &. Kreutz, G Mitchell, L.A., EDS (2012),  Music, Health and Wellbeing Oxford: Oxford University Press.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586974.001.0001/acprof-9780199586974|title=Music, Health, and Wellbeing|date=2012-02-23|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-958697-4|editor-last=MacDonald|editor-first=Raymond|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586974.001.0001|editor-last2=Kreutz|editor-first2=Gunter|editor-last3=Mitchell|editor-first3=Laura}}</ref>
* Hargreaves D.J.  Miell D & MacDonald R.A.R, EDS (2012), Musical Imaginations Oxford: Oxford University Press.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/753300206|title=Musical imaginations : multidisciplinary perspectives on creativity, performance, and perception|date=2012|others=David J. Hargreaves, Dorothy Miell, Raymond A. R. MacDonald|isbn=978-0-19-956808-6|location=Oxford|oclc=753300206}}</ref>
* Miell, D. MacDonald R.A.R, & Hargreaves D.J. EDS (2005), Musical Communication Oxford: Oxford University Press.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58546138|title=Musical communication|date=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Dorothy Miell, Raymond A. R. MacDonald, David J. Hargreaves|isbn=0-19-852936-8|location=Oxford|oclc=58546138}}</ref>
* MacDonald R.A.R, Miell D & Hargreaves D.J.  EDS (2002), Musical Identities Oxford: Oxford University Press.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/667096025|title=Musical identities|date=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Raymond A. R. MacDonald, David J. Hargreaves, Dorothy Miell|isbn=1-4237-0562-9|location=Oxford|oclc=667096025}}</ref>

=== Selected refereed journal articles & book chapters ===

* MacDonald, R.A.R , Burke, R.L.  De Nora , T, Sappho Donohue, M. and Birrell, R. (2021)  Our Virtual Tribe: Sustaining and Enhancing Community via Online Music Improvisation Frontiers in Psychology.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=MacDonald|first=Raymond|last2=Burke|first2=Robert|last3=De Nora|first3=Tia|last4=Sappho Donohue|first4=Maria|last5=Birrell|first5=Ross|date=2021-02-23|title=Our Virtual Tribe: Sustaining and Enhancing Community via Online Music Improvisation|url=https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.623640/full|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|volume=11|pages=623640|doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.623640|issn=1664-1078|pmc=PMC7940664|pmid=33708151}}</ref>
* MacDonald, R.A.R. and Birrell, R. (in press) Flattening the curve: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s use of virtual improvising to maintain community during COVID-19 pandemic. Critical Studies in Improvisation.
* MacGlone, U. M.; Vamvakaris, J.; Wilson, G. B. & MacDonald, R. A. R. (2020) ‘Understanding the effects of a community music programme for people with disabilities: a mixed-methods, person-centred study’. Frontiers in Psychology.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=MacGlone|first=Una M.|last2=Vamvakaris|first2=Joy|last3=Wilson|first3=Graeme B.|last4=MacDonald|first4=Raymond A. R.|date=2020-12-14|title=Understanding the Wellbeing Effects of a Community Music Program for People With Disabilities: A Mixed Methods, Person-Centered Study|url=https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.588734/full|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|volume=11|pages=588734|doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.588734|issn=1664-1078|pmc=PMC7768027|pmid=33381067}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 03:45, 26 March 2021

Raymond MacDonald (born 1967) is a saxophonist, composer and psychologist with an extensive career in music, cross-disciplinary arts and academia.[1] Much of his work explores the boundaries and ambiguities between what is conventionally seen as improvisation and composition.[2] As a saxophonist and composer, MacDonald has released over 60 CDs, toured and broadcast worldwide and has composed music for film, television, theatre, radio and art installations.[3] As an academic, he has published over 70 papers, a book, The Art of Becoming: How Group Improvisation Works (co-authored with Graeme Wilson), and has co-edited six texts.[4]  He is currently Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation at Edinburgh University.[1]

Early life and education

MacDonald was born in Glasgow (Scotland) to a family steeped in the arts (his father Hamish MacDonald was a renowned contemporary artist) and studied at Glasgow University, where he obtained a PhD in psychology studying the therapeutic effects of music for individuals with learning difficulties.[5][6][7] After completing his PhD, MacDonald worked as artistic director for Limelight, a music production company specialising in training and developmental opportunities for people with impairments.[1][8]

Career as a musician

MacDonald’s work is informed by a view of improvisation as a social, collaborative and uniquely creative process that provides opportunities to develop new ways of engaging musically.[2] He plays in many collaborative free improvisatory contexts, and his roots in jazz and pop music can be heard across all areas of his performance and composition.[9] His unique approach of combining music and psychology and incorporating other artistic disciplines has been used to develop collaborative projects and ongoing working relationships around the world.[10][2][11] He began his performing career playing guitar in Remember Fun, as part of the indie scene in Glasgow in the late 1980’s and moved into jazz playing with saxophone quartet “The Hung Drawn Quartet”  and a trio “Another Hairdo”.[12] 

MacDonald has collaborated with musicians across the spectrum of international contemporary music, such as Marilyn Crispell (US), George Lewis (US), David Byrne (UK/US), Jim O’Rourke (US), Damo Suzuki (JP/DE), Kang Tae Hwan (KR), Axel Dorner (DE), Tatsuya Nakatani (JP), Tony Buck (AU), Michael Zerang (US), Fred Lonberg-Holm (US) Satoko Fujii (JP) and Natsuki Tamura (JP).[13] His list of UK collaborators is equally extensive, and includes Evan Parker, Nurse with Wound, Fred Frith, Keith Tippett, Barry Guy, Harry Beckett, Keith Rowe, Lol Coxhill, Maggie Nicols, Steve Noble, Steve Beresford, the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO), and Future Pilot A.K.A.[2] He is a founding member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra (GIO) and co-leads the George Burt-Raymond MacDonald Quartet.[1]  He plays with Alister Spence and Sia Xray in Sensaround and has long standing duo partnerships with Marilyn Crispel and Gunter “Baby” Sommer.[12][14]

MacDonald instigates and collaborates on cross-disciplinary projects and has worked with visual artists, dancers, writers and filmmakers.[15] Cross-disciplinary projects include collaborations with Christine Borland, Simon Starling, Martin Boyce, Douglas Copland, a BBC Radio 3 commission Between the Ears for Burt-MacDonald Quintet (BMacD5), and ongoing collaboration Scarecrows & Lighthouses with Boyce and David Mackenzie.[16][17][18] MacDonald has also worked with Mackenzie on film soundtracks, including Young Adam (2003), Outlaw King (2018) and short film What is Essential? that debuted on Netflix as part of their anthology series Homemade, (2020).[16][19][20] Other contributions to music for film and TV include soundtracks for Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising (2010), and Scottish Television series Taggert.[18]

Discography

Albums

List of studio albums, with selected detail
Title Album details
Schweben – Ay, but can ye?

(with Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra & Barry Guy)

  • Released: November 2012[21]
  • Label: Maya Recordings
Stepping Between the Shadows

(with Alister Spence)

  • Released: April 2012[22]
  • Label: Rufus (RF95)
Improcherto

(with Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Evan Parker & Lol Coxhil)

  • Released: January 2012[23]
  • Label: Iorram Records
Linn Flax

(with David Stackenas)

  • Released: January 2011[24]
  • Label: Iorram Records
Buddy

(The Raymond MacDonald International Big Band with Jim O'Rourke & Toby Hall)

  • Released: November 2010[25]
  • Label: Textile Records
Cities

(with Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Neil Davidson & Tom Bancroft)

  • Released: January 2008[26]
  • Label: Nu-Jazz Europe
A Lighthouse In the Desert

Academic career

Between 2000-2012, MacDonald worked in the Psychology Department at Glasgow Caledonian University where he led the Glasgow Caledonian Music Psychology Research Group.[1]  Since 2012 he has held the position of Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation at Edinburgh University and was Head of The School of Music between 2013 and 2016.[4]  He was editor of the journal Psychology of Music between 2006 and 2012.[28]  He runs workshops and lectures internationally on issues relating to composition, improvisation, music education, health and wellbeing  and musical communication.[1]

Publications

Books

  • MacDonald, R. and Wilson, G. (2020), The Art of Becoming: How Group Improvisation Works New York: Oxford University Press.[29]

Edited books

  • MacDonald R.A.R, Miell D & Hargreaves D.J.  EDS (2017), The Oxford Handbook of Musical Identities Oxford: Oxford University Press.[30]
  • MacDonald R.A.R, &. Kreutz, G Mitchell, L.A., EDS (2012),  Music, Health and Wellbeing Oxford: Oxford University Press.[31]
  • Hargreaves D.J.  Miell D & MacDonald R.A.R, EDS (2012), Musical Imaginations Oxford: Oxford University Press.[32]
  • Miell, D. MacDonald R.A.R, & Hargreaves D.J. EDS (2005), Musical Communication Oxford: Oxford University Press.[33]
  • MacDonald R.A.R, Miell D & Hargreaves D.J.  EDS (2002), Musical Identities Oxford: Oxford University Press.[34]

Selected refereed journal articles & book chapters

  • MacDonald, R.A.R , Burke, R.L.  De Nora , T, Sappho Donohue, M. and Birrell, R. (2021)  Our Virtual Tribe: Sustaining and Enhancing Community via Online Music Improvisation Frontiers in Psychology.[35]
  • MacDonald, R.A.R. and Birrell, R. (in press) Flattening the curve: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s use of virtual improvising to maintain community during COVID-19 pandemic. Critical Studies in Improvisation.
  • MacGlone, U. M.; Vamvakaris, J.; Wilson, G. B. & MacDonald, R. A. R. (2020) ‘Understanding the effects of a community music programme for people with disabilities: a mixed-methods, person-centred study’. Frontiers in Psychology.[36]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Prof Raymond MacDonald (academic staff profile)". Edinburgh College of Art. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  2. ^ a b c d "Travellin' Light". www.pointofdeparture.org. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  3. ^ "Tectonics". Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  4. ^ a b "Raymond MacDonald". University of Edinburgh Research Explorer. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  5. ^ "PressReader.com - Your favorite newspapers and magazines". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  6. ^ MacDonald, Raymond Alfredo Rossi (1996). Structured music workshops for individuals with learning difficulties : an evaluation study (PhD thesis). University of Glasgow.
  7. ^ Hargreaves, David J.; MacDonald, Raymond; Miell, Dorothy (2016-01-01). "Musical Identities". The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198722946.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780198722946-e-45. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  8. ^ "One on one ...with Raymond MacDonald | The Psychologist". thepsychologist.bps.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  9. ^ "Raymond Macdonald". Glasgow international. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  10. ^ Kee, Joanne (2013-09-09). "An interview with Raymond MacDonald". Jazz Australia. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  11. ^ "Scots study reveals making music together during lockdown improves wellbeing". The Scottish Sun. 2021-02-27. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  12. ^ a b Jazz, All About. "Raymond MacDonald: Man with Two Brains article @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  13. ^ ORCID. "Raymond MacDonald (0000-0002-9748-4480)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  14. ^ "heart/noise, by Sensaround". hellosQuare. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  15. ^ "RAYMOND MACDONALD". JazzMusicArchives.com. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  16. ^ a b "A new order set to music Visual artist Martin Boyce has formed his own park life with a soundtrack by an innovative collaborator, reports Moira Jeffrey". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  17. ^ "Scarecrows & Lighthouses, part one: Scarecrows, Tramway, Glasgow". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  18. ^ a b "Biography". raymondmacdonald.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  19. ^ "Outlaw King Album – Department Odd". departmentodd.com. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  20. ^ "Department Odd – a creative avenue for projects – most of which are evolving slowly". departmentodd.com. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  21. ^ Schweben - Ay, but Can Ye? by Barry Guy, retrieved 2021-03-23
  22. ^ Stepping Between the Shadows by Alister Spence & Raymond MacDonald, retrieved 2021-03-23
  23. ^ "Improcherto (for HB) by George Burt, by Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra with Lol Coxhill & Evan Parker". Iorram Records. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  24. ^ "Lin Flax, by Raymond MacDonald & David Stackenäs". Iorram Records. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  25. ^ Buddy by The Raymond MacDonald International Big Band, Jim O'Rourke & Toby Hall, retrieved 2021-03-23
  26. ^ Cities by Raymond MacDonald, Satoko Fujii, Neil Davidson, Natsuki Tamura, Tom Bancroft, retrieved 2021-03-23
  27. ^ A Lighthouse In The Desert (1989, Vinyl), retrieved 2021-03-23
  28. ^ Max-Planck-Institut. "IDEA Lecture with Raymond MacDonald: The Art of Becoming: what is improvisation and why is it important". www.aesthetics.mpg.de. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  29. ^ MacDonald, Raymond A. R.; Wilson, Graeme B. (2020-06-25). The Art of Becoming: How Group Improvisation Works (1 ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190840914.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-084091-4.
  30. ^ Handbook of musical identities. Raymond A. R. MacDonald, David J. Hargreaves, Dorothy Miell (First edition ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom. 2017. ISBN 978-0-19-175999-4. OCLC 975027391. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  31. ^ MacDonald, Raymond; Kreutz, Gunter; Mitchell, Laura, eds. (2012-02-23). Music, Health, and Wellbeing. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586974.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-958697-4.
  32. ^ Musical imaginations : multidisciplinary perspectives on creativity, performance, and perception. David J. Hargreaves, Dorothy Miell, Raymond A. R. MacDonald. Oxford. 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-956808-6. OCLC 753300206.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  33. ^ Musical communication. Dorothy Miell, Raymond A. R. MacDonald, David J. Hargreaves. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-19-852936-8. OCLC 58546138.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  34. ^ Musical identities. Raymond A. R. MacDonald, David J. Hargreaves, Dorothy Miell. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. ISBN 1-4237-0562-9. OCLC 667096025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  35. ^ MacDonald, Raymond; Burke, Robert; De Nora, Tia; Sappho Donohue, Maria; Birrell, Ross (2021-02-23). "Our Virtual Tribe: Sustaining and Enhancing Community via Online Music Improvisation". Frontiers in Psychology. 11: 623640. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.623640. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 7940664. PMID 33708151.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  36. ^ MacGlone, Una M.; Vamvakaris, Joy; Wilson, Graeme B.; MacDonald, Raymond A. R. (2020-12-14). "Understanding the Wellbeing Effects of a Community Music Program for People With Disabilities: A Mixed Methods, Person-Centered Study". Frontiers in Psychology. 11: 588734. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.588734. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 7768027. PMID 33381067.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)


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