About OREMA

The Online Repository for Electroacoustic Music Analysis (OREMA) project is a community-based forum where analysts of electroacoustic music can post their analyses of electroacoustic music compositions. It allows people with different ideas of analysis a space to discuss why they choose to analyse a piece in a certain way. The aim of the project is to gauge whether a community initiative can aid an analyst's understanding of a work, whilst helping them conduct an analysis themselves.

The OREMA project is part of a three year funded project titled the New Multimedia Tools for Electroacoustic Music Analysis project, which is orchestrated by De Montfort University(DMU). The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

The OREMA project has been set up to allow analysts of electroacoustic music a place where they can discuss and share their ideas within a community of like-minded individuals. It gives analysts a space to post their analyses for others to see and comment on. As the OREMA project is a community-based initiative users are encouraged to share and adapt each others analyses of electroacoustic works and join in discussions regarding electroacoustic analysis methodologies.

The OREMA project site is maintained by its creator and administrator Michael Gatt.

Project expectations

As a core participants you will be expected to:

• Have an active role in the community;
• Work with other core participants and discuss analytical methodologies towards building a coherent taxonomy for electroacoutic analysis;
• Fill out a questionnaire to assess how you feel the project has aided you.

Added value

As a participant in the OREMA project you will maintain author rights for anything you produce within the OREMA project as part of a Creative Commons licence. Any work or quotes within discussion threads that are deemed note worthy will be referenced within the final thesis and subsequent publications.

The project aims to help participants network with leading practitioners within the field of electroacoustic music analysis. If you are currently undertaking postgraduate study, or have recently finished a postgraduate degree within the field of electroacoustic analysis, then the contacts you will make will be very beneficial to your professional development.

General usage

As an active user within the OREMA project you are expected to follow a best practice code when editing, creating or commenting on any of the content held on the website. Users who abuse their editorial rights by vandalising any of the community pages will lose their login rights and will be banned from the OREMA project.

Creative commons and copyright

The site will maintain a creative commons licence for the users and participants to ensure authenticity and copyright. Participants will be free to copy, distribute, display, perform and make derivations of the work, so long as they give credit to the author of the work and share any alterations with the community. This specific creative commons licence has been chosen to encourage participants to share and alter other users' analyses.

No works or compositions will be stored on the server to avoid copyright. Instead users will be asked to reference the work they are analysing in the submission form.

Terms and conditions

As an active participant within the OREMA project you will agree to the following Creative Commons License. You may make reference to the OREMA project within your own publications and make alterations to representations within the repository so long as you credit both the author of the representation and the OREMA project founder. All work created for the OREMA project will be protected under the creative commons licence.