Publications
“The Gamaka Box: A Powerful System of Notation”,
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“The Impact of Gamakas on Deep Structure in South Indian Music: An analysis of Several Versions of the Mohanam Varnam, Ninnu-kori”, Woodruff (Ethnomusicology Journals, in Review) |
“Active methodologies for transcultural learning (including three approaches to makam transcription)”, in Turkish Makam Instruments and Voices in Contemporary Music, Bayley and Ellison Eds. Routledge, 2026 |
“Raga, Tala and Pedagogy: On the First Steps in Carnatic Music”, Masters Thesis, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, 2003 [online] available on carnaticstudent.org |
” Nekropsi and Replikas: The Istanbul Experimental Rock Scene, Alongside Social Movements and the Art World”, in Haunted Soundscapes: Transcultural Perspectives on Music, Sound and Power in Turkey, Eds. Özgün und Woodruff, Routledge, forthcoming |
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Sonic metaphors are also an important factor in social tonality (Woodruff 2014). Read about it in some of my other research.
Transcriptions
with Gamaka Box Notation System (GBNS) >Overview (PDF)
(among others)
Although the system was invented by Ramesh Vinayakam for Indian classical music, GBNS also allows for other transcriptions from other disciplines which I have undertaken – one example:
(Above:) my transcription of Sultani-Yegâh Saz Semaisi, by Kanuni Haci Arif Bey, as performed by Ahmet Şahın
Compositions
Sonic Borderlines Listening Series, funded by the initiative neue musik Berlin, in KM28, 18 May 2024:
Excerpts: 2 Songs by Mosab Abu Toha
– Displaced (in memory of Edward Said)
– We Love What We Have
“Die Note”: Transtraditionelle (Ver)Wandelungen with Ensemble Extrakte, funded by Musikfonds FEBIII, in Kunsthaus Acud Club, Berlin School of Sound, 16 April 2023:
Excerpts:
– River Rhine/Spiral Variations
– Sheng/Hunter – Brother
Maerzmusik 2017, Kammerensemble Neue Musik, Radialsystem, 20 March 2017:
Construction with Boismortier and Sankarabharanam
for violin, viola, bass clarinet, tabla and tambura