Staff profile

• Composition, microtonality, intonation

• 2026 - 2026: Early Career Educators Awards, Teaching and Learning Awards:
• 2024: Ralegh Redford Rome Award: At the British School at Rome

Conference Paper

• Visual Metaphors and Embodied Experience in Microtonal Electronic Performance
  
  Bates, J. (2025, June 11). Visual Metaphors and Embodied Experience in Microtonal Electronic Performance [Conference paper]. Presented at Embodied Research Methods in Music & Sound Study Day, City St. George’s University.

Doctoral Thesis

• At Home In Alterity: Systems And Hybridity In Microtonal Tonality
  
  Bates, J. (2024). At Home In Alterity: Systems And Hybridity In Microtonal Tonality [Thesis]. University of York. https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/35888/

Journal Article

• Ralegh Redford Rome Award: Improvising musical palindromes with Giacinto Scelsi
  
  Bates, J. (2025). Ralegh Redford Rome Award: Improvising musical palindromes with Giacinto Scelsi. Papers of the British School at Rome, 93, 429-430. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246225100366
• PROPORTION AND SYMMETRY AS MUTUAL ANTAGONISTS IN TUNING: SOME QUARTER-TONE RESOURCES
  
  Bates, J. (2024). PROPORTION AND SYMMETRY AS MUTUAL ANTAGONISTS IN TUNING: SOME QUARTER-TONE RESOURCES. Tempo, 78(309), 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1017/s004029822400007x

Presentation

• Educating For Attention
  
  Bates, J. (2026, September 8). Educating For Attention. Presented at Durham Learning & Teaching Conference 2026: Resilient Curriculum, Teaching And Learning Centre, Durham University.
• The Affordances And Aesthetics Of Restriction In Digital Intonation
  
  Bates, J. (2024, May 28). The Affordances And Aesthetics Of Restriction In Digital Intonation. Presented at Noise Floor, Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa.
• Electronic Tuning As An Embodied Practice
  
  Bates, J. (2023, May 20). Electronic Tuning As An Embodied Practice. Presented at C21MP, University of West London.