Staff Profiles: Music Business, Musicology and Technology
Dr R. Muranda
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Collecting and recording children’s traditional songs.
Digital music production in the 21st century.
Exploring preservation of ethnic musical traditions through digital technology.
Instrumental performance of mbira and western musical instruments.
Live sound reinforcement techniques.
Music and internet resources for music instruction.
Performative music technologies.
Recording, mixing, and mastering music.
Transcription of traditional African music using notation software packages.
Virtual teaching and learning resources in the 21st century.
Dr. Wonder Maguraushe
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Applied Ethnomusicology,
Popular Music,
Music performance,
Marimba performance
Music Technology
Music Education
Dr P Matiure
Position: Lecturer
Research Interest:
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Written and Aural Theory of Music,
Transcription,
Analysis and Appreciation,
Ethnomusicology,
Foundations and Methods of Teaching Music,
Performance Techniques and Methodology/Practical Study Instrument of Specialization Major (mbira) and Minor (keyboard)
Dr Richard Muranda
Position: Lecturer
Research interests
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Recording, Mixing and Mastering audio,
Live sound reinforcement,
Microphone techniques,
Technology for music instruction and music education,
Keyboard and Mbira performance,
Musical sound and acoustics,
Studio designs,
Mr Absolom Mutavati
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Music recording,
Mixing and Mastering,
Live sound reinforcement,
Microphone techniques,
Sound acoustics,
Studio designs.
Ms Vimbai Chamisa
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Popular music,
Applied Ethnomusicology,
Historical musicology
Mr Paul Dumisani Bajilla
Position: Assistant Lecturer
Research Interest:
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Musicology with a thrust in Music Composition (Theory) and performance of African Indigenous research-based compositions;
Classical music focussing on Orchestration, Conducting and clinical workshops in choral music performance studies.
Film Music and sound tracking.
Mr D Chambwera
Position: Technician
Research Interest:
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Music Technology:
Sound acoustics,
Live sound reinforcement,
studio designs,
music recording,
Mixing and Mastering