RESEARCH

My research into Music’s ‘gravitation’ aims to be world-leading in its value to practitioners, analysts, and educators from many musical backgrounds. Underpinned by jazz theory, it comprehensively models a fundamental property of melody and harmony that has previously only been intuitively understood. In doing so, it will gift a powerful tool to practitioners, invigorate new pathways for music analysis, and potentially stake its claim at all levels of music education.

SHUFFLEBOTHAM, J., 2025. Gravitonicity. (book proposal under review).

SHUFFLEBOTHAM, J. and SPASOV, M., 2025. Gravitonicity. (article under review).

SHUFFLEBOTHAM, J., 2022. Gravitonicity: deriving 'distance' from spectral analysis and Chord Scale Theory, 58th Annual Conference of the RMA, 09/09/2022, Durham University.

SHUFFLEBOTHAM, J., 2022. Gravitonicity: Functionality and Modularity, Liverpool-Georgia Music Theory Colloquia, 11/05/2022, Liverpool University.

SHUFFLEBOTHAM, J., 2022. Gravitonicity, Liverpool-Georgia Music Theory Colloquia, 16/02/2022, Liverpool University.

SHUFFLEBOTHAM, J., 2021. Gravitonicity: towards a model of the 'Gravitation' in Music, British Forum for Ethnomusicology and Royal Musical Association Research Students' Conference, 14/01/2021, University of Cambridge (online).

SHUFFLEBOTHAM, J., 2020. Gravitonicity: towards a model of the 'Gravitation' in Music, Keele Music Forum, 16/12/2020, Keele University.