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.
• Electronic Tuning As An Embodied Practice
  
  Bates, J. (2023, May 20). Electronic Tuning As An Embodied Practice. Presented at C21MP, University of West London.