Richard has been awarded two doctorates for his PhDs in the subjects of both free improvisation, and electro-acoustic composition, and has occasionally published more academic-leaning articles.
Portfolio of Compositions, University of Manchester, 2020
Noises: Free Music, Improvisation and the Avant-Garde. London 1965-1990 from the London School of Economics/University of London in 1992
Post-Acousmatic Practice: Re-evaluating Schaeffer’s heritage. Monty Adkins, Richard Scott and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay. Organised Sound. vol. 21.1 May 2016
Guest editor of a special issue of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community CeC eContact journal on Analogue and Modular Synthesis
The Molecular Imagination: John Stevens, The Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Free Group Improvisation, in Schroeder, Franciscka (ed.) 2014. Improvisation and Performance. Cambridge Scholars’ Press. (2014)
Free Improvisation and Nothing: From the Tactics of Escape to a Bastard Science, in: ACT – Zeitschrift für Musik & Performance 4 (2014), Nr. 5.
Artaud’s Snake: gesture, time and play – a composer’s report on the use and development of the WiGI infra-red wireless gestural system. Paper delivered to the International Computer Music Conference Proceedings (2011)
Getting WiGI With It. eContact journal Article about the development of a wireless infrared gestural instrument (2010)