Martin Blain is a Reader in Music Composition at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a composer and performer and collaborator on the project The Good, The God and The Guillotine. He has published on collaboration, ‘liveness’ in performance, and Practice as Research in a variety of journals and book publications.Helen Julia Minors is School Head of Performing Arts and Associate Professor of Music at Kingston University, London, UK. She has published books including Music, Text and Translation (2012) and Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician (2019), co-edited with Laura Watson. She has recently contributed chapters to The International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research (2016) and Translation and Multimodality: Beyond Words (2019)