The project could be about understanding the relationship between music and visual effects by 1) doing a thorough review and critical analysis of previous work and 2) conducting interviews with at least 10 artist-researchers who develop such audio-visual systems.
About 1): As a starting point you can look published papers in the NIME proceedings (https://www.nime.org/) and in the CHI proceedings (https://dl.acm.org/conference/chi).
About 2): The interviews should have well defined questions that aim to uncover how artists-researchers utilize sounds and visuals to create audio-visual experiences. Some example questions could be:
How do they approach audio-visual interaction?
How do they map between the two modalities?
Is one of the two modalities more central to their work than the other?
Do they rely on scientific literature on audio-visual correspondences and interaction?
The Dissertation needs two parts: 8 pages research paper and 5 pages reflective essay.
I have added some files that can be used for reference.
