Review in Asymmetry Music Magazine

Asymmetry Music Magazine has just reviewed my Sargasso CD: you can read the full review and listen to some excerpts of pieces here:  Asymmetry Music Magazine

My Review of Pamela Burnard’s Musical Creativities in Practice

I’ve just received the latest issue of Journal of Music, Technology and Education (JMTE) which features my review of Pamela Burnard’s Musical Creativities in Practice – Burnard has produced a great book that has much in common with my own research interests in creative practice and the relationship between composers/performers and the context in which…

Espacios Sonoros 2013

I’m heading to Madrid in a couple of weeks to present a paper and piece at ‘Espacios Sonoros 2013’. My paper is called: Between Plasticity and Performance: space-time relations in electroacoustic music and will focus upon the ontology of electroacoustic music… The piece (Escapade) will be performed at the Museo Naconal Centro de Arte Reina…

PHONOS Concert in Barcelona

I’m travelling to Barcelona next week to present a concert of electroacoustic music from the University of Sheffield at PHONOS at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (details should appear here soon). The concert will include pieces by me, Adrian Moore, Stephen Pearse and Martin Curtis-Powell. Come and say hello if you’re in Barcelona…  

PhD Completion – The Acousmatic Musical Performance

I have finally finished my PhD! I had my viva last month and successfully defended my thesis: The Acousmatic Musical Performance: an ontological investigation The submission contacts 6 musical works and 5 chapters which explore the ontological relations that hold between acousmatic works and their performances. Please get in touch if you’re interested in reading…

Tape to Typedef – conference at The University of Sheffield

From Tape to Typedef: compositional methods in electroacoustic music was extremely successful! Adrian Moore and I were pleased to see around 200 people attend the conference over the four days, which featured 7 concerts, 30 talks, 3 keynote speeches and 3 workshops. The conference, which made the front page of the University of Sheffield website…