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  • Recent talks

    I’ve given a number of talks over the past few weeks and have a few more lined up. Yesterday, I gave a brief talk about No Picnic: Exploring Art and Research – a book produced by academics and artists working in and around the University of Sheffield. Details about the book can be found here:…

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  • I have a number of new publications on the way. Firstly, Between plasticity and performance: an ontological account of electroacoustic music has been published in the Journal of the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society, Emilie, Vol 11. You can download a copy here: http://keams.org/emille/main_pc.html I’ve also been invited to contribute a chapter to a new book by…

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  • Performances in April

    I had a number of performances in April, including: – Sound Junction – Sheffield – where I performed Point of Departure– Sweet Thunder Festival of Electroacoustic Music – San Francisco – where Fractions was performed– Sonorities – Belfast – where Escapade and Point of Departure were presented. It was my first time at the SARC…

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  • Sound Junction 2014

    Sound Junction – The University of Sheffield’s electronic music festival – took place in early April. The 4-day event featured music by staff and students from Sheffield University, and a number of guest performers, including Rajmil Fischman, Archer Endrich, Rob Bentall, Dale Perkins, Louise Rossiter and various others. I performed Point of Departure on the Friday night.…

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  • I’m pleased to announce that the Journal of Music, Technology and Education Vol 6 Issue 3 has just been published. Adrian Moore and I were guest editors for this particular issue, and we chose to focus upon compositional methods in electroacoustic music, drawing papers from our conference (tape to typedef) that took place in Jan/Feb…

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  • EPOH – a short animation by Vishal Shah with sound by me – has been selected for SoundImageSound 10 at the University of the Pacific, Conservatory of Music. It will be screened on Jan 30th, alongside works from Japan, the USA and the UK. For more information see: here

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  • The Composer’s Desktop Project (CDP) has just re-formed as a social enterprise/company with the intention of building a sustainable future for the innovative sound processing tools that they offer. I have just accepted a position as a director of the newly formed company and am really looking forward to working on various exciting developments that are planned for…

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  • I recently completed the sound/music for epoh – a short animation by Berlin-based artists, Vishal Shah. It’s very different from the animations that we’ve worked on in the past, but was a lot of fun to make. You can watch the film on vimeo, here: vimeo.com/EPOH

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  • In recent years, the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society’s (KEAMS) Annual Conference has become one of the most important events in the region, bringing together academics from Asia and further afield. This year, the conference coincided with the Seoul International Computer Music Festival (SICMF) – one of the biggest electro-acoustic music festivals in Asia, which is…

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  • A few weeks ago, I travelled to the Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) in Ireland. I was invited by Hilary Mullaney to present a selection of pieces composed at the University of Sheffield – I included works by Adrian Moore, Martin Curtis-Powell (a PhD student) and Chris Hobbs (an MA in Sonic Arts student). I also gave a…

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