I’ve just returned from MuSA in Karlsruhe where I presented a paper called: Concrete or Concrète?: An Ontological Account of Acousmatic Music. See: http://musa2013.zilmusic.com/Programme.html The three-day event included a bunch of interesting papers, a couple of concerts and a lot of beer. I met some very interesting composers and performers and am looking forward to…

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I was interviewed on The One Show a few weeks ago, talking about… tuning forks! This was part of a longer documentary that traced the development and use of the tuning fork from John Shore’s original – in 1711 – to the present day, and included a visit to the last tuning fork factory in…

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A few months ago I travelled to Madrid to attend a conference at the Autonomous University of Madrid. While I was there, I was interviewed by Hertz Volta, Antony Maubert and Antonio Sánchez for UNDÆ! Radio. UNDÆ! are doing some great things for the promotion of new music/electroacoustic music, and I would urge you to…

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I recently attended Espacios Sonoros in Madrid – an excellent conference organised by Jose Luis Carles, Adoldo Nunez and Marisa Luceno (Departmento Interfacultative de Musica UAM). The event brought together composers, performers, architects, sound artists and scientists to engage in a discussion of space in sound and music and enjoy some concerts. The conference was…

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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

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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…

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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…

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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…  

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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…

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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…

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