CURRICULUM VITAE
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University of Birmingham
BMus Hons (1982), MA (1983), PGCE (1984), PhD (1996)
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sound - Board Member (2004 - 2012), Chair (2012 - present day)
Sonic Arts Network (formerly EMAS) (now Sound and Music) Member (1981 - 2007); Director (1987 - 2003, 2005 - 2006); Chair (1996 - 1999, 2002 - 2003 and 2006 - 2007)
Society for the Promotion of New Music (now Sound and Music) Member (1981 - 2007); Reading Panel Member (1997)
Performing Right Society Provisional Member (1983 - 1991); Associate Member (1991 - present day)
Royal Society of Arts Fellow (1987 - 2022)
Scottish Qualifications Authority Music Assessment Panel Member (2005 - 2006)
Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College Member (2006 - 2008)
International Computer Music Association Member (2009 - 2011)
General Teaching Council (Scotland) Member (1991 - 2019)
Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities Panel Member (2013 - 2014)
Culture Aberdeen Member (2010 - 2016); Vice-Chair (2016 - 2021)
City of Aberdeen Burgess of Guild (2012 - present day)
Aberdeen International Youth Festival Trustee (2007 - 2010)
Aberdeenshire Youth Music Forum Board Member (2004 - 2007), Chair (2007 - 2010)
Scottish Ensemble Board Member (2008 - 2010)
Scottish Arts Council Strategic Music Partnership Board Member (2008 - 2010)
Grampian Youth Orchestra Board Member (2008 - 2010)
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University of Aberdeen
2022 - Emeritus Professor of Music
2010 – 2011 Head of School of Education
2006 – 2010, 2012 - 2015 Head of Music
2007 - 2022 Professor of Composition and Electroacoustic Music
2005 - 2007 Reader in Composition and Electroacoustic Music
2002 - 2005 Senior Lecturer and Programme Director, BEd Hons Music/BMus Hons Education
2001 - 2002 Lecturer in Music
Northern College, Aberdeen
1991 - 2001 Lecturer in Music
The Judd School, Tonbridge
1989 - 1991 Director of Music
1984 - 1989 Assistant Teacher of Music
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Shortstuff Special Prize, Musica Nova 1994 International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Czech Republic; 4th Florida Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Gainesville, USA 1995; Bangor New Music Festival 2003, Wales; L’Espace du Son, Belgium 2012: Temple of Sound, Austria 2024
Squirt 32nd Festival of Contemporary Music, Louisiana, 1997; Cutting Edge (BMIC) Tour 2001-2002, London, Oxford, Nottingham, UK; New Music North Festival 2003, Ontario, Canada; MANTIS Festival 2006
Altered Images 2nd Prize, CIMESP ‘97 (Sao Paulo International Electroacoustic Competition), 1997, Brazil; 11th Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival 2001, USA; Bangor New Music Festival 2003, Wales; 17th Festival Tage Neue Musik, Weimar, Germany 2004
Onset/Offset Honourable Mention, Stockholm Electronic Arts Award 1996, Sweden; Honourable Mention, 1st Pierre Schaeffer Competition for Electroacoustic Music, 1998, Italy; Musica Scienza Festival, Rome, 2002; Bangor New Music Festival 2003, Wales; Echt-Zeit Electronic Music Festival 2005, Basel; Akousma 5, Montreal 2008; Inventionen Festival, Berlin 2011; L’Espace du Son, Belgium, 2019; Àrainn, London, 2024
Peel Music Without Walls, Leicester 2001; Sonidas Fijados, Barcelona, 2022; Why Note, France, 2005
ABZ/A World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Conference, 2003, University of Melbourne, Australia; LIPM 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Haddo Arts Festival 2016, Scotland
Vox Magna Finalist, Musica Nova 2003 International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Czech Republic; Pre-selected, Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition, France; Rien à Voir Festival (13), 2003, Montréal, Canada; Bangor New Music Festival 2003, Wales; Academy Now!, 2003, RSAMD, Glasgow; Sonic Arts Network Conference 2003, University of Sheffield; SEA 2003, Scarborough, UK; Electronic Music Midwest, Kansas City, USA; 13th Florida Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Gainesville, USA; Cycles de Concerts de Musique par Ordinateur 2004-5, Paris; V BIMESP, Sao Paulo; Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey 2006, USA; Sound Junction 2006, University of Sheffield; L’Espace du Son 2016 & 2019, Belgium; KLANG! 2023, France
Serendipities & Synchronicities 14th Florida Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Gainesville, USA; Sonic Arts Network Conference 2005, University of Hull; Sonoimagenes 2005, Buenos Aires; V Festival Internacional de Musica Electroacustica de Santiago Ai-maako, Chile; Sound Junction 2006, University of Sheffield; VI BIMESP, Sao Paulo; MANTIS South-North 2007, University of Manchester
Fields of Silence Sound 2005, University of Aberdeen; Sound Practice Conference 2006, Goldsmith’s College, London; Sound Junction 2006, University of Sheffield; Haddo Arts Festival 2016, Scotland; BEASTFEaST 2019, University of Birmingham
Still Voices Finalist, Sounds Electric 07 Competition, Ireland; Finalist, Musica Nova 2007 International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Czech Republic; Honourable Mention, Prix Destellos, Mar del Plata, Argentina; Sound 2005, University of Aberdeen; Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey 2006, USA; Sound Junction 2006, University of Sheffield; Sonoimagenes 2006, Buenos Aires ; Signal and Noise 2007, Vancouver; 17th Florida Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Gainesville, USA; Akousma 5, Montreal; 1st New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival; Synthèse 2009, Bourges, France; Musiques et Recherches 2013, Belgium; Art & Sound Symposium 2015, Leicester; Haddo Arts Festival 2016, Scotland
scènes/rendez-vous Soundings 2006, University of Edinburgh; SoundAsArt Conference 2006, University of Aberdeen; San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2007; VII BIMESP, Sao Paulo; International Computer Music Conference 2008, Belfast; Akousma 5 2008, Montreal; Music of Today 2013, University of Washington, US; Morelia Festival 2013, Mexico; LIPM 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina; T-SON86, 2015, Sao Paulo, Brazil; L’Espace du Son 2019, Belgium
Planar Sound 2006, University of Aberdeen; Highland Festival 2007; Soundings 2007, University of Edinburgh
Back to Square One Sound 2007, University of Aberdeen; Soundings 2007, University of Edinburgh; Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey 2007, USA; Synthèse 2008, Bourges, France; 6th Music since 1900 Conference, Keele University, 2009; Cycle of Sonic Art 2011, Argentina;
74 Degrees North Scottish Opera FIVE: 15, University of Aberdeen; Scottish Opera FIVE: 15, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; Scottish Opera FIVE: 15, Oran Mor, Glasgow
Three Cities Finalist, Musica Nova 2013 International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Czech Republic; Sound 2012, University of Aberdeen; From Tape to Typedef, University of Sheffield; Musiques Demesurées 2013, Clermont-Ferrand, France; Morelia Festival 2013, Mexico; Musica Nova 2013, Prague; Sonorities 2014, Belfast; Invisible Places 2014, Viseu Portugal; LIPM 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Haddo Arts Festival 2016, Scotland; Exhibitronic #6 2016, France; San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2017, USA; L’Espace du Son 2019, Belgium
From Aberdeeen, to the hamlets of the Argentine… LIPM 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Sound 2015, University of Aberdeen; High Voltage, Louisiana, 2018
Of the Swan EMS 2015, University of Sheffield; Art & Sound Symposium 2015, Leicester; NME Concerts 2015, New York University; iFIMPaC 2016, Leeds College of Music; De Nieuwste Elektroakoestiche Muziek 2016, Gent, Belgium; Haddo Arts Festival 2016, Scotland; ICMC 2017, China; Diffrazioni 2019, Italy; L’Espace du Son 2019, Belgium
Pipeline Nominated, Scottish Awards for New Music, 2016
Stolen Voices Nominated, Scottish Awards for New Music, 2018 & 2021; Edinburgh Fringe 2017; Sound & Image, University of Greenwich 2017; ICMC 2017. ChIna; Radiophrenia, Glasgow 2017, 2020; Diffrazioni, Florence, 2018; Sonorities 2022, Belfast
Rewind BEAST FEaST 2019, Birmingham; Sound & Image, University of Greenwich 2019; L’Espace du Son 2019, Belgium; FRST, Sweden, 2020 ; Ljudbio, Sweden 2021; KLANG! 2024, France
Pandemonium BEAST FEaST 2021, Birmingham; Earth Day Art Model 2022, Austria; Sound Junction 2022, Sheffield; L’Espace du Son 2022, Belgium, Sonic Cartography, Kent 2022; KLANG! 2023, France; Hypersonic 02, online, 2024
COVID-19 Sound Map Nominated, Scottish Awards for New Music, 2021
Community BEAST FEaST 2022, Birmingham
Cullykhan Water KLANG! 2023, France
Gruyères Bells KLANG! 2022 & 2023, France; Київ Музик Фест. 2023
Quiet City Temple of Sound, Austria 2024
Bosque Festival de las Ciencias 2022, Chile; Encounters, University of Aberdeen, 2023
Clermont Horns New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2021, USA; KLANG! 2022 & 2023, France;
Azet Gate (Squeaky) KLANG! 2024, France; Temple of Sound, Austria 2024
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1999 Event Communications (Dynamic Earth)
2000 Event Communications (Magna Science Centre and Saint Patrick Centre)
2001 Scottish Arts Council (level); Event Communications (Norwich Millennium Library)
2003 Woodend Arts Association (Banchory Ears)
2004 Scottish Arts Council (Serendipities & Synchronicities)
2005 Gordon Forum for the Arts/Scottish Arts Council (Gordon Soundscape); School of Education Research Committee, University of Aberdeen (Gordon Soundscape)
2006 School of Education Research Committee, University of Aberdeen (scènes, rendez-vous and Planar); National Theatre of Scotland (HOME); Scottish Arts Council (Planar)
2007 Institut de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France (Back to Square One); School of Education Research Committee, University of Aberdeen (Back to Square One)
2009 Scottish Opera (74 Degrees North)
2010 Creative Scotland (Diverse Tremblings)
2012 Public Art Aberdeen (Aberdeen soundsites)
2013 Creative Scotland (Dance Amazin’); Creative Scotland (Lost Princes); Huntly Book Festival (Talking Books)
2014 Aberdeen Humanities Fund (Of the Swan); Creative Scotland (From Aberdeen, to the hamlets of the Argentine…); Alan Carr (Dulax); Jen Deschenes (Common Thread)
2017 Aberdeen City Council (Stolen Voices); Aberdeen City Council (Sea Change); National Theatre of Scotland (Granite Sound); Aberdeenshire Council (Soundmap: People and Place); Creative Scotland (You’re a Fisherman’s Bassoon)
2019 BEAST (Rewind); Sarah Watt (…the vivid speechless air…)
2021 BEAST (Pandemonium); Creative Scotland (Call)
2022 BEAST (Community); sonADA (Quiet City); Aberdeen Performing Arts (Aberdeen SoundPark); UKAN+ (National Parks Sound Map)
2023 Creative Scotland (Obfuscation)
2024 Katherine Wren (On a Wing and a Prayer); Inverurie and Learig Orchestras (Un Pensamiento Triste que se Baila); University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir (Content)
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Composition Competitions Jeux de Temps/Times Play, Canada, 2000, 2001 - 2005, 2009; DISContact III, Canada, 2003; Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Eletronica “Pierre Schaeffer” 2003 * 2005, Pescara, Italy; University of Aberdeen Music Prize, pre-selection 2005, 2007, 2009; Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition, France, 2009; KEAR Fellowship, Bowling Green University, USA, 2013; Bangor Dylan Thomas Prize, 2014; Prix Destellos, Argentina, 2015; Musica Nova, Prague 2016 - 2021; Prix Russolo, France, 2019 - 2023; KLANG! 2023; Sound of the Year Award, 2023 & 2024
Conference Peer-reviewing Intellectual Frontiers of Music, University of Aberdeen, 2002; SEA03, University of Hull (Scarborough), 2003; Music and Language, University of Aberdeen, 2004; SoundAsArt, University of Aberdeen, 2006; Royal Musical Association Conference 2008, University of Aberdeen, 2008; International Computer Music Conference, University of Huddersfield, 2011; International Computer Music Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, USA, 2015
Other Peer-reviewing AHRB/C Grant applications, Higher Education Academy , British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, AHRC Peer Review College (2006 – 2008); Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, 2014
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Postgraduate Supervision
Thompson, Bill (PhD); portfolio of musical compositions
Searle, Oliver (PhD); portfolio of musical compositions (RSAMD)
Wyness, James (PhD); portfolio of musical compositions
Whyte, Ross (PhD); portfolio of musical compositions
Miller, Nicola (PhD); The Significance of Kinaesthetic Vocal Sensations Related to Listening Behaviour: An MRI Study
Lewis, Tyler (PhD); Courteous Anthropophony: Finding Our Niche in Nature
Nasciuti, Luca (PhD); Imaginal Landscapes: The role of Electroacoustic Music in Concealing Lost Stories and Revealing New Myths
Zeco, Maja (PhD – co-supervisor); Placing Sound: The Role of Aurality and Visuality in Locating Identities
Dawkins, Beatrice (PhD); Reducing, Enhancing and Expanding Listening
Cooke, Carolyn (PhD – co-supervisor); Challenging epistemology and redefining pedagogy: Music Student Teachers’ experiences of ‘living’ pedagogy as a form of improvising
Olsen, Lise (PhD - co-supervisor); portfolio of compositions
Dunsmore, Mark (PhD - co-supervisor); portfolio of compositions
Other Mentoring Roles
Mentor for Lecturers on Probation (5) at University of Aberdeen; 2003 - 2022
Arts Council of England- funded mentor for Graham Fitkin (2003) and Duncan Chapman (2018)
Creative Scotland-funded mentor for Richard Craig (2021-2)