Research Interests: Composition, Experimental music , Group dynamics in ensemble performance, Practice-based research, Research project design
Accepting Mentees: Yes (2)
Biography
I’m an academic, composer, performer and examiner based in Brighton. I lecture and mentor online at WaterBear, the College of Music, and have given presentations at, amongst other institutions, IRCAM (Paris), Lille Conservatoire, the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki), Furman University (South Carolina), California State University at Long Beach, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Bath Spa University, the University of Huddersfield, the University of Liverpool, and the University of Sheffield. As a composer, performances of my work have taken place in the UK, France, Germany, Serbia, Finland, the U.S and Canada. I’m a Rock & Pop examiner for Trinity College London, having conducted exams in Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, India, South East Asia, the Far East and Australia. In addition, I’ve participated in peer review for the International Conference on Music and Minimalism, the RMA Study Group Music and/as Process, and San Francisco State University, and been an external PhD examiner for Edinburgh Napier University. Away from music, I’m an enthusiastic (but not terribly accomplished) cook, a picky tea-drinker, a bookworm and a doting uncle to Thea.
Qualifications
I hold a PhD in Composition and a BA (Hons) in Music, both from Brunel University, and a DipHE in Popular Music Performance from Thames Valley University (now the University of West London).
Publications
Performing Temporal Processes (co-authored with L. Redhead, A. Zaldua, S. Stone) in New Sound - International Journal of Music. University of Belgrade, Serbia (2017).
Subjectifying the Objective: Mathematical Processes and the Search for Balance in Music and/as Process (ed. L. Redhead, V. Hawes). Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016