I teach on the Music Awards at Staffordshire University. The bulk of this is centred audiovisual composition using tools including Touchdesigner and Adobe After Effects as well as having a keen interest in audio mastering. The University has excellent Mastering facilities and, as well as using these in my own work, I teach how to combine software and hardware techniques in stereo and surround production and mastering.
My personal musical output began when playing in various bands in and around Sheffield, South Yorkshire, after leaving school. This developed into solo electronic dance music influenced productions and more recently into more traditional songwriting. I am mainly studio based, use a variety of production techniques and also do freelance mastering work. Information on these productions is on my music page.
Alongside my work and music making, teaching led me to undertake a part time practice based PhD which involved the creation of an audiovisual composition portfolio influenced by visual music, colour and technology. You can find out more information on this on my PhD Portfolio Page.
My PhD, ‘Visual Music Composition with Electronic Sound and Video’ was completed under the guidance of Tim Howle (Medway) and Stella Mills (Staffordshire). A copy can be found on our ePrints site here: http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/2047/
My earlier research centred on sonification and my composition ‘Listen (Awakening)’ was performed at the Sydney Opera House as part of the ICAD conference in 2004. More recent work focuses on composition for Visual (Video) Music as well as live audiovisual performance.
Many of my fixed media compositions have been performed at concerts and festivals including: the Soundings Festival Edinburgh, MANTIS Festival University of Manchester, flEXiff Experimental Film Festival Sydney Australia, Seeing Sound Bath Spa, ICMC Shanghai and NoiseFloor Festival Staffordshire.
Being a supporter and writer on dance music production and culture I am also the section director for Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
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