Research – Papers and Presentations

• “Perpetual Erosion: Impermanence in Audio-Visual Intermedia”, presented at the INTIME 2011 Symposium, Coventry University, 24 September 2011 and at the Royal Musical Association (RMA) Annual Research Students’ Conference, 6 January 2012.  Publication pending.

• “A Private Space: Ambient and Soundscape Composition” CeReNeM Journal: Issue Two, Part One (2010): PDF.

• “Three Types of Engagement with Place Through Acousmatic Listening and Composition” (with Suk-Jun Kim and Pete Stollery), presented at the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM), University of Aberdeen, 16 September 2011.  Publication pending.

• “Negation of Liveness and the Metamorphosis of its Meaning” (with Suk-Jun Kim), FIMPaC 2011, Leeds College of Music, 12 May 2011.  Publication pending.

• “Reproductions: Glitching Dance”, Music Research Seminar, University of Aberdeen, 28 April 2011

•  “Recent Compositions”, Music Research Seminar, University of Aberdeen, 11 December 2009

• “Fog: Communication Breakdown and the Role of the Artist”, The Artist Under the Microscope, University of Durham, 14 November 2009

• “Fog and Recent Compositions”, RSAMD Research Talks, The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, 22 October 2009

• “Acoustic Ecology”, Aberdeen Ecology Day, University of Aberdeen, 16 April 2009

• “Synaesthesia and Multi-Sensory Perception in Music”, Music Research Seminar, University of Aberdeen, 27 March 2009

Teaching

I am currently in the final year of my PhD in musical composition at the University of Aberdeen.  I designed and taught a composition course on Contemporary Musical Theatre (a 3rd year undergraduate course).  The course was structed as follows:

As well as teaching in an Acousmatic Composition 3rd and 4th year undergraduate elective, I designed and taught an 8-week Electroacoustic Composition course for 2nd year undergraduates.  The course was structured as follows: