University of Aberdeen

Imaginal Landscapes: The Role of Electroacoustic Music in Concealing Lost Stories & Revealing New Myths

Academic History:

PhD Candidate, University of Aberdeen, Musical Composition

2010-2012 Goldsmiths, University of London, MMus Studio Composition

2007-2010 University of East London, BA (Hons) Music with Performing Arts 

Supervisors:

Professor Peter Stollery

Diana Salazar

Research Interests:

• Acousmatic composition
• Noise music
• Soundscape composition
• Sound studies
• Dramaturgy
• Site-specificity
• Installation
• Performance practice
• Film

Releases:

• 2012 - [SR51] Vanishing Point, Somehow Recordings, CD-r
• 2012 -  [CNCPTN 04] Morpheus, 8.1 channel composition published on the magazine by Simon Kinch (editor)
• 2011 - [FbL12] Temporali, FeedbackLoop Label, digital
• 2011 - Cradle, featured track, ‘Brave New World’ compilation, FeedbackLoop Label, digital

Performances:

• 02.05.2015 sonADA, 1gallery, Aberdeen, UK
• 12.04.2015 ListeningClub, PeckhamPelica, London, UK
• 05.03.2015 Timespan Museum, Helmsdale, UK
• 01.03.2015 Soundscapism, Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh, UK
• 03.10.2014 - sonADA, 17 Gallery, Aberdeen, UK - Live performance
• 03.10.2013 - National Poetry Day, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK - Filmpoem commissioned by The Poetry Society and Canal & River Trust
• 20-22.09.2013 - Sonic Arts Waterford, IE -A/V performance
• 06.06.2013 - The green Door Store, Brighton, UK - A/V performance
• 16.02.2013 - London Poetry Systems, Edel Assanti Gallery, London, UK, - Filmpoem live
• 26.11.2012 - Power Lunches, London, UK, - Laptop performance
• 14-15.06.2012 - Felix Poetry Festival, Antwerp, BE – Filmpoem screening
• 09.07.11 - Long Drone, Raven Row Gallery, London, UK and live broadcast on Resonance FM - Improvisation Performance
• 22-24.10.2010 - Hidden Door Festival, Roxy Art House, Edinburgh, UK - Live A/V performance
• 27-29.09.2010 - Atomino Art Festival, Crimmitschau, DE – A/V performance
• 09.07.2010 - Gallery D21, Leipzig, DE – A/V performance Headphone Festival, Labsound gallery, Vesternorrland, SE - Performance

Dance Performances:

• 9.08.2012 - Epoche´- Deptford Town Hall, London UK
• 10.05.2011 - TheKingdom - Goldsmiths University of London, UK
• 17.09.2010 - Ear Me Now Netil House, London, UK
• 9-11.09.2009 – Pandora -­ The Space, London, UK

Exhibitions:

• 14.01-­14.02.2014 - Jerwood Open Forest, Jerwood Space, London, UK -A/V exhibition with artist Juan Delgado, group show
• 16.08-­-08.09.2013 -­ Suden Radio, Radio Papesse, VillaRomana, Florence, IT & Deustche Bank Kunstalle, Berlin, DE
• 24-­25.05.2013 -SpazioErsetti, Udine, IT
• 06.12.2012 - Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, UK
• 14­-18.03.2012 - St Anza International Poetry Festival, St. Andrews, UK
• 15-­17.07.2011 ­- Hilltown New Music Festival, IE
• 25.10-16.11.201 - SoundgateFestival, Aalborg, DK

Screenings:

• 19­-07-2014 -­ Festival of Love, Poetry International with Poetry Society,  Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK
• 11-14.06.2014 - Felix Poetry Festival, Antwerp, BE
• 03.10.2013 - National Poetry Day, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
• 21-­23.10.2011 ­ - Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK
• 04-12/24­-28.08.2011 Not In My Name - Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scottish National Library, Edinburgh,UK

Collaborations:

• Ongoing – Filmpoem - Collaboration with artist and filmmaker Alastair Cook - Composition for film with poetry
• 2013 – Ringing Forest, collaboration with artist Juan Delgado – A/V installation
• 2012 - Epoché - Collaboration with choreographer Marie Brenneis - Multichannel composition with dance, Deptord Town Hall, London, UK
• 2012 - 13X2 - Collaboration with choreographer Jessica Bravo Pena Laban, London UK & Judson Church, NYC
• 2011 - The Kingdom - Collaboration with choreographer Marie Brenneis -  Interactive generative music with dance Goldsmiths University, London, UK
• 2010 - Freefall Theatre, director: Kate Sagovsky - Composition for dance, Resolution 2010, The Place, London, UK
• 2009 - Feral, Sketty Productions, director: Toby Clarke - Music, set design, video animation, Feral, New Wimbledon Theatre, London, UK

Residencies:

• 2015 ‐ Fljotstunga Travel Farm, IS – Artist Residency
• 2013 - North Light Arts, Dunbar, UK - Walking a Line, summer residency Funded by Creative Scotland
• 2009 - Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK, and Oval House Theatre, London, UK - with Sketty Productions
• 2009 - Newington Dance Space, London, UK - Pandora, durational performance

Workshops:

• 04.10.2014 - Beacon Arts centre, Greenock, UK - Filmpoem Workshop
• 19.07.2014 - Southbank Centre, London, UK - Filmpoem Workshop
• 22.09.13 - Sonic Arts Waterford, Waterford, IE - Soundwalk Workshop
• 04.08.13 - Dunbar Town House, UK - Filmpoem Workshop
• 07.2009 - Newington Dance Space, London, UK - Performance making workshop

Curating:

• 2013 – Sonic cueB, experimental music festival, cueB Gallery, London, UK
• 2012 – Silence & Noise, experimental music perfomance, power Lunches, Dalston, London, UK

Conferences:

• 05­‐07‐2015 ‐ True North Conference, Timespan Museum, Helmsdale, UK
• 24.10.2014 - Sonophilia, Sonic Arts Forum, Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK
• 04-07.09.2013 - The Noises of Art: Audiovisual Practice in History, Theory & Culture, a conference convened by The School of Art, Aberystwyth University, in collaboration with The Courtauld Institute of Art London, & Aberystwyth Arts Centre
• 12-15.03.2013 - Espacios Sonoros, 19th Computer & Electronic Music Days Sound Spaces & Audiovisual Spaces: Creation, Representation & Design, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ES

Publications:

• 2014 Deus Ex Machina, Filmpoem Album, Issue 149
• 2012 CNPTN New Sound by Concept & Design, Issue 04

Teaching:

• 2015 – Supervisor in Acousmatic composition, third year BA Music students, University of Aberdeen, UK
• 2010-­2012 – Tutor, BA Sound Design, University of East London, UK

First published: 1 October 2014