Associate Professor in Music
Performing Arts
Middlesex University
Spectral Music Composition, Film Music, Electroacoustic Composition, Barry Gray
Research & Scholarly Activity:
2015 'The Barry Gray Archive': Paper accepted for Audio-Visual Archives Conference. British Library, London. Due: 18-19/7/2015
2014 Gray Matters: The Music of Barry Gray. Conference paper for Liverpool University Music and Screen Media Conference.
2014 The Beseeching Tone: Spectral Implications of Barry Gray’s ‘Musifex’ for Screen Composers. Conference paper for Leeds University Music for Audio Visual Media Conference.
2009 Spectral Music in Film. Paper for Leeds University Film Music Conference,
2006 Approaches to Spectral Harmony in the Music for Tom Schan’s Feature Film ‘Martyr’.
Paper for Middlesex University Music Research Symposium.
2005 Psychodynamics of Identity in Sound Streams. Paper for 7th International Conference on Systems Res
more...Research & Scholarly Activity:
2015 'The Barry Gray Archive': Paper accepted for Audio-Visual Archives Conference. British Library, London. Due: 18-19/7/2015
2014 Gray Matters: The Music of Barry Gray. Conference paper for Liverpool University Music and Screen Media Conference.
2014 The Beseeching Tone: Spectral Implications of Barry Gray’s ‘Musifex’ for Screen Composers. Conference paper for Leeds University Music for Audio Visual Media Conference.
2009 Spectral Music in Film. Paper for Leeds University Film Music Conference,
2006 Approaches to Spectral Harmony in the Music for Tom Schan’s Feature Film ‘Martyr’.
Paper for Middlesex University Music Research Symposium.
2005 Psychodynamics of Identity in Sound Streams. Paper for 7th International Conference on Systems Research in the Arts, International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research & Cybernetics, Baden-Baden, Germany. Published in international proceedings.
2005 Rhythmic structures & Synchronicity in Sir William Walton’s Agincourt sequence from Olivier’s ‘Henry V’ (1944). Paper for 11th Bradford International Film Festival.
2004 Listening Perspectives: The Composition & Assessment of Electroacoustic Music. Paper for Leeds College of Music International Music & Technology Conference.
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Public Output from Research & Scholarly Activity:
Numerous public, pre-concert talks at Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall and King’s Place Concert Hall.
Research Supervision:
2014-15 Postgraduate External Examiner, Department of Music, University of York.
Internal and External Examiner for several MAs and PhDs. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge; University of York.
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Awards:
2010 Special Mention, Granada Film Festival 2010, for film Il fungo sirena (The Mermaid Mushroom).
2004 Middlesex University Teaching Fellow for 'outstanding contribution to excellence in teaching and learning'.
1992 Electroacoustic Music Scholarship II Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust to research at IRCAM, Paris for a year.
BMus (Hons) (Ulst), CCIM (IRCAM, Paris), PhD (City), FISM, MRSM, MMPG, FRSA