Members

Members

The British ElectroAcoustic Network is now accepting individual members. If you’re a British citizen, or live/work in the UK then you are eligible to join! It is completely free and only takes a minute. By signing up you will receive monthly digests of opportunities and events around the country, as well as being able to submit your own events and calls across the network!

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Founding Members and Directors:

James Andean

James Andean is a musician and sound artist. He is active as both a composer and a performer in a range of fields, including electroacoustic music, improvisation, sound art, and audiovisuals. He is a founding member of several groups and ensembles, including Rank Ensemble, LOS duo, and Plucié/DesAndes. He has performed throughout Europe and North America, and his works have been presented around the world. He is a lecturer at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre of De Montfort University.

Adam Stanović

Adam Stanović started making electronic music some twenty years ago, and has since won prizes, residencies, and mentions/finalists around the world, including: Prix CIME (France); IMEB (France); Metamophoses (Belgium); Destellos (Argentina); Contemporanea (Italy); Computer Space (Bulgaria); Ise-Shima (Japan); SYNC (Russia); Musica Viva (Portugal); Musica Nova (Czech Republic); Ars Electronica Forum Wallis (Switzerland); KEAR (USA); MusicAcoustica (China); Prix Russolo (France), Red Jasper Award (USA); Uljus (Serbia). Adam has worked in the composition studios of the IMEB (France); Musiques et Recherches (Belgium); VICC (Sweden); EMS (Sweden); LCM (UK); CMMAS (Mexico); Holst House (UK), Mise En Place (USA), Bowling Green (USA) and the Sydney Conservatorium…

Committee Members:

Monty Adkins

Monty Adkins is a composer, performer, and Professor of Experimental Electronic Music at the University of Huddersfield. He has created installations, concert and audio-visual works, and a number of collaborations with contemporary performers, video artists and photographers. His has released albums of electronic music on empreintes DIGITALes (CAN), Signature (FR), Audiobulb (UK), Cronica (P), and under the dark ambient moniker Skrika, three albums on the Cryo Chamber (US) label.

His works have been commissioned by Ina-GRM, IRCAM, BBC Radio 3, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF), SpACE-Net, ZKM (Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe) and Sonic Arts Network (SAN), among others. For…

David Berezan

David Berezan (Professor in Electroacoustic Music Composition) has acted, since 2003, as Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studios and MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) at The University of Manchester (UK). After completing a BA in History (1988) at the University of Calgary, a Diploma in Composition (1996) at Grant MacEwan College (Edmonton) and an MMus in Composition (2000) at the University of Calgary, he moved to the UK and completed a PhD in Electroacoustic Composition (2003) at the University of Birmingham (UK).

Since 2000 he has primarily composed acousmatic music, though he has also composed and performed solo and ensemble…

Manuella Blackburn

Manuella Blackburn is an electroacoustic music composer who specializes in acousmatic music creation. However, she also has composed for instruments and electronics, laptop ensemble improvisations, and music for dance.

She studied music at The University of Manchester (England, UK), followed by a Masters in Electroacoustic Composition with David Berezan. She became a member of Manchester Theatre in Sound (MANTIS) in 2006 and completed a PhD at The University of Manchester with Ricardo Climent in 2010.

Manuella Blackburn has worked in residence in the studios of Miso Music (Lisbon, Portugal), EMS (Stockholm, Sweden), Atlantic Centre for the Arts (Florida, USA), and…

Andrew Knight-Hill

Andrew Knight-Hill (1986) is a composer of electroacoustic music, specialising in studio composed works both acousmatic (purely sound based) and audio-visual. His works have been performed extensively across the UK, in Europe and the US. Including performances at Fyklingen, Stockholm; GRM, Paris; ZKM, Karlsruhe; New York Public Library, New York; London Contemporary Music Festival, London; San Francisco Tape Music Festival, San Francisco; Cinesonika, Vancouver; Festival Punto de Encuentro, Valencia; and many more.

His works are composed with materials captured from the human and natural world, seeking to explore the beauty in everyday objects. He is particularly interested in how these materials…

Andrew Lewis

Andrew Lewis Andrew Lewis read music at the University of Birmingham (UK) between 1981 and ’84, and subsequently studied composition there with Jonty Harrison, completing a doctorate in 1991. He was one of the original members of BEAST, and throughout the 1980s and early ’90s worked with them on many electroacoustic concerts and events. His output is predominantly acousmatic music, but he also composes for conventional forces (chamber, vocal, orchestral) with or without electronics. His music has won several prizes, awards and mentions: PRS (UK), Euphonie d’or (Bourges, France), Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Stockholm Electronic Arts Award (Sweden), Hungarian…

Annie Mahtani

Annie Mahtani (b.1981) is an electroacoustic composer, sound artist and performer working and living in Birmingham, UK. She studied with Jonty Harrison at masters and doctoral level, completing her Phd in 2008.

Her output encompasses electronic music composition from acousmatic music to free improvisation. As a collaborator, Annie has worked extensively with dance, theatre and on site-specific installations. With a strong interest in field recording, Annie’s work often explores the inherent sonic nature and identity of environmental sound, amplifying sonic characteristics that are not normally audible to the naked ear. Her music explores abstract and recognizable sound worlds and all…

Brona Martin

Dr. Brona Martin is an Electroacoustic composer and sound artist from Banagher, Co. Offaly, Ireland. Her compositions explore narrative in Electroacoustic music, acoustic ecology, oral history, sound and heritage and audio spatialisation techniques.

Brona is a Lecturer in Music and Sound at the University of Greenwich where she teaches on the MA in Music and Sound Design course on the module ‘Audiovisual Composition for Film, Games and Media.’

Her works have been performed internationally at EMS, ACMC, ICMC, NYCEMF, ISSTA, ZKM, BEAST, Balance/Unbalance, SSSP, iFIMPaC, Sonorities, MANTIS and The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.She has been guest composer at EMS, Stockholm…

Adrian Moore

Adrian Moore first came into contact with electroacoustic music in his hometown of Nottingham at a concert given by Denis Smalley. His undergraduate study was at City University (London, UK) where he began to compose in the studio as well as assist the Electroacoustic Music Association of Great Britain (EMAS) — which became Sonic Arts Network (SAN), now Sound and Music) with concerts. The performance of tape pieces using multiple loudspeakers interested him and his further study under Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham offered the opportunity of composing for and working with the Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST).…

Cameron Naylor

Cameron Naylor is a sound artist working between film, theatre, radio, and electroacoustic composition. He is interested on the art and technique of storytelling through sound, music, and spoken word and his works have been heard across the globe.

His electronic music has been recognised in composition competitions including: Iannis Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition (Greece), MA/IN (Italy), Métamorphoses (Belgium), and the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis (Switzerland). Further afield, he has received several commissions from the BBC, and his installations have been exhibited in notable venues such as the Ars Electronica (Linz), and the G20 Summit (New Delhi).

He is…

Louise Rossiter

Louise Rossiter (1986) is an Electroacoustic composer based in Leicester, UK. Louise’s research interests include expectation in acousmatic music, silence and music, acoustic ecology, multi-channel composition and spatialisation. She completed a PhD at De Montfort University, Leicester under the supervision of John Young and Simon Emmerson, having studied previously under Pete Stollery, Robert Dow and Robert Normandeau.

Her current research carries on from doctoral research to explore ways in which interactions of sound, silence, and timbral blending might evoke implications, expectations and questions. She has recently completed a series of pieces which explore the work of Fritz Kahn. Dr…

Diana Salazar

Diana Salazar Diana Salazar is a Scottish born and London-based composer and sound artist. Her acousmatic compositions explore cinematic sound spaces using layered sonic gestures, textures, and motion. She also creates work for instruments and electronics, music and interactive dance, and laptop improvisation. Her compositions have been performed nationally and internationally, with many recognised in international competitions. Her work has been published on the Elektramusic, Studio PANaroma, SCRIME, Discparc, MisoMusic and Drift Station labels. She has been a composer-in-residence at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS), Sweden; the Destellos Institute, Argentina; Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI), Texas; and Atlantic Center for the Arts,…

Nikos Stavropoulos

Nikos Stavropoulos (Athens, Greece, 1975) is a composer of predominantly acousmatic and mixed music. He read music at the University of Wales (Bangor, Wales, UK), where he studied composition with Andrew Lewis and completed a doctorate at the University of Sheffield (England, UK) under the supervision of Adrian Moore. His music is performed and broadcast regularly around the world and has been awarded internationally on several occasions. His practice is concerned with notions of tangibility and immersivity in acousmatic experiences and the articulation of acoustic space, in the pursuit of probable aural impossibilities. Since 2006, he has been a member…

Scott Wilson

Canadian-born Scott Wilson is Reader in Electronic Music at the University of Birmingham. Primarily a composer, his works have been presented internationally, and include compositions for both instrumental and electroacoustic forces, as well as structured improvisations for networked music ensembles (usually with BEER, the Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research). He is the director of the University’s Electroacoustic Studios and of BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre), an internationally recognised loudspeaker orchestra. He is also active in the development of the SuperCollider computer music language, and was the lead editor of The SuperCollider Book, published by MIT Press. Recent projects include works…

Lisa Whistlecroft

Lisa Whistlecroft is a sonic artist based in north-west England. After many years as an electroacoustic music groupie, she started composing relatively late in life, thanks to encouragement and support from Jonty Harrison. Throughout her professional working life in higher education teaching support she identified as an amateur composer, campaigned (quietly) to restore that word to its meaning of composing for the love of it, and protested its usage to mean second rate. In 2000 she was elected to the Board of Directors of Sonic Arts Network and was company secretary for 4 years.

Lisa’s concert pieces have been performed across the world…

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