Compositional Methods in Electroacoustic Music - Adrian Moore ...

Monopoli, Nicola Conservatorio “N. Piccinni” - Bari
His compositions have been selected and performed in many festivals such as De Montfort University SSSP,
SICMF, Stanford LAC, ACL Conference and Festival, Hannover Hochschule C-Sound Conference, Emufest,
Fullerton Annual New Music Festival, Musiche Nuove, FIMU, Festival Internacional de Msica Electroacstica
‘Punto de Encuentro, Shanghai Conservatory of Music International Electronic Music Week and UCM New
Music Festival. His music has been performed in many places such as Sviatoslav Richter Memorial Apartment
in Moscow, D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, S. Antonio Church and Curci Theatre
in Barletta, A. Goldenweiser Memorial Apartment in Moscow, N. Piccinni Conservatory Auditorium, V.I
Vernadsky State Geological Museum of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Santa Cecilia Conservatory Auditorium,
Kammermusiksaal in Hannover and Bogolyubov Library of Arts in Moscow. He won the third prize
in Musicworks Magazine Competition 2011 for new music. One of his pieces, The Rite of Judgment, has been
broadcasted on CKCUFMs Program ‘Acoustic Frontier’. His compositions have been selected for Audiograft
Jukebox, the online listening library Sonus, Radiauteur and the Multichannel listening library in Trondheim.
Moore, Adrian University of Sheffield
Adrian Moore is a composer of electroacoustic music. He mainly composes music for fixed formats (CD, DVD),
music intended for sound diffusion over multiple loudspeaker systems. He also writes for instruments, often
with a live processingelement using MaxMSP and custom built software. He directs the University of Sheffield
Sound Studios (USSS) where researchers and composers collaborate on new musical projects. Adrian Moore’s
research interests are focused towards the development of the acousmatic tradition in electroacoustic music,
the performance of electroacoustic music, signal processing, and human-computer interaction in music. His
music has been commissioned by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), the Institute International de
Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB) and the Arts Council of England. A significant proportion of
his music is available on 3 discs,‘Traces’, ‘Rêve de l’aube’ and ‘Contrechamps’ on the Empreintes DIGITALes
label(www.electrocd.com)
Nyström, Erik City University and SAE London
Erik Nyström is a London-based composer working in the acousmatic medium. His recent music been exploring
the aesthetic potentials of transformative spatial structures, and the role of textural processes in morphology
and musical form. After a BA in Recording Arts (SAE, London) Erik Nyström studied computer music
composition with Gerard Pape at CCMIX (Centre de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis) in Paris (2006-
7) where he also attended courses with Jean-Claude Risset, Trevor Wishart, Agostino Di Scipio, and Curtis
Roads, amongst others, and is presently undertaking doctoral studies in electroacoustic composition at City
University with Denis Smalley, who also supervised his MA in 2008. His PhD research on spatial texture is
funded by the Newby Trust (UK) and the Helge Ax:son Johnsson Foundation (Sweden), and has focused on
spatial composition in multichannel formats including eight channels and Wave Field Synthesis. His music
is performed internationally, and acknowledgements include the Mercer’s Company Music Prize at City University,
2010; the Prix du Public in Metamorphoses 2010 (for Elemental Chemistry), Belgium; and an honourable
mention in Musical Viva 2010, Portugal (for Elemental Chemistry). Erik Nyström currently lectures
in contemporary music history and aesthetics, electroacoustic composition, and audio at SAE in London, and
freelances as audio engineer with expertise in contemporary music.
O’Riain, Damian Damian recently completed a practice-led PhD in electroacoustic composition at the Sonic
Arts Research Center (Queens University Belfast). Prior to this he obtained an MPhil inmusic and media
technologies at Trinity College Dublin. His compositional output has been presented internationally and he
was a prize winner at the 34th Bourges International Competition for Music and Sound Art. Currently, Damian’s
creative activities relate primarily to acousmatic arts, digital music, and post-digital aesthetics. He’s also interested
in the analysis of electroacoustic works, and questions relating to the problem of genre categorisation
in contemporary digital music. Other areas of interest include new media, digital-cultures, net-critique, and
technologically driven creative practices that embrace interdisciplinary collaboration.
Otondo, Felipe Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University.
Felipe studied acoustics in Chile where he started composing and performing music for experimental theatre
developing several performance projects with actors and musicians. In 1999 he moved to Denmark to do post-
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