Compositional Methods in Electroacoustic Music - Adrian Moore ...

prize of the city of Weimar.
Whistlecroft, Lisa Lisa Whistlecroft is a freelance composer and sound artist from the north west of England.
She creates solo concert pieces and also works with theatre and performance artists, creating sound
scores for performance and sound design for environmental performance and installations.
Williams, Tom Coventry University
Tom Williams is a principal lecturer in composition, course director of the BA in Music Composition and is
the leader of INTIME music research group at Coventry University. He studied composition at Huddersfield
and Keele Universities and completed a doctorate in composition at Boston University, USA. His music has
received numerous international performances and broadcasts and been recorded on a variety of CD labels.
Young, John De Montfort University
John Young is a composer whose music focuses on the use of electroacoustic media as a means to explore the
richness, complexity and affective meanings of natural sounds. His output includes multi-channel electroacoustic
pieces, large-scale radiophonic work and music combining instruments and electroacoustic sounds. In
1990 he took up a position at Victoria University of Wellington, where he became a Senior Lecturer and Director
of the Electroacoustic Music Studios, and in 2000 he joined the Music, Technology and Innovation Research
Centre at De Montfort University in Leicester where is now Professor of Composition.
Zaki, Mark Rutgers University
Building on his many diverse interests, composer and violinist Mark Zaki’s work ranges from historicallyinformed
and traditional chamber music to electroacoustic music, mixed-media composition, and music for
film. He is presently a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield as the recipient of a highly prized Fulbright
Scholar Award to the United Kingdom. Zaki has also been honoured with awards and recognition from
the International Society of Contemporary Music, Musica Nova (Prague) and a Mellon Fellowship at the University
of Pennsylvania. Mark holds a Ph.D. degree in composition from Princeton University.
Zaki’s music and mixed-media composition has been presented by the MIN Ensemblet (Norway), the Nash
Ensemble of London, Speculum Musicae, the Boston and NYC Visual Music Marathons, the NYC Electroacoustic
Music Festival, Third Practice, iFIMPaC (Leeds, UK), the Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey Concert Series,
the Comunidad Electroacoustica de Chile (Santiago), Festival Oude Muziek (Utrecht), Nashville Sound-
Crawl, the Not Still Art Festival (NYC), the International Computer Music Conference, Nuit Bleue (France),
Electrolune (France), Primavera en La Habana (Cuba), Musica Nova (Prague), the Seoul International Computer
Music Festival, SEAMUS, the Florida Electronic Music Festival, the NWEAMO Festival (San Diego),
the New Music Miami ISCM Festival, the Cycle de Concerts de Musique par Ordinateur (Paris), the Pulse
Field International Exhibition of Sound Art (Atlanta), and on the Canadian Electroacoustic Community CD
project DisContact! III.
Commercial credits include work on more than 50 films, television programs, theater productions and recordings
for companies such as PBS, Paramount TV, Disney, Touchstone Pictures, Buena Vista Pictures, Sony/Classical,
and Chandos. Some of his more notable projects include original scores for the dramatic feature film The
Eyes of van Gogh, and the Peabody award nominated documentary The Political Dr Seuss for PBS. His film
work also includes both onscreen and soundtrack performances in Lasse Hallstroms Casanova, the American
release of Miyazakis Kikis Delivery Service, Martin Scorsese’s The Key to Reserva and the HBO miniseries
Mildred Pierce starring Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce.
Mark includes among his teachers Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, Charles Wuorinen, and Arnold Steinhardt.
Currently on the faculty at Rutgers University-Camden, he is the director of the Music Program and the
Rutgers Electro-Acoustic Lab (REAL). He also serves nationally as the president of the Society for Electro-
Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). He lives outside New York City with his wife, two daughters,
three cats, one dog, and a considerable amount of software.
Zielinska, Lidia SMEAMuz Poznan, Poznan Music Academy
Lidia Zielinska is a Polish composer, professor of composition and director of the SMEAMuz Electroacoustic
Music Studio at the Academy of Music in Poznan.
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