Commissions and Workshops

Selected Commissioned Installations

2010 Testing Trenches, Orkney's Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
2009 she whispers of beauty, Moving Forward, Aberdeen
2008 Nexus Installation, Limousine Bull Artist Group, Aberdeen
2005 in/transience, Aberdeen sound Festival
2005 toward sublimity, urbanNovember, Aberdeen
2005 of aberdeen, Gangrel Bodies Exhibition, Aberdeen
2005 resonare/in absentia, University of Aberdeen
2004 Reflections 2004, Limousine Bull Artist Group, Aberdeen
2003 fountain path, Austin New Music Coop, Texas
2002 to el paso and back, Field Effects 7, USA

 

Selected Commissioned Compositions & Performances

2011 Big Wave with Ian Spink and Alan Wilkins, The Tramway, Glasgow
2010 ANa with Ian Spink, Dancelive Festival, Aberdeen
2010 Toneburst Festival, Austin Texas
2010 Slow Listening-Dialogues Festival, Edinburgh
2010 With Claire M Singer, SoundFjord Inaugural Event, London
2009 Shifting Currents installation and performance (Three Festival Commission: Le Weekend, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Aberdeen sound Festival), PRSF for New Music
2009 Cairn for traditional Scottish Instruments and mixed percussion (Homecoming commission), Aberdeenshire
2009 Keenan/Singer/Thompson (City of Light), Dundee
2009 Resonant Frequencies-Gates(UK), Aberdeen sound Festival
2009 Singer and Thompson, part of PRSNM Fragmented Orchestra
2007 Bodyparts 3 Festival, RSA, Edinburgh
2007 Salford Concert Series, Manchester
2007 Viewfinder, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
2006 Harpsichord:Burning, performance and installation
2006 of memory and dreams (live electronics), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
2006 liminal passage (installation/performance with live organ), University of Aberdeen
2006 with Mickel Mass and Faust, Avant-garde Festival, Germany
2006 Duet (w/ Keith Rowe), Nottingham Trent University
2006 Salon International, Urban November, Switzerland
2006 Toneburst Festival, Austin Texas
2005 on hushed breath (live electronics), AVP Festival, Nottingham
2005 untitled(mcalpine) (composition), Ubiquitous Exhibition, Bradford
2005 feb’23r (live electronics), Peacocks Visual Arts, Aberdeen
2004 Austin Noise Fest, Church of the Friendly Ghost, Texas
2003 String Quartet no. 1, Imbroglio String Quartet, Texas
2003 with Gates, Austin Museum of Art Film Series, Texas
2003 dallas 3, Dallas Contemporary Arts Center, Texas
2003 september with Brent Faris, AMODA, Texas
2003, constellation, Austin New Music Coop, Texas

 

Selected Curated Events

Present (since 2007) The Burning Harpsichord Series, Aberdeen
2009 Resonant Frequencies (live electronics+percussion), Aberdeen sound Festival
2008 Paella Percussion event, Aberdeen sound Festival
2006 SoundAsArt Conference, Aberdeen
2004-2005 Experimental Music Showcase 1-4, Aberdeen
2002-2004 The Loft Series, Austin Texas

 

Selected Radio/Web Appearances

2010 shifting currents in Huddesfield, BBC Radio 3
2009 Guest on Radio Café, BBC Scotland
2007-2008 The Fog (hosted radio seres), shmuFM
2005 resonare/in absentia, BBC Radio 4
2006 Framework, Resonance FM
2005 hogmanay, Fieldworks Triple R FM
2005 hogmanay, Quiet American One Minute
2005 EMS #2 (phonography), Resonance FM
2003 Phonography Show, KVRX 91.7, Texas
2002 Framework, Resonance FM

 

Selected Workshops

2011-12 Circuit Bending, live electronics, improv, BeatBack Project, Aberdeen
2011Aldeburgh Music Lab, Computer Composition, London and Suffolk
2010 October School, Choreographer/Composer Workshop, Aberdeen
2010 Aldeburgh Music Lab, Aldeburgh and University of East Anglia
2009-2011 Techfest, Computer Composition, Aberdeen
2009- 2010 Circuit Bending/Computer Composition, High Frequencies Project, Aberdeen
2009 Circuit Bending, OMG Cashback Project, Peacocks Visual Arts
2009 Circuit Bending Talk, Open Knowldedge Network, Aberdeen
2009 Circuit Bending Talk, Sound Festival, Aberdeen
2008 Circuit Bending Workshop, Peacocks Visual Arts
2007 Improvisation Workshop, Newcastle University
2006 MPSIX Project , The Lighthouse, Aberdeen and Dundee
2006 Improvisation Workshop with Keith Rowe, Nottingham Trent University
2006 Circuit Bending Workshop, Whitespace, Aberdeen
2005- 06 Sonic Postcards Project, Sonic Arts Network, Scotland
2005 Young Urban Explorers, Peacocks Visual Arts, Aberdeen
2005 Heartstone Project, Garioch Community Centre, Aberdeen
2005 Create Studio, University of Aberdeen
2005 See Hear, Inverurie, Garioch Community Centres, Aberdeen
2005 Artist Talk and Performance, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen
2004 Banchery Ears, Aberdeen sound Festival

 

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