Experience

MusicTutors.co.uk

• United Kingdom
• Musicians
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Music Technology tutor

  • May 2019 - Present

  Freelance music tutor offering tuition in numerous areas, including early-stage piano, music theory, composition, electronic production and studio recording. Freelance music tutor offering tuition in numerous areas, including early-stage piano, music theory, composition, electronic production and studio recording.



Guildhall School of Music & Drama

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Tutor for Academic Studies (Creating & Performing Knowledge)

  • Apr 2020 - Present

  Tutor at Guildhall working within the Academic Studies department, focussing on developing electronic, film and popular music students engagement with wider contextual and academic issues. Tutor at Guildhall working within the Academic Studies department, focussing on developing electronic, film and popular music students engagement with wider contextual and academic issues.



7000 Trees

• Co-Founder / Lead-Composer

  • Oct 2018 - Present

  Co-founder and lead-composer for the Audio/Visual/Design production company, 7000 Trees. Specialising in ecologically and socially-minded arts practice, my role is to create bespoke audio, video and text for a range of clients, as well as running workshops and tuition in the corresponding disciplines. Building upon a wealth of professional experience as an artist and researcher, 7000 Trees enables me to use my knowledge to create, promote and support a broad range of arts practice. In this guise, I have worked alongside upcoming artists on their fledgling music videos, small businesses searching for creative ways to promote themselves, and international companies looking to define their brand.



LATEST TV LIMITED

• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Videographer / Composer

  • Mar 2020 - Apr 2020

  Filmed, directed, edited and composed for the pilot episode of a new art-themed show for Latest TV. 'Process' documents the creative process of local artist Lee Copleston, and explores the influences and inspirations that helped forge his style. Drawing upon both documentary footage, interviews and arts-research, the show assisted viewers in understanding and engaging with new forms of cutting-edge arts-practice. Filmed, directed, edited and composed for the pilot episode of a new art-themed show for Latest TV. 'Process' documents the creative process of local artist Lee Copleston, and explores the influences and inspirations that helped forge his style. Drawing upon both documentary footage, interviews and arts-research, the show assisted viewers in understanding and engaging with new forms of cutting-edge arts-practice.



Speak Up! Act Out!

• Videographer / Composer / Director

  • Feb 2020 - Apr 2020

  Videographer, director and composer employed to create and soundtrack the trailer for 'Rebel Boob', a play exploring the reality of breast Cancer survivors. The role involved filming the company's sold-out performance at The Old Market theatre, and using this footage to create a trailer to engage with funders for a potential future tour. A new musical work for solo piano was composed to reflect the play's tone and theme. Videographer, director and composer employed to create and soundtrack the trailer for 'Rebel Boob', a play exploring the reality of breast Cancer survivors. The role involved filming the company's sold-out performance at The Old Market theatre, and using this footage to create a trailer to engage with funders for a potential future tour. A new musical work for solo piano was composed to reflect the play's tone and theme.



COUNTERPRESS LIMITED

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing

• Contributing Author, Art/Law/Power

  • Mar 2020 - Mar 2020

  Contributing author to this timely collection of essays curated to bring together scholarship from critical schools across the humanities and the social sciences. It offers a contemporary snapshot of intellectual and practical engagements with legal and artistic practices in countering power. This edition brings together voices and practitioners from across the globe to tell stories of old and new tactics and strategies found in the coming together of law, art, and power. Art historical understandings of law can be found sitting next to doctrinal depictions of street art and graffiti, philosophical questions of space, community, and autonomy next to cultural and legal ethnographies of control and incarceration. Across all authors there is a singular thread of art, law, and power in end times.



The Rocket Artists

• Composer / Lead Artist

  • Mar 2020 - Mar 2020

  Lead Artist and composer for this custom-designed interactive sound-table. Shown as part of The Rocket Artists 'Towards Inclusion' exhibition at Brighton's Phoenix gallery, the work used the leftover material from the main exhibit to produce an interactive sound table that could be played by the gallery's visitors. By rubbing, hitting, rolling, drawing and otherwise interacting with the large textured table, participants could explore the exhibitions themes without prioritising the visual elements alone. In this way, the exhibition was opened up to engage further with disabled and neurodiverse participants.



UNDRGRND SOUNDS LTD

• United Kingdom
• Software Development

• Sound Designer

  • Jan 2020 - Feb 2020

  Commissioned to produce a bespoke sound-pack for this international brand. Sound-design focussed on the organic-themed sounds drawn from a modular synthesiser, for use in a range of experimental, ambient, and contemporary electronic musical genres. Commissioned to produce a bespoke sound-pack for this international brand. Sound-design focussed on the organic-themed sounds drawn from a modular synthesiser, for use in a range of experimental, ambient, and contemporary electronic musical genres.



Greater Brighton Metropolitan College

• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• BA/FdA Course Leader, Creative Music Production

  • Apr 2016 - Sep 2019

  Responsible for overseeing the entirety of the music BA and FDA provision. In this role, I led a small team developing and leading modules in the following areas: Context and Methodology, Integrated Practice, Experimental Sound, Music and Sound for the Moving Image, Computer Music Systems, Contextual Studies, Audio- Visual Interactive Technologies, Audio Cultures, and Dissertation.This position involved not only designing and delivering cutting-edge course content, but equally working alongside management to ensure the smooth-running of the department, as well as supporting students with their wider pastoral and academic needs.

• Research Lead / Lead Composer

  • Jan 2019 - Mar 2019

  Research Lead for this exciting arts project that explored the use of language by politicians and the media within the EU referendum debate. Working with a team of students and staff, the project analysed the linguistic traits of mainstream narratives concerning the affordances of 'Brexit'. This data was used to shape a series of musical compositions, that were in turn pressed to lathe record, and presented (alongside a custom 'Brexit-themed' record player) at the SEAS gallery, Brighton.



Norient Films

• Soundtrack Composer, Contradict

  • Jul 2019 - Jul 2019

  Contributed a new musical work, 'Lines', to this internationally-released feature film, exploring the African cultural scene. Contributed a new musical work, 'Lines', to this internationally-released feature film, exploring the African cultural scene.



Art/Law Network

• Artist In Residence

  • Sep 2018 - Jul 2019

  A long-term collaboration with the Sussex Art/Law Network and Sussex University, working with Law students to develop creative responses to government policy. Focussed on the utility of Public Space Protection Orders, I worked to create a public-facing installation that would highlight some of the issues faced by the homeless community in navigating such legislation. The outcome of our research - a large-format interactive board-game - was showcased at London's Tate Exchange as part of their 'Hostile Environments' event.



Hallow Ground

• Australia
• Performing Arts

• Composer, Lines/Weaves/Threads

  • Apr 2018 - Jun 2019

  Composer of a three-part sound-research project released on the renowned label Hallow Ground. Drawing upon my PhD research in sound, community and contemporary scoring practices, I produced three albums of contemporary electronic and experimental classical music, that was released internationally on LP, cassette and download. Composer of a three-part sound-research project released on the renowned label Hallow Ground. Drawing upon my PhD research in sound, community and contemporary scoring practices, I produced three albums of contemporary electronic and experimental classical music, that was released internationally on LP, cassette and download.



Noiiz Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Musicians

• Sound Designer, Dichtomies

  • May 2018 - Jun 2018

  Sound-designer and composer for a sound-pack exploring contemporary electronic and atmospheric sounds. Commissioned as part of Noiiz's popular subscription service, this pack focused on modern and lo-fi sounds and loops, for use by professional music producers and composers. Sound-designer and composer for a sound-pack exploring contemporary electronic and atmospheric sounds. Commissioned as part of Noiiz's popular subscription service, this pack focused on modern and lo-fi sounds and loops, for use by professional music producers and composers.



University of Sussex

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Tutor, media:Sound

  • Sep 2013 - Jul 2016

  Responsible for developing content and leading sound- based module for the media department. Areas of focus included studio-recording, field-recording, audio-editing, film-sound theory, radio studies, and critical / cultural media-theory.

• Widening Participation workshop leader

  • Sep 2014 - Jun 2015

  Responsible for developing content and leading HE taster sessions to secondary school children. Program focused on film-sound theory and practice, facilitating students to develop soundtracks to short-films.

• Technical Assistant, Creativity Zone

  • Sep 2013 - Feb 2015

  Responsible for over-seeing this busy performance space for use in symposiums, workshops, taught sessions, and events. Role included live- sound and lighting, installing and setting up equipment, trouble-shooting, and inducting clients in the use of the space.



Freelance

• Egypt
• Human Resources
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Lead / Composer, New Communions

  • Jul 2014 - Jul 2015

  Practice-based research project exploring collaboration, temporality, and site-specific score-making. Visiting an inner-city church for 12 hour over-night recording sessions, the project involved researching the acoustical and sociological resonances of the space, with the resulting sound-work later released as a 4 part album. Practice-based research project exploring collaboration, temporality, and site-specific score-making. Visiting an inner-city church for 12 hour over-night recording sessions, the project involved researching the acoustical and sociological resonances of the space, with the resulting sound-work later released as a 4 part album.



Critical and Creative Practice Research Group

• Co-chair

  • Sep 2014 - Jun 2015

  Responsible for leading sessions across the full range of creative-practice PhD’s at the university, facilitating students to share and develop practical work. As part of this role a successful funding bid was made to organise a 2-day symposium and performance event, locating post-graduate student work alongside external artists and academics from across Europe. Responsible for leading sessions across the full range of creative-practice PhD’s at the university, facilitating students to share and develop practical work. As part of this role a successful funding bid was made to organise a 2-day symposium and performance event, locating post-graduate student work alongside external artists and academics from across Europe.