Composers' Workshop: Professor Simon Emmerson

Simon Emmerson presents examples of his live electronic music and discusses how changing technology has created new possibilities for the composer.

Simon Emmerson studied at Cambridge and at City University, London where he founded the electroacoustic music studio in 1975. He joined De Montfort University, Leicester in 2004 where he is now Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Sonic Creativity. He has been a composer and writer on eletroacoustic music since the early 1970s. He was Edgard Varese Visiting Professor at TU, Berlin (2009-10) and Visiting Professor and Composer at the Western Australian Academy (Perth) in 2016. Commissions include: GRM (Paris), Inventionen (Berlin), BEAST (Birmingham) and for soloists Darragh Morgan (violin), Philip Mead (piano), Carla Rees (flute) and Heather Roche (clarinet). Writings incluse: The Language of Electroacoustic Music (1986), Living Electronic Music (2007), The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music (2018), coeditor Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis (2016). Keynotes include: ICMC 2011 (Huddersfield), Alternative Histories of Electronic Music 2016 (London), Midlands New Music Symposium (NottFAR) 2020, EMS Network 2021.