Dr William Edmondes
Lecturer in Music

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William Edmondes is a performer and composer working with improvisation, recorded media, digital sequencing, guitar and voice. He studied at Cardiff (BMus), King's London (MMus), and York (PhD). He performs and releases material under several pseudonyms, most frequently as Gwilly Edmondez.

Research Interests

Composition with improvised performance, using recorded media (hardware samplers, turntables & dictaphones), guitar and voice.

Current, ongoing projects:
Falco Subbuteo (duo with Valerie Pearson)
Copydex - plunderphonic collage
Sound Of Aircraft Attacking Britain (http://www.richardbowers.co.uk) (with Richard Bowers)
Virginia Pipe - beat storm theory into praxis
Gustav Thomas - Gameboy sequencing (Nanoloop, LSDJ)

Edmondes' work is published online at
UBUWEB (www.ubu.com/sound/edmondez.html)
FMA (www.freemusicarchive.org)
among other places.

New Gustav Thomas full-length available for download at:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Gustav_Thomas/Soul_Anus/

Other Expertise

Hip Hop; Collage & improvisation; Noise, Funk & Extreme Metal; Situationism; Digital networking & Dissemination; drawing & painting.

Current Work

Latest release:
Edmondez/D'Silva, 36 Units Of Blazing Hash (freemusicarchive.org/music/Edmondez-DSilva/36_Units_of_Blazing_Hash/)

Postgraduate Supervision

Masters: Lydia Marquardt; Ludo Bunel; Owen Grant; Kieran Rafferty; Alex Campbell; Charlie Bramley; Lisa Bulloch; John Pope; Ivy Taylor; Alistair Gillies; Jake Longley; Greg Kelly.
PhD: Mark Self; Kitty Porteous; Pete Dale; John MacLean; Merrie Snell.

Roles and Responsibilities

Dr. Edmondes is currently Degree Programme Director for the MMus.

Undergraduate Teaching

William teaches Contemporary Performance & Composition, a historical/cultural module on Hip Hop, and Research Training Methods for MMus, focusing on practice as research.

The Contemporary Performance & Composition module operates through an interactive web forum, the ICMUS Hub (http://icmus.ath.cx), where music and discussion by students (undergraduate and postgraduate) can be accessed by the general public. The concept of the Hub was developed by Will and PhD student Paul Bell, and was designed and built by Brendan Ratliff. It was funded by the University's Enterprise Centre.

William also posts blogs on the ICMuS Hub that are supplementary texts to essay (historical & cultural) modules such as Roots of Hip Hop and related subject areas.