Dr William Edmondes
Lecturer in Music

Introduction

William Edmondes is an improvisor and composer working with recorded media, digital sequencing, guitar, Gameboys 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.

Roles and Responsibilities

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

Research Interests

Composition and 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)
Randy Wormhole - duo with John Ferguson
Wormhole - trio with John Ferguson & Bennett Hogg

Edmondes' work is published online at
UBUWEB (www.ubu.com/sound/edmondez.html)
FMA (freemusicarchive.org/label/Kakutopia/)
Video posts can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/users/prducer
http://www.vimeo.com/gwillyedmondez
http://www.kakutopia.com
Gwilly Edmondez also has a weekly radio show (Mondays 19.30-20.30) on Culture Lab Radio called 'Make Property History' (culturelabradio.ncl.ac.uk/)

Other Expertise

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

Postgraduate Supervision

Masters: Kieran Rafferty; Alex Campbell; Greg Kelly; Ioannis Koutlas; Ian Gibb; Rob Blazey; Craig Pollard; Beryl Van Niekirk; Rhodri Davies; Daniel Dixon.
PhD: Mark Self; Kitty Porteous; Merrie Snell; Vera Brozzoni; Charlie Bramley; Hannabiell Sanders; Nate Shaw; John MacLean; Mick Wright.

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, and leads the postgraduate module Improvisation For Creative Practice.

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.