Staff Profile

My research explores the aesthetic and affective mechanics of sound recording/music production and the artistic agency of the producer (and, particularly, the composer-producer) through multi-disciplinary, contextually-situated professional practice. I am particularly interested in the academic study of record production and cinema sound design.

In 2020 I completed my AHRC-funded PhD thesis under the supervision of Dr. Will Edmondes and Dr. Bennett Hogg, and have 8 years of teaching experience in composition and music production. This year, I have worked in the role of Lecturer in Composition, and have acted as module leader for MUS2018: Contemporary Musical Materials in addition to my teaching contributions to MUS1005/1015: Recording/Composing in the Music Studio and MUS2059: Contemporary Studio Practice.

I remain active as a practicing composer, producer and sound designer. In addition to my solo work with electric guitar and modular synthesizer, I lead the experimental big-band project Midnight Doctors, which has been featured several times on BBC Radio 6 Music. I have worked on internationally recognised collaborative film and video art projects as sound designer and composer, and have significant professional experience as a producer for artists including Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies, John Butcher and Cath & Phil Tyler.

Selected releases, installations, publications, presentations:

2020 – Torch Song– Audiovisual piece premiered at Tusk Festival

2017 – Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt – Works II & III(with Gareth Hudson), Globe Gallery, Newcastle

2016 – Subjectivities of Realism and the Representation of Performance in Recorded Music, Paper presented at the 11th Art of Record Production Conference, Aalborg University, Denmark

2016 – Midnight Doctors – Through A Screen and Into a Hole (CD, ourodisc) 

2016 – Lunar Mare– The Late Shows, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead

Studio composition for collaborative poem-film with AHRC-funded poet Joanne Clement. 

2015 – CAMREX(directed by Mark Chapman)

Audio post-production including sound design, mixing, foley and editing for a multiple award winning short film which has been screened at over 40 international film festivals. The film was also nominated for the AHRC Research in Film awards.

2014 – Shiver the Flowers Like Fear– Sound installation for Decoded 1914-1918WW1 centenary events, commissioned by Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums and NICAP.

2013 – Midnight Doctors – s/t(LP & CD, alt.vinyl, ourodisc).

2012 – Light Years– Sound12 Festival, Sage Gateshead
5.1 surround sound installation.

2012 – Hapsburg Braganza - Recurring Dreams(2xLP, alt.vinyl)

MUS2018 Contemporary Musical Materials - Module Leader

MUS1010 - Studio Production - Lecturer

MUS2059 Contemporary Music Practice 2 - Teaching Assistant

MUS3012/3016 Major/Minor Specialist Study Composition - Supervisor

MUS3013 Major Specialist Study Dissertation - Supervisor