Clive Williamson

Clive Williamson formed the UK group Symbiosis in 1987, making ambient, soundtrack and healing music with founder-members flautist John Hackett and Richard Bolton (guitars and cello). He is a sound engineer, musician and producer with the group and as a graphic designer and photographer he also created the album covers for their releases on CD and on Apple’s iTunes.

Williamson plays keyboards, wind synthesizer, flutes and hand percussion, and occasionally provides vocals for Symbiosis. His first appearance on record was on the track "Shaving is Boring" by the UK group Hatfield and the North (1973). He wrote the introductory music for the TV series Paradise Gardens (BBC2) and in 1996 and ’97 visited New Zealand to record natural atmospheres and NZ wildlife for "AOTEAROA - Nature Sounds of New Zealand" by Symbiosis (1997).

Before starting Symbiosis, Williamson worked as a free-lance radio journalist for the BBC and Capital Radio, interviewing many artists, photographers and musicians in the late seventies including bass-player Jaco Pastorius, Frank Zappa and Brian Eno. Turning his attention to new technology, he published many articles and three books on computing: ‘Getting the most from your BBC Micro’; Getting the most from your Acorn Electron (Penguin Books); and ‘Mastering View, Viewsheet and Viewstore’ (Sigma Press). After a brief spell in TV production he moved back to radio, producing education programmes about industrial design, health, computing and sound. ('The Science of Sound' was presented by singer and actress Toyah Willcox and broadcast in the UK on Radio 4 and on the BBC World Service.) He now publishes an on-line magazine about creative uses of technology in music called ‘Digital DIY’.

Clive Williamson lives and works in West London, where the Symbiosis Music design and sound studios are based. In 2003/4, he recorded John Hackett and pianist Sally Goodworth's album "Velvet Afternoon" and designed the cover for that album and John Hackett’s later solo release: "Checking Out of London" (March 2005). In May 2005, Williamson produced the globally inspired Symbiosis album "Dancing in Your Dreams" and in 2008 he designed the cover for the John Hackett flute and guitar album "Prelude to Summer".

^[1] Symbiosis Music Website Digital DIY On-line magazine John Hackett

References

1. ^ (1) http://www.symbiosis-music.com/about_clive_williamson.html

2. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/jul96/digitaldiy.html 3. http://www.symbiosis-music.com/Recording_NZ_Nature_Sounds.html 4. http://www.symbiosis-music.com/church.html

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