Simon Emmerson (electroacoustic musician)

Simon Emmerson is an electroacoustic music composer working mostly with live electronics. He was born in Wolverhampton, UK, on the 15 September 1950.

Since November 2004 Simon Emmerson has been Professor in Music Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester, following twenty eight years as Director of the Electroacoustic Music studios at City University, London. His catalogue now spans thirty five years, including commissions for Intermodulation, Singcircle, Option Band, Lontano, Jane Manning, Philip Mead, Jane Chapman amongst many others. He has also completed purely electroacoustic commissions from the IMEB (Bourges) and the GRM (Paris). He was a first prize winner at the Bourges Electroacoustic Awards in 1985 for his work "Time Past IV" (soprano and tape). He contributed to and edited "The Language of Electroacoustic Music" in 1986 (still in print) and "Music, Electronic Media and Culture" (Ashgate, 2000). His book "Living Electronic Music" was published by Ashgate in 2007. He was founder Secretary of EMAS (The Electroacoustic Music Association of Great Britain) in 1979, and served on the Board of Sonic Arts Network from its inception until 2004.

Recordings

* "Dreams, Memories and Landscapes" (Continuum CCD1056) (1993)

* "Spaces and Places" (Sargasso SCD28055) (2007)

* "Points and Pathways" (Sargasso SCD28059) (2008)

Publications

* "The Language of Electroacoustic Music" (editor and contributor) (Macmillan, 1986 now Macmillan-Palgrave)

* "Music, Electronic Media and Culture" (editor and contributor) (Ashgate, 2000)

* "Living Electronic Music" (Ashgate, 2007)

Selected Works

* "Spirit of '76" (flute, accelerating delay) (1976)

* "Ophelia's Dream" (voices, live electronics) (1978-79)

* "Time Past IV" (soprano, electroacoustic sound) (1984)

* "Piano Piece IV" (piano, electroacoustic sound) (1985)

* "Shades (of Night and Day)" (piano, live electronics) (1989)

* "Pathways" (flute, cello, sitar, tablas, keyboard, electronics) (1989)

* "Sentences" (soprano, live electronics) (1991)

* "Points of Departure" (harpsichord, live electronics) (1993)

* "Points of Continuation" (electroacoustic sound) (1997)

* "Points of Return" (kayagum, live electronics) (1998)

* "Time-Space" (baroque flute, harpsichord, live electronics) (2001)

* "Fields of Attraction" (string quartet, live electronics) (1997)

* "Frictions" (electroacoustic sound) (1999)

* "Five Spaces" (electric cello, sound projection) (1999)

* "Arenas" (piano, brass quintet, live electronics) (2003)

* "Resonances" (electroacoustic sound) (2007)