Curriculum Vitae
I spent many years working as a musician before I turned my attention to the visual arts. Here is a CV with a few more facts from the last few decades!
Born in Hampshire, England. Lives in Lübeck, Germany, working as a visual artist.
1972-1976
Studied Music and Archeology at the University of Birmingham, England – Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master of Arts.
Study on the role of space in the compositional techniques of John Cage, Earle Brown and Karlheinz Stockhausen in relation to visual art of the 1950s, especially Piet Mondriaan, Jackson Pollock and Alexander Calder.
Began working as composer/performer.
1976-1979
Music Director, Birmingham Arts Laboratory, one of the multi-media, anti-establishment Arts Labs in Britain in the late 60s and 70s. Workshops with adults in Contemporary Music, Musique Concrète, computer music. These later became formalized as spielBar and everyDay Art.
In addition, concert series, film-making, visual art, publication of own compositions.
Founded Arts Lab Music Publishing for young British composers.
Built a NASCOM microcomputer, the basis of many early experiments with making digital sound.
1977
Prizewinner Gaudeamus Competition for Interpreters of New Music.
1979
Solo concerts and lecture tour as composer/performer in USA. Pedagogical work in schools.
1980-1985
Toured as soloist in Australia, USA, Europe (east and west), working with composers, improvisors, inventors, orchestras, theatre directors, dancers.
1983
Performed Trevor Wishart's Tuba Mirum at the World Music Days in Aarhus, Denmark.
1985
Community Musician in Residence, Lincoln, England.
1988-1991
Research Fellowship, Salford College of Technology, working on realtime performance techniques with tuba and live electronics.
1990
Residency at Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, beginning of work with inter-penetrating spatial layers.
1992
Residency at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe. Further work on realtime performance techniques with tuba and live electronics.
1993
Moved to Germany.
1993-2023
Member of Ensemble Musikfabrik, renowned ensemble for New Music based in Cologne, Germany https://musikfabrik.eu.
During a period of thirty years, worked - in collaboration with other members - in and at various aspects of the ensemble's activities: internal structure and communication, sound design, repertoire development, stage presentation, audience building, developing an academy for educational purposes, in particular the project called spielBar which was designed to bring the ensemble into a community context using New Music.
Ensemble tours throughout Europe, South America, USA. Cooperations with and premieres of works by numerous (hundreds!) of contemporary composers.
1996
Designed and produced – together with the choreographer Reinhild Hoffmann - an evening of music-theatre works by John Cage.
1997-2007
Member of the noise band Zeitkratzer https://www.zeitkratzer.de
2001
Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music live performances with Zeitkratzer and Lou Reed.
2008
Karlheinz Stockhausen's opera Michael's Reise with the Catalan theatre group La Fura dels Baus und Taschenoper Wien.
2011
Karlheinz Stockhausen's opera Sonntag aus Licht with Oper Köln.
2016
Harry Partch's Delusion of the Fury with Ensemble Musikfabrik and RuhrTriennale.
2016
Began painting - after a break of 45 years.
2018
Began programming digital pictures, building on experience of constructing music software.
2021
Video interpretation of John Cage’s Four6 (visual concept and direction) https://www.musikfabrik.eu/en/blog/four6/
2023
Began painting - after a break of 45 years.
2023
Performed Simon Steen-Andersen's Transit (a film, performed live) with Ensemble Musikfabrik in Aarhus, Denmark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGUWhqYqWxk&t=145s
2023
Left Ensemble Musikfabrik and moved to Lübeck, working as a visual artist (https://poore.eu).