People
Martin Parker
Senior Lecturer in Sound Design
Email: martin.parker@ed.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2333
Location:
Room G.02, Alison House, 12 Nicolson Square, EH8 9DFOutline Biography
A composer, improviser and soloist with laptop, Martin’s work focuses on encounters between computers, people and places. Based in Edinburgh, he has performed and collaborated internationally with theatre companies, symphony orchestras, visual artists and ensembles; recent projects include ‘Songs for an airless room’, an'opera' for cinemas and Man High a collaborative audiovisual work that responds to footage from Joseph Kittinger's 1960 parachute jump from the edge of space.
Martin has been Artistic Director of Edinburgh’s Dialogues Festival www.dialogues-festival.org for 10 years and is one third of free improvisation trio Lapslap www.lapslap.net.
Martin studied composition at the University of Manchester and completed a Ph.D in Composition at the University of Edinburgh in 2003. He is Academic Director of the University of Edinburgh’s MSc in Sound Design: sd.caad.ed.ac.uk/mscsounddesign
Some of his music is available on Ein Klang records; www.einklangrecords.com and www.leorecords.com.
Research Interests
composition, free improvsiation, live performance with computers, sonic arts, sound design, sound spatialisation, sound installation
Research activity
for a list of research students, please visit; http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art/music/staff/academic-staff?person_id=79&cw_xml=supervision.php
Publications
Publications list for Martin Parker
Teaching
- Sound Design Media ARCH11008
- Sonic Structures ARCH11009
- Interactive Sound Environments ARCH11010
- Sound and Fixed Media ARCH11011
- Digital Media Studio Project ARCH11006
- Sound Design Final Project ARCH11012
- Programme Director, MSc Sound Design
- Sound Design Programme handbook online.
Keywords
- Digital media
This article was published on Jul 14, 2011