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Brian Bridges
Lecturer in Creative Arts/Creative Technology
School of Creative ArtsUniversity of Ulster
Northland Road
Londonderry BT48 7JL
Education:
- Completing PhD at Music Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
- MPhil in Music and Media Technologies, Trinity College Dublin, 2003
- BA in Music and English, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2001
Subjects:
Programmes:
- BA Hons Creative Technologies (CT)
- Module Co-ordinator - Interactive Systems 3 Module Co-ordinator - Project 2a: Theory/Practice Module Co-ordinator - Electroacoustic Composition and Sound Design Technologies Module Co-ordinator - Digital Content Production (Audio) Module Co-ordinator - Form, Perception and Cognition Module Co-ordinator - Project 1 Module Co-ordinator - Project 2b: Theory/Practice Module Co-ordinator - Interactive Systems 1
- BMus Hons Music (Music)
- Module Co-ordinator - Interactive Music Systems Module Co-ordinator - Electroacoustic Composition and Sound Design Technologies Module Co-ordinator - Desktop Audio Production 2 Module Co-ordinator - Desktop Audio Production 1
- MMus Master of Music (Music)
- Supervisor - Major Project Lecturer - Specialism 1 Supervisor - Minor Project 2: Music Lecturer - Specialism 2 Supervisor - Minor Project 1: Music
Biography:
Brian Bridges is an experimental composer whose work spans the fields of spatial sound-based installations, audiovisual pieces and electroacoustic and instrumental music. A particular focus for his work is the interaction between theories of auditory perception and microtonal composition.
His pieces have been programmed at festivals and events in the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Cuba, China and Ecuador. He has undertaken composition studies in Ireland with Donnacha Dennehy, Roger Doyle and Jürgen Simpson (Trinity College Dublin) and Victor Lazzarini (Maynooth), in addition to private studies in the US with Glenn Branca and Tony Conrad.
Brian is a founder-member of the Dublin-based Spatial Music Collective, a group supporting the performance of new electroacoustic and mixed-media works by Irish and international composers.
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Research:
Upcoming/recent concerts:
A Space for Tension (erhu, 2 violins, electronics) perfomed by TiMi Ensemble at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music as part of the Beijing Irish Festival, March 2012
Conduit (multichannel tape) Spatial Music Collective at SARC, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, January 2012
Compositions and installations:
A Space for Tension (erhu, 2 violins, electronics) perfomed by TiMi Ensemble at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music as part of Beijing Irish Festival, March 2012
Collapsing Old Buildings (multichannel site-specific sound installation), commissioned by the Contemporary Music Centre(CMC) for Dublin Culture Night 2011/CMC 25th Anniversary, September 2011
Making Ghosts from Empty Landscapes (pipa, erhu, uillean pipes, 2 violins, electronics), perfomed by TiMi Ensemble at La Plantation, Beijing, March 2010
Spectral Spaces (multichannel sound installation), commissioned by the Contemporary Music Centre (CMC), for Dublin Culture Night 2009, September 2009
The River Sings (sound design and software design for collaborative mixed-media piece); collaboration with Paul Moore (installation), composition by Frank Lyons, performed by countertenor Mark Chambers, hardware systems by Greg O’Hanlon), Void Gallery, Derry, City of Song Festival, September 2009
Conduit (multichannel tape), Spatial Music Collective 8.4, National Concert Hall, Dublin, June 2009; Spatial Music Collective Retrospective Dublin Fringe Festival, CHQ Building, September 2009; Spatial Music Collective presents the Dublin Guitar Quartet, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, August 2010; Spatial Music Collective at SARC, QUB, January 2012
Conference papers:
‘Can Sound Function in Music?’ Society for Musicology in Ireland annual conference, University of Ulster, May 2010
‘Can Harmony be Non-Linear? a response to some of Glenn Branca’s ‘25 Questions’’ Society for Musicology in Ireland annual conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, May 2008
'Product of Culture-Clash: the Theatre of Eternal Music and the early New York Downtown Scene', Irish Association for American Studies annual conference, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, April 2008
Guest lectures:
'Microtones/Macro-scale: Microtonal Composition and Perception': Beijing Central Conservatory of Music (Composition Department), March 2012
'Collapsing Musical Scale(s): Microtonal Music in Theory and Practice', MPhil in Music and Media Technologies, Trinity College Dublin, December 2011
'Between Notes and Noise: Microtonal Composition': Beijing Central Conservatory of Music (China Electro-Acoustic Music Centre) and Peking University (MA in Digital Media), March 2010
'Composing Angels at the Shotgun Wedding', MA/MSc in Music Technology, University of Limerick, April 2008
Research Interests:
Composition and Creative Applications of Technology - Electroacoustic, Microtonal, Intermedia Composition
Sound-based Installations, Auditory Perception and Music Cognition, American Experimental Music
