Ran workshops at the Creative Music Festival at Lake Biwa (August 17-18),
and at the Japan Women's University in Tokyo on Sunday, August 26th,
and gave a live vocal performance, and presented Globalalia and Imago at Monnaka-Tenjo Hall, Tokyo on Monday, August 27th.

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Angel was be broadcast as part of the ARTRADIO project being staged at the Cornerhouse
in Manchester in the period June 30th - August 6th.

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The 2006 re-staging of the 1970's environmental event Beach Singularity
for the Sonic Arts Network Expo in Scarborough,
was taken on a mini-tour during the 2007 Summer holiday season.
(holiday snaps at Sonic Arts Network).

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Angel, a commission for last year's Deep Wireless Festival in Toronto, formed the middle movement of a large 3-part work,
Fabulous Paris, a virtual oratorio premiered in Toronto in the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art 2007 in August,
where Trevor Wishart and Barry Truax were composers-in-residence .

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Angel was performed in the opening concert of the Futura Festival
(Festival Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc Rousillon) in Crest, France on August 17th.

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American Tripytch was performed in the 5 + 1 Festival
in Berlin on September 23rd.

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Featured composer at this year's
Ai-maako Festival of electro-acoustic music organised by CECH
(the Chilean Electro-Acoustic Community), presenting concerts of his works, workshops for students
and a talk at the Chilean-British Cultural Institute of Santiago.

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A featured composer at this year's Visiones Sonoras 2007 festival in Mexico City and Morelia
between November 22 and November 29.
Taken ill, en route, and unable to appear.

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Vox 5 performed at a concert of pioneering computer music works
in the Close Encounters Festival at the Marjanishvili-Theater in Tbilisi, Georgia on October 18th, 2007.

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Workshop at Lanus University in Buenos Aires on October 19th.

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Keynote speaker at the Trondheim International Voice Conference held at
the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (NTNU) during the period November 8-11.

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Talk at the Sheffield University Music Studio on Wednesday December 5th.

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Concert of his electro-acoustic music, with a live vocal performance
at De Nieuwe Reeks in Leuven on December 13th.

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COMPLETED PROJECTS 2008
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February 2008 issue of The Wire
reviewed the newly released Machine CD

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Presentation at the London College of Communication on January 18th, 2008.

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Performance of Globalalia at the Culture Lab
at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne on February 19th, 2008.

The performance was repeated at the Durham Music Rooms
on February 20th, 2008.

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Globalalia was performed as part of the
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's IRCAM concert (including works by Jonathan Harvey and Karlheinz Stockhausen)
at City Hall, Glasgow on Saturday April 12th, 2008.

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Invited to give the Barwick Colloquim at Harvard University on April 22nd, 2008.

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Participated in the Music Technology Incubator at McGill University, Montreal in April, 2008.

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The Division of Labour and Angel were performed as part of
Leeds College of Music's n.one-6 concert in the BBC building, Leeds on Friday May 16th, 2008.

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Vox 5 was performed as part of the
Inventionen Festival at TU Berlin on Saturday August 3rd
. Plus a presentation on new signal processing and sound organisation options in the Sound Loom
as part of the SMC08 conference, also being held at TU Berlin.

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Keynote speech at this year's International Computer Music Conference
held at Queens University, Belfast in late August.

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Diffused Imago as part of the
Diffusion Festival and International Competition at the University of Limerick in late September

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Angel was performed on the BEAST sound diffusion system, as part of a concert to celebrate the
60th Anniversary of Musique Concrete at the Barber Concert Hall, University of Birmingham on Sunday October 5th.

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Talk at Staffordshire University
in Stafford on October 29, 2008.

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Memories Of Madrid was performed at the 5th Ciclo de Musica Contemporanea
in Seville in late November, alongside a presentation at the
2nd International Congress of Music and Contemporary Technology

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Performance of Imago at ZKM in Karlsruhe
on November 28 followed by the Giga-hertz Prize award ceremony on November 29th.
( on-line interview).

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Performance of Red Bird at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris on December 4th
as part of the Revolution 7 all-day event organised by MOTUS.
The piece will be diffused on the acousmonium at 20h30 by Jonathan Prager.

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COMPLETED PROJECTS 2009
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Tongues of Fire was performed at a
concert of British electronic music in the Chamber Hall of the
Spanish National Auditoruim in Madrid on February 4th.

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Globalalia and the live-vocal Vocalise
were performed at Judson Church in New York on February 27th
as part of a week of events focusing on Voice and Technology organised by the Electronic Music Foundation.
Lecture presentations also, at Manhattan School of Music and New York University.

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Anticredos was performed by a newly formed vocal ensemble
and Trevor Wishart participated in improvised music sets
at Tou Scene in Stavanger on April 19th.

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Facets and Siren from Two Women
were presented as part of Talk Show at the I.C.A. in London, as part of this year's
School of Sound on May 16th.

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Performance of Red Bird in the Salon of the new Melbourne Recital Centre
on May 23 as part of the electroacoustic concert series to mark the opening of the Centre.

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Stentor from Two Women was performed as part of the Music Marathon
at the Durham Music Rooms on June 24th, 2009.

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Keynote speaker at 6th Biennial Conference on Music Since 1900
at Keele University, UK in July 2009 with
Performances of American Triptych and Imago on July 2nd.

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Globalalia was be diffused by the composer
in the concert series organised by the London Sinfonietta at Kings Place in London
on Saturday October 3rd 2009.

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Presentation at Music and Emotion Conference
at Durham University between August 31st and September 3rd.

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Live vocal improvisation in the Festival Bruits de Bouche
at the Pompidou Centre, Paris on Saturday October 24th 2009.

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Imago and Globalalia were diffused by the composer
in a Concert Portrait event as part of the
XVIth International Acousmatic Festival L'Espace du Son'
in Brussels on Sunday October 25th 2009.

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Live Vocal performance and Globalalia at Colour Out of Space
Festival in Brighton, over the weekend of October 31st, 2009.

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Live Diffusion of Globalalia and American Triptych by the composer at the Soundings Festival
at the Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh, on November 6th, 2009.

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Angel (the 2nd movement of Fabulous Paris)
was performed in the 11pm concert on Saturday, November 28th
at the Festival of Silence in Bari, Italy.

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VOX 5 and other works by the composer
were presented as part of a series of events to celebrate the
50th anniversary of the Electronic Music Studio at the Mozarteum
in Salzburg between December 11 and 13, 2009, where Trevor Wishart gave a talk.

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VOX 5, in the original 4-channel version,
was presented in a concert of seminal electro-acoustic works by
DEGEM at a concert in Koln in early December.

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COMPLETED PROJECTS 2010
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PERFORMANCES

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Two Women and Globalalia were performed at a concert
in the Jacqueline du Pres Concert Hall, St. Hilda's College, Oxford,
on February 5th, 2010.

Vox 5, in the original 4-channel version,
the 2nd movement of Two Women and the recently completed
Encounters in the Republic of Heaven: Act 1
were performed in a concert at the Oxford University Faculty of Music
on Thursday October 21st.

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Performance of Globalalia as part of event concerning
Artistic Practises with the Spoken Word at the
Tate Modern, in London on February 6th, 2010.

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Live Vocal Vocalise, and Globalalia
were performed at the Sound Poetry:Vocal Night at the Loos Theatre
in The Hague, Holland, on Sunday 16th of May, 2010.

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The Division of Labour (the 2nd movement of Fabulous Paris)
was performed in the Audiovisual Arts Festival organised by the
Ionian University Electro-Acoustic Music Research Laboratory at
St George's Church, the Old Fortress, Corfu on Wednesday May 26th 2010.

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Musicon presented a "pre-premiere" of Acts 1 and 2
of the new 8-channel piece Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
(based on recordings of speech collected in the North East of England)
at a lunchtime Concert at the Durham University Concert Hall
on June 3, 2010.

Part of the same piece was also played at the Cosmopoetics Conference in Durham
on September 10th, 2010.

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Act 1 of the new 4 Act work, Encounters in the Republic of Heaven,
was premiered as part of the Inventionen Festival in Berlin on July 31st, 2010.

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Globalalia and Vocalise, were performed by the composer in Mexico

at the Main Auditorium of the University of Guanajuato in Guanajuato
on August 25th, 2010.
at the Centro Mexicana para la Musica y Las Artes Sonoras
in Morelia, Michuacan, on August 26th, 2010.

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Fabulous Paris was played as part of the
Action Field Kodra Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece starting on September 3rd, 2010.

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Trevor Wishart performed live (Vocalise)
and diffused American Triptych at the Sotto Voce Festival
in Cafe OTO, in London on September 12th, 2010.

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Globalalia and the live Vocal Improvisation Vocalise
were performed at the Fondazione Cini in Venice on October 10th, 2010.

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Encounters in the Republic of Heaven: Act 1 was performed
in the 9pm Concert at the CBSO Recital Hall in Birmingham
on Saturday, October 16th, as part of the States of Play Festival.

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Performances of Anticredos and Two Women at
the Ohren Blicke Festival in Bremen, on November 13th, 2010
and broadcast on Nordwestradio.

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The Halcyon Ensemble, in collaboration with AustraLYSIS, performed VOX 2
in the event Atmospheres ... electro-acoustic adventures
at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia, on December 15th, 2010.

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TALKS & WORKSHOPS 2010

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Talk at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
in Cardiff on February 12th, 2010.

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Master Class at the Faculty of Music, Oxford University
on March 12th, 2010.

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Talk at the Leeds College of Music
on March 25th, 2010.

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Lecture presentation at the University of Middlesex,in London
on Wednesday, May 5th.

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Invited international guest speaker at the Colloquium on
"Procesos creativos con ciencia en el arte sonoro" held at the Centro Multimedia of the
Centro Nacional para la Cultura y les Artes in Mexico City on August 27th 2010.

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The Institute for Living Voice
at the Fondazione Cini in Venice Between 7th and 10th of October, 2010,
featured 4 workshops by the composer, and a panel discussions at the Fondazione Buziol

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Vocal workshop with the Oxford Improvisers Group
in the Jacqueline du Pres Hall on Sunday November 7th, 2010,

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COMPLETED PROJECTS 2011
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PERFORMANCES

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Act 1 of Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
was presented by Folkmar Hein in the Hall of the Kunsthochschule f�r Medien, K�ln
on April 14th as part of the Nocturne concert series,
an invitation by Martin Rumori, with the support of Anthony Moore.

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The Premiere of the complete 4-act version of Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
took place at The SAGE, Gateshead on Wednesday May 4th, 2011.

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Introductory talk about Encounters
followed by a performance of Globalalia
at City University on Tuesday May 10th, 2011.

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The Irish Premiere of the complete Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
took place in the Irish Chamber Orchestra Hall,
as part of the launch of the Digital Media and Arts Research Centre, Limerick
on Thursday May 12th, 2011.

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The London Premiere of the complete Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
took place at King's Place on Monday May 16th, 2011.

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Encounters in the Republic of Heaven was performed at the
Jacqueline du Pres Concert Hall, St Hilda's College, Oxford on Wednesday June 1st 2011.

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Encounters in the Republic of Heaven was performed in the Eco Centre
as part of the Cockermouth Midsummer Festival on June 24th, 2011.

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Performance of VOX 5
at ACOUSmain 19 in the Vortragssaal of the ATELIERFRANKFURT
in Frankfurt on July 21, 2011, presented by Folkmar Hein.

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Broadcast of Globalalia on Hear and Now : BBC Radio 3
on September 24th, 2011.

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Performance of Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
at the International Electronic Art and Video Festival TRANSITIO_MX_04
in Mexico City on October 6th, 2011,
plus workshop on the Sound Loom/CDP software,
and participation in International Panel on Technological Arts.

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Transformed Voices, concert of Trevor Wishart's
electro-acoustic music (American Triptych and The Division of Labour)
and live-improvised vocal Vocalise at the Alte Schmeide, Vienna,
on October 14, 2011, with a lecture presentation at the
University of Music and the Performing Arts earlier in the day.

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Performance of Act 1 of Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
and Anticredos by Song Circus in Bergen, Norway
on Monday October 17, 2011
followed by a talk by the composer at the Grieg Academy on October 18.

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Performance of Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
in the Audiorama, Stockholm
on Saturday October 22, 2011 as part of the Sound of Stockholm Festival,
with a talk at the Kungliga Musikhogskolan on Thursday October 20.

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Performance of Tongues of Fire at the
Festival of Contemporary Music in Cagliari, Sardinia
on Saturday, October 29 2011.

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Performance of Act 1 of Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
at Musikhochschule, Freiburg, on Thursday, November 3rd 2011.

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Performance of Globalalia (Thursday, November 17th 2011),
and Encounters in the Republic of Heaven (Friday, November 18th 2011)
at the Institute of Sonology, Royal College of Music
in The Hague.

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Performance of Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
at DIEM, Danish Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, on Thursday, December 8th 2011.

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OTHER TALKS & PRESENTATIONS

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Talk about Encounters at the London College of Communication
on Wednesday, February 9th 2011.

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Talk on Encounters at the York University Music Dept
on March 8th 2011.

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Chaired the opening session of the Digital Opera Symposium at the University of York on May 9th 2011.

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Talk on Encounters at the Leeds College of Music
on May 26th 2011.

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2011 North East Tour: presenting extracts from
Encounters in the Republic of Heaven on an 8-channel sound-system.

Feb 11 Bradbury Centre of Age UK, Sunderland.
Mar 1 Ryton Comprehensive School, Ryton, Tyne and Wear.
Mar 28 Our Lady Primary School, Esh Winning, County Durham.
Mar 28 St Joseph's Primary School, Ushaw Moor, County Durham.
Mar 29 Wearhead Primary School, Wearhead, County Durham.
Mar 30 Greenfield School, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.
Apr 3 Witham Hall, Barnard Castle, County Durham.
Apr 30 Morpeth Gathering, Morpeth, Northumberland.

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RESIDENCIES

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Artist in Residence at the University of Oxford
supported by the Leverhulme Trust,
exploring potential links between Music, Science and Mathematics.

Plumer Research Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford during the Autumn term, 2011.

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