Who's who
Dr David Prior
Associate Professor
BA (Wales) PhD (Birmingham)
The Digital Economy Research Centre
Keywords: Sound Studies; Acousmatic Music; Music Production; Sound Art; Sound Design
Research interests
My research is focused on the relationship between sound and space. My background as an electroacoustic composer strongly informs this theme and I continue to create pieces for instruments, fixed media and live electronics, which explore the use of space as a fundamental parameter of the composition. Recent work in this area has concentrated on binaural, headphone-based pieces as well as multi-channel performances and installations for a variety of formats including ambisonics. Current work also includes the exploration of the direct manipulation of acoustics as a means of composition.
Recent outputs
2010 Tranquillity is a State of Mind. Presentation of Wellcome Trust funded liminal project. Arup Acoustics, London
2009 Black Water Brown Water (Book and CD). Acts of Language. ISBN 978-0-9561844-4-3; Commissioned by British Waterways/ Stourport Regeneration. Permanent headphone piece, broadcast on RADIA (network of 18 international radio stations and selected for high-light of the year, December 2008). Subsequently published by Acts of Language (see publication details above).
Other Spaces (2009) - for solo piano. Commissioned by Catherine Laws. Funded by PRS Foundation. Performances 2009/10 - The Sherwell Centre, Plymouth, The Warehouse, London, ICIA, Bath, UCF, Dartington Campus, York Spring Festival of New Music.
Other Places (2009) - Eight Channel acousmatic piece. Commissioned by Lunapark Ensemble. Performances 2009/10 - November Days, Den Borsch, Musikgebau, de Doelen, Rotterdam.
Prior, David (2008) ‘A Space for Sound: The Rise, Fall and Fallout of the Concert Hall as a Primary Space for Listening' In Ripley, Colin, Polo, Marco and Wrigglesworth, Arthur (Eds) In The Place of Sound: Architecture | Music | Acoustics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9-781847-183-750
Current research / forthcoming outputs
2011 Sound designer for Heartlands mine development, Pool, Cornwall.
2010 Tranquillity is a State of Mind. Multi-disciplinary research team coordinated by liminal (Frances Crow and David Prior), in partnership with Sustrans, funded by the Wellcome Trust
Membership of learned societies, subject associations
International Computer Music Association
Editorial Boards (or equivalent):
Partner: liminal; Director: Sound Art Radio
Supervision
I am currently supervising five research students and have supervised to completion three PhD candidates. I have examined two PhD candidates and one MPhil candidate.
I am particularly interested in supervising research in the following area(s) :
Sound in culture; the history and influence of sound recording; acousmatic music and its legacy; sound art and design
Other matters of research interest
I am a partner in liminal, a practice which explores the relationship between sound and space. Liminal's The Organ of Corti has been short-listed for the PRS Foundation New Music Award.
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