Professor Peter Stollery
BMus(Hons), MA, PGCE, PhD, FRSA
Chair in Music
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Room 011 School of Education University of Aberdeen MacRobert Building King's College Aberdeen AB24 5UA
Biography
Pete Stollery, BMus(Hons), MA, PGCE, PhD is Professor of Electroacoustic Music and Composition. He studied at the University of Birmingham with Jonty Harrison and was a founding member of BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre). His compositions are performed around the world at major festivals and conferences and most works are available on CD. A solo DVD-A (Un Son Peut En Cacher Un Autre) was released in 2006 on empreintes DIGITALes, Montreal and a further CD published in 2011 (Scenes). He is also passionate about education and working with young and emerging composers.
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Research Overview
When I first became involved in electroacoustic music, I was fascinated with the way that technology could allow the composer to work directly with sound, in a similar way to a sculptor or potter working with his/her materials. The ability to manipulate material at this basic level is, of course, a central aspect of my music for tape alone, which falls aesthetically very much within the traditions of the musique concrète and acousmatic music of France and Québec. This can be seen most obviously from later pieces which are concerned with the interplay between the “meanings” associated with sounds and these sounds as pure sonic material, divorced from any mimetic connotation. My music involving live performers also uses these ideas, particularly during the creation and subsequent development of materials and structures within the compositional process - a vocal or instrumental gesture might be generated through improvisatory techniques, much in the same way as I might improvise with sound transformations in a studio environment.
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Three Types of Engagement with Place Through Acousmatic Listening and Composition
Taking Part in Music. Russell, I., Ingram, C. (eds.). University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Institute, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersLost Princes
Non-textual Forms: CompositionsDiverse Tremblings
Non-textual Forms: CompositionsThree Cities
Non-textual Forms: Compositionscrossing_bergen
Non-textual Forms: CompositionsRelationships Between Vocal Structures, the Airway, and Craniocervical Posture Investigated Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Journal of Voice, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 102-109Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Effects of Humming and Pitch on Craniofacial and Craniocervical Morphology Measured Using MRI
Journal of Voice, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 90-101Contributions to Journals: Articles74 Degrees North: Full Opera Score
Non-textual Forms: CompositionsScènes
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual Products74 Degrees North
Non-textual Forms: Compositions