Pete Stollery
Encyclopedia
Pete Stollery is a British composer, specialising in electroacoustic music
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Stollery studied with Jonty Harrison
at the University of Birmingham
from 1979–96, and is currently Professor in Composition and Electroacoustic Music at the University of Aberdeen
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His work Shortstuff was awarded a Special Prize at the Musica Nova competition in Prague in 1994. Onset/Offset has received honorable mentions at the 1996 Stockholm Electronic Arts Award and the 1998 Pierre Schaeffer competition. Altered Images received Second Prize in the São Paulo competition in 1997. His music was featured at the ISCM World Music Days in Germany in 1995.
In 2008, Stollery's scènes, rendez-vous was featured at the Signal & Noise festival in Vancouver and at the sound festival in Aberdeenshire.
from 1985 to 2003 and edits its annual Journal of Electroacoustic Music. He is a founder member of invisiblEARts, a group of sound artists based in Scotland, also including Simon Atkinson, Robert Dow, Alistair MacDonald, Pippa Murphy, Nick Virgo and Pete Dowling.
Stollery is one of the founders of the Sound Festival in the north-east of Scotland, a month-long festival of new music.
Compilation Recordings
Internet
/Soundscape
Electroacoustic
with instruments/voices
Multimedia
Music and Sound Design
Electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music during its modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition during the mid-20th century are associated with the activities of composers...
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Stollery studied with Jonty Harrison
Jonty Harrison
Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic music composer born April 27, 1952 in Scunthorpe, UK, and currently living in Birmingham, UK.Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic music composer born April 27, 1952 in Scunthorpe, UK, and currently living in Birmingham, UK.Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic...
at the University of Birmingham
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
from 1979–96, and is currently Professor in Composition and Electroacoustic Music at the University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen, an ancient university founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a British university. It is the third oldest university in Scotland, and the fifth oldest in the United Kingdom and wider English-speaking world...
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His work Shortstuff was awarded a Special Prize at the Musica Nova competition in Prague in 1994. Onset/Offset has received honorable mentions at the 1996 Stockholm Electronic Arts Award and the 1998 Pierre Schaeffer competition. Altered Images received Second Prize in the São Paulo competition in 1997. His music was featured at the ISCM World Music Days in Germany in 1995.
In 2008, Stollery's scènes, rendez-vous was featured at the Signal & Noise festival in Vancouver and at the sound festival in Aberdeenshire.
Activities
He chaired the Sonic Arts NetworkSonic Arts Network
Sonic Arts Network was a UK-based organisation, established in 1979, that aimed to enable both audiences and practitioners to engage with the art of sound through a programme of festivals, events, commissions and education projects...
from 1985 to 2003 and edits its annual Journal of Electroacoustic Music. He is a founder member of invisiblEARts, a group of sound artists based in Scotland, also including Simon Atkinson, Robert Dow, Alistair MacDonald, Pippa Murphy, Nick Virgo and Pete Dowling.
Stollery is one of the founders of the Sound Festival in the north-east of Scotland, a month-long festival of new music.
Recordings
Solo Recordings- Un son peut en cacher un autre (empreintes DIGITALesEmpreintes DIGITALesempreintes DIGITALes is a record label founded in 1990 and based in Montreal which specialises in contemporary electroacoustic music, acousmatic and musique concrète.In 2005, empreintes DIGITALes shifted from CD to DVD-Audio.- Composers :* Mathew Adkins...
, IMED 0678, 2006)
Compilation Recordings
- Une Production Acousmatica (Acousmatica, CD1296, 1996) - Shioum
- Maximal Music 4 (PanAroma, CD199.003.658, 1998) - Altered Images
- 50 ans de Musique Concrète (Acousmatica, CD1298, 1998) - Onset/Offset
- Electroacoustic Music 3 (Electroshock, ELCD010, 1999) - Onset/Offset
- Electroacoustic Music 6 (Electroshock, ELCD020, 2000) - Peel
- Sonic Art from... (MPS, MPSCD013, 1999) - ABZ/A, Shortstuff
- Legacies (Sargasso, SCD28046, 2003) - Onset/Offset, Altered Images
- Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Vol 1 (EMF, EMF131, 2003) - Squirt (Griffin Campbell, alto saxophone)
- You Are Here (Accidental Records, ac07 cd, 2003) - Onset/Offset
- Vibro 3 - The Citizen Band Issue (Avence Double Entendre, 2005) - Serendipities an Synchronicities
- Drift: Resonant Cities (New Media Scotland, 2007) - ABZ/A
- Deep Wireless 6 (New Adventures in Sound Art, 2009) - Still Voices
Internet
- Far Afield; A Webbed Hand Compilation (Webbed Hand Records, Webbed Hand 055, 2005) - Banchory Ears
- Football Sound Narratives (Binauralmedia.org, Nodar 001, 2010) - Back to Square One
List of works
AcousmaticAcousmatic
Acousmatic sound is sound one hears without seeing an originating cause. The word acousmatic, from the French acousmatique, is derived from ἀκουσματικοί akousmatikoi, a term used to refer to probationary pupils of the philosopher Pythagoras who, so that they might better concentrate on his...
/Soundscape
Soundscape
A soundscape is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment. The study of soundscape is the subject of acoustic ecology...
- Cloches (1987)
- Shortstuff (1993)
- Shioum (1994)
- Altered Images (1995)
- Onset/Offset (1996)
- Peel (1997)
- ABZ/A (1998)
- Vox Magna (2003)
- Banchory Ears (2004)
- Serendipities and Synchronicities (2004)
- Fields of Silence (2005)
- Still Voices (2005)
- Scènes, rendez-vous (2006)
- Back to Square One (2007)
Electroacoustic
Electroacoustic
The term "Electroacoustic" can refer to any of the following:* Electric acoustic guitar – A type of guitar.* Electroacoustic music – A variety of experimental music.* Electroacoustic phenomena – A reaction phenomenon studied in chemistry and physics....
with instruments/voices
- Myth (1986), for four amplified voices (SATB) and live electronics
- Faible (1987), for electric harp and live electronics
- Squirt (1994), for alto saxophone and digital music
- Thickness (2000), for flute, viola and digital music
- Planar (2006), for trumpet and digital music
- bɜ:dz (2008), for organ and digital music
- 74 Degrees North (2010), electroacoustic score for opera with Paul MealorPaul MealorPaul Mealor is a Welsh composer. Described by the New York Times as "one of the most important composers to have emerged in Welsh choral music since William Mathias", Mealor’s motets, songs and cycles have been performed, broadcast and recorded by artists around the world.-Biography:Born in St...
Multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
Music and Sound Design
Sound design
Sound design is the process of specifying, acquiring, manipulating or generating audio elements. It is employed in a variety of disciplines including filmmaking, television production, theatre, sound recording and reproduction, live performance, sound art, post-production and video game software...
- Archaeolink (1997)
- Our Dynamic EarthOur Dynamic EarthOur Dynamic Earth is a science centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is a prominent visitors attraction in the city, and also functions as a conference venue. It sits in the Holyrood area, beside the Scottish Parliament building and at the foot of Arthur's Seat....
(1999) - Magna Science Adventure CentreMagna Science Adventure CentreMagna Science Adventure Centre is an educational visitor attraction, appealing primarily to children. It is located in a disused steel mill in the Templeborough district of Rotherham, England. The site is formerly home to the Steel, Peech and Tozer steel works...
(2000) - Saint Patrick Centre (2000)
- Norwich Millenium Library (2001)
- Benjamin Franklin HouseBenjamin Franklin HouseBenjamin Franklin House is a museum in a terraced house in Craven Street, London, close to Trafalgar Square. It is the only surviving former home of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. The house dates from circa 1730 and Franklin lived and worked there for sixteen...
(2006)