Pete Stollery

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Residence Monymusk, Scotland Name Pete Stollery Nationality British Role Composer		Occupation Composer and academic Website petestollery.com

Born 24 July 1960 (age 64) ( 1960-07-24 ) Halifax, West Yorkshire Alma mater University of Birmingham Similar People Jonty Harrison, Simon Emmerson, Gilles Gobeil, Francis Dhomont, Adrian Moore
Education University of Birmingham

Pete stollery

Pete Stollery (born 24 July 1960 in Halifax, UK) is a British composer, specialising in electroacoustic music.

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.

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.

Sound festival pete stollery interview

Activities

He chaired the Sonic Arts Network 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 DIGITALes, 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

Acousmatic/Soundscape

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 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 Mealor

Multimedia Music and Sound Design

Archaeolink (1997)

Our Dynamic Earth (1999)

Magna Science Adventure Centre (2000)

Saint Patrick Centre (2000)

Norwich Millenium Library (2001)

Benjamin Franklin House (2006)

References

Pete Stollery Wikipedia

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