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Senior Lecturer Music Sound and Performance, Leeds Metropolitan University United Kingdom Contributing to undergraduate and postgraduate provision, curriculum development and research. Masters level student supervision. Student pastoral support. Establishment of public workshop sessions in media/sound/image computer programming (Max/MSP/Jitter). Currently lecturing/supervising on the BA in Performance, BA Music Production, BSc Music Technology, MSc in Music Technology. Lecturer in Multimedia Arts Technology University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom. Undergraduate and postgraduate provision, curriculum development, research. In addition to delivery in media and sonic arts I worked closely with the BA in Theatre Practice, co-delivering modules in which students devised work engaging with the physicality of sound, and issues of the live and mediated performance. Graduate Teaching Assistant Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA Assisted Adjunct Professor Ron Kuivlia in the delivery of undergraduate teaching in experimental music. Graduate Student Association (G.S.A.) President Wesleyan University Planning and organization of committees, correspondence with academic staff members, curriculum development, management of budget and presiding at G.S.A. meetings Guest Lecturer Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music Group sessions on group improvisation, individual lessons, performances Director and Manager Terra Australis Saxophone Quartet and Contemporary Music Collective Managed personnel, arranged tours, venues and performances. Responsible for funding applications and payment of musicians. Australia 2000-2002 2003-2006 2007 - present

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Education
PhD candidate Coventry University Provisional thesis title: Performance seeking nothingness: a practice based exploration of pure consciousness using body, breath and sound. Thesis supervisor: Dr Sarah Whatley Baden-Wrttemberg Exchange Scholar 2002-03 Karlsruhe Hochschule fr Gestaltung and ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Conducted independent research in media arts and assisted undergraduate students in the electronic music and media arts departments. Masters in Music Composition Supervisor: Ron Kuivila. Thesis advisors: Alvin Lucier, David Behrman. This award was a component of a graduate scholarship package comprising of a teaching assistant position with full graduate tuition fee waiver valued at approximately USD$40,000 per year. Thesis: Suspending Time. An exploration of the relationship between breathing, physical action and consciousness. Wesleyan University, CT, USA Monbusho (Ministry of Education) Research Scholar Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Research Student majoring in ethnomusicology and Japanese traditional instrument performance. Bachelor of Music (saxophone performance) Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia Associate Diploma of Music Saxophone performance, Australian Music Examinations Board Certificate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Saxophone performance. Sydney Conservatorium of Music 1998-2000 2011-present

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Language study
International German Language Summer School Ruprecht-Karls-Universit Heidelberg, Germany German language programme undertaken as part of the Baden- Wrttemberg Exchange Scholarship programme. Monbusho Scholar Japanese Language programme Saitama University, Japan Japanese language programme undertaken as a pre-requisite of the Monbusho research scholarship. 2002-2003

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Workmoves Research Performance with Beth Cassani, filmmaker Andy Wood and Kingsley Ash. The workmoves project was a creative research enquiry which took place at Arup in Leeds. The project explored connections between the body and movement in the workplace, culminating in an alternative perspective on 'office choreography'. Tzlil Meudcan The International Festival & Summer Course for New Music Performance & Composition ISRAEL 8th July 2011 Rees Archibald, Andrew Infanti, Matthew Shlomowitz - "A Documentary Saga of the OULIPO" (2006-07) Performances as base2 sonic arts Collaboration with Dave Procter using radio-astronomy recording (pulsar and nebulae) in sonic compositions. Skrik Physical performancer, violin and percussion. Performed at Leeds Metropolitan University, Echochroma concert series. Musician in residence Voix Nouvelles composition course Musician in residence on shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) working with composers on new works as part of the Voix Nouvelles workshops headed by composer Brian Ferneyhough. Fondation Royaumont, France Untitled dancer with amplified costumer and video using contact microphones and Max/MSP/Jitter. collaboration with Theybreakinpieces performed at Preston Charter Theatre, United Kingdom, 21 October 2006 Train Travel Audio visual performance work in collaboration with composer Matthew Shlomowitz. For clarinet, trombone, percussion, violin, viola & video. performed by Ensemble Offspring Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, Australia, 5 August 2006 Sydney Opera House Studio, Sydney, Australia, 8 August 2006 The Rational Review showing of video art works (Many Trains) Rational Rec Interarts concert series Bethnal Green Working Men's Club,Tuesday 10th January 2006 Six Aspects of the Body in Image and Sound Audio visual performance work in collaboration with composer Matthew Shlomowitz. For clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello and video. performed by Tate Ensemble Bath International Festival of Music, Bath, United Kingdom, 5 June 2004 2012

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Screened at Diapason Gallery, New York City, USA, 9 October 2004 Electric Fantastic Collaboration with Yvon Bonenfant Diapason Gallery for Intermedia Art, New York City, USA Simple music for computer and synthesiser Pinakotech der Modern 1st Anniversary celebrations. Phillip Schulze and Rees Archibald live performance Computer and synthesizer, Munich, Germany. Vespers and Other Early Works New World Records Catalog #: 80604 Composer: Alvin Lucier Artists: Rees Archibald, shakuhachi; Charlie Looker, electric guitar; Ryuku Mizutani, koto; Shawn Onsgard, piano; Matt Welch, accordion Emit/Time Sound Art Festival. Performance of work created as part of Master's degree with Ron Kuivila. This performance was comprised of a reconstruction of David Behrman's Touch Tones (composed in 1979) Bern, Switzerland Performance with Ensemble Cairn, Paris Ishi - composition for Shakuhachi, piano and percussion by Jerome Combier This work was composed in Japan by J Combier as part of a period of residency at the Akiyoshidai International Cultural Village. performed in Paris. Electronic X-Travaganza perfomance with composer with David Behrman at The Kitchen, New York City this performance comprised of reconstruction two of David Berhman's composition for electronics from the 1970's in the SuperCollider 2 programming language which were created as part of Master's degree research at Wesleyan University Koto, Oto, Asobi - Contemporary Koto Music Shakuhachi, Koto and Indonesian Gender, performed with Ryuko Mizutani (koto) Wesleyan University An Evening of Traditional Japanese Music Shakuhachi and Koto, performed with Ryuko Mizutani (koto) Wesleyan University George Jackson Symposium Conference theme: Indeterminacy, Intermedia and Improvisation: the Free World 1950-1970 performance on Shakuhachi (Birdwing for shakuhachi and tape, composer Frances White) and saxophone performances with tape and computer (Chris Brown, Mills College), Wesleyan University Akiyoshidai Internaional Cultural Village Artistic Residency and Concert 1 month artist residency comprising of Japanese traditional music workshops 2004

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and composition, culminating in a concert performance. Akiyoshidai International Cultural Village Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan Butoh Dance Concerts Okuramura village, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan 1998-1999

Conference Presentations
International Society for the Study of Time Plenary Presentation: ZAUM: Beyond Mind Friday 5th July 2013 Orthodox Academy of Crete, Greece Arts & Psyche Network Symposium Presentation: Losing yourself in the act Saturday 24th September 2011 University of Northampton Dance & Somatic Practices Conference 2011 Buddha-hood in a single note: a somatic exploration of breath, mind-body and instrumental performance. 8th July 2011 - 10th July 2011, Coventry University, United Kingdom Times excesses in music, literature and art A timeless silence: no-mind, Zen and physical performance practice. Paper presentation and plenary speaker. May 27-29 2011, Universit de Caen / France Sound Music and the Moving Image Rhythmic expansion, process based structure, visual polyphony: an exploration of musically sourced approaches toward composition in moving image Institute of Musical Research, Senate House 10 12 September 2007, University of London, United Kingdom Theorising Creativity University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Presentation of conference paper Convergence and Divergence in Creative Practice Collaboration with Paul Greene and John Lacey Planned publication of conference papers. New Forms Festival University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Presentation of sound installation Stone Garden and a discussion session on the piece. Presented at Video In Studios, Vancouver, Canada. PALATINE Integrating Practice as Research 25/10/2005 Venue: University of Central Lancashire Presentation of sound installation Stone Garden 01 Consciousness Reframed 6: QI and COMPLEXITY 2004 Beijing China 2013

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Presentation of sound installation Stone Garden 01 SOUND-IMAGE-SPACE: APPLYING MUSIC TECHNOLOGY Leeds, UK Presentation of media installation Heteroglossia Installation using MAX/MSP and Jitter, graphics tablets and TVs, based on the inter-textual language and dialogue theories of Mikhail Bakhtin. 2004

External Teaching
Sound Gardens: design and cultivation A sound sculpture workshop using software and sensors Institut Fuer Musik Und Medien Robert Schumann Hochschule Duesseldorf Georg-Glock-Strae 15 / D-40474 Duesseldorf / Composition Masterclass Sydney Conservatorium of Music composition department N.S.W., Australia Composition Masterclass Foundation for International Education, London Shakuhachi Masterclasses Toho Gakuen (Toho College of Music), Tokyo, Japan. Shakuhachi/Japanese traditional music masterclasses Sydney Conservatorium of Music, N.S.W., Australia 2006 2011

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Grants and Awards

Artist in Residence Compeung Artst Grant, October, 2013 Compeung Arts Village, Chang Mai Province, Thailand Baden-Wuertemberg Exchange Scholar Media art department, Hochschule fuer Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Wesleyan University Assisted Adjunct Professor Ron Kuivlia in the delivery of undergraduate teaching in experimental music. This position was a component of a graduate scholarship comprising of a teaching assistant position with full graduate tuition fee waiver valued at approximately USD$40,000 per year. 2013

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Japanese Government Research Scholarship (Monbusho) Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music New South Wales Ministry for the Arts Touring Grant State arts council funding to tour instrumental ensembles in regional Australia. Contemporary Music Collective and Terra Australis Quartet. Australia. Australia Council for the Arts Touring Grant National arts council funding to tour instrumental ensembles (Contemporary Music Collective) in Australia.

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