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Biography
Alex Harker is a composer, creative programmer and lecturer at the University of Huddersfield. He joined the University in 2011 as a Research Fellow working on the HISSTools project, and in 2012 took up his current position as a lecturer.
Harker’s works have been programmed as part of concert series, festivals and conferences in the UK, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Korea, and the USA, including the International Computer Music Conference, Sound and Music Computing Conference and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. His works have been performed by the Worldscape Laptop Orchestra, Niamh Dell, Heather Roche, Elastic Axis, Jonathan Sage, Peter Furniss and BEAST. A two track EP is available from Ergodos Records.
He has studied composition with numerous composers including Gwyn Pritchard, Vic Hoyland, Jonty Harrison, Scott Wilson, Roger Marsh and Ambrose Field. In 2011 he completed his PhD at the University of York, a period of study funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
As programmer, Harker’s software is in use internationally both inside and outside of academia in wide variety of fields, such as psychoacoustics, concert hall virtualisation, realtime audiovisual dj'ing and compositional work.In 2012 he was engaged by Berlin-based software company Ableton to develop a convolution reverb device relevant to electronic musicians for use in their flagship digital audio workstation Live.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research Expertise and Interests
- Interaction between Parameterised and Non-parameterised Musics
- Extended Instrumental Techniques
- Compositional Openness and Improvisation
- Audio Programming
- Audio Descriptor Technologies
- Spectral Domain Audio Processing
- Convolution, Deconvolution and impulse Response Measurement
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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TAAT: Determining the best approach, scale and feasibility for new toolsets in analysing large tape archives
Gillies, S., Melen, C., Adkins, M. & Harker, A.
1/02/25 → 31/01/26
Project: Research
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FluCoMa: Fluid Corpus Manipulations
Tremblay, P. A., Green, O., Roma, G., Harker, A., Clarke, M. & Dufeu, F.
1/09/17 → 28/02/23
Project: Research
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Electric Spring Festival 2025: Experimental Short Film Screening
Gillies, S., Harker, A., Donnelly, B., Alsaegh, S., Néon, E., Komyagina, P., Ruzhyna, K., Waters, S., Weissbach, J., De Ritter, W., Boncuk, M., Asti, D., Gyenes, Z., Turner, S., Chantawongs, M., Camille, S. & Aschman, A., 22 Feb 2025Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Tell It To The Trees
Cox, G., Cox, G., Cox, G., Stewart, M., Holmes, G., Holborow, N., Ely, S., Norrie, K., McConnell, G., Hickson-Lovence, A., Cambridge, G., Khan, S., Milsom, D., Moss, J., Smurthwaite, T. & Harker, A., 14 Jun 2024Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Fluid Corpus Manipulation Toolbox
Tremblay, P. A., Green, O., Roma, G., Bradbury, J., Moore, T., Hart, J. & Harker, A., 7 Jul 2022Research output: Non-textual form › Software
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drift shadow: for oboe and electronics (co-created with Niamh Dell)
Harker, A., 2021Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
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The HISSTools Impulse Response Toolbox (HIRT)
Harker, A. (Creator) & Tremblay, P. A. (Creator), Zenodo, 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14929598, https://zenodo.org/records/14929598
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Electric Spring 2024
Stewart Worthy (Organiser), Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (Organiser), Alex Harker (Organiser) & Sam Gillies (Organiser)
14 Feb 2024 → 17 Feb 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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Architecture about Dancing: Creating a Cross Environment, Cross Domain Framework for Creative Coding Musicians
Owen Green (Speaker), Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Ted Moore (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), James Bradbury (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jacob Hart (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Alex Harker (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Gerard Roma (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
5 Sep 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation