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Biography
Professor Monty Adkins is a composer, performer, and Professor of Experimental Electronic Music at the University of Huddersfield. He has created installations, concert and audio-visual works, and a number of collaborations with contemporary performers, video artists and photographers. His work since 2008 has been released by Audiobulb, Cronica, Eilean, and empreintes DIGITALes .
His works have been commissioned by Ina-GRM, IRCAM, BBC Radio 3, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, SpACE-Net, ZKM (Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe) and Sonic Arts Network, among others. For his oeuvre he has been awarded over 15 international prizes including the Stockholm Electronic Arts Award (Sweden), Grand Prize at Musica Nova (Prague, Czech Republic), and five prizes at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France).
Having read music at Pembroke College (University of Cambridge) where he studied French medieval and Italian Renaissance music, Adkins then studied electronic music with Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham where he performed across Europe with the Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST), and Simon Waters at the University of East Anglia.
Adkins is also active as a writer and concert curator. He completed his first book with Pip Dickens (University of Lancaster) in 2011 on the relationship between art and music (Shibusa – Extracting Beauty), followed by two further edited collections on the music of Roberto Gerhard. Adkins has also contibuted journal articles to Organised Sound and the Journal of Music Technology and Education, book chapters on music education, mixed music and the electronic music of Christopher Fox amongst others.
Portfolio: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4OaC5xZHj2njvhaj8AkjJ8
Website: https://monty-adkins.com/
Research Expertise and Interests
- Experimental Electronic Music Composition
- Acousmatic Music
- Aesthetics of Digital Music
- Sonic Art and Installation
- Sound Spatialisation
Research Expertise and Interests
- Digital Music
- Acousmatic Music
- Aesthetics of Digital Music
- Experimental Electronic Music Composition
- Sonic Art
- Sonic Installation
- Sound Spatialisation
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Research Output
Music Beyond Airports: Appraising Ambient Music
Adkins, M. (ed.) & Cummings, S. (ed.), 30 Jul 2019, Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield Press. 234 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Activities
Arts and Humanities Research Council (External organisation)
Monty Adkins (Chair)1 Jan 2020 → 31 Dec 2023
Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
External PhD Examiner: University of Durham
Monty Adkins (Examiner)9 Dec 2019
Activity: Examination types › PhD Examination
Roberto Gerhard's Audiovisual Works
Mathew Adkins (Speaker)9 Sep 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Engagement in Electronic Music
Monty Adkins (Speaker)7 May 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
External Examiner (PhD)
Monty Adkins (Examiner)15 Sep 2018
Activity: Examination types › PhD Examination
Press / Media
A Conversation with Monty Adkins
Mathew Adkins & Simon Cummings
1/07/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Lépidoptères Takes Flight with Recorders and Electronics
14/04/16
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment