Research output per year
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Vice-Chancellor’s Office Central Services Building University of Huddersfield Queensgate Huddersfield HD1 3DH
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
https://courses.hud.ac.uk/2018-19/postgraduate-research/sort:title
Research activity per year
6 Last updated 23/6/2020.
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 output: Non-textual form › Composition
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Monty Adkins (Participant) & Rachel Mann (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Monty Adkins (Chair)
Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
Monty Adkins (Examiner)
Activity: Examination types › PhD Examination
Mathew Adkins (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Monty Adkins (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Mathew Adkins & Simon Cummings
1/07/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
14/04/16
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment