I collaborated with the celebrated jazz musician and composer, John Surman, on The Cairn, open to the public as an audio-visual installation in 2005. In 1998, I collaborated with the acclaimed composer David Shea on a speech and sound piece titled The Voice (the score is now available on John Zorn's Tzadik label). That commitment to sound has encouraged me to combine practice-based research with my more conventional academic work. I'd be delighted to supervise research in these areas and am always happy to discuss possible topics (even if not from the above list!) in person or via telephone/email.Įver since the first School of Sound in 1998 and the inspirational presentations of Simon Fisher Turner and Peter Kubelka (among many others), I've been committed to the possibilities of juxtaposing sound with image (although my fascination stems from the magical credit Special Sound - Dick Mills and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop!). This interest in the audio-visual relationship is now at the heart of my work.Īs well as film music, my research interests include film noir, literary adaptations, non-naturalistic cinema/television and the fantastic on screen. The thesis set out my interest in the way meaning (particularly ideological notions of race and gender) is created in music and how film takes account of and contributes to that process. Happy days.My PhD, examined by Richard Dyer and Peter Martin, explored the use and representation of jazz in film noir. Currently sorting out the handful of running orders and ‘scripts’ (I use the word loosely) from my days as a producer/presenter to hand over to the Portsmouth University library. Wish I had found this page a week ago – would have loved to have attended the reunion. One name I have forgotten was the studio engineer – we used to have to beg studio B time from him to do pre-records and if he didn’t exactly loathe us, I don’t think he was very fond of us. I remember, and appreciate, Andy Ferris’ help running our programme – and sitting in the booth for him, during his late night show, logging the record times and screening the phone in callers. In 1977 we staged a studio invasion for the student Rag Week and ‘kidnapped’ Anton Darby. From memory the original programme controller was the mellifluous Fijian Eugene Fraser, moonlighting from Radio 4, before ‘Jumping Jack’ took over – he split his time between Victory and hosting game shows up in Scotland. Our half hour show always over ran into the Jazz programme but he was very gracious about us stealing his time. I think you were a little more friendly Chris but ‘Student Access’ wasn’t universally popular. I recall that we were not popular with the newsroom and were warned to keep our distance from the formidable (and sadly departed) Chrissy Pollard. When I had to give up and concentrate on exams we recruited Roger Cartwright – who, I think did a bit of ‘Interning’ (if that is a word) for the news room – and Matt Hopper who, sensibly, dropped out of college, got a proper job with Victory and has made a long and successful career as a presenter and voice artist. In January 1978 George East promoted us to our own half hour show (still ‘driven’ by Andy as were were not trusted with the decks and eight tracks). I produced a student slot on RV in 1977 – initially 15 minutes in the ‘Community Desk’ local access section presented and ‘driven’ by Andy Ferris.
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