Richard Scott CV
Curriculum Vitae
Qualifications and Training
Doctorate: PhD, Portfolio of Electro-acoustic Music Composition from University of Manchester. (2020)
Doctorate: PhD from London University. Noises: Free Music, Improvisation and the Avant-garde; London 1965 to 1990 (sociological analysis of improvised music) (1993)
Masters: Mus.M. Electro-acoustic Music (Distinction), University of Manchester (2010)
Higher National Diploma: Jazz Theory and Musicianship, South Manchester College (1999)
Ordinary National Diploma: Sound Engineering and Studio Production, South Manchester College (1995)
Bachelors: BSc (Hons.) in Sociology from London School of Economics (1986) “A” Levels in Art, Economics, Sociology and Government and Politics (1982)
Employment
I have been primarily a freelance musician, composer, academic and sound engineer for much of the last 30 years, performing my own music, organising, producing mixing and playing in many ensembles. However, I have also had roles of formal employment:
Current Employment: Masters’s degree Programme Lead at Catalyst - Institute for Creative Arts and Technology, Berlin (Permanent contract since June 2018, I will leave in September 2023)
June 2014 – 2018: External examiner for Sonology MA students at the Dutch Royal Conservatory at The Hague, The Netherlands.
Dec 2015 to present: Director of Sound Anatomy Records http://soundanatomy.com/
March 2014 – Jan 2016: Guest Lecturer and Teaching Assistant at Manchester University giving workshops on advanced sound recording techniques, electroacoustic music, audio-visual composition (part-time)
January 2011 to Jan 2013: Lecturer on BA Hons. degree courses on Sound and Audio Theory and Studio Technique at Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, University of Lancaster (part-time)
2003 to present: I run Audience, an independent audio production company, recording and producing a wide variety of electronic and acoustic projects, including music for TV and film, theatre and dance. Currently based in Berlin and focused on audio mastering
1988 to 2002: Freelance journalist reviewing Jazz, free improvisation, African, Asian, Drum and Bass, Experimental and Contemporary music for The Wire, Q, Time Out and BBC World Service
1991 to 1993: London Musician’s Collective (LMC) Administrator with responsibility for concert programming, organisation and marketing
Other Recent Professional Roles
Composer in Residence: Electric Spring Festival/Huddersfield University Electroacoustic Studios. March 2017
Composer in Residence: EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm. March 2016
Composer in Residence: Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. May 2015
Festival Initiator, Organiser and Peer reviewer for compositions and paper submissions Sines and Squares festival, Manchester 2014 and 2016. I raised sponsorship and support from several business donors, such as Moog and Korg and from the University of Manchester for the Festival.
Artistic Resident at STEIM, (Studio for Electro Instrumental Music) Amsterdam developing infrared performance technologies. 2008-2013
Peer reviewer for New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME) conference, Norway 2012
Selected Compositions
Richard Scott "Stardust for RH 23" (Premier) World On a Wire. VU Symposium for experimental, electronic and improvised music. Park City, Utah July 5, 2023
Richard Scott “Fünf Interventionen aus der Fremde,” (Premier) Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Mensch, Musik (Premiere 3rd Feb 2023)
Richard Scott (solo). Live auf dem SINUSTON-Festival Magdeburger Tage der elektroakustischen Musik. 29.10.21
“Thunder Actually Bicycles…” (Premier) Electro-acoustic composition premiered at Forum Wallis Festival für Neue Musik www.forumwallis.ch. July 2021.
Moers festival 2021/Arte: Seicento Vocale & Richard Scott. Compositions by Gesualdo, Vivier and Richard Scott. (Premier) Full concert is here: https://youtu.be/Nsh3UFJNFWU
Tama Arts and Music Festival, Tokyo, Japan. “Music Floats Upwards”. Electro-acoustic composition by Richard Scott. https://tamafes.tumblr.com/Tokyo Electracoustic music festival. March 2021.
BEAST Feast festival. University of Birmingham, May 2020. “Music Floats Upwards” (Premier). Electro-acoustic composition by Richard Scott. http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/beast-feast-2020/
Multichannel (ambisonic) installation piece Buzz Sculptures commissioned by the Neue Musik Initiativ in Berlin, performed at the Martin-Groper-Bau museum (Berliner Festpspeile) and Spektrum Centre for Art and Technology, Berlin. (Premier) September 2017/January 2018
Black Wood Dialogues composition for Bass Clarinet and electronics (Premier) with Marjie van Gorkon MANTIS Electroacoustic Music Festival, Manchester/Leicester De Mon forte University. March 2017.
Several Circles: final version (Premier)). International Computer Music Conference/Sound, Music Computing Conference. Athens. September 2014
A Short History of Stuttering. Prize Winner. UK 60×60 Mix 2012 composition competition.
August 2011. International Computer Music Conference: Strike One by Richard Scott’s Lightning Ensemble.
Selected Recordings
Twinkle3, ft David Sylvian and Kazuko Hohki: Upon This Fleeting Dream: Japanese Death Poems (Cortizona Records 2022) https://cortizona.bandcamp.com/album/upon-this-fleeting-dream
Delirious Cartographies by Richard Scott (Arbitrary Records 2022) Electroacoustic/Multimedia https://arbitraryrichardscott.bandcamp.com/album/delirious-cartographies
“Everything is always at once” by Richard Scott (Discus Records 133CD 2022)
https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-always-at-once-133cd-2022
Stardust RH by Richard Scott, realised on the Hordijk Modular Synthesiser, from Hordijk, Vol. 1 by Various Artists, Flag Day Records 2021 https://flagdayrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/stardust-4rh
Richard Scott and Axel Dörner “A Journal of Elasticity” Bohemian Drips 2021. LP/CD/Digital album https://bohemiandrips.de/product/bd014-axel-dorner-richard-scott-a-journal-of-elasticity/ The album can be heard here: https://bohemiandrips.bandcamp.com/album/a-journal-of-elasticity
Tales from the Voodoo Box: solos for EMS Synthi A Synthesiser. Richard Scott (Sound Anatomy 2017) https://soundanatomy.bandcamp.com/album/tales-from-the-voodoo-box-solos-for-ems-synthi-a-synthesiser
Several Circles. Richard Scott (Cusp Editions CD/2 x LP, 2016) https://cuspeditions.bandcamp.com/album/richard-scott-several-circles
Seven Types of Ambiguity. Axel Dörner and Richard Scott (Sound Anatomy 2016) https://soundanatomy.bandcamp.com/album/seven-types-of-ambiguity
Hiss and Viscera. Audrey Chen and Richard Scott (Sound Anatomy 2016) https://soundanatomy.bandcamp.com/album/hiss-and-viscera
Natura Venomous. Parak.eets with Ute Wasserman and Emilio Gordoa (Creative Sources 2016) https://soundanatomy.bandcamp.com/album/natura-venomous
Together in Zero Space, Grutronic and Evan Parker (PSI Recordings 2012) https://www.discogs.com/Grutronic-and-Evan-Parker-Together-In-Zero-Space/release/3147648 Essex Foam Party, Grutronic. (PSI Recordings 2010)
Wood Wind Tide, electroacoustic duets with shakuhachi with Clive Bell (Kwan Yin Records 2007)
The Magnificence of Stereo, Richard Scott with Rex Casswell (plunderphonic/ electroacoustic). (sruti BOX Records 1992)
Selected Performances
Richard Scott “For Rob Hordijk” Solo Performance, Petersburg Arts Space, Berlin, 23 October 2022.
Richard Scott & Pitchshifting/Soundpainting Orchestra. Audioart Festival, Pula, Croatia, 22nd and 23rd September 2022
Precarious Technologies Richard Scott & Nic Collins. Vovne series: PAS Berlin,15th June 2022.
Duet with Joke Lanz, Ausland/Wabe Berlin. Kazu's Honeycomb Festival. https://ausland-berlin.de/kazus-honeycomb-festival-day-1
Moers Festival/Arte, June 2020, Richard Scott Solo concert https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/097995-045-A/richard-scottaerosolo-7/
Die Akademie der Künste. KONTAKTE ’19. Biennale für Elektroakustische Musik und Klangkunst, Thomas Lehn Ute Wassermann, mit Thomas Lehn und Richard Scott, für Stimme mit Analogsynthesizern
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln. Sounding #06, Concert with Joker Nies and workshop presentation, November 2019
Wels Music Unlimited Festival, performance with Shelley Hirsch and Roger Turner. September 2019
Japanese tour with Kazuhisa Uchihashi, including concerts with D.J. Sniff, Akiko Nakayama & Toshimaru Nakamura. June 2019
Sonorities Festival, SARC, Belfast: Call Them Improvisers! Ensemble directed by Evan Parker. November 2010.
Evan Parker and Grutronic. Konfrontationen Festival, Jazzgalerie, Nickelsdorf, Austria. July 2006
Publications
Post-Acousmatic Practice: Re-evaluating Schaeffer’s heritage. Monty Adkins, Richard Scott and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay. Organised Sound. vol. 21.1 May 2016
Guest editor of a special issue of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community CeC eContact journal on Analogue and Modular Synthesis http://econtact.ca/index.html
The Molecular Imagination: John Stevens, The Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Free Group Improvisation, in Schroeder, Franciscka (ed.) 2014. Improvisation and Performance. Cambridge Scholars’ Press. (2014)
Free Improvisation and Nothing: From the Tactics of Escape to a Bastard Science, in: ACT – Zeitschrift für Musik & Performance 4 (2014), Nr. 5.
Artaud’s Snake: gesture, time and play – a composer’s report on the use and development of the WiGI infra-red wireless gestural system. Paper delivered to the International Computer Music Conference Proceedings (2011)
Getting WiGI With It. eContact journal Article about the development of a wireless infrared gestural instrument (2010)
Public Lectures and Presentations
Research Presentations: The voltage-controlled analogue synthesizer as a tool for composition and performance. Universität der Künste Berlin/ University of Manchester Berlin/Manchester. March 2017
Improvisation with a Modular Synthesiser. EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm. March 6th 2016.
Advanced Analogue Synthesis. University of Manchester NOVARS research matinée presentation. Manchester. March 2015
Composing with Modular Synthesizers. Visiting Professorial Lecture, Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. May 2015
The Beauty of Forgetting: predetermination, time and spontaneity in programming for electroacoustic composition and improvisation. Paper. From Tape to Typedef Symposium, Sheffield University Jan 2013
Intimacy, Interaction and Improvisational Technologies. Paper. Leeds International Festival for Innovations in Music Production and Composition. December 2012
Recent Financial Support Awarded
Artistic Research Stipendium, Sound Art and New Music, Berlin 2023
Stipendium der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Berlin 2020/21
Musikfonds Neustart Kultur Stipendienprogramms 2020/21 awarded, but not taken because of Stipendium der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Berlin
Financial support from Harry Clough Foundation for PhD study at Manchester University. 2013-2020
I was supported by STEIM for my research project there. June 2008 to June 2013
I was supported by the Arts Council of Great Britain for the first year of my project with STEIM. June 2008-2009
Artistic Referees
Professor Richard Barrett, Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatory, The Hague, Netherlands +31 70 315 14 66 richard@furtlogic.com
Professor Ricardo Climent, Professor of Interactive Music Composition, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom, +44 (0) 161 275 3246 ricardo.climent@manchester.ac.uk
Professor Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Professor of Composition & Studio Director, Department of Music, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, United Kingdom, p.a.tremblay@hud.ac.uk, +44 (0) 1484 47 36 08
Dr. Dr. Richard Scott, PhD, PhD, MusM, BSc (Hons.)
Nationality: British/German
Berlin, 22th March 2023