Profile

Jon Aveyard

Lecturer (Music Practice)

School of Art, Design & Performance

Media Factory, ME224

+44 (0)1772 894798

javeyard@uclan.ac.uk

Dr. Jon Aveyard is a Preston-based composer, performer and audio-artist.  His work is presented locally, nationally and internationally.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Music, University of Wales, Bangor (1999)
PhD in Music Composition, University of Birmingham (2007)

Research

Jon’s current research is focused on the use of in-ear microphones in studio composition, installations and performances. 

Additionally, he is involved in research into the teaching of improvisation to groups of undergraduate musicians and dancers.

Teaching

BA (Hons) Music Practice, levels 4-6
Guest lectures for BA (Hons) Music Production, level 6
Post-graduate supervision and teaching

Recent Selected Publications

2012
Workshop demonstration with Dr. Lisa Parsons at the conference ‘Interdisciplinary contemporary approaches to praxis’, UCLan

2011
Electric Textures performed at Sonorities Festival, Queen’s University, Belfast

2011    
Marking Time score exhibited at the Peter Scott gallery, Lancaster

2010    
Four Point One installed at Sounding Out 5, Bournemouth

2010    
The I in Environment installed at DRHA 2010 Conference, Brunel University, London

2010    
VVE premiere performance by Barbara Luneburg at the European Conference for the Promotion of New Music, Austria

2010    
Spatial and Subjective Points-of-Audition in Binaural Composition presented at the Forum of Innovation in Music Production and Compsition, Leeds College of Music

2010    
Depth Perception performed at NoiseFloor 2010, University of Staffordshire

2009    
Explorer and More performed at the Seeing Sound conference, Bath Spa University

2009    
Involution presented at the Living Landscapes conference, Aberystwyth

2009    
Organized the Binaural Audio Concert, Media Factory, Preston

2008    
Performance at the Placard Festival, Café Oto, London

2008    
Electroacoustic Composition Using Binaural Audio presented at the Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, University of Aberdeen

2007    
Electroacoustic Composition Using Binaural Audio presented at Sounds Electric ’07 International Festival of Contemporary Music, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland

2007    
Dialogic Music group improvisation at SARC, Belfast

2007    
Resonator Improv released on The Sound We Are Now CD, Aphasia Records

2007    
Steelbreath, stillborn (Unsafe edit) released on Unsafe CD, Noctiluscent Records

2007    
Commissioned radio show on binaural audio art broadcast on ArtRadio (Manchester and online)

2007    
Depth Perception performed at Futura Festival, Crest, France

2007    
Organized a symposium on binaural composition at UCLan

2007    
Depth Perception played at a SoundScape Project concert, Zurich, Switzerland

2007    
Electroacoustic Composition Using Binaural Audio presented at SAN Expo, Plymouth

2007    
Mix 46 installed at the Convivencia symposium, UCLan

2007    
Mix 46 performed at the Royal Musical Association Research Students’ Conference, University of Bristol

2007    
Solo installed at Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA