Simon Emmerson

Who is Simon Emmerson?

Simon Emmerson is an electroacoustic music composer working mostly with live electronics. He was born in Wolverhampton, UK, on 15 September 1950.

Since November 2004 Emmerson has been Professor in Music Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester, following twenty eight years as Director of the Electroacoustic Music studios at City University, London. His catalogue now spans thirty five years, including commissions for Intermodulation, Singcircle, Option Band, Lontano, Jane Manning, Philip Mead, Jane Chapman amongst many others. He has also completed purely electroacoustic commissions from the IMEB, the GRM and the Inventionen Festival. He was a first prize winner at the Bourges Electroacoustic Awards in 1985 for his work Time Past IV. He contributed to and edited The Language of Electroacoustic Music in 1986 and Music, Electronic Media and Culture. His book Living Electronic Music was published by Ashgate in 2007, also two solo CDs from Sargasso in 2007 and 2008. He was founder Secretary of EMAS in 1979, and served on the Board of Sonic Arts Network from its inception until 2004.