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Profiles
Dr David Bessell
Lecturer in Music
School of Humanities and Performing Arts (Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
Role
Lecturer in Music, specialisms - composition, music theory, music technology, guitar.
Qualifications
Bmus 1st, Thames Valley University, first study composition, second study jazz guitar.
Mmus, Distinction, Royal College of Music, composition.
Phd, Kingston University, practice based Phd, nine compositions, The remodelling of elements of musical electronics with conventional acoustic instruments.
20 years experience in the popular music industry: song writing, arrangement, session guitar, international touring, music related programming.
Professional membership
ICCMR
Musical Acoustics Network
PRS
Teaching interests
Composition, software synthesis, guitar.
Research interests
Research areas -
Composition, physical modelling, new approaches to software synthesis. Analogue hardware synthesis
Research groups
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2013
'Dynamic Convolution Modelling, a hybrid synthesis strategy'
Computer Music Journal
37:1,
(spring 2013)
44-51
Publisher Site
, DOI
2013
'Dynamic convolution modeling, a hybrid synthesis strategy'
Computer Music Journal
37,
(1)
44-51
, DOI
2007
'Formant Synthesis, Granular Synthesis, and Waveshaping in Halo, Bells and Voices'
Perspectives of New Music
45,
(1)
236-252
Publisher Site
2005
'The instrumental remodeling of elements of musical electronics in Moon Veiled by Clouds'
COMPUTER MUSIC JOURNAL
29,
(1)
21-33
, DOI
Chapters
2012
'Blurring boundaries, trends and implications in audio production software developments'
in Kapralos B
Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio
Oxford
Oxford University Press
Publisher Site
2002
'An Examination of the Role Of Music in Cool Boarders, Alien Trilogy and Medievil'
in King G; Krzywinska T
Screenplay: cinema/videogames/interfaces
London
Wallflower Press, Columbia University Press
Publisher Site
Conference Papers
2011
'Ophidian and the Uncanny Valley'
ICMC
International COmputer Music Conference
Huddersfield University
01/08/2011
06/08/2011
Huddersfield
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
Performances
20110803
20110803
Ophidian.
International Computer Music Conference, Huddersfield University
Publisher Site
Other Publications
0
Analogue.
Cornwall
Manor records catalogue number 771 2010.
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