Associate Professor Ian Whalley

MSocSc (Waik), BA, BMus (Well), APMT (NSW Con.), AIRMT (NZ)

Ian Whalley is an internationally recognised author, researcher and composer in the fields of, electroacoustic music,  computer music, and sonic art.

His electroacoustic compositions  have been published by CUP and MIT Press and are included in international events such as ICMC, MUSICACOUSTICA, VCH, ACMA. Works explore the relationship between acoustic performance and  real-time computer music gestures and idioms. He has received awards and grants from the British Council (United Kingdom), the NZ/Japan Exchange Programme (NZ/Japan), Kunitachi Centre for Computer Music (Japan), ICMC2000 (Germany), Meiji University Visiting Fellow (Japan), Klangart '99 (Germany) and UNESCO (India).

Ian's current research focuses on networked music/sound, interactive systems, intelligent agent applications in non-linear music, and generative systems. His research work and invited workshops are extensively published in leading computer music and arts/technology proceedings (ICMC, ISEA,  EMS, NIME, Cyber@rt) throughout Europe, North America, Japan and Australasia.

As an active author on digital music aesthetics and practice, recent contributions include articles for professional journals such as Music in New Zealand and Canzona (NZ), academic journals such as Convergence (UK), Leonardo EA (USA), Organised Sound (UK) and Enculturation (USA), as well as continuing book, CD and software reviews for publications like Contexts (AUS), The Computer Music Journal (USA) and Array Live (USA).

In addition to ongoing research and composition, was elected Director at Large for the International Computer Music Association from 2004-2005, and is on the editorial board of Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press), and the review boards for Leonardo Music Journal and the Computer Music Journal  (MIT Press). He established the Australasian Computer Music Association website and listserv group, and produces the New Zealand Sonic Art CD series.

From 1994-95 he was Chair of Department, responsible for expanding the undergraduate programme to develop the music major on campus, designing the postgraduate programme, and establishing the Department's electroacoustic music studios.  He chaired the Department again from 2005-2007, establishing the PhD programme and heading the Department's research programme.

Ian is currently the Conservatorium of Music's graduate advisor, Director of the Nexus Sonicus research cluster and Electroacoustic Music Studio Director

musik@waikato.ac.nz

Organised Sound
International Computer Music Association
Interactive Music Project
New Zealand Sonic Art CD Series