Remnant - Music

Monty Adkins Aka Mathew Adkins Is An Electroacoustic Music Composer Born March 29 1972 In Leamington UK And Currently Living In Huddersfield UK. Website Http //www.Mathewadkins.Co.Uk/ Mathew Adkins Is A Composer Performer And Lecturer In Electroacoustic Music. He Read Music At Pembroke College Cambridge UK And Then In 1993 Became A Member Of The BEAST Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre . He Studied Electronic Music With Jonty Harrison And Then Simon Waters. It Was At The Age Of 22 That He First Came To International Attention With The Electroacoustic Works Melt And Clothed In The Soft Horizon. Between Them These Works Were Awarded The Stockholm Electronic Arts Award Sweden The Résidence Prize Bourges France And The Grand Prix Of Musica Nova Prague Czech Republic . He Has Since Won More Than A Dozen International Prizes For His Work Which Has Been Performed And Broadcasted Throughout Europe USA Canada Australasia China And Asia. He Has Worked In A Number Of Prestigious European Studios Including EMS Stockholm Sweden Ina-GRM And IRCAM Paris France Césare Reims France And Heinrich Strobel Studio Freiburg Germany . In The Early 1990s Adkins Concentrated Predominantly On Acousmatic Concert Music But Has Since Diversified Into Composing Electronic Works For Contemporary Dance Multimedia Works And Electroacoustic Music. What He Is Particularly Drawn To In Writing Such Works Is The Collaborative Process That Evolves Between The Composer And Artist/performers. The Most Notable Of These Have Been Neurotransmission 1998 An Hour-Long Acousmatic Dance Score Written For Wayne McGregor And Random Dance In 1998 Still Time 2001 For The Flutist Alejandro Escuer Symbiont 2002 A Multimedia Collaboration With Miles Chalcraft And Nights Bright Daies 2003 For The Ictus Piano And Percussion Quartet The Latter Premiered In June 2004 At The Festival Agora No 7 At IRCAM Paris France . read less