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Simon Emmerson is a Professor in Music, Technology & Innovation at De Montfort University’s Leicester Media School, with a career spanning nearly five decades. He founded the Electroacoustic Music Association of Great Britain (EMAS) and served on Sonic Arts Network/Sound and Music boards. His DAAD Edgard Varese Visiting Professorship at TU Berlin and Silver Jubilee Visiting Professorship at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts highlight his global influence.
- Current research student supervisor at DMU
- Co-PI on AHRC-funded project New Multimedia Tools for Electroacoustic Music Analysis
- Editorial Board member for Organised Sound, Radical Musicology, and Journal of Sonic Studies
His research focuses on electroacoustic music’s live performance practices, spatial composition, gender dynamics in electronic music institutions, and machine-human listening symbiosis. He pioneered ‘concert installation’ formats like Aeolian, where looping structures create non-linear temporal experiences.
Key publications include foundational texts The Language of Electroacoustic Music (1986), Living Electronic Music (2007), and The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music (2018). His AHRC-supported project (2010-2013) produced innovative analysis tools for hybrid genres.
Scientific contributions:
- 2019 Oxford Handbook chapter on imagination in performance
- 2018 ICLI collaboration on crossadaptive processing
- 2016 EMAS institutional history analysis
- 2015 Organised Sound article on machine listening
- 2007 Living Electronic Music monograph
As composer, he has created over 50 electroacoustic works performed at festivals in Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, and Birmingham. His advising includes supervising PhD/Masters students at DMU, though specific names aren’t listed. He maintains active performance presence with concerts in 2020 celebrating his 70th birthday.
