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Hack The Quartet Participants
Announcing our amazing Hack The Quartet participants, taking part in a unique two-day musical exploration at Watershed as part of Bristol Proms.
Silas Adekunle is a Robotics Engineering student at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He manages The Prince’s Trust Robotics in Schools program and runs a start up – Reach Robotics.
Dom Baker is Innovation Manager at M&C Saatchi, working across the group with a particular focus on helping deliver and promote the M&C creative digital, social and experiential offering.
Peter Bennett is a postdoctoral research assistant in the University of Bristol’s Interaction and Graphics group. His PhD, from Queen’s University Belfast, focused on time, tangible interfaces and the design of new musical instruments.
Members of The Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra: Pamela Bell, Sarah Ivanovich, Anita Chute and Ewelina Nowogorska
Ruth Farrer is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, an active sound artist, media teacher and AHRC-funded PhD researcher.
Pete Fairhurst is an interaction designer, user experience specialist, and technologist. He studied music and composition and is also a DJ and producer in hia spare time.
Stefan Goodchild is a a freelance creative coder, web developer & interface designer. He creates visuals with code using Processing and openFrameworks for concerts, conferences and installations including for for Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, Pulp, Hurts and Queen.
Jonathan Harper: Having been Director of Marketing for some of the UK’s largest cultural organisations, including The Lowry in Salford and Wales Millennium Centre, Jonathan now works as a consultant helping organisations in the cultural sector build resilience into their business models.
Heidi Hinder: With a background in literature and television and a former violinist, Heidi Hinder is an artist-maker whose work is often created from narrative ideas and story-telling, captured by the objects she makes or the experiences that these objects initiate.
Daniel Jones is a doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths exploring the relationships between complexity, creativity and social dynamics. Recent works includes The Listening Machine with Peter Gregson and Britten Sinfonia, The Fragmented Orchestra, Papa Sangre and The Nightjar.
Liam Lacey is a software developer for nu desine who develop the AlphaSphere, a new spherical electronic musical instrument. Graduating from an Audio and Music Technology degree at UWE in 2010, he is a keen musician, composer and producer.
James Leahy is an Irish-born, London-based audiovisual artist and composer, presently undertaking a Master of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College,
Lee Nutbean is a Researcher at i-DAT, University of Plymouth. He is possibly a guerrilla member of i-DAT’s special-ops, tasked with the design and production of projects including Arch-OS / i-500, Noogy, Darwin’s Worms and the i-500.
Sam Phippen is a software developer from Bristol that loves automation and automatons. He teaches Sixth Formers to build robots. He loves creative solutions. One by one, he’s depleting the world of its teabags.
Laurel S. Pardue is undertaking a PhD at QMUL’s Centre for Digital Music on effective design and learning of new (and old) instruments. She is a semi-professional violinist/violist and is in the midst of building an augmented violin which can provide information on left hand finger press and uses optical sensors for bow tracking.
Pete Redhead is a Creative Technologist at Global Radio, the parent company of some of the UK’s biggest commercial radio stations including Classic FM. His work involves developing applications to support digital radio, mobile apps and experimental technologies.
Nick Ryan is a multi award winning composer, sound designer, artist and audio specialist. He has worked extensively with Film, Motion Graphics, TV Drama and Documentary, Interactive Media and Orchestral Ensemble as well as acting as a consultant on the future of sound and music to many organisations including The BBC and The UK Government.
The Sacconi Quartet: Known throughout the world for its energy, creativity and integrity of interpretation, the Sacconi Quartet continues to perform with its four founder members. The Quartet performs regularly at London’s major venues and across Europe, and each May hosts the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival in Folkestone. The Sacconi Quartet celebrated its tenth anniversary in January 2012.
Yann Seznec is a musician, sound designer, and artist. His work focuses on interaction, physical sound, and unusual approaches to musical software and hardware. Recent projects include collaborating with Matthew Herbert and the BBC Concert Orchestra to build custom software and hardware for the “Baroque Remixed” show at the Roundhouse, a Faster Than Sound residency at Aldeburgh Music, and performances at Mutek Montreal, Melbourne Recital Hall, and Köln Philharmonie.
Chris Thorpe has been responsible for web projects as diverse as the public consultation and display of sculpture on The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, a video on demand archive for Nobel Prize Winners, the first ever Open Access science journal and the premiere of a James Bond film. He ran the technology team which built Moshi Monsters and helped to set up The Guardian Open Platform and the Government Digital Service.
Ana Tiquia is a creative producer who specialises in creating digital content and experiences for arts organisations. She has worked extensively with the Philharmonia Orchestra, London and was the first producer to work with their award-winning digital department where she produced Universe of Sound: a digital, interactive installation based on Holst’s The Planets and The Orchestra iPad app, an innovative, content-rich app which was named ‘iOS App of the Year, 2012’ by The Telegraph.
Natasha Trotman is currently studying Information Experience Design MA at The Royal College of Art. She has recently collaborated with the Royal College of Music on a project called Accendo which involved musicians, a conductor and augmented reality, culminating with a live performance (to a live audience).
Sam Underwood is a musician, sound artist and instrument designer. A hacker at heart; he can’t help but twist and develop, to find new ways of creating music, sounds and interfaces with instruments and technology. Together with David Morton he runs musical instrument design company MortonUnderwood.
Ollie Williams is studying Digital Media at Falmouth University. He is inspired by the possibilities of physical computing and exploring ways of blurring the line between the digital and the tangible. recent projects include ‘ServoHarp’, a Midi controlled Arduino robotic harp player, and creating live, reactive visuals for the London Symphony Orchestra Digital Technology Group.
Hack The Quartet is produced by Watershed, in association with The Sacconi Quartet, Bristol Old Vic and Universal Music Arts and Entertainment as part of Bristol Proms. The Media Partner is ClassicFM. It is supported by Arts Council England.
