Dr Martin Parker
Main Research Areas: Digital design, sound design, live music electronics
Contact Details
Dr Martin Parker
t: +44 (0)131 650 0000
e: martin.parker@ed.ac.uk
web: https://www.tinpark.com/
uoe: https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-martin-parker
About
A composer, improviser and soloist with laptop, Martin’s work focuses on encounters between computers, people and places. Based in Edinburgh, he has performed and collaborated internationally with theatre companies, symphony orchestras, visual artists and ensembles; recent projects include ‘Songs for an airless room’, an ‘opera’ for cinemas performed by Joby Burgess and Phil Minton.
Martin has been Artistic Director of Edinburgh’s Dialogues Festival www.dialogues-festival.org for over 10 years and is one third of free improvisation trio Lapslap.
Martin studied composition at the University of Manchester and completed a Ph.D in Composition at the University of Edinburgh in 2003. He is Academic Director of the University of Edinburgh’s MSc in Sound Design.
Some of his music is available on Ein Klang records (www.einklangrecords.com and www.leorecords.com).
Martin is currently (2020–2024) the Head of the Reid School of Music, one of 5 Subject Areas at Edinburgh College of Art.
Research Interests
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Jules is a founding member of the LLEAPP network exploring performance practice with live electronics. Other projects include multimedia works for New Media Scotland, Glenmorangie, Cybersonica and the New Radiophonic Workshop.
See also my personal website here: https://www.tinpark.com/
Publications
A full list of publications is available on the PURE system.
Teaching
Martin teaches across ECA’s MSc Design and Digital Media, MSc Sound Design, and BMus Music programmes.