Simon Emmerson | Academic Influence

Simon Emmerson 's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Simon Emmerson

Communications

#9773

World Rank

#13216

Historical Rank

communications Degrees

Download Badge

Communications

Simon Emmerson 's Degrees

PhD Music University of York
Masters Music University of York
Bachelors Music University of York

Similar Degrees You Can Earn

Best Online Bachelor's in Music 2025

Why Is Simon Emmerson Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Simon Emmerson is an electroacoustic music composer working mostly with live electronics. He was born in Wolverhampton, UK, on 15 September 1950. Simon Emmerson studied at Cambridge and at City University, London where he founded the electroacoustic music studio in 1975, remaining until 2004 when he joined De Montfort University, Leicester as Professor in Music, Technology and Innovation, and where he is now Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Sonic Creativity. He has been a composer and writer on electroacoustic music since the early 1970s. Commissions include: Intermodulation, Singcircle, Lontano, Jane Manning, Philip Mead, Jane Chapman, GRM , IMEB , Inventionen , Sond-Arte Ensemble , and more recently for BEAST and for soloists Darragh Morgan , Carla Rees and Heather Roche . He was a first prize winner at the Bourges Electroacoustic Awards in 1985 for his work Time Past IV . Writings include: The Language of Electroacoustic Music , Music, Electronic Media and Culture , Living Electronic Music , The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music , coeditor and contributor Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis . He was founder Secretary of the Electro-Acoustic Music Association of Great Britain in 1979 as well as later Board member of Sonic Arts Network and Sound and Music . He was Edgard Varese Visiting Professor at TU, Berlin and Visiting Professor and Composer at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in November 2016. Keynotes include: ACMC 2011 , ICMC 2011 , Music Science Technology 2012 , WOCMAT 2012 , Alternative Histories of Electronic Music 2016 , Midlands New Music Symposium 2020, EMS Network .

(See a Problem?)

Simon Emmerson 's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

The Language of Electroacoustic Music (1986) (171)
The Relation of Language to Materials (1986) (139)
Aural landscape: musical space (1998) (69)
‘Live’ versus ‘Real-time’ (2019) (43)
Music, Electronic Media and Culture (2013) (39)
Composing strategies and pedagogy (1989) (35)
Acoustic/electroacoustic: The relationship with instruments (1998) (27)
In what form can ‘live electronic music’ live on? (2006) (25)
Electro-Acoustic Music (24)
'Local/field': towards a typology of live electroacoustic music (1994) (23)
From Dance! to Dance: Distance and Digits (2001) (23)
Combining the Acoustic and the Digital: Music for Instruments and Computers or Prerecorded Sound (2011) (17)
ANALYSIS AND ANALYSES OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC (2005) (14)
Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis (2016) (13)
Live electronic music in Britain: three case studies (1991) (13)
Performance with Technology (2016) (11)
Crossing cultural boundaries through technology (2016) (10)
Computers and Live Electronic Music: Some Solutions, Many Problems (1991) (8)
New spaces / new places: a Sound House for the performance of electroacoustic music and sonic art (2001) (8)
The analysis of electroacoustic music: the differing needs of its genres and categories (2012) (8)
'Where next? New music, new musicology' (2007) (6)
Music - Imagination - Technology (2011) (6)
Wandering uneasily in a familiar landscape (2013) (5)
The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music: Reaching out with Technology. (2018) (5)
Listening and meaning: how a model of mental layers informs electroacoustic music analysis (2016) (5)
EMAS and Sonic Arts Network (1979–2004): Gender, Governance, Policies, Practice (2016) (3)
Diffusion-Projection: The Grain of the Loudspeaker (2017) (3)
Live Electronic Music or Living Electronic Music (2012) (2)
Michel Waisvisz: No Backup / Hyper Instruments (2016) (2)
Music, mind and structure (1989) (1)
Performance with Technology: Extending the Instrument—From Prosthetic to Aesthetic (2017) (1)
The electroacoustic harpsichord (2001) (1)
‘Playing Space’: Towards an Aesthetics of Live Electronics (2017) (1)
Teaching electronic music – journeys through a changing landscape (2020) (1)
Some questions around listening: Vancouver Soundscape Revisited by Claude Schryer (2016) (1)
Listening in time and over time – the construction of the electroacoustic musical experience (2014) (1)
Playing the Inner Ear (2019) (1)
Analysing Sound Art: Douglas Henderson's Fadensonnen (2009) (2016) (1)
ICMC 2011 Keynote Address (2020) (0)
Introduction: music practice - reaching out with technology (2018) (0)
Studio Report: Electroacoustic and Computer Studio at City University, London (1991) (0)
The Musical Work: Reality or Invention? Michael Talbot (ed.) (2002) (0)
Microvariations (in memoriam Jonathan Harvey) (2014) (0)
The analysis of live and interactive electroacoustic music: Hans Tutschku - Zellen-Linien (2007) (2016) (0)
‘FEELING SOUND’ (2018) (0)
Local/Field and Beyond (2015) (0)
The Reanimation of the World: Relocating the ‘Live’ (2017) (0)
Sound via Technology (1988) (0)
About This Issue (2001) (0)
Performants (1971) (2001) (0)
Review - Born Georgina, Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1995. xv + 390 pp. ISBN 0 520 20216 3. (1997) (0)
To Input the Live: Microphones and other Human Activity Transducers (2017) (0)
Editorial (2016) (0)
Ritual, sound, and music (2016) (0)
The Human Body in Electroacoustic Music: Sublimated or Celebrated? (2017) (0)
Keynote 1: The Many Histories (2016) (0)
Editorial (2010) (0)
Where are we? Extended music practice on the internet (2018) (0)
Local/Field and Beyond: The Scale of Spaces (2015) (0)
Listening With Machines: A shared approach (2015) (0)
Solo Flute Quartet (2018) (0)
Michael Edward Edgerton , The 21st-Century Voice - Contemporary and Traditional Extra-Normal Voice. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, 2008. ISBN 0-8108-5354-X. (2008) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Simon Emmerson

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Simon Emmerson ?

Simon Emmerson is affiliated with the following schools: