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Andrew Hugill

Composer and writer

Andrew Hugill (b. 1957) is a composer, writer and Director of the Institute Of Creative Technologies (IOCT) at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, where he founded the Music, Technology and Innovation programme in 1997. He is the author of The Digital Musician (Routledge, 2007) and 'The Origins of Electronic Music' in The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He edited and contributed to an issue of Contemporary Music Review (Routledge, 2006) on ‘Internet Music’, and curated a CD and booklet called Pataphysics (Sonic Arts Network, 2006) which has received rave reviews in almost every European language. His internet project with the Philharmonia Orchestra, The Sound Exchange, was nominated for the 2004 BT Digital Music Awards.

Hugill's compositions have been performed and broadcast worldwide. They include internet music projects such as Symphony for Cornwall (1999), and electro-acoustic compositions such as Island Symphony (1995). Timestretch for orchestra and live electronics, was premiered by the Philharmonia Orchestra in 2001. Nocturne for two pianos and percussion, was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 in 1997. Sonneries Parfumées for piano solo won a prize in the Piano2000 competition in Tokyo. Hugill has also composed pieces inspired by the writings of Jean-Pierre Brisset: Les Origines humaines (1996), a large-scale choral work for 36 unaccompanied voices, commissioned by the Elysian Singers; Brisset Rhymes (1990) for soprano and early instruments, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1993; Catalogue de Grenouilles (1988) for massed frog recordings and instruments, first broadcast in 1991. His previous UHR collaboration, Pataphysical Piano: The Sounds and Silences of Andrew Hugill (2008), is available to purchase and download now.

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