Festivals/Exhibitions

  • SYNTHETIS with Mark Andre, Johannes Kreidler, Marco Stroppa, Doina Rotaru, Radziejowice, Poland, 2022

  • Towards Sound Festival feat. my sketches as part of a larger exhibition, Berlin, Germany, March 2022

  • Akademie der Künste WHAT MATTERS exhibition, feat. you don’t belong here (2021/22) and return to ground (2021/22) AdK Hanseatenweg Halle 2 + 3, Berlin, Germany, March-April, 2022

  • OPEN SPACE Project, in Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, June + October, Moscow, Russia, 2022

  • Kalv Festivalen, with Clara Iannotta and Dmitri Kourliandski, Kalv, Sweden, 2021

  • Transmediale Festival ‘presentation of vus on Cashmere Radio, 2021

  • Darmstädter Ferienkurse, premiere of museum of dead trees for piano and electronics with Silvia Lucas, Darmstadt, Germany, 2021

  • impuls festival, Selected for Konzeptmusik special programme, Graz, Austria, 2021

  • X MCME Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble Academy, Chaykovsky City, Russia, 2020 (with Raphaël Cendo, Oscar Bianchi, Andrew Toovey and Dmitri Kourliandski)

  • Delian Academy For New Music, with Beat Furrer, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Dimitri Papageorgiu and TAK ensemble, Mykonos, Greece, 2019

  • impuls festival, Graz, Austria, 2019 (masterclasses, lessons, jour fixe, lectures and micro music special programme)

  • Festival Mixtur, (invited - unable to attend), Barcelona, Spain, 2019

  • CEME Mastercourse with Franck Bedrossian, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2018/2019

-   Kyiv Contemporary Music Days with Jamie Reis and Hans Tutschku, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018

-   TENSO Days - Invitee/Delegate, Mechelen, Belgium, 2017

  •   Alba Music Festival - Composition Fellow, Alba, Italy, 2016

Publications

  • Producer/Writer/Composer + Sound Designer, Synthetis Documentary, 2024

  • Logo + Graphics design for Soundswise ‘Speaky’ app 2023

  • Producer + recording engineer for Richard Gillies’ forthcoming album, 2022/23

  • Digital in Berlin 11+3 Interview, 2022

  • Open Studio at Akademie der Künste, presenting previous and current work to the public, October 2021

  • Various videos of completed works uploaded to aledthenoisemaker YouTube channel (ongoing)

  • AdK Junge Akademie Who Were We, You and I?, contributed sketches/commentary on vus 2019, February 2021

  • Examples/Annotations for Dr Richard Gillies’ Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964-1985 (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2021)

  • vus for Leblanc contrabass clarinet and live electronics (2019), performed by Jason Alder, video published on YouTube 2020

  • Noisescenes #1 poster design March 2020

  • Identity, Decontextualisation, Interconnectivity, Perspective, PhD Thesis, November 2017

  • Article for British Harpsichord Society, Sounding Board Magazine issue #11 - Summer, 2017

  • Sound and Music ‘The Sampler’, event previews, Issue 30, Summer, 2016

  • Sound, Space: An analysis of Simon Bainbridge’s Ad Ora Incerta (1994), MMus thesis, 2014

  • Borealis Saxophone Quartet CD ‘The North’ features (Smith) Alone (for saxophone quartet), Borealis Records, 2014

  • British Harpsichord Society CD ‘Shadow Journey’ features (Smith) Box Toccata (for harpsichord), Prima Facie, 2014

Lectures/Conferences

  • Ra presented as an example to Dr Richard Gillies’ critical theory classes, University of Manchester, 2022-present

  • ø presented in C.U.N.Y. postgraduate seminar by doctoral candidate Tobias Fandel, March 2022

  • Kalv Festivalen, ’processes of deconstruction in bound, dragged through arteries of broken glass’ Aug. 2021

  • AdK Members Meeting, ‘Introduction and presentation of ‘ex’ for any stringed instrument’, Dec. 2020 (online)

  • MCME, Chaykovsky city, Russia, ‘Overview of my Recent Work’, Sept. 2020 (online)

  • AdK Junge Akademie, Berlin, Germany ‘Introduction to my creative practice’ Aug. 2020 (online)

  • Delian Academy, Mykonos, Greece, ‘Sounds between sounds’, June 2019

  • SYNTHETIS, Pałac Radziejowice, ‘Notation in ir- for amplified and prepared cello July 2018

  • RNCM Research Forum, ‘Intrinsic Grey: navigating a-figurative and a-teleological sonic space’, 2017

  • Liverpool Hope University, Round Table Discussion for Successful Past Students, 2017

-    SMA-TAGS, ‘An analysis of my chamber work unsettled paths’, 2016

  • RNCM Research Forum, ‘An analysis of my chamber work unsettled paths’, 2016

  • RNCM Composer Forum, ‘An overview of my recent compositional work’, 2015

  • RNCM Research Forum, ‘Thoughts on musical narrativity’, 2015

  • RNCM Composer Forum, ‘An examination of my recent small scale works’, 2013

Awards

  • Hashtag Ensemble Artist in Residence 2024/25

  • Akademie der Künste, Junge Akademie, Berlin Fellowship 2021

  • Duo Signal call for scores - commended, 2021

  • Score Follower ‘Follow My Score [Fall19]’ Winning Work ‘ex’ (for any bowed string instrument, 2019 - viola performance by Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska), featured on incipitsify YouTube channel

  • Royal Northern College of Music Gold Medal (for piano trio ‘Dämmerung’) - Winner, 2017

  • Sound and Music ‘Next Wave 2’, Shortlisted, 2017

  • RLPO Christopher Brooks Prize - Shortlisted, 2016

  • Royal Philharmonic Society ‘Mini-commission’ Competition - Winner, 2013 (RPS Young Composer 2013)

  • British Harpsichord Society International Composition Competition - 3rd Prize, 2013

Academic Qualifications and Other Certifications

  • PhD (Composition) - Royal Northern College of Music 2018

  • AFHEA - Manchester Metropolitan University, Passed: Associate Fellow of the Higher

  .  Education Academy (CPD TALENT) 2017

  • MMus (Composition) - With Distinction - Royal Northern College of Music 2014

  • B.A. Mus (Hons) - First Class - Liverpool Hope University 2012