Martin Phelps

Adjunct Faculty

Sound Artist, Teacher.

Education
MA Creative Music Technology, Bath Spa University; BA (hons) Twentieth Century Music Studies, University of Sussex, studying composition under Johnathan Harvey, Michael Finnissy, and Martin Butler.

Compositions and Performances
Three-Fold (1994), Gravity Storm (1996), Visual Wave (1997), Untitled (2004), Eta Carinae (2006), Strange Attractor (2007), Black and White Canvas (2008), Imaginary Canvas (2012), Canvas in Progress (2015), Canvas Rhythm (2016).

Gardener Arts Centre Theatre Sussex (1994), Bristol Music Centre, Bristol (1996), Conservatoire de Versailles (2006), MC Gallery, New York (2012), Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2015), Institut Finlandais, Paris (2015), The Old Fire House, Brooklyn (2016).

Performances as Performer
Circle for the liberation of Sound and Image (CLSI): Le Frigo, Paris (2008), Stockhausen Courses, Kurten, Germany (2009, 2011), St Merri, Paris (2014), Christian Jendreiko Actions: Musée d’art moderne, Stasbourg (2009), Rosascape, Paris (2012), Bridge Music, Cologne (2012), Kosmisches Beispiel, Nr, Düsseldorf (2014), Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (2019).

Teaching/Research Interests
Paris College of Art, Paris, SciencePo, Paris, Université de Paris, Université de la Sorbonne, Paris; Sound Art, Visual Music.

Lectures
Between Mind and Matter: The Role of the Canvas in Sound Art, Visual Music and Beyond, Institut Finlandais (2015), What We Talk About When We Talk About Sound Art, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (2019), To be published in 2020.

Residences
Centre for Musical Creation Iannis Xenakis, Paris (1997-1998), IRCAM Summer Academy, Paris (1998), Stockhausen Courses, Kurten, Germany (1998), Circle for the Liberation of Sound and Image, GRM, Radio France (2014)

Recordings
Kurzwellen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Circle for the Liberation of Sound and Image, Mode Records, New York (2018).